When will they realize they just shouldn't bother?

Rating: 3/10 (30 June 2010)

After being obligated to see Eclipse with my friends for a birthday party, I sat down thinking it won't be so bad. There will be hot guys at the very least, so I can survive. It took me only ten minutes to discover that this is yet another cheesy movie with bad acting and bad storytelling--which distracted me from the eye candy that sells so many tickets. There were so many cringe-worthy moments, from the first scene in the meadow to the proposal scene to the goodbye between Jacob and Bella at the very end. The supposed "love triangle" did not have me on the edge of my seat. The characters remained as self-loathing as ever. I started thinking, "why do these Twilight movies suck so badly?" And then I realized, it's not the fault of the actors, directors, and writers for the movies. They aren't the root of the matter.
It's impossible to translate Stephenie Meyer's books into movies without making them slow, uneventful, lacking chemistry, and full of bad dialogue. There is no mystery as to why these adaptations end up this way--it's because the books are that way. The books are slow and lack an involving plot, and so the movies reflect these characteristics. I could go on and on about the flaws of the Twilight series, but this is the most simple explanation.
And from these preliminary ratings averaging less than 4 stars now, it seems to me that satisfaction with the movies are going to go down further and further as the movies go on. There are apparently two to go. I hesitate to wonder what ways they could possibly flesh out a nonexistent plot and develop unsavory and boring characters. This left me with the conclusion that if they want to save this franchise, stop trying to make the movies interesting, because they aren't. In fact, just don't make the movies at all and do the film industry a big favor.
Three out of ten. (It would be lower if vampires weren't beheaded.)