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 | kemper | | Vodka martini... shaken.. |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 402 |
| | Posted: | | | | My daughter has nearly wet her pants over this film... is it really worth watching? |
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| Registered: March 21, 2007 |  Posts: 171 |
| | Posted: | | | | I enjoyed it. Not a great film, but these days, what is? I read the book and its sequels at the insistence of my 2 daughters who are 29 and 24. Buy it, it's not too bad, and your daughter will think you're great. | | | | Graham |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 101 |
| | Posted: | | | | Saw it and it wasn't bad but be warned it's a chick flick. Has vampires but still a love story. | | | | Sometimes you are the bowling ball, sometimes you are the pins. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | A couple of women I know thought it was very funny. "I mean, he sparkled in sunlight!" | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 171 |
| | Posted: | | | | The movie is OK, good, but nothing spectacular. Now, ask this of a teenage girl, and I'm sure you'll get a VERY different answer!
I read the books, and they are pretty good. Decent story and reasonable, if somewhat idealistic, characters. Unfortunately, like most longer novels, much of the story never made it to the screen.
I went to see this movie on the opening weekend with my family. The best part of it was the audience reaction. The average age of the audience was about 14, and the average gender was female. As a 40+ year old male, I felt quite out of place. Listening to all the girls swoon when Edward came on screen and the hearty cheers when he did something heroic was quite entertaining. Unless you are in a house full of teenage girls, I doubt the DVD/BD experience will be the same! |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Haven't seen the film or read the book but the only 'review' I have read from another forum from someone who read it to see "what the fuss was about" and, shall we say, he was less than impressed.
Now I fully understand he's not the target audience and he probably hasn't read 'chick-lit romance' (which is what this certainly is) before so was not expecting all the standard lusting and emotional description stuff that they tend to contain but his comments included the phrases:
"..the book is one of the worst things I have ever had the misfortune to wade through. Badly written and populated with the most irritating dialogue to ever spew forth from vacuous cipheric ****holes, the book is a painful thing to plough through." and "Don't read this book. It's not even worth the curiosity, and that is the most damning thing I can say about any book. As a friend of mine put it, "bloody hell, that was worse than The Da Vinci Code." Well, quite. Truly abhorrent."
so I really think he wasn't a fan!
FWIW I'm reading "Crimson City" at the moment and that also treads heavily in the 'romance meets vampire' genre and is generally well reviewed though personally I find the 'romance' sections very OTT and out of character with the plot so maybe if I read Twilight I'd know what to expect! | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
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| Registered: September 30, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,805 |
| | Posted: | | | | I absolutely did not want to see this film... had no desire to watch it at all. Ended up seeing it just a couple of days ago, and was fairly impressed to tell the truth. Like others have said, it's a chick flick, sure, but it's a fairly well done chick flick. There are moments when I rolled my eyes and thought of how unintentionally funny some scenes were (the baseball scene in particular screamed out to me as a "WTF is this?" moment), but yeah, I enjoyed it. Even went out and bought it the next day. It's got a really great atmosphere to it, and it's shot beautifully. | | | | The night is calling. And it whispers to me soflty come and play. |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | I read the book and finished it only because I have to finish books once I start them. This novel is a Harlequin romance for vampires. I don't care for romance novels and can not see myself subjecting myself to a film made from one. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally I have read all four of the books and absolutely loved them.
Of the four I think the first is the weakest. It's obviously a 'first novel' and, as such, it falls into the pitfall of repetition (especially endless descriptions of how beautiful Edward is everytime he appears...which does get tedious).
However, the story is touching and by the end I was very impressed. After that I think each book improved on the story and the universe in which it is set.
I even went so far as to read Meyer's 'adult' novel 'The Host' which is a sci-fi/alien/romance novel - and throughly enjoyed that too!!
As to the film...I haven't seen it; but I have every intention of buying it (it's to be my 2nd Blu-ray!).
I personally think Edward was miscast....although I hear he's meant to be quite good in it. The author wanted Henry Cavill (of Tudors fame); as that's who she was imagining when she described him in the book...but Henry was too old by the time the film was made.
Also, New Moon is currently in production! |
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