The Book Was better .... The Film was Choppy....

Rating: 2/10 (9 December 2009)

Just a quick thought look at the screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. Her history of scripts are all TELEVISION SERIES! To me this makes sense why the script is so bland. It does feel like either a bad teenage television series and the dialog writing seems to be for soap operas. I would truly love to read these scripts. A lot of people feel that Stewart and Pattinson were the only bad actors and that everyone else was fine? I think you should see the movie again to see that nearly every character's acting were dry, stiff, staged and felt like you were watching a very bad soap opera. Could it be the Writing, Directing, Acting or a little bit of all three combined?
Unfortunately I was one of the many looking forward to seeing this Novel transcend to a film. I remember while I was reading the book saying to myself "oh wow I can't wait until they show this on Film. I think they can cut out a lot of the redundant scenes in order to make a seamless 2hr film." Well I was wrong. The Book was by far better than this film.
The half of the film was decent in order of taking scene by scene from the book but the film truly went down hill once Bella finds out that Jacob is a wolf.
From that point the acting went dry, the film was rushed and all of the great scenes in the novel especially the ones that I was truly looking forward to see in the film were GONE.
To the viewers that haven't read the book and just jumped into the film I can understand why they would truly hate this movie. It makes no sense and you can careless as to why certain things are happening.
The whole entire sequence about Edward trying to die in Italy was very weak. All it was was a rushed sequence just slapped in there because it was written in the book. The acting was dry and typical for "Vampire Dialogue" I remember hearing Dakota Fanning say how Bella is for dessert. Aside from the red contacts, the Volturi were staged, written very poorly.
I definitely would recommend reading the books and if you are a fan of the saga sure see the film, buy the Bluray, DVD, Ipod video etc... But other than that, don't waste your time on this film. There are by far better movies out there.
Just a general thought: Where is the world headed with the young Teenage viewers? What are people doing to these kids? Look at the CW for instance....