It's amazing how one of the best books i've read can result in one of the worst movies i've watched.
I just watched Twilight today with beckz at The Grand Cathay (quite cool, the screen is concaved so i guess it looks nicer) and the cinema is huge. Ok nice theatre aside... the movie was just plain horrible!
Ok i have so many things to write i think i'll just do it in point form to be more coherent.
- The movie was about 2 hours long? which is a terribly short duration for such an epic book like Twilight. which resulted in having to compress alot of information into one movie.. which the scriptwriter did.. which isn't a good thing.
It felt like they were just stringing together the key scenes of the book, along with key dialogue lines such as.. a short narrative part where bella says 'there are 3 things i'm sure of... ' which ends with 'i am unconditionally and irrevocably in love with edward'
it's like they just put in those dialogues FOR THE SAKE of putting in those dialogues.
- The flow of the movie was quite bad. it's like they jump from scene to scene without proper flow, and they leave alot of things unexplained. (which are explained in the book , since it is possible to have more description of emotions and background detailing)
- 50% of the movie was shot close-up.
You can't believe how irritating this was!!!
ok if you dont know what i'm talking about i'll just use 2 pictures that i picked from my desktop to illustrate.
This is a normal camera shot that any other movie may have.. face of actor occupies one third of the screen? or so.
In the movie, much of it was shot this close.
this results in a little inclination to want to lean back in your seat as you feel like you're too close. but ultimately this little closeup trick is meant to be for actors/actresses who have excellent facial control (think LOST.. they love to do closeup shots cos i believe most of the main cast is able to convey emotion very well) and/or are good looking.
Which the twilight actor/actress is neither!
- talking about that.. OMG WHAT'S WITH THE ACTOR.
can you really touch your heart and say that he is good looking?!? he is DAMN UGLY CAN!? he looks like some drug junkie who just put on alot of powder and blush for makeup.
The actress actually looks pretty good when she ties up her hair, she should do that more.
but seriously, edward cullen should be MUCH BETTER THAN THIS.
I'm not a rabid Twilight fan so i havent memorized alot of lines, but i do know that edward was described as 'perfect cheekbones with nice facial features', has eyes that 'dazzle' (to achieve this effect the director made alot of closeup shots on his eyes. which.. didn't exactly work) looks unbelievably handsome, and
has a body of a greek god.OMG ROBERT PATTINSON (the actor) IS FLABBY LA!!
i couldn't believe it. There was one scene he wore a grey t shirt which ended somewhere on his non-existent bicep. he has no arm muscles! i'm telling you his arm is just one flab. you know people who have toned arms or work out abit generally have abit of the bicep shape. So when you wear sleeves that rest halfway on it it kinda shows off.
HE DOESNT HAVE THAT BICEP SHAPE . cos his arm is just flab.
ok fine maybe he isnt flabby but he definitely doesnt have muscle!! and he's supposed to have a perfect body says the book!!
And somemore one scene where he unbuttons the front of his shirt.. he has no pecs or abs at all! like non-existent totally! i think that's why they never make him take off his whole shirt like in the book. (he just unbuttoned and exposed like 1 inch of his body.) cos he has no body to show.
I mean come on la, you read about actors like adrian brody who starved himself to appear more meagre for his role in The Pianist.. nicholas cage who pumped iron for months to have a more toned body for Ghost Rider .. then come this mega production of a much hyped movie and the actor is flab.
-_-
And he has super hairy arms too!! it was the very first thign i noticed.
Seriously i was quite angry during the show because of how ugly he was.
Like the first scene he appears was one where his family enterred the cafeteria.. so they like show the cullens one by one. they are all generally good looking (they're supposed to be all good looking) except for rosaline who looks ugly too (come cant you get a better cameo actress to play her.. she doesnt have much lines) . So it's like.. good looking.. good looking.. good looking.. then comes edward cullen.
OMG FAINTS CUT SELF .
he looked significantly less good looking than the rest of them.
-there were so many awkward scenes!! like totally random scenes that are placed in for the sake of being there but fail totally because it's a movie, not a book.
then there are actually scenes/lines that try to be funny but are just SO 'omg that was just lamely bad'
For instance, once when edward went up to bella and started talking, bella answered "you don't even say hello".
edward "hello"
-_- -squirms in seat uncomfortably-
-bad acting. omg i can't believe how bad the actors/actresses were. Alot of them 'over-acted' while some 'under-acted'. i'm getting tired so i can't remember specific scenes.. but there was jst bad acting.
-it's a romance flick dammit! do some romance effects! like use the camera to emphasize a slight hand movement (e.g. a shift from a hand on the shoulder to the waist) but there was none of this! well maybe because edward and bella arent really supposed to touch each other too much otherwise.... well you read the book you'll know.
-bad scriptwriting - bella fell in love with edward extremely quickly and without any convincingness. it was like.. she fell in love because she was supposed to.
ok la i think i can go on for several more but im feeling extremely sleepy now.. it's like 3AM . so. DONT watch this movie at the theatres please. no matter how 'good' your friends tell you it is. because i promise you, it is not.
