Twilight’s “Eclipse” opened last night at midnight across the country. In the previews it says “Eclipse” is the best Twilight movie yet. However, much to everyone’s surprise the movie is not getting the best reviews from film critics across the country.
Rotten Tomatoes is tracking critics at only about 50% favorable. Some of the negative reviews were particularly biting.
TimeOut New York wrote: “To say that this is the strongest of the ‘Twilight’ films, however, is to pay Eclipse wispy praise; viewers who value the little things, such as passable acting and dialogue not stolen from a sixth-grader’s diary, will once again walk away dazed, and partially deaf from all the surrounding squealing.”
AP’s David Germain wrote: “…while ‘Eclipse’ may not be dreadfully dumb, it’s still pretty dumb.”
USA Today’s headline is: “Keep your shirt on: ‘Eclipse’ isn’t that awesome”.
Chicago Tribune’s Michael Phillips wrote: “Already, ‘Eclipse’ has garnered notices praising it as the best and most action-packed of the three. Which I don’t understand. For me it’s the most ponderous and most sloppily directed, and by far the most deadening when the dramatic necessity known as ‘talking’ must be confronted, in between battles.”
MTV’s Kurt Loder wrote: “The picture runs two hours, and might have been more enjoyable — and certainly less exasperating — if it had been cut down into a one-hour TV special.”
E!’s headline is: “Review: Eclipse Just as Bad as Other Twilight Movies”
Rotten Tomatoes is tracking critics at only about 50% favorable. Will all these bad reviews keep you away? The Times’ Betsy Sharkey liked the movie:
“The kiss of the vampire is cooler, the werewolf is hotter, the battles are bigger and the choices are, as everyone with a pulse knows by now, life-changing,” she wrote.
If you have seen the other two movies how could you not go see “Eclipse?”
Who give a rat’s ass what the critics say? I’m a woman in her 30s who saw this opening day (yes, I’m pathetic!) and loved it. Pretty true to the book. The people who go to these movies aren’t expecting an art house type of film. Get real, critics.
I totally agree with you -am. And your not pathetic. Please, I’m in my 30′s too and I’ve seen the movies. I don’t know how critics get their jobs, and how they get to be the “voice” for people. The real critics are the average people who see the movies. Everyone has their own tast in movies. So I say, to hell with the payed critics and yay to all of us who have are own voice. I’m going to have to see this latest movie.
It seems like a critic isn’t looking for how much enjoyment the target audience is getting. It’s like that jackass in highschool who looked down his nose at Top 40 because it was too pop or bubblegum for him and his tastes were much more avant garde than yours. Screw the critics, go enjoy it. Same issue with SITC2.
You’ve all pretty much said everything I was thinking, critics are looking for something in a film that is totally different from what the average movie-goer is looking for, which is entertainment. I have read the books and have seen the movies and have enjoyed them for what they are. They aren’t trying to win an Oscar, they are trying to honor these amazing books and for me they have done just that.