As most of us are aware of, the Twilight franchise is a universal hit that in all honesty says a lot more about the prevailing mediocrity and apathy of the world than pretty much anything else. This is a franchise that keeps proving year after year that you don’t need good storytelling, decent acting or for all that matter even try for a film to be a success. As long as you showcase an overly fantastical, unrealistic and totally backwards way of thinking about love and feminism, people will respond to it like heroin addicts being given free heroin. Whilst I thought no other Twilight film could ever reach the vowels of hell quite like New Moon, Breaking Dawn, Part 1 has proven me so very wrong.

In this latest instalment, the wedding that every fan has been waiting for is finally happening much to the oddly unquestionable agreement of every character in the film. After years of gazing at each others’ eyes with hollow and creepy intensity, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) are getting married but not after Edward tells her once again that he is a monster. Being the dumb ass bitch that she is, Bella doesn’t care about the past and only about the future which promises happiness, sex and above else being turned into a vampire. During their exotic and totally unsexy honeymoon, Bella proves yet again that there’s no end to her stupidity by getting pregnant and in so starting a massive controversy or so they would have you believe.

To call Breaking Dawn, Part 1 a monumental overly cliche intolerable puke-inducing shit storm would be like calling the cast of Jersey Shore total idiots, the statement doesn’t even scratch the surface. In here we have everything that doesn’t work in the franchise raised to the max so much that while watching you begin to question who in their right mind could ever think this was a good idea. The film redefines acting by demonstrating that soap-operas’ actors deserve an Oscar. I think it would be insulting to call whatever these people are doing here acting, this shit is on a completely separate level. It would be redundant to say one actor was worst than the other, but it should be pointed out that giving Taylor Lautner more screen time was the worst mistake since the faulty equipment caused the Challenger to explode during liftoff.

A lot of people were saying that since Bill Condon landed the directing gig he would elevate and give the Twilight franchise a much needed sense of gravitas. When I heard that I laughed, rolled my eyes and called bullshit. If you honestly thought that Condon could elevate Twilight then you are utterly delusional. We’re talking about a franchise that made the director of the underrated but perfectly crafted and visually dazzling Hard Candy look like a massive amateur who should not work ever again. Condon directing Twilight is the definition of a pay-check film and as such he placed zero to not effort in directing this insult to humanity. There is literally not a single interesting thing to be found here and from a visual standpoint you can find something more dynamic by scrapping the shit out off a hobo’s ass.

In all honesty, we shouldn’t even call something as detrimental and abnormally insulting as this thing film. This isn’t a film, it’s an exercise in unnatural mediocrity and of why we as species do deserve to die at the end of 2012. To think that such garbage could be not only embrace but fucking accepted by the world is not only shameful but utterly depressing. If you want to see what’s wrong with the world apart from racism, war and so forth, all you have to do is watch Breaking Dawn, Part 1. With the previous film I learned to take all the cheesy moments and simply laugh at them, but there’s no way anyone with decent intelligence could laugh at the cheesiness here. Everything is so shitty that you have no idea how guilty I feel for wasting my time watching this. Please, let’s all stop watching these so-called films and watch something of merit.

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IN THE LAND OF WOMEN

My original pick was Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy from Pride & Prejudice, but I was watching The Ring last night and when Adam Brody came up I remembered him in In The Land of Women. I’m don’t particularly like chick flicks but this one is so freakin good that I just couldn’t resist. The love story here is a love triangle between Carter (Adam Brody), Lucy (Kristen Stewart) and Sarah (Meg Ryan). I think what makes it work so well is the brilliant and very honest dialogue, and the spot-on chemistry they have with each other. The scenes between Adam Brody and Meg Ryan are just genius written and acting.