A teenager moves to a new town, but not by choice. Said teen is sullen, doesn't get along well with others, and would rather be any place else. That is until a meeting with someone of the opposite sex. It is a meeting that will forever change both of their lives. They are almost immediately taken with each other, but it takes a few dance moves to get them into time. This is when the true danger of their union becomes apparent. However, despite all of the hardships set before them, they are set to take on the dangers that the vampires present them with.
Sounds a bit like Twilight, doesn't it? It isn't. That was a bit from the description of the 1987 vampire hit The Lost Boys. This is one of the two films that kept floating through my head as I watched Twilight unfold on the screen before my eyes. The other? That would be the 2006 release of The Covenant. This is not a good thing, as that film fell pretty close to the bottom of that year's releases. It concerned the Sons of Ipswich, teenage warlocks with addictive supernatural powers, and their classmates at an exclusive private school.
As for Twilight? Color me unimpressed. Of course, I was completely unaware of the book series and their immense popularity. This is a fact that became abundantly clear the closer to release we got, as I read about hundreds of screenings selling out weeks in advance of opening night. Even reading that, I did not believe it would be that big, but it was a piece of anecdotal evidence that really drove home the fact it was becoming something of a phenomenon.
That anecdotal evidence would be the local theater selling out not one, but two midnight screenings topped by the 7:30 screening on Friday night selling out at least a day in advance. A second nail was driven home when I traveled an hour to see Bolt in 3D and witnessed a huge line of Twilight fans waiting to get in for the prime seats. It was something else, I tell you.
I went in with pretty low expectations, I mean, the trailers did look pretty bad (which fed my disbelief of the hype that was forming around it). As the film wore on I quickly discovered I was not the target audience (well, duh... I had an idea going in, but still). I have enjoyed other films that did not target my demographic, so why not this?
Article comments
1 - Jessica
Sorry to say, you're right! Not about it being a bad movie, but about you not being the target audience. It's a vampire romance, based in high school... It's meant for romantics, and girls/women who have that perfect image of what a man should be. Only Edward is not a man he's a vampire, so completely unobtainable, until a plain, average girl comes along and captures his heart. It's every girls dream!