Slightly disappointed..but better than Twilight

Rating: 6/10 (21 November 2009)

I first came across this series when Twilight came into theatres. I went to see the movie and loved it for the most part but the blue tint, poor CGI, and constant eye fluttering/corniness of Kristen Stewart's (Bella) acting drove me nuts.
After I saw the movie I read the books Twilight and New Moon. I was super excited for New Moon to come out last night. The weak areas of Twilight were improved for the most part. No more blue tint, better CGI and less eye fluttering from KStew.
Her acting is better in this movie, but I found that when she was supposed to come across as having a burning hole in her chest it came across more as a mild period cramp. She didn't portray the pain convincingly at all. The depression, spot on.
Rob Pattinson (Edward) overall was good, but there was some underlying nervousness/anxiety that I picked up from his acting in some of his scenes. I know there were spectators for some of the scenes so maybe that's where that came from.
Taylor Lautner (Jacob) and the rest of the cast were perfect.
The added action scenes added a lot to the movie and some tweaks made more sense than the way the book did things but it really annoyed me how much they changed the ending from the book. It's one thing to tweak a little wolf scene, a whole other to mess with Edward/Bella's reunion sequence.
The dialogue was much better than the book. I was surprised at how many times I laughed at the little one liners they threw in there.
The new contacts or overly CGI enhanced contacts were extremely distracting and overpowering.
The scene that bugged me the most was when it showed Alice's flashback. I have no idea what anyone was thinking when they did this scene. Bella and Edward running around in the forest in clothes from the early 1900's? How is that is supposed to depict Bella as a vampire in the future? The slow motion of them running through the forest in those period clothes made everyone burst out laughing in the theatre because of how absurd and retarded it looked.
Overall I will buy the movie when it comes out but there were some obvious amateur mistakes that I wasn't expecting considering the fan base and expected revenue from this movie.