It’s all too tempting to look down on the Twilight movie series — based on Stephenie Meyer’s explosively popular series of novels — as quickie pictures designed to herd in large audiences of indiscriminate, ticket-buying, Robert Pattinson-and/or-Taylor Lautner-loving teen- and tweenage girls. And with the exception of the first movie in the series, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, that’s exactly what they are. The real horror isn’t simply that these movies are bad — plenty of us were raised on, and loved, junk movies and crap TV. It’s that the folks at the top don’t think teen and tween audiences deserve better. The latest installment, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, directed by David Slade ( 30 Days of Night, Hard Candy ), while admittedly an improvement over last year’s barely coherent New Moon, only adds insult to injury. Nothing so grand as a real eclipse, it’s more just a massive blind spot.
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REVIEW: Actors Might Give Up on Eclipse, But Fans Won’t
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