Twilight

JP Liz

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/

Released UK/Ireland December 2008

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8arbgAbF4l4

Expected to be one of the biggest movies of the year

BopNiblets

Haha, o rly?
That's the first I've seen the trailer and it looks like it was written by some teenage Buffy fangirl.

Nevyn

OH GODs NO!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(series)

Basically it's the next teen boy series/ movie for those who grew up on harry potter and now want more sex and danger.

Vic Vinegar

Dawson's Creek with fangs, no thanks!

I'd rather bathe in excrement...

Gauge

Sounds dazzling!

Galvasean

Thaedydal wrote: »

Basically it's the next teen boy series/ movie for those who grew up on harry potter and now want more sex

Good luck with that

apparently in the books they give a reason why not only does that not happen, but cant

Nevyn

Galvasean wrote: »

Good luck with that

apparently in the books they give a reason why not only does that not happen, but cant

Actually

the male vamp wants to wait until they are married and she ends up preggers

but it is more about the danger and " ro mance" and possibility of sex for that sage group anyway.

JP Liz

Is the tv shows True Blood and Moonlight based on these books?????

Nevyn

No.

Nightwish

I've just finished Breaking Dawn, the last book in the series and I must say I love the books. I will see the film and I hope it stays true to the book. The books are very well written and the story is a bit more complex than "danger and romance for tweenies".

JP Liz

Three sequels to teen vampire movie Twilight are already in development, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Based on the fantasy book series by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, which opens in US cinemas on November 21 and in the UK on December 19, revolves around a teenage girl's relationship with a vampire.

Studio Summit Entertainment has picked up the movie rights to the next three books in the series - New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn - and contracted Twilight screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg to pen the second and third instalments.

According to US ticketing outlet Fandango, Twilight has sold out hundreds of screenings a week ahead of its debut.

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson star in Twilight, which is directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Lords Of Dogtown).

seraphimvc

got the book Twillight that i CAN only finish half of it....

teens,high school,parent issue,prom night.............yes.exactly!

starn

I look at the plot summery on Wikipedia and it sounds terrible. The female charecter just reads like a selfish little bint

Nightwish

seraphimvc wrote: »

got the book Twillight that i CAN only finish half of it....

teens,high school,parent issue,prom night.............yes.exactly!

Its one book of 4. The first takes place in High school.

BopNiblets

starn wrote: »

I look at the plot summery on IMDB and it sounds terrible. The female charecter just reads like a selfish little bint

Agreed:

"Edward can run faster than any cheetah, he can stop a moving car with his bare hands, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Most importantly, he's a vampire. Like all vampires, he's immortal. He doesn't drink human blood (they're vampire "vegetarians"), which is rare among the vampire population. Instead, they go on regular "hiking" trips, where they feed on prey such as grizzly bears and mountain lions."

Hahaha.

Whole thing seems very familiar.

Ckal

BopNiblets wrote: »

Hahaha.

Whole thing seems very familiar.

It's actually quite different. I was expecting it to be a Buffy-esque saga, but it's far from it.

Edward and the Cullens can walk in the sun. They have a crucifix in there house [they believe in God]. They don't die with a stake to the heart [they die when they are ripped up and burned].

Now, I love the books. I know the movie won't be great. But I think the books are so difficult to translate to screen. I think that maybe it's a good thing that it's not doing too well because they'll learn from their mistakes. I doubt the director of Twilight will be kept to direct New Moon. I don't think she fits the role. I'm sure she's an excellent director, but she's just not suit this movie.

I think people need to read the second book before they jump on the bandwagon as regards the tired vampire story. The second book centers around wolfs. The Cullens are not in the book for 200 pages or so. You get an insight to the local legends. I can see how Twilight can seem dire and dull, but the second movie should be better because it's not about vampires. It's something new for the saga and I think that will make a difference.

JP Liz

top of the US box office

Basq

Read a review by JoBlo.com who normally are quite spot on with their reviews.. they gave it a glowing 3 / 10!

Not great rating over at RottenTomatoes either: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/twilight/

:eek:

Ckal

basquille wrote: »

Read a review by JoBlo.com who normally are quite spot on with their reviews.. they gave it a glowing 3 / 10!

Not great rating over at RottenTomatoes either: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/twilight/

:eek:

Yeah, the reviews are quite mixed. Box Office gave it a B. Other sites are giving it an A-, some are giving it a C-. I guess it's just whatever people fancy.

I have to say, though, the soundtrack is very good. I think it got 7.5 outta 10.

