Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bella's Lullaby....




I guess Robert Pattinson actually plays this in the movie....Talk about talent.
Two more days until Twilight!

Robert Pattinson Jets Out of LAX
He’s been working overtime to promote his upcoming film “Twilight,” and earlier today (November 19) Robert Pattinson was spotted hopping a plane at LAX International Airport.
The “Harry Potter” stud looked a bit disheveled as he made his way through the terminal, sporting a Stolichnaya Vodka t-shirt, dark button-up shirt, black trousers, and black shoes.
And though he regularly has ladies flocking to his side wherever he goes, Robert recently told press that he hasn’t had much luck in the long-term romance department.
“No one else seems to get into a relationship with me. It’s really strange. People like screaming at me. Actually they like screaming at me in relationships as well. No one wants to commit.”

Oh... how sad... I wouldn't scream at you...I might look adoringly into your eyes. A LOT!

REVIEW: Twilight Stars, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart.
"Low-Key," isn't the adjective you'd expect to describe this highly anticipated Vampire movie, but of course, there it is.

"Twilight," is a film of somewhat intelligent, well, intelligent strengths, and somehow, the easily avoidable weaknesses, the Adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's phenomenon. (I know of a few weaknesses...1.Robert Pattinson...2.Edward Cullens...3.Robert Pattinson playing Edward Cullens.) They say it's faithful to it's source material, which should please the fans. They say it's also better written then Stephanie Meyer's book, which tends toward froth and fulmination. Whatever that is.

Screen Writer Melissa Rosenberg delineates the cliques and claques from Forks, Washington High School Students, human and other, with a good eye toward actual teeanager dynamics. She tones up her heroine, who was a passive victorian simp...pure fainting-couch matieral.

Director Catherine Hardwicke, (Thirteen, and Lords of Dogtown,) didn't have the means, (money...) or the impulse for the blockbuster machinery. She keeps the scale of most and all things intimate, focusing on the fervent, sexually charged, but doggedly chaste murmurs of her charismatically sullen stars, Kristen Stewart as Bella, the new kid with the Daria vibe and the emotional defense system, and Robert Pattinson, (Cue the Screaming...) As EDWARD CULLEN, the tortured, sensitive vampire with astonishing, fwoopy hair.

Yep, it's the truth, astonishing. The first time Bella accidentally brushes against Edward, she recoils. "Your hand is so cold," she utters. She may as well add, "and your hair is so fwoopy.

Young Bella relocates from hot Arizona to rainy Washington to be with her police chief father (Billy Burke, who seems to be about 10 years older than she is). Unexplained "animal attacks" have beset his quiet corner of the world. The movie wastes no time explaining the unexplained, jumping right in with a blurry forest pursuit involving a spooked deer and its crafty, fleet-footed predator.

The way Edward peers into Bella's soul, and ravishes her with his most unholy gaze, she's like, "zing went the strings of my heart." While he must control his animal urge to suck all her blood, he's a bad guy-good guy, fighting the good fight. He belongs to a "special" vampire sect, as he's a vegetarian Vampire, and snacks on Critters, not humans. So of course, he deserves the bad-boy, good-boy title.

True to Meyer's Mormon beliefs, there is neither hanky nor panky nor anything resembling a third or even a second base between Bella and her dreamboat Edward. At least not in Book number 1.

So where does the movie go? Fall Down? Bring it together?-A simple, but crucial matter of the visual magic. Whenever something fantastic requires straightforward on-screen depiction, "Twilight," to me, looks so wonderful. Hardwicke was right to concentrate on getting the smoldering down between her stars, but the story depends on Bella's (and the audience's) amazement at this strange new world of supernatural feats. If there's a sequel--and there likely will be--here's Job One: Show us, in a striking way, what these undead can do when they're not letting their hair do the fwooping... :)

MPAA rating: PG-13 (for some violence, and a scene of sensuality )Running time: 2:01
Opening: 12:01 a.m. Friday
Starring: Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan);
Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen);
Billy Burke (Charlie Swan); Peter Facinelli (Dr. Carlisle Cullen)
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke; written by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer; photographed by Elliot Davis; edited by Nancy Richardson; music by Carter Burwell; produced by Greg Mooradian, Mark Morgan and Wyck Godfrey. A Summit Entertainment release.

Review: 'Twilight' lacks soul???
Picture and Article (though re-written in my words...) by Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times.

How in the hell can Twilight not lack soul? You haven't seen it yet!

"Twilight," aka "I kissed an Abercrombie & Fitch bloodsucker and I liked it," should be slapped with a special parental warning: Drop the kid off at the cineplex, then flee like a vampire dreading daylight.
Yes, some may say that of course the best-selling novel won't be anywhere near close to the movie. Be prepared for 2 hours of ear-piercing squeals whenever a pretty boy appears, and to giggle at the surround-sound sighs when the love-bitten Bella (Kristen Stewart) and the love-biter Edward (Robert Pattinson) first smooch.
Let's be fair, thanfully, "Twilight," isn't intended for adults, it's geared for a different, more younger generation. He says that Twilight isn't a good movie. (Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times.)

Let's look at the characters....
There's lonely, mildly depressed heroine Bella, who relocates from Sunny, hot Arizona to Rainy, cold Forks Washington so she can live with her police officer Charlie Swan, played by Billy Burke.

Then there's Edward, the mysterious ash-white vampire with chiseled cheekbones, smoldering eyes and the best hair stylist in the Northwest, making any girl swoon, and fall head over heels for this mysterious guy.

There's also Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner, a strapping young lad with wolflike tendencies, long raven hair and a killer smile. (Don't dump the vamp, go for Edward, girl!) And — deployed almost like an afterthought — there are the underdeveloped villains, a trio of vampires who resemble Ziggy Stardust rejects in Renaissance Faire outfits. These wannabe baddies hardly make your blood curdle, but they sure are cute.

Pattinson, quite good as Cedric in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," poses, preens and pouts, while reciting his lines with the odd, stilted cadence of Christopher Walken.

Stewart ("Into the Wild") fares slightly better, except for an embarrassingly bad crying jag.
A heart does beat in "Twilight," but it's only faintly heard, and it's buried among the montage shots and cheesy special effects. (HUH???)
Hardwicke and screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg ("Step Up") unwisely barrel through what should have been the most intimate part of the movie — the first time Edward spends a chaste night in Bella's room. By sidestepping this pivotal sequence, we're robbed of what we really came for — watching and hearing these lovebirds reveal themselves to each other.
Without that, the audience is left with just a whole lot of pretty and not enough soul. Not entirely a bad thing, but you can get that fix by thumbing through an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue.

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