Comments on: Why I Loved Twilight And Understand Why Many Others Didn’t

By: girl werewolf jacob black

girl werewolf jacob black — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:55:08 +0000

yeah about that: i though vampires were supposed to be pale….

By: Andrew James

Andrew James — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:00:45 +0000

ADD much?

By: mandy

mandy — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:31:43 +0000

If anyone’s heard Robert Pattinson has cut his hair and now everyone’s mad ….does anyone else think this is completely and utterly ridiculous ITS HAIR FOR PETES SAKE!!!!!!!, come on he’s not that good looking, its only hair (it’ll grow back) and it’s his life he can do what he wants with it. GET OVER IT!!!!!!

By: melissa

melissa — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:28:51 +0000

OOHH, thanks for clearing that up…it didn’t look like her. But why was she crying? Does she like Edward, or was she just thinking about James? And wouldn’t the students at prom notice that a girl they had never seen at the school before was just wondering around their prom?? I have never read the books so I may not know the obvious.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:21:15 +0000

Hey Melissa,

She was James’ (the one trying to kill Bella) vampire girlfriend from earlier in the movie.

By: melissa

melissa — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:13:25 +0000

Can someone please explain the end of the movie to me?? Who was that girl watching Edward and Bella dancing from the window and why was she crying? I just didn’t get it.

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:46:40 +0000

Hazmat, my personal favorite name of yours was “Hazmat_hates_old_people”

LOL

back to the twilight conversation, not enough action!

By: sfsilver

sfsilver — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:37:29 +0000

What about the horrendous score… Just awful -worthy of a Lifetime Network movie of the week. When Edward plays the piano for Bella I thought “9 decades to perfect his piano playing and musical tastes and he ends up a cheap John Tesh knock off – yikes”

The additions to the vampire myth are all well and fine, but not enough to make up for the what was otherwise a very middling average effort that utterly lacked even the slightest hint of passion or heat.

I see all vampire movies on principle, and have absolutely nothing against popular female focused teen fiction being the source for popular entertainment, but this was my all time least favorite vampire movie.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:44:35 +0000

@ Drewbird

I stand corrected with the director of Across the Universe.

However, if you think the relationship that is formed in Let The Right One In can be compared to the relationship that is formed in Twilight… then I guess you see things different than I. As far as I am concerned, and through personal experiences, relationships developed in the pre-teens are completely different than relationships formed in the teens. Maybe that is just my opinion, though.

Release dates I will admit were close, but not the same. In fact, if the new Potter flick had not got pushed back til next year, then Twilight would have still been released in December like it originally was planned I am sure. But yes, rather than being only a week difference it would have been a month which is still pretty close. Whats that got to do with the similarities? Nothing. But if we are going to take this route, then should we not compare all the movies that came out that weekend to these movies as well?

A new kid in town, wow that is a good comparison of the two, and about five billion other stories with and without vampires.

You sir, are correct. The similarities are amazing and these two movies should be compared.

All I was trying to say is that the two movies are quite different and should not be compared. Check them both out. You may like one or the other, like both, or dislike both… They are different enough that I would not advise a person to see one over the other under the false perception that if you see one you have seen them both.

By: trickster_brat

trickster_brat — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:38:19 +0000

The same exact beefs you listed are the ones that I could never get past. Not only did the main two stars of the film lack any chemistry and acting ability, but the dialogue was painfully simplistic and flat. e.g. The conversation about the weather. Why? Why waste valuable screen time on the weather when there seems to be valuable back story, relationship development, et cetera to be told?

Oh, and then there were about half a dozen useless, swirling, sweeping montages to music. Those montages were a poor attempt at creating the chemistry and romance that just weren’t inherent in the actors or story, respectively.

I’m infinitely glad that I didn’t have to pay money to see Twilight, and had to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes afterward for some vampire storytelling angst, tenson, and action done right.