I'll definitely see the movie. I don't have high expectations, I never really do. :P

I was looking at some sites and the budget is a bit... meh. Okay, it was 37 million dollars. It is a lot, but not compared to other movies that are raking in the same amount of cash. The new Bond flick had a budget of well over 200 million. :O Madagascar 2 had 150 million dollars as their budget... FOR A CARTOON! :eek:

Do budgets include actors' pay?

MementoMori

Pretty funny and scarey review of the film

I Was Trapped In A Movie Theater With Teenage Twilight Fans
By Graeme McMillan, 2:00 PM on Sun Nov 23 2008, 12,137 views

It was, without a doubt, the strangest movie preview I've been to. Sure, there were lines of fans for Clone Wars, and The Dark Knight has people already proclaiming it to be the greatest movie ever made before the lights had gone down, but Twilight's lines were full of teenage girls dressed for prom bitching about having to give up their cellphones before they went into the theater because it meant that they couldn't text each other about how awesome the movie was. And that was nothing compared with what lay in store once I went inside.

You could easily tell those who were there to review the movie from the fans. For one thing, we were about twenty years older (at least) than everyone else, and for another, we stayed quiet throughout the entire screening. Which was more than could be said about the fans, who had apparently just been released from various vows of silence before they came into the theater. There was just so much screaming. And not for the things you'd expect there to be screaming about. For example, the prizes in the trivia contest. Yes, there was a trivia contest before the showing (And as the answers were screamed out, two guys in the row behind me, uninterested boyfriends who'd been dragged there by their excited other halves, complained, "Hey! This is ruining the movie for us!"), and the announcement of the prizes went something like this:

"We have Edward key chains!" [Screams] "And this t-shirt has the Cullen family crest!" [Louder screams]

What would happen was that a question would be asked, and then everyone would gasp and/or scream, and hands would fly into the air, hoping to be the person chosen to answer. It was like a remarkably excitable class in school, where girls laid into each other if they got the answer wrong: "Why didn't you know that? You're so lame," as one fan said to her friend after she'd been unable to spell the name of Jacob's tribe properly (She was missing a "u," I think).

The trivia contest wasn't the only pre-show entertainment; there was also a costume contest to choose a prom queen and prom king - or, because there was only one boy who was in costume (and you could tell that the poor, pre-pubescent kid had been dressed by some fan-crazy mother), something else: "We're gonna have two winners, a prom queen and... another prom queen, I guess," as the announcement went out (Don't worry, the boy got the pity vote, and won). The level of specificity in some of the costumes - the ones where fans hadn't just worn a dress and claimed to be extras in the prom scene, that is - was kind of stunning: "I'm Bella with the scar and the bracelet from the third book!" one girl excitedly squealed into the microphone. Of course you are, dear.

Eventually, the movie started. With more screaming, and then, surprisingly counter-screaming. This what would happen: The credits would start up. There would be screaming, and then someone would shout "Shut up! No screaming during the movie!" Then the name of the movie would come onscreen, with more screaming, and then more shouting: "I want to be able to hear what they're saying!" It went on for the entire film; Edward comes onscreen - screaming, shouting. Edward and Bella have a moment - screaming, shouting. By the time that Edward and Bella kissed, there was so much screaming and shouting that I wouldn't have been surprised if a fight had broken out, West Side Story-style, with teenage girls jumping over seats in a co-ordinated dance movement, clicking their fingers and seeming like bad news.

Weirdly enough, though, the Twilight fans that filled the preview screening gave me hope for the future of fandom. I'm not just talking about their insane devotion to what seems an entirely undeserving franchise - although we've fall been there; remind me to tell you about my love for DC Comics' appalling Millennium sometime - but the fact that such devotion came with a full awareness of which parts of the movie deserved to be laughed at, and which parts were worth making a lot of noise about. We've made fun of the fan frenzy for Twilight, and - well, it kind of deserves it, but it's also kind of awesome that there's such enthusiasm for something like this, you know? I just can't wait for when there's a similar amount of enthusiasm for something good.

http://io9.com/5093309/i-was-trapped-in-a-movie-theater-with-teenage-twilight-fans

MementoMori

An absolutely superb round-up of review/opinion type pieces from the internet. It makes me curious to see the film, sadly for the wrong reasons.

The summary of what happens in the four books means I definately wont be going anywhere near the books themselves.

