Cats are so lucky. They don't have to watch excruciatingly bad movies whilst tweens parrot the dialog EXACTLY and squeal every time the lead hunk appears. Actually the tweeny dialong and squeals didn't bother me as much as the movie itself. Now sure I diss Twilight and its spawn pretty much every chance I get but I had NO idea a movie, which closely follows the book, could ever be this horrid. I mean, I've seen porn with better acting in it.
Now all the acting wasn't terrible, but much of it led the viewer into wondering why in the hell Bella and Edward would have fallen in love in the first place. He's repulsed, he's secretly attracted, he angsts, runs away, comes back and makes cryptic statements and then she makes statements that don't make sense. It's all doom and depression and saying don't be around me and then you're around all the time so I FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU ?!!!! Right. I thought love was about joy and lightness. Okay there's some brooding but mostly when the guy you like doesn't like you not says "I have to stay away from you" and then practically stalks you he's there so much.
And Carlisle the handsome, dashing doctor....yeah if he's a corpse. They did such a horrible job on him he's paler than an alien being with the large eyes. Like no one can tell there's something fishy with this guy?! Buy some bronzer Carlisle and join your fake family at slightly looking just un-tanned.
In the book when those vampires hit the sun they are all ethereal and glow nicely. In the movie Edward just looks like he's got a horrible skin condition. Not very attractive or sexy. Edward also has stupid hair.
Okay and really I am more of a "Team Jacob" person anyway but Jacob in this movie blends in with all the other generic Native Americans with exactly the same hair. Too stereotypical. All they needed was feathers woven in their hair to say "hey look at me I'm a native american see here's my feathers and long straight hair to prove it." Jacob in the book seems more modern to me. He wouldn't have hair from a bad 1950s western, he'd have long-ish hair but not down to his butt. More like shoulder length or something.
In fact, the police chief father Charlie was stereotypical too. He didn't really act or look like a police chief except for the cheesy 70s mustache he was sportin'. Cliche city baby.
Don't even get me started on Rosalie and Jasper. They don't blend(well none of the "teen" vampires blend) at school. They look like 30 year old yuppies who should be playing tennis at the club.
The only actor worth anything in this mess was Alice and James. They were the most realistic characters.
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Sorry, Lily, your Mom deserved what she got. a. She read the book! b. She works in a library so she knows what gaggles of tweens are like! c. I bet she even saw at least one of the brainless dull actors on Leno or Letterman. Why did she go see the movie?
Sadly Mom was showing for the teens at her library. You can't leave teens alone in the library! The horror, the horror.....
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