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mortalkom

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WORST MOVIE EVER EVEN WORSE THAN RICK ASTELY

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Posted nov 8, 2009 1:02 pm pt

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I'm so excited with New Moon especially with the character of Kiowa Gordon. I am a big fan of Kiowa. http://kiowagordon.com/

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Posted oct 20, 2009 3:02 pm pt

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I read all 4 books of the Twilight saga. In about, 5-6 months. Since I wouldn't BUY them, I waited to borrow them from various people which took awhile. I thought the 1st book was decent. The other 3, not so much.

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I read all 4 books of the Twilight saga. In about, 5-6 months. Since I wouldn't BUY them, I waited to borrow them from various people which took awhile. I thought the 1st book was decent. The other 3, not so much.

3 days after I read the book in March, I rented the DVD. I did really want to see the movie. So I stayed up until 10:30 at night watching it. I was horrified. I didn't really expect much anyway, but REALLY? Is this a joke? This was barely like the book at all. Half of that crap never even happened. Bella never freaking went into Charlie's office after getting saved by Edward. Neither did she climb up tall trees with Edward. The camera jiggled a lot which drove me insane. I ususally dislike films based on books, so that's why. This movie is 1 of the reasons I REFUSE to see New Moon. Thanks and goodbye.

P.S. To all who like this film: I will not insult you. It's YOUR life, not mine. Everybody has a different opinion. That's okay.

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Posted sep 19, 2009 7:10 am pt

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ok...obviously the book is way better than the film but i love me some edward and the romance was kute...and i love the twilight saga and lookn forward to new moon!!

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Posted sep 3, 2009 1:15 am pt

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For a "teen romance" this film definatley provides some fresh ideas but i didn't feel that the intensity of Bella and Edwards relationship was as strong as it could be.

I did really enjoy the film even though it was slow...
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For a "teen romance" this film definatley provides some fresh ideas but i didn't feel that the intensity of Bella and Edwards relationship was as strong as it could be.

I did really enjoy the film even though it was slow at some parts.

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Posted apr 20, 2009 7:26 am pt

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This movie is nothing like the book. Maybe a few parts but that is all. BUt i still love the movie!

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Posted mar 30, 2009 12:01 am pt

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An entertaining movie, but kinda slow at some parts. Good ending, though.

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Posted mar 21, 2009 9:17 am pt

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I was surprised by the movie, some of the acting detached emotion and special effects were a bit dated but overall I enjoyed the movie. I don't think at first it was a love story, but an strong unexplained attraction that grew to understanding and...
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I was surprised by the movie, some of the acting detached emotion and special effects were a bit dated but overall I enjoyed the movie. I don't think at first it was a love story, but an strong unexplained attraction that grew to understanding and love. It put a new twist on the vampire lore and sets up New Moon.

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Posted mar 16, 2009 10:38 pm pt

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I watched Twilight.
I had some time to kill, so this is my review. It contains spoilers so don’t read if you are planning to watch it!!!

Something crappy this way comes.
What a snooze fest! Get a pillow for falling...
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I watched Twilight.
I had some time to kill, so this is my review. It contains spoilers so don’t read if you are planning to watch it!!!

