It needs to be saved...

Rating: 5/10 (11 December 2008)

Perhaps one day someone will say, this will be a good movie to remake, and invest the time and patience towards really making the story what it should have been. I wasn't expecting a great deal from it, but I was not expecting it to flop entirely. The only reason it made the money it did is because of the original fans who attended, including whoever they dragged to the theater along with them. The story is amazing but the movie absolutely dreadful. I agree with everyone absolutely, Robert Pattison cannot act, and maybe it's a good thing New Moon only has him at the beginning and the end, so maybe within that time he can perhaps invest his time into acting lessons. I do not mean offense, but he won't be able to survive solely on looking the part, he must act the part as well. I had seen him in interviews where aside of not knowing what words to choose for his answers, he's actually quite charismatic and that's what he missed to add to his role as Edward. In my opinion they should have read the books before filming the movie. It should have been criteria in order to get the part. They would have perhaps put more emotion into the characters with knowing everything we knew about who they are. I always imagined Bella free spirited, imaginative and stunning not in the way of appearance but in the way of her individuality. I even pictured Stephenie Meyer herself as Bella from time to time, I feel like she was writing about herself especially at the end of the fourth novel and she definitely put a lot of love into creating the character. Kristen should have gotten to know Stephenie a little more, and then maybe she would have done a better job at playing the role. Everyone seemed to been guesstimating at what they should have been acting like, but as a result you get something that is unfinished and forced, and no eye candy can ever fix that. I'm not the appropriate target audience for the movie, but neither am I for Harry Potter and those have always been nicely developed. I'm glad they will be looking for a new Director; this movie needs new direction and a different screenplay writer, and especially new editors. I pray they learn from their mistakes and deliver us something promising with New Moon. The story is just far too good to be destroyed on the positive note, one thing I did like about this movie is Dr. Cullen, Esme, Rosalie, Alice and Jasper. The guy who played Emmett didn't do too badly either. They should have had more of Alice however, she is the fourth most important character in the novel and it was disappointing to see her for only a minute here and a minute there. Stephenie should have the authority to approve the screenplays before she allows any more monstrosities to be filmed  if we only lived an ideal world