Growing on me...

Rating: Null/10 (22 March 2009)

I first saw Twilight on opening night in Calgary while visiting a like minded fan of Vampire movies. (The giggling teens almost ruined it right off the get go, laughing like morons in all the wrong places..) I knew the hype was bigger than what could possibly be delivered. That being said, hyper-hype and a popular book is often the giant blur between a great book and of personal experience and the pictures we form in our minds (and huge marketing). Although I enjoyed the movie, it was also not what I had visually imagined or immersed myself so voraciously with the characters while reading. Some of the acting was quite stiff. Bella is supposed to be shy and introverted, and whether by design or of her skills or not, she brings an element of perpetual awkwardness. Edward is not disappointing, smoldering where necessary, hot. Alice is not what I pictured but passable and cuter the more i watch. Jasper looks like he had his eyelids plastered open in a bad acting shell-shocked zombieness. Carlisle looks too cliché; he should not be that blonde nor that cakey pasty made-up. Jake - um sorry, No. I hope he proves his detractors wrong in New Moon. Stephanie Meyer portrays Victoria in the book as having very red flaming hair, not strawberry. - If I sound too critical it is because I expect adapted screen plays to be 100% true to the novel in how the characters are conveyed. There can be a bit of room to widdle, waggel and fiddle, but the heroes... to the VERY rabid fans,I hope the sequels hold more true to the readers love of the characters who they know intimately and whom we expect to properly be given their personal justice on a deep level that transcends any shallow attempt to cut corners... We want it raw, deep and real, riveted to our fascination of Vampires.. with heart, romance and of tortured souls.