Twilight (the movie)

How many people have seen this movie?

Am I the only one who thinks/thought the hype was a bit much?

More of a chick flick if you ask me...

I haven't seen the movie but I've read the book. I heard from others who loved the book that the movie was kind of a waste of time. But we'll see. I'll have to check it out anyways!

Horrible movie!! doesnt depict any features of the books and makes me wanna go see transporter3 just to get twilight out of my head. this was more of a vampire movie for 10 year olds. i actually had 2 grandmothers next to me in the movie theater laughing and talking crap about the movie because they thought it was so bad, and i couldnt help but laugh since they were laughing and we laughed through the whole movie.

I honestly feel weird after I saw the movie... don't know why...

i think that if i wanted to watch people flying around the woods covered in glitter i would go watch Peter Pan.:rofl::8::rofl::8::rofl::8::rofl:

my wife druged me to see it she hated it so did i but yeah i felt werid to i was like the oldest person there half the teeny boppers where old enough to be my kids and i was the only guy :colbert:

Wow, glad I didn't go see it. I wanted to but I guess I'll wait for the DVD. The book is very juvenile so I kind of expected the movie would be too.

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Originally Posted by rko

how many people have seen this movie?

Am i the only one who thinks/thought the hype was a bit much?

More of a chick flick if you ask me...

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sucked!

I went to go see it with my lady. She is a huge fan and to tell you the truth it wasn't that bad. I think she wants to go see it again tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by RKO

I honestly feel weird after I saw the movie... don't know why...

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I completely agree! and thats the reason i fougt my friends to not see it... they won so we did and honestly I feel like it took away something from me..I hated it.. I wish they had gotten a dude that actually looked like edward...well what I thought edward looked like from reading the books. IMHOthe movie was aweful and if you hadn'r read the book it was very hard to follow... says my friends.

The movie moved to fast and jumped around a lot. I think the special effects could have been a bit better and I wish they would have followed the book a bit more. It was a good movie, but not at all what I was expecting. It could have been way better. Even so, I will see the other three when they come out.

I have not seen this movie, nor will I see this movie. I just don't know how a tweener vampire movie can be a good movie...
My thought on the whole thing is this: If you don't sit around all day watching Hannah Montana while listening to the Jonas Brothers, then you won't like this movie.

I hate Hannah Montana and don't listen to the Jonas brothers, but I liked the movie enough.

Movies like this do not hold up to film scrutiny... they are geared to tween girls and obviously they have been very successful in that.

I haven`t seen it, but my 13 year old niece has and GUSHES!!!

Tweeners are already learning the lines and making it a participatory event, enough reason for me to not go see it.

But `Victoria` is from Montreal, so I think everyone in the city is obligated to go see it. We`re a loyal breed.

Bruce

read the book, will not see the movie. as suspected, movies made from books never hold up against the books so I generally will not see the movies if I've read the books. the only exception to this was the lord of the rings trilogy.. as close to the books as a movie has ever gotten. :D

i thought the movie was different, not bad but not great either. I think that for a movie like Twilight and even Harry Potter, it is hard to make because everyone has their own ideas on how the characters look and how they go about doing what they do. Certainly this fist movie was a bit disappointing, but there are three more books, and from wat we've seen before, directors usually learn from their mistakes.

The movie is definitely geared solely towards people who loved the books. A lot of things that I considered vital to the story were never mentioned in the movie, which left me with the impression that the only purpose of it was to show the love story between Bella and Edward.

I didn't like the actor pick for Edward before seeing it, but I think he did a wonderful job, so now I'm all for him.

I'm looking forward to the next one, as I was rooting for Jacob in the second book. It took until the 4th book for me to even like Edward much again.

And yes, I agree, the movie is aimed at the tweens, but those of us who love the story can look past that, I think.

Buffy was wayyyyyyy better.

But I have certainly seen worse movies and movies that were even further from their written origins.

My daughter liked the movie, loved the books and IS the target audience.

If you can get a few million teens to pony up 10 bucks to see your flick, you're successful.

No matter what us old folks think.

