The chapter that I feel is the last chapter for Twilight is upon us (the fourth is a 350pg anticlimactic epilogue), and I know this dropped a few days back but I thought I would share it anyways.
The new teaser trailer for Twilight Saga’s Eclipse:
This trailer is terrible. It does NOTHING to try and get the attention of new viewers at all. Every scene in it is catered JUST to existing Twilight fans (which there is no shortage of). In a series like this that is already pigeonholed and teased more than New Kids on the Block were, this is where the story comes together. The real conflict. The series took two books/movies to establish its mythos while the irrationally emo Bella sorts out her feelings, but I am telling you this is where the story gets good.
They have so much potential to convert the naysayers, and put out a film with a dramatic love triangle and some great mythology, suspense over her vampire stalker (which Dallas Bryce Howard seems to be fitting in replacing Rachelle Lefevre) and a final conflict of Vampire and Werewolf fighting together against a swarm of rabid newborn vamps. Done right, the Twhaters will eat their words. But it looks like we are getting more emoBella instead. I hope they amp up the action like this book deserves. Go out with a bang!
The fourth book just isn’t worth reading. THIS is the final chapter.
I youtubed the trailer yesterday and thought it was awesome… Until I reailed it was a fanmade trailer. Should’ve noticed that it was longer than teaser length. But seeing the official trailer after that was like reading breaking dawn- anticlimactic
As all other Twilight movies, eclipse sets the tone of no action, a lot of talk and anticipation of love. Great for the girls, bad for the guys.
This is the worst trailer and I cannot express how horribly disappointed I was when I watched it and how more painful it was to see it on the big screen. I don’t buy the excuse “it’s a teaser” Um…over two minutes is a long teaser and it showed crap! We all know there is a friggin love triangle that was set up and has been set up and now we get a trailer that is BORING as all hell and shows nothing of what is the only really good book in the series.
I seriously hope the story that they brought it in a new editor because Slade’s edit was too dark is untrue because if that’s the case, well, great…there goes a lot hope that this will be any good. We don’t need New Moon II …I want Eclipse, which had some bad ass to it and then fell apart with Breaking Dawn.
I’ve given both the first films a chance. I have 3 girls in my household, not including the wife, so I sat through them and endured this past weekend. I heard a lot of great feedback on New Moon with the introduction of the werewolves in the story, but to be honest, it felt slow and romantic. I try to keep an open mind, but these films just feel like romanticized mythology with no action at all. But I can’t even fault that since that seems to be the demographic they were aiming for in the books as well.
I love the CG in it. They did well there and the potential to make Eclipse the best of the series is still there, but CG hardly makes a movie. If Eclipse is anything like New Moon, I say it will fail, even with some Twilight fans. I think they are all expecting more out of this one.
One last point; I could be biased as well. Rachelle Lefevre is sexy as hell and I wanted more Victoria kicking ass in the movie. I was sadly disappointed.
my sis tells me that ecilpse will indeed have action in it, even though the trailer seems lame, that’s why summit is so keen to release it over the summer, cuz ecilpse have more action and battles in it than breaking dawn
The reason why the trailer is catered to Twilight fans is because *no one else will ever see the movie.*
How clever.
If you read my post, you would also have noticed that I observed that they have a lot of potential to gain even MORE viewers if they cater this film to fans and non-fans alike.
Imagine if you saw a Twilight trailer and it looked like a great supernatural thriller with lots of action and just enough romance. You might give Twilight a chance.
Its a missed opportunity. This teaser makes no sense unless you have read the books or are a die hard fan of the series.
I disagree. If they make the movie appeal to nonfans, it won’t be the kind of movie that would appeal to fans. “Just enough romance” would be anethema to the entire franchise, which is purely built on pent-up, never-released-until-the-fourth-book romantic tension. It’s pretty much impossible to marry that sort of overly dramatic celibate, emo romance to an action-packed vamp movie that would appeal to (mostly male) non-fans. The current fans would have a revolt, which would be far more likely to cost the franchise in the long run.
Not only would it seriously alienate the built-in audience, it would be a lot more expensive to make. Each of the Twilight movies, thus far, have been either very cheap (the first) or pretty damn cheap compared to what it was expected to make (the second). Why would they break the bank to appeal to a more male crowd now? If the studio thought they had more to gain by drastically changing the formula, it would have done it. Furthermore, doing so, at such a cost, would be a huge risk considering it would be a tough sell to convince the non-fan male audience to show up to this movie with the expectations they’d have had given the reputation of the books and the first two movies. If I were a producer, I’d no sooner push more male-oriented action on this movie than I would the second Sex in the City. Wrong audience. Of course, Summit knows that, which is why they’ve played this franchise safe from the beginning — keeping a focused target audience and a modestly budgeted film and sequel.
Lol.
Thats a weird thing to say. Considering the movie made over $706,600,000.
Its a teaser trailer, youre not supposed to see half the movie in these.
The Dark Knight teaser trailer was 20 seconds of a glowing bat, and a Joker card exploding. Thats called a teaser trailer.
I know what a teaser is, but they show NO action at all.
They have potential and a teaser is supposed to start that buzz, and its not. They can show 18 seconds of emo and one second of an epic battle flashing on the screen and suddenly an entirely different demographic is paying attention.
Not so weird. Yeah, it made a lot of money, but the books had a lot of fans. There are a lot of tween girls, teen girls and old ladies who really, really dug that stuff. Fine for them. That doesn’t mean anyone else (except maybe their boyfriends) are seeing it, by and large. Notice the fact that both Twilight movies had little legs beyond the opening weekend, with huge, huge drop offs afterward. All the fans got so excited that they broke all sorts of records going to see it, but there were very few non fans interested in the franchise to keep it as a big hit beyond opening weekend.
None of this is an insult… the third film will make a big bag of dough, but let’s not kid ourselves, here, this movie and franchise is not going to attract the same demographics of male teenagers and twentysomethings that all went to see The Dark Knight two or three times. Summit knows exactly who Twilight appeals to and has made the movie specifically for that (pretty damn large) audience. It wouldn’t make sense to expand it by doing things to the movie which would alienate the people who have already pumped hundreds of millions into the franchise. Summit, if anything, should be applaud for sticking to its core audience. They’re making the movies that the millions of fans of the books and franchise want to see.
1) Its a teaser trailer, it did its job.
2) New Moon was the most boring book of the series, and look what they did to the movie. I cant believe that you for ONE SECOND think theyre going to make the last two movies verbatim to the BD book
This is my prediction:
I guarantee you all that the Breaking Dawn movies will be the two with the most action of all. If i am wrong (Please quote me, and remember this post so you can link back to it for future reference) i will lick all of your toes.
That Breaking Dawn will be two films is still speculation.
Its what they “want” to do, but so far its still planned as one film.
Then the Breaking Dawn movie will be the one with the most action. Not just action scenes, but time spent in said scenes as well.
Not that its right to quantify a romance movie by its amount of action, but it seems that its what people look for, even if the movie is a romance
Although i thought its been pretty official that theyre splitting the boo in two movies. and its a financially smart decision as well
Its likely to happen because they want to rape every last dime out of the Twihards. But last report says they are trying to find a way to make it two films and are in discussions for it.
That the cast is signed on for 4 movies puts them in a precarious situation to have to revamp contracts for a 5th where Rob, Taylor and Kristen can ask for the moon and will get it.
They are still striking while the iron is hot. There is a reason they are releasing these at a breakneck pace. They know Twilight fever will pass and want to cash in now.