Well for starters it's the book that is the reason it gets so much hate, the movie has some good actors, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Stephen King said it best in his introduction to his Phenomenal Comic Series American Vampire.
Then you get the ending to the book series which is actually legitimately pedophile vibes from Jacob.
Basically Bella gives birth but the baby is growing at greatly accelerated rate and will reach maturity in like 2 years, and as soon as Bella Gives birth, Jacob imprints in Bellas half vampire daughter meaning that Jacob found his true love and the person he is going to marry, when she turns physically 18 but will be like 2 or 5 or some shit mentally meaning he is basically fucking someone with the mind of a child.
Then its depiction of Native Americans is troubling in that as the late Roger Ebert pointed out they are essentially portrayed as animalistic savages who don't like to wear clothing.
Basically yeah the 1st book is just kinda meh but as you go on in the series Stephanie Meyer's repressed mormon fantasies come through and it ends up being instead of just a ya romance book, something that when you think a little into it, something that is disturbing for all the wrong reasons.
Also it was written so badly I couldn't figure out that Bella was trying to say edward was fucking sparkling in the sunlight till the next book.
No. I still have nightmares about the experience. My girlfriend at the time, now my ex, was super big into twilight. I remember taking her to the movies once on a date to go see the first twilight movie. The entire theater was jam-packed full of teenage girls with barely any guys there aside from myself. I remember nodding off during the first half the film and waking up to a cacophony of screaming teenage girls that cause my ears to bleed with an image have some white dude taking his shirt off and had glitter all over him. Not a good experience. I remember after the movie was over my ex wanted to go to bed bath & beyond and look around. I remember waiting outside the store because the smell was too potent for me. She called me in to take a look at something and I grudgingly went over to her. In her hand she had a bottle of skin lotion with what I presume to be glitter labeled Edward on it. She wanted to buy it for me and have me put it on. I refused and I told her there was no way in hell that I was going to wear that. She put on a pouty face and said what's wrong with getting gifts for your significant other. I told her there's nothing wrong with getting gifts for a person you care about, however there is something wrong with dudes putting on makeup and glitter. Her report was that it's not makeup, and that it's just skin lotion. I told her that I'm still not going to wear it because it has glitter in it. A few days later she took me to a book signing, and much to my dismay it happened to be twilight. I ended up getting roped into some Edward look alike contest and one a first edition autographed twilight book paperback. For the record none of us looked like Edward. I remember giving her the book and told her that she could keep it. Long story short, I hate twilight.
It was actually pretty good in the beginning. Overall as a film series, it was decent, but not perfect. The books were okay and again, wasn't perfect. But what did it for me is the crazy fans with the TEAM EDWARD vs TEAM JACOB nonsense. Plus, the unrealistic aspects of romance in this series and how Bella was written was extremely poor. There were a lot of plot holes and issues that are a bit too lengthy to describe. But I felt the biggest issue was Bella who was an already depressed teenager who needed work with her character growth and she had NONE. She was so focused on her selfish wants instead of seeing how her actions impacted those around her. She didn't fix it. And that sadly is what I stopped liking with her by the 2nd film and book. At 3 you would think there is redemption and there was none. At 4 I was only interested in the climax of the story, the rest was just sad. I felt it was better off as a tv series than a feature film.
Overall, yes.
Visually I think it was great, casting was spot on, for the most part it stuck to the stuck to the book which is always nice. Many people comment on the acting (specifically Kristen Stewart's) but the actors actually did a near perfect job portraying their characters.
I read the series when I was around 13 and thought it was the best book ever written. I've recently been revisiting it 10+ years later and I realize that it's not as good as I thought it was. 😂 So I think that's one reason it got a lot of negative reviews, you can only do so much with the material you're given. Otherwise, I think Twilight always got a lot of hate because people just like to hate on what's popular.
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I’ll be real— I never have actually seen the movie. I just rag on it for the (mostly dead) “still a better love story than Twilight” meme. I don’t know if it’s a good movie or not. In all honesty, my impressions have been that it’s probably middle of the road— decent effects, kinda bleh plot, and ok acting. Will all this being said, it doesn’t quite seem like a movie I’d enjoy personally, though I think the girls in my family went to see each film / read the books, so they liked the series presumably.
It could've been a good movie if better actors were hired and they focused on the more interesting background story lines rather than the mediocre love story between a century old vampire and teenager.
I watched all of Twlight and I hated it. The only vampire I really liked is probably Jasper because at least he portrays a more accurate version of a vampire. The rest of the Cullen family and Bella are just twats. I've never seen such pathetic vampires in my life, especially Edward. He makes me want to punch him. Yes, I have an issue. An issue with fictional vampires that sparkles in daylight.
I don't understand what Bella sees in him. Then again, I don't really understand Bella's reactions to anything. I can't tell if she's sad, happy, glad or mad. She looks stoned most of the time.
