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My hope is that the sequels are actual attempts at movies. The world doesn't need any more toothless cinema.
A deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
I succumbed to the palpable chemistry between the leads, and remembered my own girlish fantasies with something of a head-spinning rush.
I think this film is definitely a victim of it's own expectations.
Unfortunately, it just didn't work.
A darn good hunk of pop moviemaking.
It's not the stunts and derring-do which excite the senses as much as the quiet chemistry between Stewart and Pattinson; that is guaranteed to get your blood up.
I've had mosquito bites that were more passionate than this undead, unrequited, and altogether unfun pseudo-romantic riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Its built-in fanbase (thanks to the best-selling novel) is ready to swoon. I'm not one of those swooners but even I had a great time indulging in the earnest urgency.
Twilight really does have an infatuation with surface beauty, especially where the vampires are concerned. In fact they sum up the film pretty well. It's a façade, an appealing one to people who share the right appetites, but that's all.
Cinema.com: A densely erotic, twisted take on teen screen romance, Twilight zones out beneath the crushing weight of underage lust intensified and complicated by the excruciating abstention here of unorthodox vampire appetites.
...the film has been infused with a deliberate pace that proves instrumental in establishing (and perpetuating) the source material's very specific atmosphere.
Romantic, smart, likable and often quite funny, without any tacked-on snarkiness or desperate hipness.
Twilight is mostly elegantly put together, though anything having to do with the pack of bad vampires is disastrous...
It's hard not to get sucked in--if one can get past the sometimes hokey, melodramatic teenage dialogue.
Suggests Anne Rice slumming for a WB special
For a piece about forbidden lust/love, it's not very tortured.
So this is what all the fuss is about?
With the release of the DVD, I totally understand that this product was put together with the fans in mind.
The genre has certainly come a long way from I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
A densely erotic, twisted take on teen screen romance and underage rebel lust. And while not exactly the sexually suggestive The Man Who Came For Dinner, Twilight zones out on a defiant inter-species dating fantasy, Close Encounters Of The Thirst Kind.
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