Epilefftic wrote:
Buffy/Angel fan here, remember when vampires killed people?
But seriously, maybe it was my tween cousins who ruined this movie for me, or the fact that I had to carry a life sized cutout of Edward for them through the mall, that I am so bitter about it.
But it is absolutely NOT because I have a man crush on David Boreanaz.
Do you want my honest opinion? If Stephanie Meyer reworked it,
Twilight could have actually worked far better. I'm all for vampire romance, and Edward's conflicting feelings about falling in love with Bella was one of the better parts of the story. If he was actually written in a way that made him out to act like 90-something years old rather than a more mature than normal but fairly weird teenager, then I would have given
Twilight a better write-up. How the Doctor from
Doctor Who reacts to falling in love is maybe a little better written, as he, unlike a vampire, cannot lengthen the life-span of someone he falls in love with.
I'm all for vampires being humanised to a certain degree. It makes them more complex villains, and one of the best vampire stories ever written (and that I've read) was the Discworld novel
Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett, which has a
Twilight-like subplot. And making them 'sparkle' instead of burning in sunlight...it's perhaps the only novel thing that Stephanie Meyer has contributed to vampiric folklore. That and vampire baseball, that was the only sequence that I admit I was actually fully interested in, even though I detest sports. The 'sparkling' (which, for some reason, reminds me of the Japanese theme for
Dragonball Z,
Cha-La Head Cha-La) is a valid thing, although I can see how people hate it.
What I hate about
Twilight is that it was very badly structured. We have about three quarters of a novel faffing about with a bizarre high-school romance/stalking/slap-slap-kiss and the revelations about Edward's true nature. The last quarter could have been superfluous, but I think could have worked if it was present throughout more of the story. About the vampiric hunters, I mean. That, and the abundance of cardboard characters.
BTW, about David Boreanaz, I never saw
Buffy or
Angel (the only Joss Whedon thing I have ever watched was
Firefly, an American ripoff of
Blake's 7 but with its own nice points), but I first heard him voicing Squall Leonhart in the video game
Kingdom Hearts, although they replaced him with Doug Erholtz for the sequel. I have since seen him as Agent Booth in
Bones, and I think he's pretty good.
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07 May 2010, 6:40 pm
yes, Kristen probably is a stoner now, but she obviously wasn't when she was a kid, and that's where I have heard people make similarities. But perhaps I am just looking into it too much, and trying to make it fit etc. Sorry, I do that a lot!! 
