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My daughter (14) is absolutely mad on Twilight. She has read all the books and has seen all but the last film. She has said the books are much better than the films.
I have seen the films as well - not very impressed, all very earnest teen angst and not very much happens. I honestly lost the will to live during the first film - it was so slow that I could feel my cells ageing .......and the second was not much better however I have seen the trailer and the 3rd looks like something interesting might actually happen.
I guess I'm not their target audience π - my daughter and her friends talk as if its the greatest cinematic creation ever so they must be doing something right.
I'm not sure about kids but my OH has the craze and it's about driving me crazy! All I hear is the constant whine of how great R.Patz or whatever his name is.
Gloating over his pictures doesn't exactly give me a reason to be cheerful, I mean is he really all that?.
Needless to say I steer clear of this subject at all costs.
It bugs me when these vampire movies disappear so far up their own ...
Let me start again. I have not read the books, but I did surrender two hours of my life to watching the first film ...and reached the following conclusion. It's dull, arty, slow, brooding, pseudo-mysterious, boring, self-indulgent, pallid, hogwash. I wish the vampire genre didnÒ⬙t so often resort to simply ramming home the point, oh so convincingly, that eternal life is Γ’β¬Λa bit dullÒ⬙.
Sorry, but I still haven't fully recovered, or stopped yawning, since watching David Bowie's 'The Hunger', nearly 30 years ago.
Vampire shows can be good ...honest! Dusk 'til Dawn ...wonderfully over the top, Trueblood ...modern, dark and romantic, Being Human ...excellent & funny.
OK - I confess - I am not a teenage girl.
The only thing that makes this film worth watching for me is the fight scene... to a point!! Even though watching the very short fight toward the end of the 2hrs 4mins was mildly amusing, the recycled "will you change me into a vampire" and "only if you marry me" story ruined the whole saga.
It could of been a good film for me if it was a lil darker with a lil more violence but it is definately a girly film.
I was the only male in the cinemas surrounded by teenage girls who screamed, awwww'd and woop'd at any opportunity they got (even names at the end credits π ) which for me made the whole experience even worse but at least it made my pregnant other half happy which was rewarding enough for me.
So if you want to take you girlfriends/daughters do it for them but under any circumstances dont watch it yourself to see if its good, dont even download or stream it, its not worth the bandwidth and you will never get that 2hrs 4mins of your life back 
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