Twilight (2008)

If I saw the movie now for the first time I know I probably will hate it, but the 11 year old me was so love struck with it. Honestly no movie these days makes me this happy anymore. Also I think this one (the first movie) is so much cinematically pleasing. I enjoy the dark blue rainy vibe & the shaky camera a lot. This movie is my guilty pleasure. 10 for the nostalgia feelings.

I could have been the first movie, or maybe one of the other ones. Does it matter?This movie was awful, just awful. Truly terrible. Horrible, no redeeming qualities. Bad makeup. TERRIBLE acting. A wretched script. Kristen Stewart constantly biting her lower lip and looking in every direction but at the person talking to her. And then it just got worse, because I realized it was trying to be a "serious"'movie. Did anyone on set think this was going to be given good reviews? Do not watch this movie. Completely uninteresting plot derived from a book thaf was written by a woman who very obviously wanted to be Bella, and have her little vampire romance.

I'm not sure why this movie gets so much hate. Sure there are silly parts, and parts even the filmmakers must realize are so absurd as to be silly. But those parts are few and the director pulls you right back into the story with consummate skill. I'm certain I can't watch another movie or TV show about zombies - the genre has been done to death in every way possible. But this new (to me) take on the story of an innocent girl who falls in love with a "good" vampire ("we only drink animal blood") is engaging, well paced and beautifully filmed. Never has the pacific northwest looked more lush and inviting then in "Twilight" and it's the perfect backdrop for this part-gloomy, part scary (for small children mainly) and intriguing tale. Bella is a blank slate, an 18 year old high school girl new to the city of Forks, Washington. She makes the acquaintance of a strange boy called Edward Cullin, who appears to strongly dislike her at first. After he saves her life from an out-of-control car (using apparently super-human strength) it only makes Bella more intrigued by the mysterious Edward. Bella soon learns Edward's secret - he's an immortal vampire who can accomplish amazing feats of strength (Edward climbs a tall tree ten times faster then any monkey, and with Bella riding on his back, no less) and run like the wind. But "Twilight" throws out the rest of vampire cliche - these vampires have no problem with daylight, and neither do they have fangs...and the Cullens even seem not to feed on people ("animal blood") although as we find out, not all the vampires in the story are so benevolent. Bella and Edward soon fall in love, and the rest of the Cullen family (also immortal vampires) rally around Bella to protect her from a gang of 3 wandering "hunter" vampires who want to put Bella on the menu ("Looks like you brought me a snack!" one of them even says). The movie was, to me, refreshingly unpredictable and I found myself caring about the characters - even the rather wooden Bella (Kristen Stewart). After 10 years I finally watched the entire thing rather then the bits and pieces I had seen over the years, and thoroughly enjoyed it. My advice is, ignore the bad reviews, give this a watch and decide for yourself... as for me, I've got a lot of sequels to watch.

Movie Review: "Twilight" (2008)In times of November 21st 2008, "Twilight" directed by female director Catherine Hardwicke based on a novel series by Stephanie Meyer hits the U.S. domestic theaters to extraordinary success at the box office; starring newly introduced actress Kirsten Stewart, just turning 18 at the time of principal photography, as the coming-of-age character of Bella Swan, moving from the desert of Arizona of her mom's to the misty mountains of the village of Forks in state of Washington of her dad's, meeting a 90-year-old vampire at high school, who got transformed at the age of 17 some time in the past. Together they discover that a life in a relationship between two different species can be possible even in the most hostile situations of crashing vehicles onto pedestrians, young-adult gang raids at night and the constant hunger for human blood by rivalling clans of vampires, which despite the mythology have been cultivated by the family of Edward Cullen, portrayed in timid, calm to an outraging performance by actor Robert Pattinson, who takes the female as gay audience in raving storms with mystical-looks throwing as daggers to the screen, where suspense gets build for moments to be broken by images of forest-animals and steel-factory-employee hunting vampires, letting only guess what the following two installments of an trilogy have in chess, when treaties between shape-shifting werewolves and the clans of vampires get violated and further the leading character of Bella keeps on begging to be transformed into a vampire, when further dropping suspense-levels are going to be entirely sacrificed for cold shower romanticism between Stewart & Pattinson, who found a professional method to attract the masses to the end of no surprises.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)