Are You Kidding Me.....

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2008)

Being a huge fan of the Twilight series from the beginning, I am more then perturbed by the movie attempt. It was, for lack of a better word incomprehensible. So many little minute details were left out that were so much a part of the story line and that is a HUGE disappointment to watch. I can understand that it is not always easy to incorporate every detail from a book to a movie but the little deviations stole from the story.
I have always pictured Bella as a shy, sweet girl with a naive air to her and this was not portrayed in the movie. I did not find the Bella in the movie to have even a remote resemblance in personality to the Bella (that I know and love) in the book. I feel the movie was based too loosely on the book and anyone who did not first read the story would not understand some of the feeble attempts that were portrayed (the lullaby for example) in the movie. If you had not read, the book you would not understand that Edward actually wrote that Lullaby for Bella it would just appear that he was playing a song on the piano for her. How about the Sadie Hawkins Dance that was cut entirely and while it would seem not a big deal that is what leads up to the revealing of Edward in the sunlight. Or when he stopped the van Edward runs away when he was supposed to stay with her and have that little conversation about how he had gotten there so fast and the stopping of the van with his hand. I was extremely excited for this movie considering that I have read this series about a dozen times but what a let down and a disappointment it turned out to be. It makes me cringe to think what New Moon is going to be like. In a story such as this, you really have to stick to the actual book as much as possible to get your viewers to see and understand the characters their flaws and the underlying hesitation, danger and love that encircles them all.