"I leave you alone an the wolves come out."
Ok,I picked up this movie knowing that it was going to be a chick flick.However,being a vampire movie I thought I would give it a shot.This is not a vampire movie. This is not a heartfelt teen romance. It wants to be, but falls short on both. Take, for example, the film's,love affair between new-girl-in-town Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and nice-guy vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Their attraction is intended to evoke a combination of danger and compulsion. Bella knows that Edward could lose control and rip her throat out, and yet she chooses to stay with him. Except that Edward doesn't feel dangerous.He broods and gives speeches about how intoxicating she smells, but he never conveys how he is just barely strong enough to contain his desire to rip her throat open.When we see the rest of his vampire family, it's easy to understand his weakness . The Cullens have renounced feeding off of humans and try to live a normal life in a small town while hiding their true identity from their neighbors. They play baseball, they spoon in the parking lot, and they have no apparent weaknesses to balance out their strength, good looks and eternal youth. Sunlight won't kill them (they sparkle instead).WTF?Traditional weaknesses are nowhere to be seen, and for all of Edward's moaning, their bloodlust is limited to a few tepid lines about how hard it can be to keep their cool. By positing them in such soft, fluffy terms, Twilight removes the danger and tragedy that makes vampires so compelling in the first place. I'm not saying this is a bad movie,it was mildly entertaining.But if you are looking for a little bit of blood,you won't find much in this one.
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