Ray wakes up to TWILIGHT’S 2nd trailer

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Posted by Ray DeRousse. Last modified on July 22nd, 2008 at 11:05am

Ray wakes up to TWILIGHT’S 2nd trailer

It has been interesting to watch the development of the upcoming film adaptation of the Twilight series of novels by Stephenie Meyer. As Matt accurately described in an earlier article about the teaser trailer, this series appears to be the next Harry Potter craze. Somehow, though, I managed to know nothing about the vast legions of fans of this series … I suppose it’s because I am not a sixteen year old girl.

Whatever. At least the kids are still reading books.

The first teaser trailer left with with a bit of the shrugs. To me, it looked like LOST BOYS 3: COREY HAIM IS A DRUG ADDICT. It definitely had a silly, teeny-bopper feel about it, and a remarkable lack of energy considering the pedigree. The first trailer definitely suffered from the lack of visuals, which could not have been far along at the time of production.

A new, longer teaser has surfaced, and some of the problems of the first one have been addressed. There is an urgency here sorely lacking in the initial offering, and the dramatic weight of the situation is given more heft. I still can’t get past the dinky appearance of the film; is the whole thing really just one big teen-angst bitch-fest with vampirism as the hook? As an adult white male who is unfamiliar with the story, I suppose I am not the target audience.

If you love the books, let us know what you think of this new trailer:

Categories: Movie News, Trailers, twilight

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Last July, I reviewed Twilight. Most of my posts get little or no comment, but my review of Twilight has fourteen - mostly from girls who didn’t even read the review. They just saw “Edward” and started gushing about how amazing he is. So yes, there’s a lot of hype, but it’s mostly from young girls. Harry Potter was a gender-transcendent series, so I don’t know if this is the next big thing… though, for some reason, it certainly is huge.

The trailer looks laughable to me. Vampires flying through the air and having mechanical movements (what was up with the guy who grabs Bella, pauses, then throws her?). I think it’s going to be unintentionally funny in many places. I also think that the actual plot in the book is nonexistent until the last one hundred pages or so (the book’s over 500 pages long) is going to make for a less than interesting movie for the first hour.

I’m interested to see how the sexual tension plays out. If Meyer kept creative control of the work (and I haven’t read up to see if she had), then it’s going to so tense you can cut it with a knife, but they’ll barely even kiss. If she didn’t keep creative reins on the whole deal, they might do a bit more (since it’s for young audiences, not much).

No matter what we think, it will be a blockbuster because girls will come from miles around just to watch Edward.

Comment by W.E.B. Adamant | July 22, 2008

A friend of mine, who’s a fan of the books, found this and found it to be true and funny. I think it sounds like garbage.

“A girl named Bella moves to Washington State to live with her dad. She’s an ugly whiny loser, and nobody at her old school liked her; however, at her new school, all the boys think she’s fabulous, because she’s the biggest f^ucking Mary Sue on the planet, and Stephanie Meyer is a sex-starved Mormon. Anyway, despite her array of courters and her ~fabulous~ new friends, she meets a dazzling young guy named Edward Cullen, who is adopted and lives with a doctor and his wife (a proper artist with a knife) and his four-ish adopted brothers and sisters - idk, I kind of lost count. Anyway, one minute he hates her, one minute he loves her, he’s like the biggest f^ucking c^ocktease in the whole world. Bella falls madly in love with him despite the fact that he’s a stalker and treats her like s^hit, because female empowerment is for dykes, not fabulous young girls. So Edward ~dazzles~ her, frequently, and then oh yeah she finds out he’s a vampire. He’s like a hundred years old, and his “father” is four hundred. So basically he’s a child molester. Some evil vampires come along, and one of them chases her to Phoenix, and the way that they all casually travel on planes really p^issed me off, like it’s so f^ucking easy to be 17 years-old and just pay for a plane ticket. I mean what the f^uck was with that. Anyway, the evil vampire chased her to Phoenix, where he mom lived, and he f^ucked her up a bit, but they told everybody that she ~fell down some steps~. Oh yeah, and she went to the prom. The end.”

Comment by Lencho | July 23, 2008

i liked the three books in the Twilight saga,
but I have to be honest… it’s the epitome of cheesy-ness.

the books are already of below-average intellectual substance,
and this movie just hits notches (even miles) below the books’ already-cheesy quality.

i still prefer the book over the film-adaptation.
i’m already anticipating the movie to suck–not because there are vampires that suck blood in that movie, but because the movie (based on the trailers and promos alone) really appears (comes out as) one hell of a crap.

Comment by _N_r_chy | July 23, 2008

Below-average intellectual substance? This a book (movie) for teenagers! Adults are not supposed to find them appealing. Men are really not supposed to find them appealing either! AND Edward died when he was 17…so he’s not the child molester. Bella kinda is…seeing if they get married she’ll be at least 19. (i think)

jeez. adults. grow up a little.

Comment by Queen Victoria | July 24, 2008