Twilight
November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Based on Stephanie Meyer’s teen chick-lit supernatural romance books, Twilight is the tale of the very pale but human Bella, who moves to the very overcast and rainy Forks, Washington to live with her divorced father, the town sheriff. There in her new high school she meets the also very pale (because he’s a vampire) Edward.
Eventually they decide to be very pale together. Star-crossed and fairly chaste loving ensues. Edward, it turns out, is from a clan of moral vampires who don’t drink human blood, despite temptation. He’s 107 years old, and has been stuck in perpetual high school since 1918 (presumably his vampire “family” moves every four years).
There’s also some American Indians who may be a little werewolfy.
And, eventually, there’s a clan of some bad vampires who’d like to make a snack of Bella.
This is a pretty bloodless vampire flick. It’s not scary, it’s not gory, it’s all vampire romance.
And a little bit of vampire baseball, which is novel.
Sunlight isn’t fatal, just revealing, to these vampires, so they live in overcast and rainy Washington state. Sort of like the vampires in 30 DAYS OF NIGHT going above the Arctic circle to take advantage of the lack of sunlight.
I’m giving this two stars. It’s not a badly done movie. If you’re a teenage girl (or an adult) who’s a fan of the books, add 2-3 stars.
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