Sucks
Friday, November 28, 2008
Twilight is a colossal load of crap. Not that I had any lofty expectations for it to begin with, mind, having flipped through a stray copy of Breaking Dawn and realizing that the Francine Pascal school of dilute kilig is still in practice. So it’s a colossal load of crap, but it’s not like I’m mad at it or anything (okay, maybe a little, only because Stephanie Meyer’s given tasteless people some weird license to be called ‘voracious readers,’ but let’s not get into that really, really, really, really, really old Harry Potter tirade right now). So it is what it is.
It’s easier to lambast films that have apparent flaws amidst otherwise tolerable elements. Twilight, however, is just two hours of Stupid. I do understand why many Filipinos enjoy it, though. The book and its subsequent unwieldy film translation cater to the Catholic school kid set and its penchant for ineffectual overromanticism. Mired as many young Pinoys are in Victorian notions of romance (yihee, nagholding hands sila; kasal, here they come), it’s very easy for them to fall for this drivel.
GRABE, ANG PANGIT NG TWILIGHT.
You have to see it.
posted by marguerite @ 1:41 PM
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