Horrible movie

Rating: 1/10 (10 February 2009)

This movie was horrible, I loved the series and thats saying much since I'm not into fantasy novels at all. But I'm glad i finished the books before i saw this movie. It was ridiculous, First of all physically, I think the casting was bad. Shame on you Meyers and whoever the casting director was. The only thing that would have helped it was if the actors PROVED that they should be playing their respective roles-which they didn't:
Kristen playing Bella was a joke, I think someone else said she was so independent that they wondered if and why she needed to be with Edward? I totally agreed. Stewart brought a stoic performance to a character that was anything but that, in my mind anyway, From the book, you got the sense that Bella was physically weak yet gained strength from her passionate and headstrong side. I saw her as being more feminine and delicate in her demeanor-not rough and indifferent- it was like huh? how is she Bella?
Robert playing Edward was also a joke, just because they put white makeup on you does not mean that it makes you Edward. A lot of the lines he didn't deliver as convincing as he should have, whether it was a misunderstanding or whatever he just did not pick up on the sarcasm that was there or at least what i read to be sarcasm, I mean this guy was suppose to be charming to every girl and yet he just stood there in every frame most of the time looking constipated. Bottom-line: I'm tired of hearing that Kristen and Robert and SO MUCH chemistry. No they didn't! does "The Notebook" ring a bell? That movie HAD chemistry between the two leading actors. I'm tired of people saying that these were breakout performances by the two when they were mediocre at best. It makes me mad that there are actually convincing actors out here that are doing silly teeny-boppers shows while these two and the likes of Zac Efron are getting all the major roles. HUH? I didn't see or hear most of the supporting cast like the rest of the Cullen-Hale clan to put my two cents in about their performance I guess I will be looking for that in New Moon (unfortunately)
the h.s. kids, irked me, the WHOLE h.s. setting irked me, Bella went to a small school with different little houses being the classroom where did you get the Chinese and the black guy from? I thought forks was a small town in Washington? when did they go on a field trip? did i miss that in the book?
**I think that people who are reading the reviews especially the negative ones should do so with a grain of salt. After reading a lot of them, I realized that many of them either have not read the book or saw the movie knowing that they do not like the book. I don't think it is wise to judge from them how terrible the movie was. Instead, the reader should read the reviews of people like me, who have read all the books: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn ( and the few chapters leaked of Midnight Sun) that has a background, and above average understanding of the characters and their interrelationship and still think that this movie was g0d awful.
Physical performance aside the movie was very choppy and shot in this weird ominous light that annoyed me if you didn't read the book you would not know what was going on because the small important parts that were linked to the major ones were cut out or devalued to the point where you wondered why did they bothered to show it. The great thing about Twilight was that Stephanie Meyers took a person not in tune or interested in books about vampires and made me-in this series anyway but its almost like the director overlooked the good and captivating writing and made the movie the way she felt it SHOULD look not keeping Meyers vision in mind. if this was Meyers vision all along then i must be that stupid because i don't see it. Hopefully, director Chris Weitz could revive some of the magic back into this comatose series.