Good----but different

Rating: 7/10 (25 December 2008)

I absolutely LOVE the twilight books. That being said I felt that the movie wasn't as good as it should have been. I think that the casting was excellent although I wasn't expecting the small town of Forks to have THAT much diversity. However I felt that the movie was missing the magic that the books had. In the books you could really feel the love between Bella and Edward; however I felt that the movie didn't portray the falling in love part of the story that, to me, was most compelling about the books. It seemed that the movie hit all the high points of the book without going into any of the details, which made the storyline harder to follow and kind of dull. The movie definitely did not have the same intensity as the books and therefore left me feeling empty. For Twilight being my favorite in the series, I was disappointed because I was expecting something much better--- however overall it was still pretty good for the resources they had. I cannot wait for New Moon to come out and for the movie to have a bigger budget where they can really build the storyline.