Twilight

Release Year: 2008

Director: Catherine Hardwicke

Review: 'Twilight' is more of a craze than anything cinematically tangible.  It takes the wildly popular vampire romance, candy coats and shoves it out to mass appeal.  There many similar movies out there with the exact same concept and which executed it in far more interesting ways, and yet 'Twilight' is the undisputed winner of the vampire wars.  It knows its audience and it panders to it.  And boy does it do a good job of pandering.  All said, it isn't the most egregious teen sensation that could come about, and it almost has a 'so bad it's good' feel to it.  I didn't hate the movie experience, mainly because I was laughing at the over the top corny moments.
Rating: 2.5/5