Early TWILIGHT reviews … sort of
November 19th, 2008 at 12:09pm Will Pfeifer
There’s a strict, studio-imposed embargo on TWILGHT reviews (usually not the best sign), but audience reactions from preview screenings are starting to leak out, thanks to the modern miracle of Twitter. Here, courtesy of Cinematical, is a sample:
“TWILIGHT: cheap looking and often hilarious. DARK SHADOWS at DEGRASSI JR HIGH. With half the budget.”
“Twilight, seen. It wasn’t terrible… Wasn’t great, either. I hate movies that are painfully mediocre. They are worse than bad movies.”
“If you want to hang out with a lot of teenage girls and sexually frustrated middle-aged women, get yourself to a “Twilight” screening!”
The writer of the Cinematical post, Erik Davis, points out that most of these reactions came from men, who are definitely not this movie’s target audience. That means how good — or bad — this movie actually is is anyone’s guess. Two things, however, are certain.
1. It’s going to make a ton of money
2. I’m already sick of it.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. Brian M | November 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I am sick of it as well. But as to your first point, I think it’s not going to do near what some are predicting. Will it have a big opening weekend? Of course. But I bet we see a pretty quick drop off after that. This movie has NO appeal beyond the tween/teen girls it’s aimed at, and the trailers are positively LAUGHABLE.
Look at HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3. Same target audience, same huge anticipation, and same huge predictions. Opened big, but after several weeks, it’s still well shy of $100M, and that’s not even the sign of a blockbuster hit anymore.
I can’t think of any better way to sum it up than that third remark:
““If you want to hang out with a lot of teenage girls and sexually frustrated middle-aged women, get yourself to a “Twilight” screening!”:
Never has there been a truer statement.
2. echo4charlie | November 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Maybe we could offer a sequel suggestion to help make the next Twilight-related film moreso geared toward men.
Introduce Blade into the film. Blade, by the way, are my favorite Vampire movies outside of Bram Stoker’s Dracula………
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