Friday, December 12, 2008

Twilight

Twilight (2008) - The Movie Review

Okay, so now everyone is talking about this new hit. The book written by Stephenie Meyer. And now Hollywood decided to make the major motion picture, the 'Twilight' fever is on the spot.
I - as a matter a fact - was pretty lagging behind all of these. I have not read the book (until now!) but yet I watched the movie last weekend.

'Twilight' is a novel about a teenage couple in a small city. A normal teenlit romance, if only the author did not mention that the guy - Edward Cullen - is a vampire. A classic story of forbidden love between a mortal chick with a cool vampire boy, and the conflict with the world. The story went on so groovy, Meyer decided to make the sequels, 'New Moon', 'Eclipse', and 'Breaking Dawn'. And I heard something about the fifth book, but oh well, I was going to talk about the movie anyway :P

So. Since this 'Twilight' book is such a comet, Hollywood made the bigbang. Starring Kristen Stewart as Bella, the main character; and Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen The Vampire, they are practically the new Gods for teenagers around the globe. Every girl I met were screaming for the cool hotshot Edward, Edward, Edward XD
Okay, he's cute. Undoubtly adorable. But my first encounter with this guy on the movie was, he's so James Dean. LOL. I just couldn't ignore the leather jacket and the stylist hair.

All the casts were new actors and actresses you might wanna ask "who?" when you see the names. The setting was a small town in north America called Forks. But since this is a story about human and vampires, I thought there would be some dark scenes but turns out it was all daylight and only some minor night shots.

All the storyline is basically just as same as in the book, only I heard there were some minor changes (I didn't know, since I haven't read the book, remember) but it didn't actually affected the whole point of the story. The author has her own way to describe a vampire and blends it with urban legend in north America from Indian culture about immortal clans of wolves and, well, vampires. For those who think that vampires are supposed to be locked up in after sunset, well, you'd be surprised to see The Cullens were hanging out at high schools in the morning and actually facing the sunlight. Wow. I myself admire Stephenie Meyer for her courage to bring out vampires from the darkside, but perhaps not everyone could deal with the fact that author can decide the fate of the characters :P Some people I knew who watched the movie were arguing about 'how come a vampire could face the sunlight?' but once again, it's the liberty of writing a fiction we are arguing about. it's all fair in creating fantasies, dudes.

Over all, the story is all about teen drama. For the book, you might use your imagination to describe the story. But when it comes to the movie, you cannot expect much from a drama. This movie isn't an exploding vampire thriller, so you cannot comparing 'Twilight' with something like 'Interview With The Vampire' or even 'Underworld'. It's all in different line. There were no spectacular special effects in this movie except for the scenes when the vampires were showing off their vampiric nature - fast moving, high jumps, ... that's basically all. And for the rest, it's just a normal scenes about high school kids and their world and conflicts. The whole scenes went on smooth and considerably normal, despite the fact that it includes immortal characters in it. There might be some cheesy classic scenes, but oh well, it's always cheesy when it comes to drama :P

Just like every movie from a novel, the storyline is in a fast pace, so it might skipped some details which lead to another scenes. One good point from this movie is the monologues which stood out for teenage point of view. Both Bella and Edward have bold personalities which are enough to build the character. That's one thing I like about bring out a novel into a movie - from words into actions :)

However, the movie over all is a good one. I personally love it and rate it 8/10. And plus, the main attract of this movie is the awesome Edward Cullen. No one can resist a handsome vampire XD Now, I am not going to join the teenyboppers who scream 'I Love Edward', but I always love vampires and this Edward guy is not an exception, although he's only a hundred years old and basically nothing compares to the ultimate The Vampire Lestat. LOL. If only Edward was not so James Dean *sigh*
But oh well, the teenagers love him. And I guess, if you see the movie and read the book, then so would you :)

{posted by Chibi on 1:30 PM} +

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