Room for improvement

Rating: 5/10 (3 February 2009)

With this movie I made a point not to read the book. Learned long ago that the movies are never as good as the book. Will only come away disappointed.
Son(14) read all 4 within 2 weeks. Said they were pretty good but mushy. He liked cause had about vampires and werewolves. Daughter(12) got interested when most everyone at school was reading Twilight. Asked her brother about it and he told her would just have to read it...hehehe
Shortly after her begging to see the movie began.
Must admit I was looking forward to watching it also. Was one of the rare occasions both our children had read the same novel and agreed on seeing the movie.
She and I stood in line for over an hour to get tickets. All of us walked away disappointed.
Them because in their words it wasn't as good as expected. Movie was built up to be way more than it was. I was disappointed because of the bad make-up, choppy scenes,and production. The scene with Edward in the trees, just so bad kept expecting to see the wires. And the fight scene at the end, who ever did it needs to learn CGI cause they obviously don't know. Definitely looked low budget cheap.
Not having read the book to compare the movie too was the best otherwise would have been as let down as both our children.