Reply With QuoteAwesome that it had better opening than Dark Knight.
Thanks for helping it.
Though third part is supposed to be directed by David hard candy Slade who is pretty good, but I am sure the movie will stink just as first two (no I have not seen them).
What no thread for this? I'm really surprised no wait I'm shocked!
I will start this off by saying that I was incredibly lucky to have seen this movie in a theater that was less then 1/3 full. I could not imagine even attempting to see this in a full theater with its target demographic. If you didn't see the first one you won't see this one and you surely won't see the third one that comes out June 2010. Even if you did see the first one this one is just as forgettable as that one was.
Lets get one thing out of the way right now. Bella? Yeah she is a whore. She must be because I have no idea why all of these dudes want her. Also I think I heard a girl in the back orgasim when the main dude came on screen for the first time. The screams of joy when the werewolf dude took off his shirt for the first time were deafening.
Really thats all this movie is in a nutshell its pretty guys on screen taking their shirts off and lusting after some boring broad. One thing I really don't get though is why all the werewolf dudes always need to walk around with out shirts on and in shorts. Well I do know why but I doubt there is a logica reason other then to make girls feel all warm and tingely.
The number of screams and gasps in this movie was really quite astounding. They made the movie and hit their demographic perfectly it looks like. I just saw the movie less then 2 hours ago and I've managed to almost wipe the whole thing from my mind.
Yes it is a shitty movie and it felt to me like there was even less of a story in it then there was in 2012 if you can even believe thats shit.
Awesome that it had better opening than Dark Knight.
Thanks for helping it.
Though third part is supposed to be directed by David hard candy Slade who is pretty good, but I am sure the movie will stink just as first two (no I have not seen them).
The historical fact that werewolves wear nothing but shorts has been well-established by the famous documentary series, Heroes of Might and Magic.
I liked the musical number.
The vampire dude wants Gus Van Sant to do the fourth one.Originally Posted by Paul_cze
The reviews are pretty epic reading, for people who like that kind of thing.
I will now throw up to show how much cooler I am than the people who watch this dreck.
So this is like the MW2 for movies?
There will never be another good movie after this.
Variety says this is the #3 opening weekend of all time, after Dark Knight and Spiderman 3.
Ugh.
They should have had the werewolves all wear doggy outfits. Little sweaters that say things like: "doggy style" and "four on the floor". Little rhinestone collars that read "bitch".
They should have just abandoned trying to pretend it was otherwise and had the main characters get the boy love on to appeal to their target audience.
For a target audience (girls 10-16 ?) all that matters is seeing their idol as naked as possible - they don't care about story or stuff like that.Who needs that?
damn am I glad my 15 years old sister hates that shit
I dunno, I think there is a fairly large number of mid twenty to mid-thirty women that dig the Twilight series. The fact that those women are flocking to see shirtless high school dudes is a little weird. I am sure if guys from 20 to 40 flocked to see a movie with half-naked high school girls, no one would have a problem, though. ;)
Learning that an otherwise normal-seeming adult is into these books/movies is pretty much enough to dissuade me from ever having any social interactions with them ever again. For some reason, finding out somebody is into this crap is far more offensive to me than finding out somebody has whacky political or religious beliefs.
You know what is really fucked up about this movie more so then the first one? It is a fucking Vampire movie but with no Vampires! What the fuck.
There really must be something in the Kool Aid with these movies because my wife who hates romantic shitty movies for some reason loves these things ( She refuses to read the books though which is good ). I've asked her what it is about them and she can't really give me a good reason other then the guys are hot and she loves that the main dude feeds the dumb Bella chick a bunch of romantic bullshit.
The ending was classic though and hilarious. The last line was the main guy saying "Will you marry me?" Then fade to black! The screams and cries heard after that was fucking epic.
3rd biggest opening ever? Fuck this shit I don't wanna see the 4th and 5th one but I guess that is unavoidable now.
That isn't inflation adjusted, so it's basically meaningless and not worth fretting over.
You know, if this ended up making more money than Transformers 2, I don't think I would mind all that much. This is the same thing, only for women. Let them have their blockbuster.
Troy
If this goes on to join Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as one of the two highest-grossing films of the year, it will certainly say something about the movie-going public. I'm trying to think of a positive spin for this. Hmm. Youth has returned to the cinema? That's all I got.
If Palin ends up as our President someday I'm going to hold up the success of this movie as part of the Zeitgeist that made it possible.
See, this I just don't get. I am all for the ogling of hot mostly naked dudes, that's what 300 is for after all. And sure, the werewolf boy worked out a lot but he's 17. There is nothing about a 17 year old that is sexy. And as much as Pattinson makes me laugh when he gives interviews, he is filthy and has awful hair.
Book 5 (unreleased) is called Midnight Sun! OMFG! I'm getting my lawyers on the phone first thing tomorrow! This has gone too far!
I had to see it on Saturday. Made me want to hit the gym afterwards, haha.
I didn't read the books, but I can't imagine who would rather hang out with those lame vampires instead of the werewolves. Working on motorcycles, cliff diving, and jean shorts: that's my dream life.
This book/movie also had the most eye-rolling part of Hollywood romance: if the true love is gone from the woman's life for any reason, she will remain purified until his return. No sex allowed! (Or kissing, for a kids movie.)
I look forward to seeing Optimus Prime infected with the vampyric virus and taking off his shirt in Transformers 3.
Done.
If you're actually curious as to why an otherwise healthy-minded person would find these books to be compelling, I can offer some insight based on my conversations on the subject with my wife. Although if you're just nerd-raging, that's fine, too.
According to my wife, basically, in part because they're terribly written and basically just Stephanie Meyer's secret lust diary, it does an amazing job of capturing the insecurities, etc of how a pre-sexual, adolescent girl's mind works. The, for example, incredibly inane conversations that Bella and Edward have in the book about their favorite color or whatever are exactly the kinds of questions a junior high girl wants her boyfriend to ask her.
You can probably read more about this in various places, but that's the gist of it. It's pretty much garbage, but I'm sure we each have our own guilty pleasures, so I try not to judge too hard.
Hey, this gives dads everywhere a new abstinenence tactic. Baby doll, you have to stay pure, because no vampire wants to spend eternity with a whore.
Yup. I saw it on Firday night in a packed theater because my daughter (14) loves it. It was movie Hell. Girls screaming and gasping every 20 minutes. Giggling, whispering, and texting throughout the showing. I would hate it more, but I'm just glad my daughter reads anything at all. (I wonder what I will do by the time the fourth movie comes around? I've read it, and I'm not entirely sure it's appropriate for my daughter. Of course, she'll be 16 or 17 by that time, so maybe I'm just prematurely worried.)
I imagine this is what my generation's parents felt like when all the girls in my school were going nuts over Flowers In The Attic.
As for the movie, as bad as it was, it was still better than the first one. At least I didn't have to watch vampire baseball this time. I feel bad that Bigelow got canned after the first one. I think she was the scapegoat for the timing, budget, and generally poor writing of the first book.
What's creepy about it is this was written by a woman. I don't normally fret about breaking down social constructs in boring Hollywood movies, but I was pretty surprised here.
Kathryn Bigelow didn't direct Twilight - it was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, who did an indie feature called Thirteen and the fictionalized version of Lords Of Dogtown.
Ah! Thanks for the correction. I have no idea why I thought Bigelow directed Twilight.
I feel bad for Hardwicke, then. I think she got the shaft over the way the first movie turned out. It wasn't a good movie, but it's a weak book, and the budget was way too small.
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