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Dec. 12th, 2008 02:16 amI finally got around to watching the Twilight movie the other day. While it's not a terribly good movie and is pretty clunky at times, it's not bad as an adaptation. In fact, I think it tells its story better than the novel because a) it's shorter and b)as a film, it's forced to be edited.
Also, the actors in the lead roles are better at portraying their characters than Meyers did. Kristin Stewart actually makes Bella seem insecure and awkward instead of S Meyers mary sue-ing it all over the page. And Robert Pattinson said that he played Edward as a manic-depressive who hates himself and that totally comes across. This makes it more EW CREEPY than lovey dovey romantic, but then the whole series is EW CREEPY anyway. (Pattinson's lip gloss color was extremely distracting though. I'm not sure I've ever seen a vampire in that shade of dark berry before.)
I'm not gonna review the whole thing, but there were a couple of things that stood out. First is that when I'd read about the whole glittery scene, I noticed a lot of people posting about it going, "THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER" and I thought they were just making snark, but no, that line is actually in the movie. They weren't kidding. (The first rule of Twilight: no one is ever kidding you. And the corollary to that rule is that you never run out of stuff to not kid people about.) Edward actually whisper yells it at Bella and then stomps off before he can start crying. (Now I am going to imagine all of the Growing Up Cullen fic as Edward whisper yelling at Emmett.) OMG, LOLZ.
OH, and he *tinkles* audibly under sunshine too. Nice touch, sound director.
The other lolarious scene is the vampire baseball. IT IS SO, SO, SO BAD. Words cannot describe how hilariously awful it is. Annnnd while trying to find screencaps, I did even better and found the scene itself on YouTube. (I luvs you, internets.) I implore you to watch it. You have to see it for yourself to understand. Self-medicating first
By the way, now I realize why Muse fans keep bitching about Twilight because "Supermassive Black Hole" is the song playing over the baseball scene. And even while I was choking on my Diet Dr. Pepper, I had to admit that I really liked the song. It kind of reminds me of Placebo and it's way too heavy and sexy sounding for something so cheesy. (Though that in itself makes the scene even funnier.) Now it will be forever tainted. I have no idea what would be an appropriate score for vampire baseball. If it were up to me, I would have probably chosen a barrel organ for it.
And for even more chagrin, Radiohead had a song over the ending credits and I was, "*Oh, Radiohead. Has it really come to this?" *sigh* At least it was a song that I didn't particularly care anything about.
Also, the actors in the lead roles are better at portraying their characters than Meyers did. Kristin Stewart actually makes Bella seem insecure and awkward instead of S Meyers mary sue-ing it all over the page. And Robert Pattinson said that he played Edward as a manic-depressive who hates himself and that totally comes across. This makes it more EW CREEPY than lovey dovey romantic, but then the whole series is EW CREEPY anyway. (Pattinson's lip gloss color was extremely distracting though. I'm not sure I've ever seen a vampire in that shade of dark berry before.)
I'm not gonna review the whole thing, but there were a couple of things that stood out. First is that when I'd read about the whole glittery scene, I noticed a lot of people posting about it going, "THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER" and I thought they were just making snark, but no, that line is actually in the movie. They weren't kidding. (The first rule of Twilight: no one is ever kidding you. And the corollary to that rule is that you never run out of stuff to not kid people about.) Edward actually whisper yells it at Bella and then stomps off before he can start crying. (Now I am going to imagine all of the Growing Up Cullen fic as Edward whisper yelling at Emmett.) OMG, LOLZ.
OH, and he *tinkles* audibly under sunshine too. Nice touch, sound director.
The other lolarious scene is the vampire baseball. IT IS SO, SO, SO BAD. Words cannot describe how hilariously awful it is. Annnnd while trying to find screencaps, I did even better and found the scene itself on YouTube. (I luvs you, internets.) I implore you to watch it. You have to see it for yourself to understand. Self-medicating first
is recommended
if you have to. Unfortunately, I saw it sober, which I really regret now. By the way, now I realize why Muse fans keep bitching about Twilight because "Supermassive Black Hole" is the song playing over the baseball scene. And even while I was choking on my Diet Dr. Pepper, I had to admit that I really liked the song. It kind of reminds me of Placebo and it's way too heavy and sexy sounding for something so cheesy. (Though that in itself makes the scene even funnier.) Now it will be forever tainted. I have no idea what would be an appropriate score for vampire baseball. If it were up to me, I would have probably chosen a barrel organ for it.
And for even more chagrin, Radiohead had a song over the ending credits and I was, "*Oh, Radiohead. Has it really come to this?" *sigh* At least it was a song that I didn't particularly care anything about.
