Twilight - The Movie Reviews

I have been hearing all the buzz about Twilight, both the movie and the book and decided I needed to check this out for myself.  I have not read the book, so I feel that my review of the movie is completely unbiased.

My local drive-in movie theater was playing Twilight and Four Christmases so I thought now would be a good time to see two movies that I had been wanting to see for the price of one.

I have to say that I am both pleased and disappointed by the movie Twilight.  I am pleased because it is an excellent storyline.  The love story that the movie focuses on is a very sweet, protective...

I thought that the Twilight BOOK was one of the best fiction books I had ever read.  (read review here)  I was unable to see the release of the Twilight MOVIE at theaters, so I was anxious for it to come out on DVD.

As is often the case, the movie just didn't live up to the book.  Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the movie and would watch it more than once, but it just didn't have the same intensity as the book did.  I felt that the story was rushed, and there wasn't enough time given to the growth of the relationship between Bella & Edward.  When I read the book, I was overcome by the intense...

OMG.

This movie was so awesome!

I could just leave it at that, but I'm going to tell you just why Twilight is so awesome, and why it just made $69 million on its opening weekend.

1. It remains faithful to the novel, while streamlining the narrative and imposing a more straightforward dramatic structure on the story. For instance, the bad vampires don't just show up 3/4 of the way through, as in the book. Their mayhem reinforces Edward's dangerousness and sets up the film's climax.

2. It is very well cast. While it was crucial for the leads to have chemistry and be right for their parts, and Kristen...

When I read the Twilight books I couldn't put them down, so when I heard a movie was coming out, I was very excited. To make a long story short, I was extremely disappointed after seeing the movie. In my opinion the actors weren't like the characters in the book at all. Edward seemed extremely awkward, while Bella was a little too hard to me. The movie moved a lot faster than the book, which is understandable, but it made the feeling a little different. It's one thing if the movie doesn't follow the book very well, but I personally thought it was just a bad movie. If someone hadn't read the books...

After I read the book, I could barely wait to watch the movie. While it wasn't as good as the book, but, really, what movie is EVER as good as the book?, it was still wonderful!!!

Seeing the characters from the page come to life on the screen was exciting. I think the selection of actors fit PERFECTLY! While I had seen previews for the movie, at the time I had no intention of reading the books, because I thought they were intended for teens, but, thankfully, my husbands cousing talked me into reading the books. But, while seeing the previews, I hadn't really paid much attention to what the characters...

The movie Twlight was good but could have been better.    I am wondering if it was the director or screenwriter that didn't bring the movie to its best.  Or maybe there was just too much hype about the movie.   

Anyway, the parts  I really enjoyed was how Edward and Bella met in school, the first kiss, the baseball scene and the fight with Edward and James.  That was really good. 

Scenes I thought either went too fast, left out from the book or just not enough  was Bella's first time in school, when Bella met Edward's family for the first time, the meadow, the story about Carlisle,...

After reading the books and becoming infatuated with the characters in the book I was nervous about watching the movie. I know books are never like the movies and most times fall flat.  Unfortunately Twilight the movie did. I was not happy with most of the people chosen to play the characters. I wouldn't have picked Kristen as Bella. She doesn't look fragile enough, maybe it is because she is new to the hollywood thing but I didn't feel like she connected with the character enough. I could tell she was playing a part, not being the person. Hopefully by the second movie she will have a better way...

If this movie didn't have the book standing behind it, it would have flopped in the box offices with out a doubt.  I hate to write bad reviews but I think that Hardwicke absolutely did not do any justice to the novel and got away like a bandit with the large gross of money from loyal Twilight fans.

I am honestly happy that they have already decided to make the new director that of "The Golden Compass" and "About a Boy" fame, I have yet to be extremely disappointed with any of Wietz work.

But back to Hardwick's interpretation of the novel; Some things she got right - for the most part - she did...

Like most in my age group, I am a huge Harry Potter fan.  So when a good friend of mine told me about the Twilight series, I had to read it.  I enjoyed the book, though not at first.  It took me a while to get past Stephenie Myers' writing style, but I finished the whole series in two weeks' time.  When I heard that a movie was coming out based on the first novel, a month after I'd heard about the books, I was ecstatic.  Something for me to do while I await the next Harry Potter film!

I waited a couple weeks for the fanatic crowd to make their rounds before I went to see the movie.  I don't...

I know books to movies generally have differences so I went into the Twilight movie with low expectations.  After I saw the movie I think I should have set my expectations a little bit lower. 

I loved the books and felt they could have done so much more with this movie.  The acting wasn't wonderful but honestly I think this could have been overlooked if the director and screenwriter would have done a better jobs.  Instead of the screenwriter condensing the book into the movie with logical plot lines she basically just rewrote the story.  She also payed little attention to details which would...