The Twilight Saga Movies

[Alvedansen]

"surprisingly" critic don't like the movie...

We’re so pumped for the fourth ‘Twilight’ installment, but the press couldn’t wait to tear it apart — are they being too mean?

Breaking Dawn is one of the most anticipated movies of the year, but critics are not taking kindly to it after the first screenings!

Press reviews are starting to trickle in, and the Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart sequel is getting PANNED.

Variety showed no love for what they considered to be a poor take on rich source material, writing, “All the more disappointing, then, that a story so pregnant with dramatic possibilities should wind up feeling like such an unconsummated opportunity.”


"… the happy couple jets off to Rio, which is so little seen it scarcely seems worth the trip. … They skinny dip at night to some incredibly insipid songs, they're very tender and understanding with each other, and then in the morning the bedroom is in total disarray; we never see anything of what came between, no moment of surrender, which is what the series has been building to all along. Where one legitimately hopes to register what Bella feels upon finally giving herself over to what she has so long desired but resisted, all we get are languid and lax interludes of what still seems like puppy love. Very lame, and very disappointing."

The Hollywood Reporter says the film is quite boring, noting that, “What you’re left with is to gaze at the three leads, all of whom have their constituencies and reasons for being eminently watchable. The only hope is they’ll have more to do next time around.”

Worst off, Screen International writes that the leads are dull, saying, “The performances in Breaking Dawn are largely soapy and melodramatic, especially from [Taylor] Lautner and to a lesser degree Pattinson.”

Screen Daily says Melissa Rosenberg “does a decent job of distilling some of the main conflicts from the 750-page novel” but thinks director Bill Condon is a “subpar director of spatial action”, citing a fight between the wolves and the Cullen clan that ends up being “a jumbled mess with a shrugging emotional impact.”

Plenty more reviews will be surfacing over the upcoming week, but it looks like it’ll get the same response as the previous films. The fans will love it and it’ll make millions, but critics and regular movie-goers will be left wondering what the hype is all about.

ontd

btw, this sound o boring, i think i won't even watch it on the internet

When the decision was made to split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two films to bring that blockbuster series to a close, there was cynical talk regarding mercenary motives to milk as many dollars as possible out of the franchise. Once the films came out, however, that talk stopped, so emphatically did the massive narrative incident justify the extended length. On the basis of Breaking Dawn — Part 1, though, the same cannot be said of this series ender, which feels as bloated and anemic as Bella becomes during her pregnancy. The film is like a crab cake with three or four bits of crab surrounded by loads of bland stuffing, but many can't tell the difference or don't care, which will largely be true for its captive audience.
Taking place in a lovely woodsy setting that could easily be the next estate over from the wedding-reception site in Lars von Trier's Melancholia, the nuptials of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) can plausibly be termed the "wedding of the century" only in the sense Edward means it when he tells his 18-year-old bride, “I've been waiting a century to marry you.” Drawn out to last nearly a half-hour onscreen, the gaiety of the preliminaries and ensuing event is encumbered by a strong sense of foreboding, not only because the world is coming to an end, as in Melancholia, but also because it means Bella will soon pass over from human life to the vampire side.

hollywoodreporter

anyways...when will the LA premiere be again?

 

[dajrekshn]

am so surprised . that part about not seeing what happened in between their first night? that was cut out by the censors cus it got R rating.

the premiere is on 14th.

 

[Alvedansen]

^thanks

and yeah, i guess a lot of that was cut due to censorship, but i think a lot of that is just talk to get people talking and to please the audience, since that's what they all want to see. but it sounds like it's just the old fade to black crap although they still advertise it as a hot sex scene so i don't know, it's weird...

 

[dajrekshn]

from what i got it's not totally fade to black like in the book, but more of few scenes (probably all that we already see in the trailer). sex always sells, so it's no wonder they based their promotion mostly on that talk.
am surprised that the wedding scene is over 30 minutes. that's long.

i so LOLed at this part:

Variety showed no love for what they considered to be a poor take on rich source material...

so now a wedding + honeymoon + feathers + pregnancy that dries a woman out + ceasarean with teeth is considered rich material? what was New Moon then or Eclipse? in ranks of Norvegian Wood or LOTR or Lolita?
at this point, these kind of critics just look like they don't know how to joke and go with the flow. it's not like anyone expected it to be in ranks of Forrest Gump, Citizen Kane when it comes to quality.

