Went to see Twilight and enjoyed it. Sort of a "Lost Boys" update for the noughties (although the cool 80's soundtrack of The Lost Boys is a lot more guiltily enjoyable!)
Good performances and some good vampire moments (the baseball stand off and the van crush.) There are different kinds of vampires! Animal eaters and human eaters! Make the right choice! Liked the ending as well, no way that certain character would just "run away"! A little distracted by the heroine's Mum who was such a pain to Jack Bauer in the first 3 days of 24!!
I thought the direction was superb, Catherine Hardwicke really put her stamp on proceedings and totally agree with her when she decided to back out of the sequel. This second film has a release date of November 2009! Yes 2009! Less than a year away! Bizarre "only in Hollywood" kind of decision to rush proceedings to that extent. Twilight was so superb I say the studio should give this woman what she wants and set a more realistic 2010 release date. To now hire the guy who put together the woeful "Golden Compass" disaster is probably going to ruin another FX laden franchise. Oh well!
