Well worth the wait!

Rating: 10/10 (22 November 2008)

Here's what I enjoyed the most: 1)the chemistry between Rob & Kristen!!! SO HOT!! 2)THE KISS!!! (and was that an accident Rob hitting the wall? OUCH!) 3)Rosalie's attitude toward Bella was dead on! 4)slowly introducing the "baddies" 5)Dr. McSparkle!! 6)Bella narrating the movie, it made me feel like I was reading it 7)the first Biology scene especially (I liked them all) but with the owl behind Edward making him look like the fallen angel she thinks him as, and Rob did awesome portraying Edward's pain and suffering sitting next to her!! It was like that R.E.M. video...(Losing my religion) 8)Billy Burke did an awesome job portraying Charlie!! 9)Victoria was awesome! I loved at the end how she was at the prom and she was getting worked up watching B&E below dancing in the gazebo outside! She lets her hair down and then it fades to black and white and the credits roll!!! AWESOME!!! Then you hear Linkin Park!! And if you stayed for the credits, you saw the scenes from the movie playing again but in black and white. HOT!!! 10)I thought the makeup was good, could have been better because at times it seemed too caked on. (like on Dr. Cullen in his introductory scene) 11)The contacts were awesome!! I want some red ones! 12)I kinda liked how they went surfing instead of hiking at La Push. Would've liked to have seen the tide pools though... 13)Jessica and Mike was awesome! Angela was cool, I liked how she was chatty and girlie-girl. And I loved her reaction when Bella showed up with Edward at school when they were official! And she and Jessica's reaction in Port Angeles before they got in her car!! Priceless! 14) no Lauren!! 15) "You better hold on tight, Spider Monkey!!" Loved them going up into the trees for an intimate conversation! 16) Stephenie Meyer's little cameo at the diner (behind the Macbook at the bar with the red hair) after Chief Swan and hunting party are searching for the killer in the woods with the search dogs.
And things that left a bad taste in my mouth: 1)Edward sparkling in the sun (not as cool of an effect as I hoped, but it was still okay) It was pretty blurry. 2)the jeep was not like a monster truck size jeep like in the book 3)Bella getting away from Jasper and Alice so easily from the hotel!! 4)Bella's mom was too plain, and the extreme close-ups of her when she's at Bella's hospital bedside made me squirm. 5)I wanted to see them "pet" each other in the meadow like in the book. In the book, he was shirtless and she rubs his arm... 6)the accident scene still irritates me, where was the ice? Why didn't Bella's truck have chains on the tires? What was with Edward jumping over the truck after? I didn't see Bella hit her head!! Edward didn't have to move her legs or anything as it hit a second time-there was no second time. And the accident happened AFTER school in the movie??? It was in the morning in the book!! WTC???!!! 7) Jacob! Taylor Lautner and that wig-- yuck!! 8)no "ladies choice" dance, it was all about Prom! -speaking of which, what was with Angela and Eric doing together? Where was Ben??!!! 9)the field trip to the greenhouse, stupid!! Eric being amazed at an earthworm, incredibly stupid!! 10)the way Bella ditched school and went walking into the woods, and then Edward followed her. ??? He was always so concerned about being seen with her and then in the forest after she says "vampire", he whisks her up the mountain above the cloud bank?? And that's where they revealed their feelings?? (instead of the meadow scene in the book) At least the scene against the huge boulder was HOT!! 11)Emmett was too "homeboyish" for me. 12) Why didn't Edward smell Victoria at the Prom?? Where were the rest of the Cullens at the Prom?? 13) What was that Prom getup?? Bella looked dressed for a semi at best, but not a Prom!! Leggings and a sneaker?? yuck! What happened to Alice getting her ready and the six-inch heel she wore on her good foot in the book!
I thought Rob and Kristen's acting was superb! They really captured the anguish, pain, suffering, and all the oh so many emotions of their characters. I loved Rob's faces, I thought he portrayed Edward's suffering in biology perfectly! I felt Edward's excitement and his need, and even desire for Bella's blood when he was sucking her "clean" blood. You could see what it truly did to him, "sing" to him and the pain he went through as he had to realize that he had to stop before he would accidentally kill her.
Overall I thought the movie was awesome!! I can't wait to see it again and again this weekend!! I knew it was going to be different from the book, so I went in knowing that, so I am pretty stoked!! If it was going to be EXACTLY like the book, it would have been a MUCH LONGER movie.
With the big announcement this afternoon that they will be making "New Moon", I am looking forward to the future of this franchise!