Twilight Makes for the Best Fanwank Ever

Yesterday's release of Twilight made certain that your weekend will be filled with the sound of screaming tweeny fangirl hordes, an auditory experience that the movie's lead actor Robert Pattinson described as "terrifying ... like the sound you hear at the gates of hell." It would be easy to hate these creepy, utterly mediocre books and the phenomenon they've spawned — but I think you'll find it's even easier just to throw your head back and laugh. Next to the fangirl hordes are even bigger crowds of "lolfans," and they are here to remind us that Twilight has truly given us the greatest gift of all: oodles and oodles of hilarious, sardonic ass-kickery from people on the internet.

Actually, you don't even have to go to internet fandom for some of the most entertaining critiques of Stephenie Meyer's work — Pattinson himself got the jump on everyone by mocking the series himself in an interview with Empire magazine (published in their October issue).

"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."

In another video interview with E!Online, Pattinson speaks frankly of Meyer, and proves to wish-fulfillment authors everywhere that he's got their number.

"When I read it ... I was convinced that Stephenie was convinced that she was Bella, and ... it was like it was a book that wasn't supposed to be published, like reading her — her sort of sexual fantasy about some — especially when she says that it was based on a dream, and it's like, "Oh, then I had a dream about this really sexy guy" and she just writes this book about it, and there's some things about Edward that are just so specific that ... I was just convinced that this woman is mad, she's completely mad, and she's in love with her own fictional creation. And I sometimes ... feel uncomfortable reading this thing, and I think a lot of people feel the same way, that it's kind of voyeuristic ... It creates this sick pleasure in a lot of ways."

Author and blogger Cleolinda Jones compiled several much-read commentaries on each of the Twilight books at her LiveJournal, and they're a joy to read — even more so than Meyer's bad-fanfiction-esque prose. (In case you're interested, her wiki works quite well as a Twilight guide for dummies — er, in this case, the lucky uninitiated.)

Previously on As the Vampire Sparkles, emoteen Bella Swan moves to a tiny little depressing rainy town and won't shut up about it. There she meets a mysterious boy who turns out to be a 100+ year-old vampire who literally sparkles "like diamonds" in direct sunlight and reads minds (but not hers), and after three hundred pages of Bella wondering why he's so mean to her and why he's so weird and why he's not being mean to her anymore and what his deal is and if he likes her and if he actually loves her and how much he loves her and how he could possibly love as someone as Mary Sue plain and boring and clumsy as she is and if his vampire family will like her, a plot finally shows up, but it doesn't last very long. And then they go to prom. In the second book, Edward the sparkling vampire leaves Bella for her own good, and she spends most of the book trying to kill herself with motorcycles and cliff-diving. Sort of. And then her best friend falls in love with her and turns out to be a werewolf, but Bella runs away to save Edward from committing suicide by public sparkling in Italy. In the third book, Jacob the best friend/boyfriend wannabe/werewolf turns into a total asshole trying to force himself on Bella, and a vampire with a grudge from the first book is trying to kill her, but more importantly, Bella and Edward argue about whether they should have sex, get married, and/or vampirize Bella, and in what order.
Hand to God, I did not make one word of that up. Twilight means never having to say you're kidding.

After posting a scathing, funny, and dead-on accurate review of the series ("Twilight Sucks, and Not in a Good Way"), blogger Kellen Rice of PSA received the obligatory hate mail from crazed Twilight fans. They told her she, too, should write a bestselling YA fantasy series before having the gall to critique one, so she posted a write-your-own-Twilight instruction manual with some truly memorable tips.

Do not research. It is not necessary to waste time getting biology facts, cultural lore, or cultural history correct. For example, if you choose to set your novel in a real-life place, don't bother visiting it. If you incorporate the ideas of another culture, such as that of the Sioux Native Americans, absolutely do not speak to any Sioux elders or Sioux scholars-as the author, you have no responsibility to accurately portray anything. Instead, take what history you can find out on the Internet and feel free to bastardize their cultural lore so that it fits into your story. Also, if you decide to use science to explain some of your fantasy elements, don't bother making it logically or factually sound.

MSN Movies posted a copy of "Twilight": The Lost Script, and clicking through it is cheaper and less time-consuming than seeing the movie — though it may be just as hilarious.

EDWARD: You are a magnificent flower and the sweet cherry atop my ... more life's sundae. Marry me and your life will be distilled bliss, for I do not eat food that requires cooking, and I am rich enough that your chemistry grade matters not a whit.

BELLA: Um, let's not talk about what you eat.

EDWARD: Your wish is my command, fragrant blossom.

