The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Poster
Take a look at this article. Now, if you're even slightly sane, you won't like what you see. It doesn't matter whether or not you like the Twilight saga or not, let's face it: after this year's sure-to-be-a-blockbuster finale, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, the world does not need any more teenage vampires.
The article details the studio executives hopes that they can continue to make money off of the Twilight intellectual property even after it's dead, making the series itself into its own sort of metaphorical vampire. Of course, the world today is admittedly fascinated with vampires -- at least, preteen girls are -- and undoubtedly, this would prove no different. But that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
First of all, where would they go? Of course, as the article details, it might be a blessing in disguise not to have Stephanie Meyer's less-than-admirable storytelling guiding the series' trajectory, but seriously, do we trust the studio executives to take what is already a lackluster franchise and actually make it better? With such dry characters as Meyer has created, this reviewer doesn't believe that there's much wiggle room when it comes to this story. You can't fix something if it's irreparably broken.
I know that this may sound like I'm a Twilight hater, and that's because I am. It's not a good series, plain and simple -- while it may have some elements in it that show potential, the sloppy storytelling doesn't allow them to be executed properly, and the fact that it relies on weak main characters doesn't help.
The article mentions an idea of Jacob, the werewolf played by Taylor Lautner, bonding with Edward (Robert Pattinson) and Bella's (Kristen Stewart) daughter, whom, as I understand it, is his soul mate, in a television show format. First of all, I highly doubt that a Twilight television show would work anywhere, since it doesn't fit into the normal Disney Channel / Nickelodeon style and wouldn't get the viewers it is aimed at on major networks. Maybe ABC Family or the CW. Secondly, that whole idea is just a bad one, and creepy at that, and in my humble opinion, shouldn't be furthered through anything like a TV series.
Lastly, in the wake of popular vampire TV shows that are actually good intellectual properties, like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, I doubt a Twilight series would be able to hold up critically.
All in all, this is just a bad idea in this reviewer's mind. Go ahead and post your opinion in the comments! I'd love to hear from all of you guys, and I'll be giving you more updates on the possibility of sparkly vampires hitting your TV screen as time goes on. Hopefully, there won't be much more news to relay.
I agree completely with portions. I believe that characters like Edward and Bella and Jacob are all poorly written and have little to no room to expand. But you need to open your mind to the possibilities. For example, I would definitely love to know about Carlisle's time in the volturi, Jasper's exploits in the civil war, and even about Jacob's great grandfather's time against the Cullens.
ReplyDelete''Twilight'' was a unique, fresh love story, and a half-way decent portrayal of Teen angst with a supernatural twist. ''New Moon'' was a realistic follow-up that explores what usually happens in teen relationships, i.e. an inexplicable break-up for muddled, poorly explained reasons. Jacob is introduced in New Moon as the supportive best friend who, naturally falls for Bella having always had a crush on her growing up. Of course, as per real life situations, Bella leads Jacob on and ends up going back to the jerk. In ''Eclipse'', easily the most interesting of the novels and films, Bella must choose once and for all between her undead Prince and her hot-blooded Best Friend. The wishy-washy Bella ultimately chooses Edward by default, but not before admitting she ''loves'' Jacob as well. The first three books, which made an interesting trilogy, are irrevocably ruined by an utterly preposterous, insanely convoluted cop-out that Meyer predictably called ''Breaking Dawn''. ''Breaking Dawn'' makes no sense, yet somehow manages to wrap up the entire story is an-all-too-neat-and-cheesetactic way. However this last book, which honestly serves little purpose on anybody's book shelf, was split in to two separate feature-length adaptations, a clear ploy on the part of Summit to milk this cash cow for all it's worth. Part 1 plays out slowly, with virtually nothing interesting going on until the last 15 minutes of this brooding, overly melodramatic supernatural soap opera. The leads are, once again, wooden, and continue to prove that better actors may have partially saved this atrocious story. Robert Pattinson always looks as if he is about to cry, and usually it looks like constipation may be the cause of his discomfort. Kristen Stewart is deliciously dull and uninteresting as the supposed emotional lead of this franchise. Aside from looking pretty good in a white bikini about 40 minutes into the film, the actress adds little else to this mess of a movie that couldn't even be saved by the one character who DOES show emotion, Jacob Black. This is primarily because Taylor Lautner simply can't act. I honestly don't understand how anyone could be angry at Jacob here. Bella lead him on for the better part of the last two films, and she CONTINUES to lead him on in this horrendous installment, insisting that 'it feels complete'' when he is around. Yes, Jacob is immature and hot-tempered, but that is because, in another epic fail on Meyer's part, Jacob is only like 15 years old and we all forget that because apparently his particular breed of wolf ages faster physically, but not really. I'm confused.. Let us not forget that Jacob imprinting on Renesme in the biggest cop-out I have ever seen in a fictional love story, (In real life If I fall in love with my Best friend's infant daughter, I go to Jail...oh wait, she conveniently ages fast enough to catch up with Jacob's near stand-still aging right? Still confused, and ooops, spoiler alert.), is not the first example of pedophilia Meyer has tried to force-feed her audience. Edward is somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 decades older than his newly wedded wife. That is suspect, but never mind, because HE doesn't age correctly either because he is dead. Wait, is that necrophilia as well? My head hurts. Anyway, the point is, this movie is not worth wasting your time or money on. Meyer one-upped herself to an extreme extent with the last book, and Bill Condon's lavishly dull take on the book's first few hundred pages is equally as mind-numbing.
ReplyDeletelol this is a review I wrote for this when I watched it. it's kind of harsh and a bit rushed, but it applies...
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