high expectations shattered

Rating: 7/10 (30 December 2008)

I was so excited when I discovered they were going to turn the book Twilight into a movie. The books were amazing apart from breaking dawn, which for me was awful. That aside, I was really looking forward to seeing Twilight on the big screen. I had so much hope because in most of the interviews I had seen, Catherine Hardwick made the movie look so spectacular that even non twilight fans wouldn't say no to this movie.
When I had been to the cinemas to watch it I was left devastated that I had waited more than a year to see this overrated film. It wasn't a patch on the book and definitely didn't meet my high expectations. The only thing I loved about the movie was Robert Pattinson who was practically a newcomer to the big screen but was actually a pretty good actor. He almost made me cry in some scenes, he was that believable. Apart from the ending of the movie Kristen Stewart really lacked in emotion, for most of the movie she just looked like she was completely bored and that this was a complete waste of her time. As for everyone else, you couldn't really get into their characters due to their lack of screen time. I couldn't believe this was a 2hr film. Half of the scenes were missing from the book, which were replaced with really short scenes like when Edward was explaining to Bella how humans become vampires. Suddenly they were wet and the next they were dry and in a different location wearing different clothes, it didn't make any sense at all, considering they were discussing the same subject in both scenes. Also some of the scenes they actually spoke in didn't have audio, they didn't even bother to let the audience hear their conversations, like when they were on Bella's bed and when they were up in the tree. That annoyed me because we want to hear what their saying, even if it is cheesy, its supposed to be a romantic story therefore we, the audience want to hear everything. What happened with the flashbacks, these were really poor and again really short.Also where was the airport scene? Catherine Hardwick mentioned this in an interview, she said, wouldn't it be good could if we could see this on the big screen because this wasn't in the book.
I thought the script was poorly written; there wasn't much hunting scenes going on, or James chasing Bella at night, or everybody running about scared wittless. You didn't fear for Bella's life once. Maybe the writers need to raise the action in the second movie and get everyone on the edge of their seats, hiding behind the sofa, whatever!!! Just give the audience this time, big expectations and meet them. There was so much hype about the movie, but frankly it just didn't deliver, it was just too slow, not enough drama and very small scenes, which ended right in the middle of a conversation for example the restaurant scene., and did anyone notice that Edward didn't even mention to Bella that the song he was playing on the piano was Bella's lullaby, it was made for her but, for anyone who had not read the books wouldn't know this. This movie made me laugh most of the time instead of being afraid for Edwards and Bella's life and taking their predicament seriously. All that summit need to do now is fire the writer and follow the new director around with a big cattle prod in the hope that he can rescue this great book series and save us all from a devastatingly bad sequel