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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 4565121" data-attributes="member: 2525">For the nerd in me, here is what I liked about Twilight:Each vampire seems to have a special power in addition to just being a vampire.  One can read minds, one can see the future, one has enhanced hunting senses and strength and speed to back up that hunting, etc..  Essentially it makes for an interesting adventuring party, without everyone being the same class.Vampires can and do fight other vampires, and the fight scenes are pretty good.  Lots of stuff breaking, and some nice wire work for jumping from tree to tree and such.Vampires often live in the pacific northwest, because it is overcast all the time, hence they can go about during daytime hours without much trouble.  They are not harmed by the sun in this version of vampirism, they just glow in a bit of an alien way, which would call a lot of attention to them if humans saw it. A particular vampire "family" lives in a nice big house with large open windows, and they call themselves "vegetarians" because they do not feed on people, just animals.  They seem to spend a lot of time reading and listening to music and jumping around in the trees in the forest, since they have a lot of time on their hands given they never sleep (and they own no coffins, and have no trouble with religion, or garlic, or being invited into a house).  They send one person to school most of the time, to help extend the time they can live in one place without moving and maintain an illusion that they are a normal family (the "father" is a doctor in town).  One of the running jokes for this family is a big display of dozens of graduation caps they have, representing how many times the younger-looking vampires have graduated from high school.  This family gets really excited when a human comes over for dinner, since they get to use their nice kitchen for the first time. The vampires have a territorial and non-aggression pact with the werewolves, who are some Native Americans in the region.  We do not see much of the werewolves in this movie, but it's made clear who they are, and that they exist, and that the werewolves are not particularly happy that a vampire is dating a human whose family the werewolves are friends with.There are some other elements I found interesting.  Obviously not much of your classic vampire, but still a fair amount of interesting details that shows that we are working with a more complex fantasy world than just "vampire/human love story".Oh and someone mentioned teen-age sex.  There is no sex in this film.  There is barely kissing in this film.</blockquote>

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