Decent! =)

Rating: 7/10 (22 November 2008)

I have read all 4 of the books and LOVED them. I think Catherine did an okay job as a director, but I'd rather have someone a little more...experienced? I'm not sure. I don't know if I care for her style much.
Edward= He is delicious. His facial expressions when he met Bella for the first time were odd, but then he got into it and was great.
Bella= pretty good...she has an annoying eyebrow and I can't figure out if it was her doing that on purpose or if she just got a bad wax. She grew on me quite a bit, actually, toward the end. I still don't think that any female is going to care for her character much based on the fact that she gets to swap spit with Edward.
Overall= Some acting was a biiiit woody here and there (Tyler. Poor poor Tyler. It's called acting, buddy. I think I could have done better than you),some of the effects were massively cheesy (see the running. *headshake* Come on, guys. You had a decent budget.), there were a few cut scenes that were weird (Olde-tyme Bella laying out on a couch with Olde-tyme Edward biting her neck in SEPIA?!? WTF?), and I wish the other characters (Alice, Jasper, Emmett) got more speaking time. But I came out with a BIG smile and the need to see it over and over again, and the thought of going however many months without it being on DVD makes me a little sad.
Oh, but on a kind of negative note--I hate when people whine about when a movie's not exactly like the book. Oh, granted, there were a few things where i was like "What?! That doesn't happen here!! This doesn't even happen!!", but I'm gonna go with at least 95% of it was in the book, and the 5% that wasn't in it, probably didn't NEED to be in there, but it was fine; it made sense and it kept the story progressing. And of course the characters aren't going to look exactly how they do in your head--but I'm sure that Stephanie Meyer probably got pretty decent influence on the casting and maybe the script? I read that she was happy with how it turned out--I do feel bad that some people were upset with it. That sucks; I went in with a "hopefully it'll be awesome but if it's not...well...the books are still good." thought process.
I think people get too sucked into the thought that it's a "BOOK TURNED INTO A MOVIE" thing. But I totally understand when you get kind of disappointed in a movie because it's not how you thought it would be--but there's no need to be cruel or anything about it. I wasn't fond of the few things I noted above, and Jasper's facial expressions were HILARIOUS when they probably shouldn't have been, and when Edward first saw Bella was proooobably the weirdest look I've seen in a while on screen, but if you just watch the movie and don't focus on the book connection, it's definitely worthwhile.