TWIXT
I’ve
already gone into slight detail in my top ten worst films list as to why
Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt” is so bad, but the fact that it was one of my
most anticipated films of 2011 is the reason that it has ultimately become my
biggest disappointment of 2012. My
reasons for thinking this film was going to be gold are obvious: first it is a
Francis Ford Coppola film and second it was him tackling my favourite genre
which is horror. The last time Coppola
entered the world of horror he gave us his awesome adaptation of “Bram Stoker’s
Dracula”, so I assumed that his next venture in the genre would be just as good
or if not at least something interesting or different. Well, it was certainly different with its
ridiculous and nonsical plot that has to do with a series of murders in a small
town, a novelist who dreams of these crimes, a ghost who wants to help the
novelist in his dreams and of course there is Edgar Allan Poe. Coppola also infused the story with personal
elements from his own life such as a character dying from a boating accident
(which sadly is what happened to his own son) but none of it adds up to
anything. To make matters worse, the
majority of the performances by the actors are terrible, and as I have
mentioned numerous times now, the cinematography is just awful and flat. “Twixt” was sadly a train-wreck from the
beginning right through until the very unsatisfying conclusion. In hindsight, I feel that my own heightened
expectations have caused “Twixt” to be the disappointment it has become because
with what little I knew about the film when it was in production was so minor
that I should not have expected so much.
I will say that by the time I had seen the first trailer for the film,
my expectations had lowered considerably but I will not deny that I was
massively disappointed in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt”.
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