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I recently watched the movie Adventureland. No it's not one of the worst movies, it's actually pretty good. But I hated the ending and it nearly ruins the movie. Other than that, the cast was great. The main actress in the movie is Kristen Stewart, who is one of my favorite young actors currently. Yup, for serious.

That brings me to this thread. K. Stew is probably one of the most hated actresses that I hear about. I think that's unfair. Watch her in Panic Room, Into The Wild, The Runaways, and Adventureland. She's got a few duds, no doubt, but most of her roles, though not great, are suited to the character and a solid performance. Most people just hate her because of Twilight.

I'm also a Twilight apologist. Hear me out. The script sucks, yeah, and that can ruin a movie. But it's Twilight. It can't be helped. The direction is hit and miss, which means that at best it does get it right about half the time. The CGI is horrid and it ruins what is actually a pretty good job of stunts, practical effects and sets. The cinematography is fine, and the acting is not bad, honestly.

The movies aren't good, but they aren't the worst movies ever. They are merely mediocre for the most part, which puts them on the level of many other movies that are far less panned. I think that people hate the idea of Twilight more than the actual movies.
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Master Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4400 Location: Korriban

My point was that Twilight is a stupid story based on a badly written book, so there can never really be a good movie of it so long as it sticks to the source material. And that isn't the movies fault.

Sure we can say that it should not be a movie, but people like it and there is money to be made so that was never really something that could not happen. I don't see a lot of talented people jumping on a reboot, but I guess it's possible someday.

The first movie is by far the worst in the series. It does get slightly better. The second one is the best IMO and it's a decent movie, for a supernatural teen romance, that is. The third movie is less good, but it's still not the worst, second worst. The fourth movie is pretty alright, just below number 2. It mostly suffers from being unnecessarily split in half. I haven't seen the last one, so I can't comment on it.

I know that some people won't like hearing this, but I see a lot of parallels to the Harry Potter films and Twilight. Not in terms of book adaptations or the story itself, but from a film standpoint. I think Twilight took a lot of inspiration from the HP movies, and that trend in Cinema has been a mostly bad one starting with Twilight and continuing with worse movies, like Hunger Games. Both were movies that were made mostly for fans of the books and less for the general movie audiences.
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Master Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4400 Location: Korriban

Master Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 1346

^I so second this!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! even

But DP Walker has a point.
You can't make a good movie when your source material sucks. For me the story is 50% of a movie.

And slaughter me if you will for this, but I could never bring myself to go beyond the first Harry Potter movie (or the second, I can't remember and do not care). To read a book after that. Rolling Eyes

Not gonna happen. I doubt that the movie guys ruined it all.

Knight Joined: 19 May 2011 Posts: 364 Location: England

I thought Half Blood Prince was the worst Harry Potter film, threw aside and heavily cut down the main two story lines in the book so we could have 2 hours of horny teenagers trying to sort out their love lives. Order Of The Phoenix wasn't brilliant either, way too much cut out. Chamber Of Secrets and Prisoner Of Azkaban were the best in my opinion, with The Deathly Hallows not far behind.
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I've only seen the first four Potter movies, but I thought The Hunger Games was a significantly better movie than any of them.
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Master Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 4400 Location: Korriban

I loved Half Blood Prince, that was the best of the movies for me.

Hunger Games fell short of an only ok book.

With the Twilight thing a movie sucking because its source material sucks is no excuse, its not worth participating in either way.
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