Something crappy this way comes.
What a snooze fest! Get a pillow for falling asleep (and a bucket for potential vomiting) This abomination of a teenage TV-pilot drama-like, is a great snooze fest. The actors are so bad they made my teeth hurt. The story is so incredibly juvenile and preposterously tedious, it makes me want to find those responsible pull down their pants and give them a good spanking. There are long pointless scenes of nothing happening. The story and dialogues are so badly written one has to drop their IQ to squid level to be able to follow. I dozed off here and there, and when I was awake I was either angry or annoyed. The writing insults the viewers intelligence and the terrible acting makes you wonder …
There were though some good aspects. I have to be honest. The fact that the vampires do not turn into hideous monsters under the sun (and die a screaming death) was quite refreshing; I really liked the glittering scene - Perhaps the only beautiful scene throughout the whole film - And the idea of all the extra individual abilities was also a nice touch. I give one point to that. Then the fact that they didn’t show a single fang was a real good thing!!! I mean the movie was ridiculous already, if they would add the typical growling vampire-grimace showing off Halloween-fangs, it would be a comedy. The fang showing factor is one thing that always bothers me in vampire movies. (It is the only thing that turns me off with True Blood for example.) So I have to acknowledge that and give them one more point. And I will give it one more point for good photography.
So other than these three pluses, the rest of the film is totally pathetic. It is a teenage drama for pre-teens. The love story is so ridiculous I don’t know where to begin. It is so exaggerated, it dances on a very small thread between bad drama and comedy. I have to say I laughed many times during painfully long - to kiss or not to kiss - scenes. A wannabe powerful love story turn to sentimental diarrhea.
And what is it with the Dawson’s Creek alike, vampire family? They all looked and acted like a deeply religious Goody Two-Shoes family. The cooking scene was so unintentionally funny, yet disturbing, I didn’t know if I should laugh or ask for my money back.
I give it 3 out of 10 … (well in movietom scale 1 tunrs to half so here I give it one and a half out of 5)

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Posted mar 9, 2009 8:08 pm pt

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One of the latest movies that I really like. I was really skeptical at the beginning, but I'm really enjoyed it and I don't regret any minute that I spent watching it.

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Posted feb 2, 2009 10:17 am pt

• [+] Empire
  
  80
  A sometimes girlie swirl of obsession that will delight fans, this faithful adaptation is after teenage blood, and will most likely hit a box office artery.

  by Will Lawrence | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  80
  A genuine love story might be difficult for a young audience to handle, but this fantasy is blissful madness--an abstinence fable sexier than sex.

  by David Denby | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  75
  Pattison grows on us as he grows on Bella: His weird mannerisms and nervous delivery stop seeming like quirks and acquire an intensity that's hard to resist by the end.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Twilight has a few gory plot turns - mostly offscreen - and one near-sex scene that may offend a few Amish people, but the rest is maybe 33 percent less wholesome than "High School Musical." It's almost certainly less risque than what you were watching when you were 14. (Cue the soundtrack to "Risky Business.")

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  75
  Actually, the movie's a better movie than the book was a book, in part because Meyer struggled to put her characters' galloping emotions into print whereas director Catherine Hardwicke just visualizes them in all their inarticulate purpleness.

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  75
  On screen, Twilight is repetitive and a tad sodden, too prosaic to really soar. But Hardwicke stirs this teen pulp to a pleasing simmer.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  75
  Twilight - directed with savvy humor by Catherine Hardwicke - turns vampirism into a metaphor for teen lust.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  75
  In terms of bringing the book to life, Twilight is a complete success, so much so that most of the film's flaws work within the context of the story.

  by Tracie Cooper | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  On the whole, Twilight works as both love story and vampire story, thanks mainly to the performances of its principals, Pattinson and Stewart.

  by Michael O'Sullivan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  70
  So Twilight isn't a masterpiece -- no matter. It rekindles the warmth of great Hollywood romances, where foreplay was the climax and a kiss was never just a kiss.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
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  Hardwicke still manages to find the sweet spot where Gothic literature and the iPod meet and make goo-goo eyes at each other. Without embarrassment, she and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg dig right into the almost generic simplicity of the story.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  Hardwicke has connected so intensely to the Meyer novel that it's hard to imagine anyone else making a better version.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  70
  The best thing in the movie is Stewart. She was the leggy hobo-camp teen in love with Emile Hirsch in "Into the Wild," and she's better at conveying physical longing than any of the actors playing vampires.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Rolling Stone
  
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  Bummer. The vampires have no fangs. The humans are humdrum. The special effects and makeup define cheeseball. And the movie crowds in so many characters from Stephenie Meyer's book that Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) is less a director than a traffic cop. But there's a reason that Twilight has already become the movie equivalent of a bestseller: The love story has teeth.

  by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
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  None of the movie's flaws will matter. Teenage girls are going to love Twilight,and many are sure to see it more than once.

  by Sara Frederick | Read Full Review »