Todd’s Movie Blog

I’ve been kind of amused, and a little perplexed, by the antagonism heaped on Twilight by critics, and horror fans for that matter. Critics are labeling it a mediocre endeavor at best and pointing out all of the inconsistencies (like no fangs), while die hard horror fans are enraged by the lack of action and scares, as one man put it on CNN.com, not one teenage girl got her head cut off. Here’s a question for you, what’s a middle aged male horror fan doing at a showing of Twilight? Here’s another one, why are critics bothering to write a review of it? Twilight is based on a series of books about the platonic romance between a high school girl and a much much older, though apparently teen heartthrob looking vampire. The books are aimed at and fanatically loved by teenage girls, a demographic not known for it’s devotion to either Roger Ebert or the Saw films. I don’t see what all the fuss is about myself, being a middle age male who grew up reading Stephen King and Peter Straub (I also read Mickey Spillane and Leslie Charteris, but then again I’m weird even by geek standards), so the books and the movie don’t appeal to me on any level, The Dresden Files being more my style. I think the critics and horror fans should have ignored the film. It’s going to be a huge hit regardless, devoted girls are going to see it multiple times before it comes out on DVD, where it will probably sell out on day one. So my advice is to just stay home to avoid all the ear splitting screams of adulation emitting from the multiplexes, re-read the Harry Potter series or The Dresden Files from start to finish and wait for the new Star Trek film next year.