A Twilight Movie Review

Okay seriously, I’ve been trying not to do this but here I am, doing it.

I’m writing my review of the Twilight movie.

As a fairly die hard Twilight fan, I went into the movie having decently high expectations. No movie made from a book is going to be just as amazing as the book, we all know that but still as a fan I did have some slightly high hopes.

And let me tell you, they were dashed. I saw the movie twice. The first time I went in as a Twilight fan, watching the movie with excitement because of the book. The second time I tried a different route and watched the movie trying to come from my usual perspective, the movie-whore girl who goes and sees almost every movie.

Now the first viewing (as a fan) I was okay with the movie. Sure I thought the girl who played Bella (Kristen Stewart) couldn’t really act, and that Edward (Robert Pattinson) needed his eyebrows plucked, for serious they looked like two dark fuzzy caterpillars had made a home on his forehead, but you could get past that and enjoy the movie as a version of the book. Because let’s face it Alice was depicted perfectly, as was Emmet and Carlisle. I felt Esme needed a bigger part then the like 7 lines she was given, Rosalie could’ve been prettier, Jasper’s stare was super sketchy, and Jacob’s hair was too long but other than that it was okay, from a fan’s view.

Here’s where things changed, my second viewing.

This viewing (as a movie-whore who goes and sees almost everything) the movie flat out sucked.

You couldn’t understand the awkwardness between Bella and Edward at all. They didn’t explain the eye color changing enough so if you didn’t already know that made absolutely no sense.

But they thing that really did the plot in was the fact that they cut out every scene in the book where Edward and Bella really bonded and condensed it into one dinky scene that barely expressed it. Because of that fact you couldn’t understand how the relationship switched between the two from “I almost but not quite hate you” to “I love you unconditionally and would die for you and/or damn myself eternally to be with you.” The bond between the two characters isn’t developed enough it doesn’t come off as the amazing “meant to be” relationship it is in the book and instead just comes off as a unoriginal high school romance with a vampire twist.

Also, kind of pertaining to that they didn’t go into why Bella’s smell affected Edward so much enough. Because a girl was in the theater that hadn’t read the books and kept asking “I don’t get it, why does she bother him that much?” Proving that they needed to improve that area, A LOT.

Then of course there’s Kristen Stewart’s acting problem. It’s not really a problem as much as it is her just failing at it. I’ve seen her in other movies and though she never astounded me I had never before thought she stunk this bad, but she did. It got to the point where my super serious theater kid friend turned to me and whispered “She’s done almost everything my theater teacher told my class never to do. In fact, Ms. Jayann (her theater teacher) could just show this movie on what not to do instead of telling us.” And if someone who’s taken theater-acting lessons for most of her life and has been the star role in almost every performance she’s tried out for says that. I think she knows what she’s talking about on some level.

I also felt that way about Kristen Stewart’s acting, as a movie-whore and as some one who does stage crew almost religiously I can spot bad acting when I see it, I might not know exactly what they’re doing wrong or how to fix it, but I know it’s bad. And Kristen Stewart? She was bad.

One last point though. Anyone else notice that Billy Black (THE MAN WHO CAN”T WALK AND NEEDS A WHEEL CHAIR) was driving in that one over dramatic scene where Edward’s car passes his? Okay in the book it is said he has no use of his feet and Jacob drive him around, but Jacob is underage so no Hollywood movie can promote a kid driving without a license but then shouldn’t they have just cut out the fact that he needed a wheel chair? Especially since after he parked the car Jacob had to come around and carry him and place him into the wheel chair. I mean come on that was a major flaw. Having the guy who couldn’t use his legs drive.

 I know that Billy could have gotten a car specially modified so he could drive but still, he gave Bella the truck because he couldnt drive it anymore so him driving still doesn't make any sense. since it would've been cheaper to modify that truck than buy a whole new car with the modifications.