The dark world of the Eclipse

Today I went to see Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight Saga. I’m not a massive fan of the films, I’m not head over heels for Edward, and truthfully I can’t see the obsession with the films. I borrowed the first Film of a friend and only watched that within the last few months whilst being at uni, and then I watched the second film at my friend’s house just before I went to watch Eclipse. Out of all the three films, the third one most definitely has the best story line, however it’s nothing amazing, and it’s no Harry Potter or Sex and the City. If there is anything I can say about the film, it’s that it has a good standard of CGI used within the film, particularly with the use of werewolves. Although I can’t see what it is about this film, it’s obviously doing something right as it pulled in a whopping $261.2m across the world in its opening weekend. One thing that I couldn’t help but notice about the twilight films is the lack of colour and interesting fashion choices. The most interesting colour that I think I saw the whole film was white, apart from that the film is swept with black, greys and dark reds. I know that it’s meant to be a somewhat dark film, and colour is a given symbol of the mood and situation, but a little colour and fashion interest wouldn’t have gone a miss. I have to say without attractive men in the lead roles such as Robert Pattison and Taylor Lautner, I can’t imagine that the films would have been received in the same way in which they have. Purely for me, half of the interest in this film was the fact that Taylor Lautner, spends most of the film without a top on. If he wasn’t as ripped as he was, with the lack of colour and fashion credibility, I would not have paid to see this film.