a disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (30 June 2010)

I am not a typical Twilight fan.... I'm not in the age group, I'm not the right gender, but I love film and shockingly thought that the original Twilight was, well, great.
TOT (the original Twilight) directed by Catherine Hardwicke was full of subtlety, inspirirng cinematography, the unwinding of the mystery of the Cullens and how the introduction of Bella into that world and in reality opening her eyes to the entire world. TOT branded the story as being smoky, mysterious, and filled with connections for anybody who watched it.
Then they got rid of Hardwicke.... and now that Eclipse and New Moon are out, it's clear that the creative identity of the films IS, without a doubt, her.
Eclipse takes the premise of a vampire skirmish and stretches that alone to a 2hr 4min stretch of poorly directed intimacies, snappy one liners, and.... well I just saw the movie and I don't remember anything else other than the anticlimatically filmed primary scene of the movie which I won't identify here to save people the serious spoiler.
You should wait for DVD so you can have something else to do while you are watching, because this poorly directed and written portion of the story is insulting to TOT.
I don't know why Hardwicke isn't directing these, but it will go down as the stupidest creative decision of this decade in film for sure. I'd be willing to bet that some egotistical moron at Summit was thinking greedy and that Hardwicke wasn't gonna be able to helm something with so much more money riding on it.... insert headslap here.
very very disappointing... I really want there to be another installment of the series that measures up to TOT, here's to hoping that happens.