Just read the book last night (more from a desire to see what all the hype was about than a real interest) and it was good enough. Mindless, teenager romance vampire fluff, but readable. I'll probably read the other three in hopes that the werewolves come into play a bit more. Haven't seen the movie yet, as I'm usually very dissapointed in movie/book adaptations. Like Ladydragon said, LOTR was the closest anyone's come to getting it right. Which is why I'm quite happy that Peter Jackson optioned the rights for my favorites series (the Temeraire books).

Anyway, yea. Doubt the movie will be any good, as they usually dumb it down for cinema and the book wasn't exactly a brainbuster to begin with.

I havent seen the movie, nor read the book. Eventually I would like to read the series, if of course the first book is interesting to me. And I'll probably see the movie after I watch The Changeling, dont have much of any else better to do.

Oh man. This is hard. Because, I'm such a technical critique...
So, the book... the story was great. You have to read at least the first 2 books to appreciate the conflict. It attracts the tweenie girls because of the love triangle and the "beautiful" vampires and the expensive cars and the prom. hah. But, really, as a 38-year-old, I can appreciate the inventiveness of the characters and the vampire's inner conflict between love and his desire to suck the girl's blood dry. And of course, the werewolf being the "better" logical choice for the girl, but not who she loves... sigh. But, with all that said, the writing is not too great. I mean, the thing about JK Rowling is that she has a way of describing an alternate universe without you getting lost, bored, or disinterested. Meyers describes one scene to death that it makes the book drag and you just want to skip a few paragraphs to get on with it.
The movie... man... it has a great storyline to work with plus a stellar cast and enough vampire action to attract a good audience base... but the director really sucked! Okay, so, it is a teen movie, and I guess that is what they wanted it to be... But, man, the hype that book got, they should have gotten Bryan Singer to direct it! This movie REQUIRES a director who pays a lot of attention to characterization... because that's what the story is about! It's not about vampires eating vampires... not really. It's about a vampire falling in love with a human. And the director can't quite decide whether to pay more attention to deepening the characters or giving more action and in the end, decided to do blah on both! The movie ended up really choppy and stilted. Bryan Singer's way of pulling out the characters amid all the action (Xmen, Superman Returns) is what this movie needed. But then, it's really boo-hoo to the producers who didn't want to spend enough money on it.
In any case, I saw the movie twice (once with my girlfriends, then another time with my husband) and I liked it enough because of Jacob (Taylor from Sharkboy - love that guy). I can just see the mischevousness of Jacob in his toothy grins (except, what's up with that wig?). And I've always liked Pattinson (Cedric Diggory from Goblet of Fire). Surprisingly, my husband liked it enough (never read the books and not a big fan of chick flicks). So, hey, all is not lost.

Ah, another Team Jacob girl ;)

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I mean, the thing about JK Rowling is that she has a way of describing an alternate universe without you getting lost, bored, or disinterested. Meyers describes one scene to death that it makes the book drag and you just want to skip a few paragraphs to get on with it.

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This part of your post cracked me up. I had to do a lot of skimming with the books, as that did irritate me. But I have to do the same thing with Anne Rice, so meh.
I'm looking forward to reading Meyers' 'The Host', as I've heard it's better than Twilight and aimed more towards adults. Hoping I get that one under the tree this year. :D

I read all the books and loved em til I got to Breaking Dawn and it started to get a little immature to me. I did see half the movie though and the acting was CRAP! D: I actually burst out laughing at the part 'Say it!' '...Vampire' 'Are you scared?' '.......No.'
LOL!

If the acting was better/better effects then it wouldn't be too fast. They rushed the 'romance' though. In the beggining they barely seemed 'together' when Bella's all 'I'm scared of losing you'. I was like 'Wtf? They JUST got over Edward ignoring her?'

But yeah. xD

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I'm looking forward to reading Meyers' 'The Host', as I've heard it's better than Twilight and aimed more towards adults. Hoping I get that one under the tree this year. :D

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Sweetness, that sounds like a good book, I'll have to remember that one.

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Originally Posted by spix14

Just read the book last night (more from a desire to see what all the hype was about than a real interest) and it was good enough. Mindless, teenager romance vampire fluff, but readable. I'll probably read the other three in hopes that the werewolves come into play a bit more.

