Friday, January 2, 2009

Twilight [spoiler alert!]

Well, I recently got back from seeing the Twilight movie. I must say, I was not all that impressed. I've read all the books, which were okay, but the movie...it was like the book only very condensed, more confusing, with less character development, and very disappointing sparkles-in-the-sun effects. Seriously, I expected some epic sparkles. But no, it just looked like he was sweaty or had been rolling around in salt or something. Sigh. I guess to compensate for all that they tried to squeeze in as many studs as possible. I mean, as if a cast full of gorgeous vampires isn't enough (though the gorgeosity of Emmet is debatable...) they had to make the werewolf pretty, too! Hearing my friends giggle and sigh over Jacob got very tiresome. And another thing about Jacob: THAT WAS NOT JACOB! HE DID NOT LOOK LIKE JACOB! ARGH! And I still can't get past the fact that they got Robert Pattinson to play Edward. I swear, throughout the movie I would look at him and the first thing that would pop into my head was "Cedric Diggory". But I s'pose that's just my Potter-headedness overriding. Grumble. Ah well, it was a slightly above-average way to spend 2-odd hours. SLIGHTLY. Though, to give it credit, I did enjoy the slightly twisted performance of Cam Gigandet, who played James, the sadistic, masochistic tracker vampire baddie. He was pretty cool and bloodthirsty. But, of course, they had to throttle him and twist his head off and burn him to pieces at the end of it all. Nyar. Ah well, c'est la vie. I must admit though, Alice did impress me with her snazzy twisting-heads-off action. Tee hee. Eeeeeeep, that there was kind of creepy, wasn't it? I s'pose I should go now. Arrivederci.

6 comments:

cetra70 said...

*nods head with comment about Cam Gigandet*
He was a scarily convincing James... O_O Maybe he had experience...? :O

Oh, and the whole sniffing the air was AWWWEEESSSOOMMMMEEEE!

Okay... enough from me :D

kaytlyn37 said...

we never "giggled and sighed" over jacob. we just said he was hot, and needs a hair cut.

Gale Aeva said...

Ah you saw the movie too? I saw it a fairly long time ago though. I really didn't enjoy their choice of actors at all really and because I am most definitely a guy I would have to say that I wasn't enthralled by the gorgeousness of the vampires at all. Jasper was just crazy to me and reminded me of the Count from sesame street, Edward's head seemed oddly shaped, and Carlisle seemed to psychotic and not really stable. Jacob was fine you are overreacting just a little but of course your imagination seems to be a little extreme. The effects throughout the entire movie were all bad not just the sparkly in the sun one. Whenever they moved fast, the climbing of the tree, and even the tossing of the tree, it just all looked so fake. And I could have sworn Alice was supposed to be blonde. But the movie just seemed really poorly put together, some parts just seemed to be stuck in there because without it all the fangirls in this case would have screamed and thrown a fit, especially the prom part on the end. But that is enough of my opinion, you already have established your own. Just thought I would share my experiences with you :P

Peppercorn said...

Tair:
gasp, I'll bet he did! *shrieks*. I know, right? He was really the only convincing actor.
Caitlyn:
Oh yes you did. In your heads, at least. and at Kathryn's party. Tee hee.
Gale:
I agree with you on the crappy effects, oddly shaped Ed Head, and unstable Carlisle (I swear he's actually a pedophile. Does anyone else find it slightly creepy that he only bites teenagers??)
But about Jacob, he was obviously freaked out and desperately trying to restrain himself from eating Bella, and Alice was most definitely supposed to have BLACK hair. which, she didn't. Pah. And Twilight Fangirls driveth me up the wall. They could have easily left out all of the uncomfortably close shots of Edward's "smoldering topaz eyes", and the obvious lack of chemistry between Edward and Bella made me squirm. So yes.

Gale Aeva said...

yes?

Peppercorn said...

yes. waterfall buffalo orange-peel yes.