BELLA: I don't understand how you can say that. I'm just a plain, awkward girl who needs to strap herself to the commode so she doesn't fall off. Accident-prone is my middle name.

EDWARD: I will sneak into your bathroom and offer my steady, marble-like arms as your supports. No harm shall come to you, my pet.

New York Magazine has a slideshow of 28 reasons Twilight the movie is better than Twilight the book, and most of them just involve endless — and totally justified — sarcastic slagging on the book. This list is a significant achievement, though, given that this series practically mocks itself.

At no point in the movie does this scene occur.

"You ... made ... me ... faint," I accused him dizzily.
"What am I going to do with you?" he groaned in exasperation. "Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!"
I laughed weakly, letting his arms support me while my head spun.
"So much for being good at everything," he sighed.
"That's the problem." I was still dizzy. "You're too good. Far, far too good."

Also, this scene was cut, thank God.

"Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk," he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest.
"Drunk?" I objected.
"You're intoxicated by my very presence." He was grinning that playful smirk again.
"I can't argue with that," I sighed. There was no way around it; I couldn't resist him in anything.

In general, we're just so relieved that the movie did away with most of the 1,000 scenes in which basically this exact thing happens:

Bella: Don't go!
Edward: I should go, but I can't.
Bella: I am happy!
Edward: You're an idiot for being happy.
Bella: You are still totally gorgeous OMG OMG.

Fiction editor Yoni featured Twilight for her Bad Book Month column, where she presented a full numeric breakdown of the book's flaws. Be sure to check out the full list at her LiveJournal; it is detailed, eye-opening, and what the internet whiz kids might call "LOLarious."

Number of Pages in the Book: 498
The First Hint of a Plot that Is Not Bella and Edward's Romance: page 328
When the Plot Actually Arrives: page 372

Boys that Totally Love Bella (Including Edward Cullen): 5

Approximate Amount of Time Bella and Edward are Romantically Involved Before Bella Is Begging Edward to Turn Her into a Vampire so They Can Be Together Forever: Like, two weeks. Maybe three. The timeline's a bit fuzzy.

References to Edward's Beauty: 165

USA Today blithely invited a storm of **** from every literary spec fic nerd out there when they asked, "What's better, the 'Twilight' series or 'Harry Potter'?" That insulting question drew comment from the likes of Peter Parker ("Twilight is why MJ and I aren't married anymore"), Harvey Dent ("You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself read Twilight"), Yoda ("Bull**** the Twilight series is, and stupid you are"), Bristol Palin ("Twilight increases teen pregnancy"), and even Jane Austen ("Bitch, please"). One concerned citizen even suggested that Stephenie Meyer was a Skrull — that would explain a lot, wouldn't it?

All right, so you're convinced: the Twilight series is a festival of badness. As far as Twilight internet fandom is concerned, however, "bad" can very easily become "so bad it's good." It may have put a hardcover and a sticker on some truly unworthy literature — not to mention green-lighting a film that embarrasses its own actors — but the publishing industry will not have the last laugh.

http://io9.com/5096763/twilight-makes-for-the-best-fanwank-ever

Ckal

LOLOL!

The movie may look cheesy, and it probably is, but the books are actually good. And this coming from an 18 year old bloke. I thought it was going to be seriously mushy, and some of it is, but it gets passed that. And the books have some good humor in them, too.

Twilight is mushy. New Moon gets over that and focuses on friendship. Eclipse focuses on romance and friendship. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet.

I'm going to see the movie for Alice Cullen... quite possibly the hottest vampire alive... :P and she's my favorite character BY FAR.

PS. The reason why Edward hasn't had sex in over 100 years is because he'd rip the girl apart if he got too... "involved" with her. :P It's pure cheese.

starn

Ive just seen Twilight and its complete pants. Avoid

Allison91

I've read all the books and thought they were good, so will be seeing it but not expecting much from it.The film is never as good as the book!

starn

Allison91 wrote: »

I've read all the books and thought they were good, so will be seeing it but not expecting much from it.The film is never as good as the book!

No all ways

Fight Club was a better film then book, as was The Godfather, and Apocalypse Now was based on as a short story.

Twillight complete pants. Lots of kids dressed in black moaning about love. Go read Byron, Shelly or Keats and forget about bile like Twilight

Allison91

starn wrote: »

No all ways

Fight Club was a better film then book, as was The Godfather, and Apocalypse Now was based on as a short story.