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Yeah I just finished the first book yesterday and I borrowed the second one from my brother and finished it all last night. The werewolves do come into play quite a bit more in the second one and overall I really think that's gonna be a killer movie.

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Anyway, yea. Doubt the movie will be any good, as they usually dumb it down for cinema and the book wasn't exactly a brainbuster to begin with.

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Still haven't seen the movie (I'm a read it first, watch it second type of guy) but I think it could be interesting. I'm takin my girl this weekend (if she finishes the book lol). IDK I've always been a big fan of "urban fantasy" the modern day type fantasy books and these were pretty good. Kept me interested long enough lol. We'll see how the movie is :D

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Originally Posted by Jyson

Sweetness, that sounds like a good book, I'll have to remember that one.

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It looks interesting, at least :)

Link with excerpt, for those who are interested:
http://www.amazon.com/Host-Novel-Ste.../dp/0316068047

OK rant time.... I love vampires therefore ive seen and read most if not all books and movies and to be honest with you twilight is a bunch of fruity fairies and it makes me absolutely RAGE. I mean for god sake when he gets caught in the sun he doesnt burst into flame he [in my best gay voice] SPARKLES.

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OK rant time.... I love vampires RAGE. I mean for god sake when he gets caught in the sun he doesnt burst into flame he [in my best gay voice] SPARKLES.

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I thought it was an interesting take on vampires and why they avoid the sun.. but your post just made me SPARKLE :P with laughter.. thanx for the laugh. :D :gj:

Not bad. not the best, certainly cannot compare to say, the coverage of the Golden Compass to its books or LOTR, but it works. ( the harry potter movies lost it for me with the different directors, and the change of actors for dumbledore. Couldnt be helped, but they were killed on me because of those things, AS WELL as the changes in scenery too much....)

Gives us the other side of the traditional Vampire stuff....

The books, of course as always, are FAR better. Love them. But the movie wasnt too horrible. Im not a harsh critic. I appreciate movies for what they are, and what they are meant to do.


The casting, was superb. absolutely, simply superb. They did a very very good job choosing the actors and actresses for this one.
I think the second and third books are going to be better once they come out on the big screen, the kinks will get smoothed over. Some of the wire scenes were pretty shoddy, cinematography wise, but the story, the heart of the movie... held up pretty well in the grand scheme of things. the actors made this movie though, for sure.

Now that I've seen the movie and can give my opinion.

The whole movie, the two main characters were so incredibly awkward! I agree with Abbi- They had pretty much just gotten over the whole "Why does he hate me?" situation and straight into "I'm absolutely irrevocably in love." What? How'd that happen? There was a lot of stuff left out. And the romance was WAY rushed. They didn't show anything that you would normally associate with first love- they never even seemed happy.

The book was much better. But that's okay I guess. We'll see how the second movie goes...

Saw the movie, didnt read the books. It wasnt that bad I guess but I didnt have the books story line in my head making me want to see certain parts that would never happen in the movie. I just got back from buying the book so here we go! Personally ( a little off topic) but some movies are so different from the books youd think they would have different names. The harry potter books are great but the movies( Other than the 1st,2nd, and maybe even the 6th sorta) were so offgear and they took out 60% of the book. To me that was a huge dissapointment, then again, how do you expect them to fit in 500 pages into not even 2 hours, most people cant even read the whole book that fast let alone say all the lines and do all the parts. But, i'll see in a few days how off the movie was from the books. Im sorta glad I watched first, because I liked the movie and the book should be so much better that I will enjoy it even more. There may be a few spots though im sure where i'll wish they have played or not changed.

Last thing, even though I liked it, did the actors not seem all that great? some of the side actors/friends were horrible imo.

amen, i agree

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Originally Posted by mooingtricycle

Not bad. not the best, certainly cannot compare to say, the coverage of the Golden Compass to its books or LOTR, but it works. ( the harry potter movies lost it for me with the different directors, and the change of actors for dumbledore. Couldnt be helped, but they were killed on me because of those things, AS WELL as the changes in scenery too much....)

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The first Dumbledore guy died shortly after the second movie was made. I agree though, the first played the part just like imagined in the book. The different directors to me was a huge blow, the first and second movie had the good director where it was still close to the book and lighter. After that they just got way to dark in the scenery if you know what I mean.

