It captured the essence of Eclipse and I really enjoyed it

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2010)

I was looking forward to watch this movie so badly, since Eclipse is my favorite book. After my high expectations and all the bad reviews I read here, I can still safely say that I really enjoyed to movie. I completely understand that if you haven't read the books you don't get why all these typical teenage girl emotions are still in this movie. After seeing a glimpse of the rivalry between Jacob and Edward in New Moon it might look like dragging the whole drama further out into the third movie. Which should probably contain more other issues as well, since it's a new movie. Stil... if you have actually read the books you know that teenage girl drama is mainly what the books really are. The books are about these difficult choices Bella has to make and are about the romance between her and Edward and the confused feelings she has for Jacob. I read the books. I knew what to expect. Loved the story, because I am one of those girls who can't get enough of soppy romance. I actually thought they did a great job capturing the essence of Eclipse. They put all the most important things in there, plus they explained a lot of things that may not have been that clear in the first 2 movies. They also made it more like the book by putting more jokes in it. I find the Twilight saga quite funny, though the first 2 movies mainly focused on the drama aspect. Loved Robert's acting. He really is the only one to play Edward this convincingly. Even though I am mainly positive about the movie, I do have some things I didn't like. Michelle was 100 times better as the evil Victoria. Kristin plays a bit too vanilla-like to capture the essence of the spunky Bella... and I hated the make-up/animation they used on the vampires. Edward's sideburns were ugly and unnecessary. The eyes were too light; The contacts they wore in the first 2 movies were a lot better. Plus the way the vampires just broke like stones when they were killed in battle was laughable. Even though they feel like cold stone, they're not supposed to look like that.
And chill everybody :) it's just a movie. Read the books, love them, then watch the movie again. It's really not that bad figuring that they put +500 pages in a 2hour movie.