Top 10 Movies I Hate the Most

3:  The Twilight Series

     Technically this is a series and not just one movie. However, since they are all from one big series, I'll just review them all.
     I really don't see why this is such a teen phenomenon. It's just another in a long line (too long, I think) of teen romances. What is so appealing about that genre? Most of what comes out of this genre is false anyway.
     This story revolves around a 17 year old girl who falls in love with a boy in her new school who happens to be a vampire. That's the focus of all of the films so far with some other drama going on concerning a league of ruling vampires and werewolf and vampire tensions. I found little of that to be of any interest, but that's just me.
     While I often find it hard to find any really engaging characters on screen that are female, this movie has played a huge hand in helping me there. I guess it's because most of the female leads I've seen are like Bella or Rose from Titanic, or they simply aren't characters that I personally find interesting. There have been exceptions though. True Grit and Winter's Bone come to mind.
      But back to this film. Much like Titanic before it, the lead girl character annoys me to death. Again, this isn't simply a matter of personality. Throughout the films, she is so obsessed with Edward, that she's willing to lie to her parents and even ditch them entirely (because her parents will see her as a vampire), she's willing to do suicidal things just to see her boyfriend again, and (I know it's just a movie, but still) she's willing to literally sell her soul to be with Edward. Romantic, right? Also, the film seems to make the creepiest of activities seem romantic. Edward sneaks into Bella's bedroom to watch her sleep (creepy) on several occasions and even tells her that. She finds this totally romantic of course. My guess is Edward could film her showering and she would find that romantic and not the least bit creepy. Seriously, Edward even confesses to having murdered people before and she's not the least bit troubled. They just lie in a bed of flowers and stare at each-other, heedless of the lives good old Edward has snuffed out. Talk about ignoring the big, pink elephant in the room.
     Seriously, when guys do stuff like this in real life, you yell for help or, if you have it, mace the moron. Again, just like Titanic, the film asks us to accept moronic behavior as romantic and sensual. I guess that makes sense, considering Hollywood has made a career describing love as a "state of being" where emotions mount beyond our control. That's why characters do such dumb things; they're in love.
     People also break off relationships for the most selfish of reasons because they've fallen out of love. When love is just an emotion, people follow their emotions right out of a relationship. But since Twilight writes Edward in the Hollywood fashion, of course he wouldn't exploit Bella's stupidity for his own pleasures.
     Getting back to the movies as a whole, they are just boring. I mean I guess people can find love triangles interesting, but to me, since I know who's going to end up with who in the end, why waist 2 hours just to prove yourself right? They just plod, especially the second one. Here's the summary review of all the films:  
     1: New idea, but that's all it had to offer.
     2: Boooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiinnnnnnngggggg.
     3: Until the climax, same as number 2.
     And let's face it, along with a stupid love story, they just aren't good films. The only thing I found interesting as an idea for Bella's character. She would make a great Shakespeare villain. A sort of complex psychopathic mind who gets her kicks pitting potential suitors against each other for her affections often leading to one, or both, of the suitor's demise. Now that would be interesting.
     But as is, the films suck. (Pardon the vampire quip)

Final Thoughts:

The pits.