2008

Director: Catherine Hardwick

Genre: Romanic fantasy drama

Twilight is film based on a book series about a girl that falls in love with a vampire.

You are fully aware of this fact.

Everyone knows what this movie is. A great many people have seen it. It received mixed reviews. The story is mocked relentlessly on the internet for being terrible. The only people who really love it are fans of the books. These people are usually categorized as repressed middle aged women or teenage girls.

It’s easy to describe the flaws of this movie. The acting is pretty terrible and the chemistry between the two leads is even worse. There are many hilariously bad scenes like the baseball game, and many other scenes that just have no point.

But you know all this.

So, I’m going to think about this movie in a different way.

There’s a story about a man with great power. He is strong, fast, ageless, and lives in a world that is separate from ours. He comes to our world, and ends up falling in love with a regular human female. This causes strife with his family and friends, but he cannot give up loving her. Eventually, this man has to heroically use his power to defend the girl he loves from an evil threat.

By the way, I’m not describing Twilight. I’m describing the 2011 Marvel superhero film, Thor.

I thought I had while watching this film was that this was basically a superhero film from the perspective of a love interest. Including the fact that the love interest in such films typically is not a solid character.

I didn’t hate this movie.

That was a weird realization. Maybe because I felt like I was supposed to hate it after all the internet reviews and comments I saw. Sure, it’s bad. But so is Thor.

What if Marvel remade Twilight in secret? They changed the names subtly and made it so it was from the perspective of Edward. But other than that, everything is exactly the same. Vampires are now superheroes, and the money starts rolling in.

I find it a little annoying that this movie is mocked on concept alone. The love story is the exact same as every other cheesy Hollywood love story, or any romance between a protagonist and his love interest.

Do we really only love things because they are flashy and filled with a bunch of cool special effects? What if Twilight was like that? How would people feel about it then?

If all people complained about was the atrocious color correction I’d be perfectly content.

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