Twillight complete pants. Lots of kids dressed in black moaning about love. Go read Byron, Shelly or Keats and forget about bile like Twilight

I don't know because I haven't read those books...
I don't usually read books like Twilight but thought I might as well see what the fuss was about..and it was good.

chin_grin

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/12/05/how-twilight-is-destroying-america-and-harming-our-nations-youth/

Some very interesting points there. I'm getting the same "mixed feelings" from this as I did the Harry Potter bore-fest. Very skeptical indeed, but it's a craze. (And my OH is [for want of a better word] infatuated!)

starn

I didnt like. They just go around whining the whole time. But different strokes for different folks I suppose

Ckal

starn wrote: »

I didnt like. They just go around whining the whole time. But different strokes for different folks I suppose

Yeah, the movie transition didn't work too well. I still found it good, and I loved the books.

I think New Moon will appeal more because there is hardly any vampire-love in it. I did find Twilight mushy for a guy, I have to say :P But NM was the best of out all four and I'd definitely see the movie when it comes out.

EDIT: It's a movie that you either love or hate.

starn

Im gonna go with hate. But that dosent mean you wont love it

Ckal

starn wrote: »

Im gonna go with hate. But that dosent mean you wont love it

I thought I was going to hate it because of the casting. All the actors are relatively new, so I was really skeptical. But Rob pulled it off, and kristen did a good job (might need to work a little bit on some emotions). I'd go with Love.

And I hope they do something about Jacob's wig :P

JP Liz

Catherine Hardwicke will not direct the sequel to vampire romance Twilight.

It was initially reported that Summit Entertainment had removed Hardwicke from the project, but both parties have now confirmed that the director withdrew from helming follow-up New Moon.

"I am sorry that due to timing I will not have the opportunity to direct New Moon," said Hardwicke.

"Directing Twilight has been one of the great experiences of my life, and I am grateful to the fans for their passionate support of the film.

"I wish everyone at Summit the best with the sequel - it is a great story."

According to Variety, Hardwicke clashed with Summit about the timings for the production of the sequel.

New Moon is scheduled for release in 2010.

So who will take over ???????

Ckal

Hardwicke's style was a bit hit and miss. She'd do some excellent scenes, but some other just didn't work. With the success of Twilight, I'm sure they'd be able to rope in some big-shot now that they are going to secure a mega budget for New Moon.

Jack Sheehan

I'm gonna stick with spoony's advice on this one:

From The Spoony Experiment

The Twilight Series

AUGH. I can't-- I just...My god. This is...

This is the cinematic equivalent of an asteroid about to hit the ****ing Earth, people. It's huge, it's ugly, it's horrible, and if you have any sense at all you should run shrieking away from it as quickly as you can. And like any apocalyptic abomination that's about to destroy culture and the last vestiges of what make humanity worth preserving, there are some mad, frothing maniacs who embrace the rapture and worship the coming doom. We've been fortunate enough so far to avoid a real Twilight fan invasion, because I've been on other message boards and you've not seen such a pack of rabid, snarling jagoffs so willing to engage in bitter, pointless flamewars over this.

It's a perfect storm of co-mingling fan-worship, too. You've got the teenage girl demographic, enfatuated with this...****ing vapid, vacant pasty-faced asshole, with that face you just want to ram into a men's room doorknob until his teeth litter the ground like bloody chiclets. It's not that he's a pretty boy-- we hate John Cena enough for that, I guess-- it's that garbage vampire-chic aura, that godawful brooding intensity, that mysterious "I'm the biggest, sexiest mistake you'd ever make, ladies, because I'm ****ing dangerous" scowl that makes all the women drool.

It's got all those goth-heads hooked, too. Some people just never get tired of it. I promised myself I wouldn't use the term "emo" unless it was absolutely necessary, but what else do you call an entire genre based around a pale, dreary bore who always drones on about his own existential angst, his eternal torment, his alienation from human society, and the constant struggle to contain the beast of his infinite rage forever crawling in his skin, lest it surface and harm those he loves? Come to think of it, what is with all of this vampire worship, anyway? Vampire stories are lame, and they were lame even when Anne Rice shat her oversexualized Mary Sue fiction all over bookstores. After that, we had to endure ****ing Anita Blake, and now this?

It boggles my mind to even imagine that, as bad as the Anita Blake stories are, Twilight is far, far worse. And all I did was read a sample chapter online. It's so bad, that even hearing summaries of the plot can evoke snorts of derision. My mom used to watch daytime soaps that had less ham-handed melodrama and less-disturbing sexual liasons. This madness has to stop, and if you don't believe me, just keep watching. The Twilight movies are coming, and people, you are going to see some sad, depraved mother****ers buying enough tickets to keep it at #1 in the box office for months.

