While portrayals of the Quileute tribe aren’t particularly faithful or accurate, it’s notable that a series of Twilight’s status explores the indigenous tribes whose presence in the Pacific Northwest is often glossed over. While it’s admittedly weaker than later entries in the series, New Moon successfully expands the world’s lore, introducing the existence of the tribe of werewolves, their hierarchical society, and feud with vampires. It also provides a more thorough introduction to Jacob’s character and the greater world of werewolves. What ensues is Bella’s descent into the pits of teenage heartbreak, becoming increasingly more reckless in her behavior. The second film in the series, New Moon removes Edward from the story, as he takes refuge with the mysterious Volturi clan in Italy in an effort to protect Bella.
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Sure, “I’m hotter than you” is a wonderfully meme-able Jacob quote, but as anyone who watches a movie looking out for the memes they’ve seen online knows, the experience always falls flat.Ĭonventional wisdom typically places The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the bottom of any list, but there’s a strong argument to be made for its superiority over Eclipse. What's infuriating then is the fact that the romance elements are among the franchise’s least interesting.
Maybe it’s asking too much of our young adult romance movies to convincingly break course and commit to their B-plots. In what should have been a large-scale vampiro-a-vampiro, action-heavy spectacle, the writers never commit to the premise, pushing action to the background and instead focusing on the love triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jacob. What’s disappointing then, is how uninteresting and bland The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ends up being as a viewing experience. That is, all hyperbole aside, one of the coolest movie pitches of all time. Enraged by the murder of her spectral soulmate, James ( Cam Gigandet), red-headed vampire Victoria ( Bryce Dallas Howard) creates an army of juiced-up, superpowered young vampires to exact her revenge on the Cullen family. What boggles the mind is how incredibly interesting the film is when boiled down to its most basic story beats. This is bottom-of-the-barrel Twilight material, folks. RELATED: Every 'Twilight' Book, Ranked From Worst to Best Below is our ranking of the five Twilight films, from worst to best. With well over a decade since the first film's release, it truly begs the question: Were the Twilight movies really as bad as many made them out to be? It’s our belief that, like most things, the flames of pop culture witch hunts are fanned by superfluous disdain, and that despite many legitimate issues, there is a ton of fun to be had with these cheesy yet earnest young adult romance films. Even within cinephile circles, there are countless video essays viscerally breaking down and ridiculing every frame of the movie. For every kid poring over Meyers’ books, there were dozens of cynical netizens copy-pasting “still a better love story than Twilight” into the comment section of any mention of the series. While each film proved to be a financial success for the studios, critics and pop culture gatekeepers were far less kind to the little story of a high school girl who becomes enchanted by a vampire in the Pacific Northwest.
The films also served as early career boosts for then-budding stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series was beloved by pre-teens, and infamously more so by their swooning parents with video clips depicting swarms of mothers descending upon movie theaters regularly circulating local news channels. What followed was a multimedia empire surrounding the intellectual property, including five additional books (with two rumored to be in the works) and five movies. When Stephanie Meyer published her first book, Twilight, in 2005, nobody could have imagined the size and scope of the popularity it would later amass.
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