Some of it was REALLY good.....some of it was REALLY bad.

Rating: 2/10 (20 December 2008)

Parts of this movie are perfect - like the end when they're at the prom and Edward says to Bella, "See? You're dancing." The way Edward looks at Bella is perfect - he looks at her with love shining in his eyes and gives her such an adoring smile, you don't doubt his infatuation for a second.
But other parts were AWFUL. The ballet studio scene was terrible - nothing like in the book! It infuriated me the way they changed it. When James was about to bite her, Edward was just chilling on the window sill! Edward Cullen - the book version - was unstoppable in the ballet studio! Also, he's supposed to be in complete agony when he sees Bella laying on the floor, bleeding, and almost insane with rage when he finds out James bit her. In the movie, he was very calm kneeling beside the love of his life as she bled and screamed out in pain, very un-Edward-like.
The beginning of the movie was good, the ending was good, but the middle was a mess; the cinematography was everywhere, and the dialog was awful.
Really, they need a new screenwriter for New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. Melissa Rosenberg butchered the dialog. The conversations and one-liners that were so sweet or funny in the book came out cheesy and lame in the movie. The lion-lamb line was delivered all wrong.
They left out a lot of really important scenes, too - in the book, it's the little things Edward does with Bella that makes their love story so special. Like (in the book) when he touches her cheek before she goes into gym - that shows his love WAY more than that little make-out session in the movie. They took all the little parts from the book like that and squished it into that minute of making out in her room. Which sucked.
It was very disappointing that they left out the biology scene, where Bella almost faints at the sight of blood and Edward carries her to the nurse's office. That was one of my favorite parts in the book. It was so funny! I loved it in the book when he was like "What do you think you're doing? Didn't you hear me tell the nurse that I'm driving you home?" I don't remember the exact quote, but that was adorable and funny, and they just left it out of the movie.
Also, the meadow scene was SO AWFUL. I WAS APPALLED DURING THAT. It was all wrong! They left out him listening to her heart beat! I was shocked when he grabbed her arm and dragged her up the freaking hill - he would never hurt her! They left out the little conversations that really made me adore the book. Like when he's asking her all those questions ("What...is your favorite color?") - it shows how intrigued he is by her. In the movie, you only see their relationship through everyone else's eyes - not *theirs*.
And they never once say "I love you." Also, the movie doesn't show how long Edward didn't speak to Bella at first. It was over a month before he finally said, "Hello, I'm Edward Cullen." That was because he wanted to know why she said no to Mike about the girl's choice dance. It *was* adorable, though, in the movie when Edward smiled at Bella and said "Hello" for the first time.
Averaged out, the movie was okay. It wasn't nearly as good as the book. It's a real pity they didn't have a better director and screenwriter; the cast was perfect, but Catherine Hardwicke and Melissa Rosenberg butchered the beautiful love story. That could have been an epic romance movie if they'd had a good director and screenwriter. I'm giving it a higher rating because of the acting - the acting was so good. Robert Pattinson was fabulous.