Definitely true to the book, and definitely NOT disappointing

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2009)

Well first I am a huge Twilight fan and needless to say I read all the books and was waiting for that movie for a year. But when I saw all those negative comments I thought OK maybe their expectations were high but so was mine.It's not an easy task to make an adaptation of a book, even a book like this long and complicated to adapt, so yes it was not entirely as good as the book itself, and the scenes were kept short and emotions were just cut out right at the moment when you're going to start to feel something. But it's purely for the reason that it was a book adaptation. I know how long and complicated the book is, and it was much more difficult to put it on the screen compared to Twilight.
Whatever they did, I think they did it, because they didn't wanna missed out a single chapter. And as far as I've noticed, they didn't miss a chapter. Everything was in there and perfectly screened. But because of that reason they had to make short scenes. But whatever the problems I think they did a good job and I generally like the movie.
When it comes to the acting, I think Kristen was on a lot of pressure. It was like she took the whole movie herself. And all those emotional scenes, Ä± think she managed it quite well. Unfornutaley we cannot see a lot of Robert in it but still he was perfect. Taylor was, no words for him. I mean he was Jacob Black! Everything Stephenie wrote in the book about Jacob was there in Taylor. He put so much into this movie and you can clearly see that.
So before making any negative comments I think you should consider the difference between book and its movie version, and most importantly you should look at it from the director's and the whole crew's perspective. Stephenie gave them a new world to play on, but it's not an easy world. You both need to add emotions, action and drama and comedy and fantasy everything was really hard to combine. But overall it's worth watching. And thanks for that cast and crew, they did a really good job...