When I watched a show about vampires, I want to be scared because that's what it should be. They are monsters, like werewolves, poltergeists, witches, boogeymen etc. Watching Twlight just makes me feel sad. Sad because it wasted my time and I can't get that back.
Only saw it once with my girlfriend, and that was back when it first came out, so it’s been a while. It’s not my thing, I’m not into supernatural stuff. She read all the books so it was easy for her to follow, I honestly just wasn’t interested and didn’t pay much attention. That’s not to speak to the quality of the movie, just my lack of attention to it. I just remember the pale guy looking glittery in the sun lmao, but the one thing that positively stood out to me was the Pacific Northwest backdrop, I love the look of that. I feel like every other movie is shot in British Columbia, this probably was too, haha.
This is so funny because I had a twilight marathon with my friends the other week and the thing is I said I loved it but the other two hated it. Because apparently Bella and Edwards relationship is very toxic, the acting is bad and Jacob imprinting on their child was borderline pedophelia. I on the other hand kinda loved the movies and the books.
There are two reasons people hated this movie:
It's a fanservice film for girls. We get so many scantily clad woman and power fantasies in cinema but when a movie is made for teen girls that's bad somehow... ?
The other reason is that it's genuinely a bad film. Not the worst, far from it, but it's definitely not good. The protagonist is bland and boring, because she's supposed to just be a self insert for the author/intended audience, the CGI was awful even back then, I laughed out loud when I first seen that running, just about every aspect of the movies ranges from bad to just mediocre.
I actually loved all of them except for maybe the 2nd one. The last film had one of the best endings to a series in a movie ever. It had all the thrill of that battle at the end along wish the shock of seeing your favorite characters die and then saved at the end bc the fight was just a premonition. Thought that was cool asf. Also that Christina perri song was made for these Movies
It would've been better without Kristen Stewart. She just made me want to gouge my eyes out while watching. She was both overdramatic while also being completely boeing as a character. Also the plot of the movie itself was rather predictable and simple to really pull me into it. Better for more younger age groups i guess.
I thought it was a horrible movie. The plot was really bad, with poor acting, and a cliche love at first sight bullshit between teens story line, where for better or for worse, every one seems to be drawn to a woman who is in no way special. Then there is the love triangle aspect of it. The book was so bad I didn't make by the first 3 chapters or so. I threw it away.
A lot of teen romance films glorify both co-dependency and stalking. It wasn't romantic for him to sneak into her room at night and watch her it was creepy and stalky and her self destructive fall into depression was classic co-dependency. This movie was all about unhealthy relationships
Oh yes, I'm sure it was wonderful. Should win academy awards, just like 50 shades of grey and that pile of money I shove down my wife's throat for pleasure. She ESPECIALLY gets horny when I destroy parts of her car, stalk her, and demand she do what I say. She's pregnant too of course, because as I''ve demonstrated, I am THE perfect daddy for whatever child she pushes out, which because I'm so dreamy, will likely be quite a few. :D
I watched it as part of a relationship (yes, guys, sacrifices must be made at times :D ).
I will admit that I did like its uniquely American spin on the vampire horror story, having the sun avoiding vampires stay in the dark and gloomy Pacific Northwest, and the werewolves as American Indian derived creatures.
yeah it actually was great. Somewhere along the line, it became popular to hate on Kristen Stewart, and that's when people suddenly decided to say the movies sucked. They're just sheep. Probably the same people who would eat tide pods because someone on the internet told them to.
I've seen all the films on cinema. (Dragged to the theaters by my younger sister at the time...) The movie series just wasn't to my liking. I just find the whole idea of romanticising vampires into softcore romance to be cheesey, when really they are evil stone-cold killers. The bad acting of some characters didn't help either.
Even Robert Pattinson himself hates it, it's pretty funny.
Characters were decent looking... lol ok well I liked the first movie quite fine on its own. It had an unpolished indipendant film vibe that tickled me just right. Has thiw whole flow and then the thing we get is all hollywood big movie treatment because they got money and realized this caught real quick lets change directors and the whole team behind the film and make bank. So they did. First one was good for its style I say. I dont as much for the other ones
First one sucked.
Second was great but only because a hot naked dude shapeshifts into a hot wolf.
Third isn't as memorable.
Fourth was amazing.
Fifth had an epic battle but ended in fictitious disappointment.
It's been quite awhile since I seen it, my daughter loved the books but hated the movies. I thought they were rather entertaining, never really sat down to analyze it but some of the concepts are viable
Yeah, the movies are great, BUT the books are so so soooo much better😅 Speaking of the books, recently a new one came out: Midnight Sun. 🎉
No, but I watched it to see what the 'hype' was about, and then watched it to see how it'd end.
I can't get over the action scenes.
Nope, sure some might like it. But it was too much drama for me. I watched vampires suck (a parody of the movie) and enjoyed it more than the original. I prefer action or comedy movies
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