OK – I read the books I admit, like most vampire books that appear out of nowhere and get noticed. This is a GREAT books series. Is it a great movie series? Only time will tell. This was a fair adaptiton of the book, but on its own the movie is great. It’s hard to separate the movie from the book, but I’m really trying to do that here so let me get the comparisons out of the way:
First of all – the choice of characters was AWESOME – great cating – Kristen Stewart is great as Bella (the pretty girl who doesn’t even have a clue how beautiful she is) and the ever awesome Robert Pattinson (you will know him as Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter movies) was awesome.
The book was great because of the character development and maybe that is where the movie falls a little short – that and the scene where Edward Cullen (Pattinson) shows himself in the sunlight – no big deal in the movie, but in the book it describes it as the sunlight practically bouncing off of him (that was the ONLY disappointing scene in the movie for me).
As I said I would rate this movie based on the movie alone, not the book (go get them if you haven’t – like I said – WONDERFUL). The movie moved with some grace and like the books seemed to bumble along a little bit incoherently (the later books and probably the movies will get better at this), but the FEELING was there. By the end of the movie you CARE about the characters and want to see more.
I’ve watched this movie twice (maybe three timees). It is a nice movie, not a great movie, but you feel as if it is building toward a great movie. The books are something special (like Harry Potter) and writing aside are some of the best character development novels around. The movies are too.
You’ll like the movie better and understand more if you read the book first, but that in no way should inhibit you from enjoying some really great acting (and overacting perhaps). One of the things I love about this series is the way they handle vampires, the myths etc. Really unique.
See this film.
Some will rate it a 5 out of 5 stars – I’ll give it 4 and a half – with expectations of 5 stars on the next film (which is in production according to IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1099212/.
Just some info from IMDB:
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn’t expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she’s ever met. He’s nothing like anyone she’s ever met, period. He’s intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance – unorthodox because Edward really isn’t like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. That’s right – vampire. But he doesn’t have fangs – that’s just in the movies. And he doesn’t drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair – between vampire and mortal.
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