i hate to make this my first post, but im obliged to.
before i start reviewing the movie, i intend to mention how i got the hang of reading the 'twilight' saga.
my friend, franz, an avid reader of everything that involves love, boys, and kissing, has been jumpy about the said book, 'twilight'. sure i heard some of her other girl friends mention about the book and how amazing and appealling the characters are. i was a bit curious, to be honest. but since im not the type who gets easily caught up by the fad, i let it pass... up until boredome hit me. well.. excuse me for having a not-so-exciting-life. im too normal, yes. anyway, so that started it. it marked the beginning of me idolizing edward. him and his over protective and i-want-to-love-you-bella-forever ways just makes me wish... how unfortunate of me. ha ha
i hesistated when i open the first page, i had that feeling that this book is going to be dull. actually it turned out to be...not so dull. ha! so much for 'dont judge the book by its cover'. i have to admit it was a little girly, too girly in fact. Bella, the heroine in the story, describes her day in details-- boy am i glad i got over it-- when i mean details i mean DETAILS. later i concluded that it was stephanie meyers approach to illustrate the scene, those kind of stuffs. but what really got me hooked is EDWARD. and some of jacob.
oopz. i went a little overboard about the book. so about the movie...
god! was it dreadful. aweful. down right disappointing.
i was too excited to see the movie because everybody was again, jumpy about the movie. to quote a friend, "its the best movie ever". crap to typical a comment but hey it convinced me. shoot im easily swayed. im disappointed of myself too. sigh. i guess i cant rely on my movie sources from now on. double sigh.
moving on, it was nothing like what the book intends it to be. it was too movie-ish. im sorta empathizing stephanie meyer's feelings when she saw the movie. horrible. Bella's character was not bella anymore, the perceptive and great-emotion-hider was morphed into a stupid, unsure and over dependent monster. and edward, oh my #%#$%, i cant even write anymore because im too mad! mad i tell you. breathe. the edward, movie version, is awkard. awkard edward. carlisle, the godlike and authoritative person was now just dr. fang. esme, the sweetest mother figure was now just some character. alice, the perky and friendly and lovable and kind and everything nice was just a girl friend. rosalie, the quiet and self preserved was now a bitch. emmett, the always laughing and a little goofy emmett was now just macho emmett with a baseball cap. lol
painful.
lets not go into the make up details, oh let us. the vampires faces where whiter than there other parts of their bodies and it looked as though they dumped their faces in a bowl filled with powder with out even double checking if it was evenly toned. and who could forget the lipstick, for crying out loud its called lipstick because its suppose to be applied on the lips not on the outside. otherwise it would be called outside-of-the-lip-stick.
not to mention the way the movie was directed. was the director chosen thru draw by lot? did she even go to directing school or the like? guess not. the fighting scene was cut short, the whole drama in the 'meadow', did edward really have to climb that tree and have bella reach for him, i mean whats the point? and their fighting stance, were they having arthritis or something? more sighs.
am i being too cruel? maybe.
okay so there was one part that they did someting right. the part where the played 'baseball'. maybe Catherine Hardwicke, went for an afternoon quickee or something and somebody took over somebody more knowledgeable, perhaps? nah.
so my rating of the movie? 10 being the highest? well in respect to the lady in the water movie. dont let me even go on details on that movie.
1.5. that should do it.