Twilight... A Major Disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2011)

Let's be completely honest here, the movie was completely awful. I went into the theater expecting to see a captivating story with lovable characters in which you wanted to learn more about. Instead I was greeted with the horrible attempt at an American accent from Robert Pattinson, the dead and emotionless Kristen Stewart, and a horrible take on the actual story line. Unfortunately these were not the only disappointments I faced in this viewing. The cinematography was less than acceptable. The book made a huge point about Edward stepping into the light. He shimmered and sparkled as the light bounced off his dead, cold skin. Yet in the movie NONE of this happened. He stepped into the light and "BAM" disappointment. He barely even glowed. Now if we can create movies were there are blue people and wild animals, or where people are able to water bend, I'm pretty sure that they can make a guy sparkle.
In my opinion, the acting was, well in a better way of putting it, on a scale from 0-10 (10 being the best) the acting of the crew in general was a 0. Now who should we blame for this? The casting director, the director, screenwriter? I believe that they all are at fault in a sense. From picking a British actor who had never used an American accent before to play a boy who had lived in Forks, for who knows how long, to picking a leading actress who's acting was as dead as her figurative boyfriend. I've seen better actors in the drama department at my dinky barely 1,000 student school. She had no emotion, and kept the same monotone voice throughout the entire movie. In the book it was obvious that even though she kept to herself an awful lot, she was an extremely emotional human. Even at the most intense scenes, such as finding out your boyfriend is a vampire, or meeting the blood sucking family, she didn't even show signs of fear, worry, excitement, nothing. Her face was as vacant as her mind.
My next point, this film has made roughly around $367,160,734. Yet, they wouldn't spend enough money to hide the wires that were used in order to make the characters "fly". And seriously guys? These vampires are supposed to be un-humanly fast, and I swear the speed that they made the go in the movie was slower than an all-star track racer, my grandmother could have moved faster.
In general, I went into this movie with decently low expectations, as I usually do when seeing a movie after reading the books, but I was shocked at the amount of disappointment I felt when leaving the theater. I feel as if it wasn't even worth my time.