kt’s review published on Letterboxd:
100
"How long have you been 17?"
"A while."
Before you click the unfollow button, let me explain.
A staple of the later 2000's forever encased in its gloomy and rain drenched streets of Forks, Washington. Twilight is not a good film, yes, I'm very well aware from it's terrible line delivery and it's always equal-to-worse editing. It's a trasherpiece. Twilight means a lot more to me than it should.
In late 2021, in October, my sibling and I sat down with one of my best friends and watched this. It spawned an instant love of it for all of us. I had seen it before, but watching it again and again and again with people you've never seen it with before feels like an entirely new experience. This made a good part of my October memorable. We quoted it all the time, we referenced it and just had so much fun every time. I'll never forget it. It's a film that sticks with you solely from the fact it's so-bad-its-good.
One day came... I'll never forget it. January 31st, 2022. For about a month prior we three had been excited because my theater (the Alamo Drafthouse) was screening Twilight for all to see. It wasn't a normal screening though...it was a "Rowdy Screening". The crowd was the best I've ever been in. The people sitting all around us, the three women in front of us, the ONE person in the back and to the left of the theater who was the only Team Jacob supporter in the entire cinema, and the three people sitting next to us. The energy was perfect. We laughed, we booed, we screamed, we had a once in a lifetime experience. I will never forget that.
I never went to the screenings of the other films, but that doesn't bother me as much. I still, to this day, vividly remember that. I know it'll never be as good as that Twilight wise, but this was suffice. There's nothing as perfect, as iconic, as quotable, or as memorable as the original. It's such a stupid film to thank, but whatever.
Thank you Twilight.
