Twilight

I just saw Twilight three times.  Why, might you ask, would I devote so much time to a movie so fantastically bad, with acting so poor I’m sending Robert Pattinson (right now) a single dollar so he can buy a clue, when I have so little time as it is?  Well… work.  I wanted to know how Summit pulled this caper off, why it got so lucky (Twilight did massive box office).

Now I know.

Twilight tries to be neither slick nor smooth.  It’s awkward and angsty and clumsy all at the same time — the epitome of high school.  This is how people relate to the movie, pimples and all.  Most people think it takes lots to impress teenagers, that you need fantastic special effects and incredible graphics.  Not true.  Apparently, all you really need is to tell a story that they can relate to — and they will, no matter how fantastically bad.