Twilight
When you can live forever, what do you live for?
When Bella Swan's (Kristen Stewart) mother starts traveling with her new husband, the 17-year-old leaves her home in Phoenix and returns to live with her father in tiny Forks, Washington. After the endless sun of Arizona, Forks' misty grey climate is quite exotic to Bella - as are her new classmates, the Cullen family. Impossibly good-looking and extremely private, they are unlike anyone she has ever met - in more ways than she realizes.
The Cullens are a family of immortal blood drinkers. For decades - centuries for some of them - they have disciplined themselves to consume only animal blood, living the vampire equivalent of a "vegetarian" lifestyle. They hide under the Olympic Peninsula's cloudy sky, living as normal a life as possible and keeping to themselves to protect their secret.
Bella becomes especially fascinated with Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), but her new classmate keeps her at arm's length. In truth, his attraction to her is overwhelming and he fears that his vampire nature will overcome his self-control. Bella is the soul mate he has searched 90 years for, but her scent threatens to send him into an uncontrollable feeding frenzy.
Unable to resist spending time with Bella, Edward reveals himself to her in the hope that his secret will repel her, but the teenager only becomes more infatuated. Soon the young couple is inseparable and Edward's internal struggle intensifies in the face of Bella's consuming desire to become one of them. As Bella discovers more about Edward's world, she throws herself headlong into a thrilling and terrifying romance, attracting the attention of a group of nomadic vampires who lack the Cullens' squeamishness about human blood and target her as their next victim.
Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling book series by Stephenie Meyer.
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Painful to watch - Gilley
To start, the Twilight books are not fantastic. They are entertaining in the same way that gossip and celebrity drama entertain. You acknowledged it's not a masterpiece and yet, you can't put the book down!!! That being said, even when coming to terms with the fact that the movie is not, on any level, a masterpiece it STILL is not entertaining. The books are much much more entertaining. Special effects weren't great either (Vampires running looks awful!).
Stick with the books.Made me feel old - anemonie
I think this movie is of a genre thats more or less horror/romance for those who prefer to fawn over attractive younger male celebrities. There isn't much more to it than that. I found the plot very thin and the movie not that entertaining. I felt like I might have liked it more had I been 10 years younger watching it...or not....Nothing Special - PowerPipes
I will concede against my preferred judgment that the Twilight series has some elements that will allow for most audiences to be entertained. That being said I do have to be a shining beacon of light in an otherwise misguided and blindly followed obsession that this series is some type of definitive authority or “must see” on all that every was or will be regarding vampires & werewolves.
While I’m sure the books were good or maybe even great there is no way for me to say that series is mind blowing. Ok, but nothing overtly special.
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Painful to watch - Gilley
To start, the Twilight books are not fantastic. They are entertaining in the same way that gossip and celebrity drama entertain. You acknowledged it's not a masterpiece and yet, you can't put the book down!!! That being said, even when coming to terms with ...Made me feel old - anemonie
I think this movie is of a genre thats more or less horror/romance for those who prefer to fawn over attractive younger male celebrities. There isn't much more to it than that. I found the plot very thin and the movie not that entertaining. I felt like ...Nothing Special - PowerPipes
I will concede against my preferred judgment that the Twilight series has some elements that will allow for most audiences to be entertained. That being said I do have to be a shining beacon of light in an otherwise misguided and blindly followed obsession ...