Twilight

TWILIGHT is an action-packed, modern-day love story between a teenage girl and a vampire. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has always been a little bit different, never caring about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix high school. When her mother re-marries and sends Bella to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn’t expect much of anything to change. Then she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), a boy unlike any she’s ever met. Edward is a vampire, but he doesn’t have fangs and his family is unique in that they choose not to drink human blood. Intelligent and witty, Edward sees straight into Bella’s soul.

Soon, they are swept up in a passionate, thrilling and unorthodox romance. To Edward, Bella is what he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. But what will Edward & Bella do when a clan of new vampires - James (Cam Gigandet), Laurent (Edi Gathegi) and Victoria (Rachelle Lefevre) - come to town and threaten to disrupt their way of life?

This movie is based upon the first book in a series of four written by American Author, Stephenie Meyer.  It’s sold over 42 million copies worldwide and now they’re hoping to mirror the success of Harry Potter with a movie franchise.  Currently the movie’s made a worldwide gross of $263,427,551 just at the box office so they seem to be doing alright so far.

I was left feeling slightly underwhelmed by Twilight.  After all the hype and box office success of the movie I was looking forward to seeing a good vampire flick but unfortunately all I got was a moody teenage drama in which a few people have a hunger for blood.  I felt that the whole film was rushed, I didn’t really care about the characters and the action was dull.  It was as if they had this idea for a love story, which is what most of the film is about, and then they decided to crowbar in a villain and a sub plot in the last few minutes in a failed attempt to give the movie a decent ending.

Lets just hope that the sequel offers a bit more depth and some proper vampire action (I also hope I haven’t just lost us our moody teenage audience).

DVD Extras

-Audio Commentary

-Music Videos

-Extended Scenes (with Director’s introduction)

-Deleted Scenes (with Director’s introduction)

-The Adventure Begins: The Journey from Page to Screen

-The Comic-Con Phenomenon

-UK Theatrical Campaign

-A Conversation with Stephenie Meyer

-Music: the heartbeat of Twighlight

-Becoming Edward

-Becoming Bella

-Catherine Hardwicke’s Vampire Kiss Montage

-Catherine Hardwicke’s “Bella Lullaby Remix” music video

-Edward’s Piano Concert

 

~Review by Lee

 

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