I have seen the two first, and am actually proud of it
I got a better understanding of films because of it. You have to watch shit sometimes, if you want to know what is good. You can't just watch good films all the time.
When I saw Twillight I really saw the plot points, lack of motivation for the weak characters as clear as light as day. After the second one I really have to agree that it's characters above plot, in importance. Twillight as an idea is not so bad. The characters were just not cool.
I am not really fond of Vampires, but I think True Blood is quite cool, and the difference is that it has great characters. It's so much more imaginative.
In True Blood there is this 12th century Viking, called Erik who has survived to present day. He walks around talking old swedish all the time, have become cynical over the last 800 years, and is just plain cool. The scriptwriters really played with making something cool.
Everything is boring about Twillight. Edward is 80 years, but why is his love life still on the stage level of a 16 year old? He should have the wisdom of a old man, but he is dumber than a new born clown posse.
Twillight has many other issues. The fucking blur they put in there oven their speed-up action scenes, shows sign of poor Editing. the pacing is awful, and even the things the characters say just dont make sense.
"are you afraid of me?"
"no"
"jump on my back"
does as she is being told
"hold on tight spider monkey"
It's so random. The drape colors, exporsition(cant spell it, u kno what I mean!) is fucked. soundtrack is distracting from the story. the father and mom of bella, are hopeless to perfect people, like some representation of the good american.
it would have been better if the mother was a crack fiend and the father a pedophile. at least then it would make more sense for the shallow bella to date a vampire and be attracted to freaks and weird fetishes. again, lack of motivation is the name of the game in these films.
it's to bad that even the dramatic moments, with the secret vampire order simply cant hold together, due to poor directing.
I remember one good scene in the second one. Near the end, where they are walking into a church there is a well shot scene of some human victims running to their doom or something. I vaguely remember it being well short, along with the crowd at the square. but that was basically commercially-shot.
I won't hate, because I am above that. It was interesting to check out, if for nothing else, to see what the fuzz was about. Women who watch this are obviously only interested in the fantasy of handsome men, saving their women and being really cool. it's eye candy. There is nothing else here.
I would imagine women having the same comments about me liking Rambo 4 or the first transformers. guys movies all the way. That's completely fine. I can see why those two films would not interest girls who are into pink hello kitty shit.
As a man my only problem with Twillight is that, yet again I think it's a shame. Edward and Jakob are these ultimate sex symbols? they barely have any body hair, have perfect skin tone like they used tons of make-up and special products, and their attitude are that of a confident ass clown.
It's a sting because, is this really what women want? It destroys the hope of the hairy Bear living inside of us lesser men, who look perhaps a bit to masculine.. or more like a ape:/
