Can Millions of Thirteen Year old Girls Be Wrong?

Yes. While vampires a decidedly awesome, Twilight is not. See, the problem with this movie is that it's tailor made for it's target audience, which is thirteen year old girls. I found the first act intolerably dull and the second act unfulfilling. Throughout the movie I was optimistic. It seemed as if it was ever on the verge of getting good and just when it does get interesting the movie breaks away for the climax.

Whats weird about this movie is that it only has two acts. And the first act is this:

Spoiler Alert: This is what the first fifty minutes of the movie looks like.

The first first half of the movie is made-up of two things. First, is the main character Bella coping with being the new girl at school. The second is the male lead, a vampire by the name of Edward Cullen, staring down Bella. The first act is almost entirely composed of close ups of the two main characters looking at each other. Seriously, that's just about all there is to it. Well, that and a bunch of high school bullshit that nobody would pay ten bucks for. If I'm going to see a movie, which I know is about vampires, because the studio advertised it as being about vampires, I shouldn't have to wait an hour to see some cool vampire shit. Nobody cares about her playing volleyball, or fraternizing with mortals. People go to see a vampire movies, to see fangs and blood and a Gothic rape fantasies, not to get their first period.

I will say this, the vampire family is intriguing...when their not playing baseball. But their barely in the movie. You have to wait an hour before you see them. It seems as though they are going to release a sequel, because the book Twilight is the first of a series. If the sequels are lighter on the teen angst and delve more into the vampires, I'll give it my time. If it's more of this lonely girl crap and star crossed lovers nonsense, count me out.

Twilight's climax was disappointing. Sure it had a vampire fight but it came out of no where and was resolved too quickly and easily. After the final showdown with the bad guy, there's like a ten minute epilogue to the story and it shows how they all lived happily ever after, which for my taste is a bit too long to get that message across. The audience usually knows that the lovers will live happily ever after, because the bad guy is gone and all conflicts are resolved. But maybe the movies creators didn't have faith that their target audience would understand that. So they really had to draw it out. And it also allowed them to set up a sequel.

You know, I should have known this movie wasn't for me because of the poster.

The marketing strategy for this movie: Snuggling

It's just the two main characters getting close. No blood, no fangs, if I didn't know the movie was about a vampire, I would have thought the title was a reference to the girls curfew.