OH YEAH, she did it.
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…”
“What a stupid lamb..”
“What a sick, masochistic lion..”
And there we have it, the iconic lines of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight. I’ve yet to read the entirety of the series, though I gave in to the demands of my curiousity and watched the movie. It had received mixed reviews from the people who’ve watched it, ranging from “dragging, stupid action scenes and corny lines” to “OMFG, RPattz is hawt!!” I’ve seen Robert Pattinson in action before, saw his pictures and relegated him to gay-looking guy in his Goblet of Fire days. After seeing the movie though, the verdict is in… oh my f*ckin god, Robert Pattinson is hot. The makeup was a bit of an overkill, as was the sparkly-as-diamond routine, but that would be lumped with the other complaints later on.
First, the good news. Casting was quite perfect, if pictures were all what we were looking for — they were all quite picture-perfect. Carlisle looked a bit like Spock from Star Trek, but that’s my only quibble about their looks. The actress for Alice was spot on! She really did have quite the otherworldly appeal. Jasper, I guess, was supposed to look hungry and in pain all throughout, but it didn’t scare me so much as tickle my funny bone. It wasn’t hunger… more like constipation in my book. What he needs is a long private time in the privy…
As previously stated, Robert Pattinson was absolutely — I’m at a loss for words. Pictures don’t do him justice (besides, he’s not photogenic — he looks better moving than still). The dangerous vibe, the smirk… *sigh* Girls just love the bad boys, don’t they? Speaking of girl though… Kristen Stewart. God. I still maintain that in the poster she looks like she was hit on the face by a cast iron skillet, but I have to admit she acted nice. That and the fact that Bella was supposed to be plain as a church mouse is the only reason why I haven’t made an icon that had her face scratched out yet. I guess her plainness was an enhancement to the other pretties on screen.
Kinda reminds me of the movie Covenant. That reminder isn’t exactly good news, as Covenant was a movie more known for it’s pretty boys than it’s plot. Ah well…
Hm, other good news. There were certain lines in the movie that just made you go wow… I wish I thought of that. That’s probably more Stephanie Meyer than the scriptwriter though, I’m sure. It’s also funny in a way how I could slog through the books just so I could catch those spectacular lines scattered all over. Kinda like searching for buried treasure in a way.
Examples of those little gems are the ones stated above, lion lamb and whatnot. “My personal brand of heroin..” was another, coincidentally also in the same scene. And “I’m not afraid of you. I’m only afraid of losing you.” was a favorite as mentioned by a friend — it seems clingy though and not really to my own taste.
The word clingy brings me to the bad points — although good and bad were sort of mixed up in there, wasn’t it? Silly me. Anywho, bad bad bad… Bella. She narrates most of the book, and man does her voice sound strange and awkward. Still did in the movie, although that was Kristen Stewarts fault, I guess.
Little nitpicks: I didn’t know ‘irrevocably’ was pronounced with a stress on ‘re’ … bothered me a whole lot, enough for me to get out my Encarta dictionary and have the little man say the word. Gr… Bella said it right. I always thought you pronounced it with the stress on ‘vo’.
Dragging — yep, there were points in the movie where I switched the screen to my photoshop and started photoshopping. That was how boring some of the scenes were. There were parts where it felt rushed and parts where it dragged — no in betweens, which is sad in a way.
The action scenes were bust. Where they were supposed to look supernatural they just looked — well, silly. Strangely enough, it even looked like they were in the set of Encantadia. *raises hand* I swear! Seriously, the slamming and the grrs became old real quick. The last part too, where Bella was convulsing on the floor — that made me laugh. I have a quirk, I’m sorry.
SPARKLY!!! Like diamonds!!! Ugh. They did the whole shine thing better in Stardust. Yvaine looked like she shined. Edward just looked like he finally took off his heavy make-up for the first time in the movie. Except for the body shine part… that was double ugh. As for the heavy make-up… I think I mentioned Spock up earlier. Frankly, the only Cullen vamp who looked vamp-not-alien was Alice. The whiteness wasn’t that glaring as it was with Edward and Carlisle. Those two on the other hand looked like they spent 3 hours with their face in a vat of white paint to look the part. Honestly.
All in all, it was an okay movie. Okay in the sense that Robert Pattinson is perfect as the dangerous Edward and the rest were tolerable. I’d like to see Jasper say more than two lines, and more of Alice. The others.. meh. >.< I’ve had this great big bias against Twilight for some time now, and sad to say the movie didn’t change that one whit. Except make me like Robert Pattinson more, but that’s due to my personal preference for bad boys. :p Has nothing to do with the Twilight thing at all.
Sick, masochistic Medea.
