Dumping the Sparkly Vampire Hype: Why Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part One Fails Miserably

Two part finales have become somewhat of staples these days in movies. The movie simply hits two birds with one stone as the extension not only creates two movies using one script but it also allows double profit. It’s not something that I am a fan of since I feel like getting ripped off with the money that I pay for the tickets, shelling out two screenings worth with only the value of one. Series followers are surely the target of this marketing strategy, like the fans of Harry Potter. Well, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows One and Two were somehow good exceptions because each part had a distinct and beautiful flavor added to them. Another series, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight: Breaking Dawn, is divided into Two Parts. Is it worth the money to watch both parts?

Based on Part One alone, it’s a big NO. When Twilight first came as a book series, it had very much a potential. As the first movie was out, people were crazy about it due to good storyline. The problem came when the succeeding installments became bad parodies of themselves. The depiction of vampires and werewolves in the movie were the gravest abuse of artistic license that someone can use. It basically puts to garbage all of the respect that literary educated vampire fans have for the mythical creature. Majority of the film was dominated by a type of melodrama that wasn’t helpful to the…