 

[Alvedansen]

^although i don't know where they get the "rich" source material from. variety says somewhere in their review (i only skimmed it) that Smeyer is a bad writer, but an okay storyteller. and i think they also said that the book doesn't work as two movies since there's nothing happening, so in the book there's more going on, but since they only used half the book it's lacking story.

 

[Label Basher]

I knew it was a huge mistake to split the book.

LOL at the major BURN at Bill - “subpar director of spatial action”.

I'm so thankful that my friend who I watch these movies with gets discount tickets as a student.

 

[kokobombon]

^LOL I get a 2 for 1 deal so a ticket only costs me $4

 

[pixiedust1603]

I think I might wait for it to come on DVD if it's this boring. I will never forget how mind numbing the middle of New Moon was and if Breaking Dawn is as boring as that is there is no way I am putting myself through that again. I was watching Twilight last night and it just reminded how romantic and sexy it was and how much of that has been lost. The first one was just so iconic with the kiss, Edward entering the canteen, Edward's hair, and the prom scene but the rest of them have not had scenes that live up to that.

 

[dajrekshn]

yeah, Catherine's version def had something the others didn't, i agree. the first one if my guilty pleasure movie every few months i put on when i want to rest my brain, i can't say the same for the sequals.

 

[Deleted member 31441]

It was actually on tv last night. The other two if they were on I wouldn't bother but when the first one is on, I always watch it. It definitely has a different look and feel to it and I really love the prom scene at the end.

 

[kokobombon]

At the time I didn´t really like Twilight but three years later and after seeing the other movies I have a new found respect for it. If I were to watch any of the movies now, I´ll def watch Twilight...

 

[colourmefashion]

Movie tickets are expensive here in canada (well at least in mt y province)
$11.50 for 1 general admission

On another note, if they kept the same director all the movies could have been consistant but they changed all 4 directors and they all have their own look and feel when it comes to directing.. but i di disagree with you guys id rather watch eclipse than twilight
It was my favorite of the books and so far the favorite movie

 

[dajrekshn]

1 general admission? what does that mean? ticket for all the movies that are playing that day in cinema?

movie ticket over here is around 4$ and it's only that movie.

 

[cloudyshambles]

I actually really liked the blue tint of Twilight and combined with both the score and the soundtrack it definitely had something unique to it, I really liked its 'mood' if that makes sense

 

[kokobombon]

^I think she means $11.50 without any discount.
In my country you have senior citizen discounts, half price wednesdays, cable & cellphone companies offer 2x1 discounts...

 

[dajrekshn]

we also have half-price wednesdays, well we used to, now we have something similar to it. we only have student discounts, but it's not much, it discounts a ticket for like half a dollar.

 

[pixiedust1603]

Eclipse is awful because of how Melissa wrote Bella. Melissa doesn't know the difference between a strong female character and participating, active member of a relationship. She really seems to have a vision of feminism which she puts forward in Twilight that to be honest doesn't really go with the character of Bella at all as, if Bella was a strong female character, the relationship between Bella and Edward would have either not occurred or have finished straight after he left her. I wish she had just let the character flow in her writing as it appears to have done so since Bill started helping her out.

Haha sorry for the rant, it's just a pet peeve.

 

[Deleted member 31441]

In my country we have a $2.50 Tuesday but other than that tickets are $8 and this is in USD. 3D is more and I can't stand it, hate it.

 

[FleurDeLys]

In Belgium, adults pay €10 for one movie, students €7 I think and there are no discount days.
It's crazy what we have to pay. Also the drinks and the snacks are incredibly expensive.

 

[dajrekshn]

yeah, cinema owner over here once said that they actually don't make much money on tickets, it's drinks and snacks that keep them in business. but my my, 10 euros is so so so expensive, that's how much 2 people spend over here, drinks and popcorn included for a movie.