To me, the Harry Potter movies just never quite captured the flavor of the books. Maybe because for time and money's sake they obviously couldn't fit every little detail and nuance from the books in...I dunno. I also had issues with some of the actor choices...I thought the guy they got to play Lupin was awful, and as Lupin is one of my favorite characters from the book I just couldn't get into him playing the role. But as I'm more of a book person than a movie person I will never be 100% satisfied with movie versions I don't suppose. At any rate they aren't nearly as bad as Queen of The Damned or Eragon. *shudder*

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The first Dumbledore guy died shortly after the second movie was made. I agree though, the first played the part just like imagined in the book. The different directors to me was a huge blow, the first and second movie had the good director where it was still close to the book and lighter. After that they just got way to dark in the scenery if you know what I mean.

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Yes, i know he passed away during the filming.

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Originally Posted by spix14

To me, the Harry Potter movies just never quite captured the flavor of the books. Maybe because for time and money's sake they obviously couldn't fit every little detail and nuance from the books in...I dunno. I also had issues with some of the actor choices...I thought the guy they got to play Lupin was awful, and as Lupin is one of my favorite characters from the book I just couldn't get into him playing the role. But as I'm more of a book person than a movie person I will never be 100% satisfied with movie versions I don't suppose. At any rate they aren't nearly as bad as Queen of The Damned or Eragon. *shudder*

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Your so right about that, the Eragon movie had to be one of the worse out there. NOTHING matched up to the book almost making it horrible...Right after my friend asked me what I thought of it when I watched it I replied " They took out the book!"

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Originally Posted by RKO

I honestly feel weird after I saw the movie... don't know why...

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I know the feeling. I saw it also and came out of the theater feeling uncomfortable. For some reason I don't think that 50 year old men with gray beards were the prime demographic target for this movie.. It's a heartthrob movie for teenage girls that is pretending to be a vampire movie. I'm sure you'll be able to see a super tell all interview in tiger beat magazine though.

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Your so right about that, the Eragon movie had to be one of the worse out there. NOTHING matched up to the book almost making it horrible...Right after my friend asked me what I thought of it when I watched it I replied " They took out the book!"

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I'm with you on that one. I think that's the only movie I actually came away angry from. I love the Eragon books, and that movie had nothing to do with them! I was literally cussing it out. Brings to mind the South Park episode about Indiana Jones :rolleyes:

okay.. two things here.. bringing up an old post (I know, my bad) and second.. finally saw the movie and :omfg:... what a waste of my money!!!!

hubby saw it in the store and bought it because he knew I read and enjoyed the books. the movie was so chopped in the story line.. just felt awkward, no emotions could be felt except numbness.. is that an emotion?!. again.. why when I read a book I will not see the movie!!! the only exception to this golden rule was LOTR movies. they held up to the books very well and casting was excellent.

I shudder to thing how much of a fiasco the next movie will be. I will not see it.. as I do not want these images running through my mind ruining my own personal mind movie when I reread :reading: the books.

I read the books and watched the movie, and like both. I actually liked the movie better than the first book, because the movie seemed to be less melodramatic than the book. I am looking forward to the next movie.

I didn't read the books, but liked it because i simply looked at it as a hopeless romantic type movie. Everyone who likes the books and or the movies are hopeless romantics. if you want to get to a womans heart who loves the movie and books. Talk about the love and passion between bella and Edward.

My favorite books ever! You have to watch the movie a second time because when you watch it the first time you just want to compare it to the book. The second time it's easier to get into. I have a life size cut out of Edward *drool* in my room! It scares my Mom all the time. It's so funny cause she knows it's there but she still jumps

What vampire would turn moody 17 year olds into vampires also.. They'd be such a pain to spend eternity with.

The entire premise is soooooo unrealistic :-P

p.s. twilight < true blood.

True Blood 4ever.

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What vampire would turn moody 17 year olds into vampires also.. They'd be such a pain to spend eternity with.

The entire premise is soooooo unrealistic :-P

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:twisted::twisted::twisted:
LOLs

True blood books:gj::gj::gj::gj:

HBO series :colbert: dissapointing