This film is worth the money spent but ...

Rating: 5/10 (26 April 2010)

I'd put 5 out of 10. I liked it after re-watching and re-reading. In the movie theater I thought that I missed my time and come to the different movie.
First, I liked Twilight a lot. I haven't read any of the Twilight books before watching. My sister drag me to the sofa and made me watch it. I recognized Robert Pattinson, of course, I'm a Harry Potter fan, too. And he made such a great Cedric.
Well, sometime after watching I read the whole set of Twilight books, including the Midnight Sun.
But it's not why I like the Twilight. It's the atmosphere. The film is so close to the spirit of the book. The spirit of the unreality of the woods and everything.
Unlike the New Moon. New Moon looks like any other action movie, and feels the same. I don't know may be I looked for the same atmosphere as in the Twilight. But I know that I'm wrong here. Just as the books, the movies SHOULD be different. All in all they're about different things.
But more about details. Firstly, I thought that Robert had ruined Edward's part, but then I re-read the book. Actually, I can say that I like his Edward more than the one in the book. The one in the book I don't like. And here I really should mention that his make-up was horrible. Yes, Edward was pale, yes, Rob has really bushy brows, but too much of the white and that horrible lipstick, and those bushy brows. They definitely didn't do him any good speaking of the Edward's unnatural beauty. Though he did look unnatural :) And the hair. I clearly remember that in the book it was mentioned that the hair was the most alive part of Edward, so why his hear looks like a really battered wig? Well, just like the hair of rest of the cast.
But anyway. The wolves are GREAT. And I mean both visual effects and actors. I really enjoyed that part of the film.
And Jacob, yes, that was surely something. All the way down to the end. Taylor Lautner is great in this role. Though I absolutely agree with one of the comments that he surely knows that he looks great without T-shirt :) But still his acting was also interesting.
As to the Bella, even in Twilight I thought that there's something wrong with her. And it's not because of Kristen Stewart, Bella in the books IS strange. The only thing in Kristen as Bella that I thought wrong is non-clumsiness. Though she tripped sometimes it looked just like any other well-coordinated person may from time to time do, but not like the world's clumsiest person, as Bella was.
And the score. Please, please, return to Carter Burwell. That was so much like it should be. I agree that Alexandre Desplat did a great job, but it sounds like nothing compared to the Twilight score. Though I really like soundtracks. Some of them fit really nicely.
All in all, it's a mystery for me: why now I like both movies? And I really look for the third one.