Is “Twilight” twaddle?
My horror-buff colleague Kevin Johnson will be reviewing the vampire romance “Twilight” in Friday’s paper; but I saw the much-hyped movie tonight and I am free to make a prediction: It will only appeal to a limited audience, an audience that definitely doesn’t include me.
Then again, i said the same about “Sex and the City,” and that audience forked over about $150 million. ”Twilight” is aimed at their daughters, many of whom have read the “Twilight Saga” books by Stephenie Meyer. Among them is my niece, Angela, whom I took to the preview screening at Ronnie’s.
Angela thought hunk-of-the-month Robert Pattinson was dreamy as the vegetarian vampire, and she thoiught the movie itself was good, if not as action-packed as the book on which it was based. Me, I thought it was a snooze. The mopey teens and cheap effects were more suited to a series on the WB network than a feature film.
Director Catherine Hardwicke once made a frighteningly realistic coming-of-age film called “Thirteen,” but this was soft-focus fodder for the tweens who only recently grew tired of “High School Musical.”
Maybe I’ll be interested by movie #4, when I reckon that Bella (played by talented young actress Kristen Stewart) finally succumbs to the vampire’s highly symbolic bite. But for now I have to shake my head and lament that the millennial generation is so toothless.
it looks like total crap on the trailer…but as you said, it obviously appeals to a female teen audience.
Look at it this way–it keeps the kids out of other movies where they usually grow bored and end up disturbing the audience with chatter and texting.