Twilight (Review)

What I knew going in:
Another bunch of nobodies in a Urban Fantasy Vampire Romance.

Hype:
Meh-. I recently read Stephanie Myers' The Host and was quite impressed so I figure I'd give this a shot. However, as is usual with any movie I think is a Meh- I was expecting maybe a good special effect or two and some fine young thing to take my mind off the contracts I was working on for my company.

Opening Thoughts:
Is it a bad sign that the most interesting thing in the first 35 minutes to me was that the characters were sharing Red Vines at a beach? Or is that just a prelude to the boredom I felt as the director established characters that weren't developing through the story...

Bottom Line:
Myers is a very talented author with a vivid imagination for bringing to life things you wouldn't normally think about. However, the director and screenwriter manage to botch the entire story. There is no character development whatsoever in this film - I bet there is quite a bit in the novel. There is no emotion or romance between the main characters, or for any of the other on screen couples - they are as dry and cold as their vampire counterparts. While some of the "power shows" are fun in their own right, this film fails on nearly every other level. I can't remember a movie that I felt Meh- before and Meh- after. *Yawn* Its become clear to me recently that the Urban Fantasy genre has become little more than the modern evolution of the Harlequin Romance. As long as we as a society continue to embellish this kind of nonsensical love mythos we deserve our huge divorce rates and disillusioned youth.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/