Ckal

I have to say, the crazies have ruined it for us real fans. :P With Crazies being crazy, it looks like all Twilight Fans are a bunch of dumbass teenage girls. The demographic is much wider. Me, 18 and male. People I know who also like it, over 20 and both male and female. But I guess crazies aren't going anywhere, so we'll just deal with it. :rolleyes:

I don't like the book because of Edward, because A-) I'm straight, and B-) I get really annoyed with main characters in books.
I preferred the other characters such as Jasper, Alice, Seth and Leah. I really liked Charlie, too.

But I definitely think people should make up there on mind on both the movie and the book. I had followed the negative reviews before I read them. But I read them and I was really surprised. And the same with the movie.

BopNiblets

Fantastic, saves 118 mins too.

rizzla

Wasn't the book written by a mormon and is about abstinence. Plus the fact he is a vampire and doesn't want sex/can't is a methaphor for aids.

Haven't seen the film, doubt I ever will.

FockRoysh

I am a huge fan of the books..... but wow some people are obsessed! Its hysteria whenever Robert Pattinson goes out into public judging from youtube videos.... I can't wait to see the film but it def won't be half as good as the book. I think a lot of people are turned off by the plot outline of vampire/human love story but its not as cheesey as that.... in the book anyway.

Oh and Chris Weitz, he of destroying the Golden Compass fame, got the director's gig for New Moon.

KellyG

I saw twilight...
Book is well better....

chin_grin

Give yee a giggle.....

http://www.cracked.com/article_16878_if-twilight-was-10-time-shorter-100-times-more-honest.html

Phototoxin

I look at posters in the cinema, see people so airbrushed they look like they are made from butter and think 'vamparic teen angst'. Then I vomit.

mizzzy

how is this creating such madness???id never even heard of twilight before!

PeakOutput

so has this been released in ireland and is out of cinemas already or what?

LucyBliss

It's released Friday December 19th. Should be interesting to see how much it makes over the holidays when the target audience is off school and able to see it as often as they like.

Arcee

So I went to see it tonight. Had been cautiously looking forward to it only to have all my worst fears confirmed..... and then some.
I don't even know where to start. There's two hours of my life I'll never see again such a disappointment....

FockRoysh

Saw it today.... I really enjoyed it - some bits of it that were direct from the book were great to see on the big screen although there was bits of the script that I was disappointed with in comparison to how they were played out in the book. I went with a friend who hadn't read the book and she didnt enjoy it as much as I did... You'd nearly need to read the 4 books plus midnight sun to fully appreciate it. My two cents anyway

partyguinness

Saw "Twlight" Saturday night...if it wasnt for the fact I was on a date I would have walked out...utter tripe:mad:

In fact, by midpoint...there were full blown conversations going on in the cinema as most people had lost complete interest.

Do not waste your money.

partyguinness

partyguinness wrote: »

Saw "Twlight" Saturday night...if it wasnt for the fact I was on a date I would have walked out...utter tripe:mad:

In fact, by midpoint...there were full blown conversations going on in the cinema as most people had lost complete interest.

Do not waste your money.

I don't care how bad you or anyone else finds a film you should never ever have a conversation in the cinema. You may not be enjoying a film but there may be people there who are and did'nt pay to have to listen to other converse.

partyguinness

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't care how bad you or anyone else finds a film you should never ever have a conversation in the cinema. You may not be enjoying a film but there may be people there who are and did'nt pay to have to listen to other converse.

I didnt say I was engaged in conversation... what is it about certain people on this site and their eagerness to play the "more holy than thou" card at every opportunity...:rolleyes::rolleyes:

There were groups of people that started chatting away after awhile.. it is unacceptable behaviour but it was indicative of how crap the film was..and even I wasnt pissed off that it was happening.

Whiplash

I went to see this to kill a couple of hours and oh my god what a load of crap!!!

partyguinness

partyguinness wrote: »

I didnt say I was engaged in conversation... what is it about certain people on this site and their eagerness to play the "more holy than thou" card at every opportunity...:rolleyes::rolleyes:

There were groups of people that started chatting away after awhile.. it is unacceptable behaviour but it was indicative of how crap the film was..and even I wasnt pissed off that it was happening.

It was'nt a dig at you. I've endured some truly terrible cinema going experiences where I've had a film I was really enjoyed ruined for me due to other peoples inability to just sit there and enjoy the film.