So I finally bit the bullet and watched it. I figured I couldn't remain the only person on the friggin planet that hasn't seen it. I mean... how bad could it be right?

I'm happy to stay that it wasn't quite as bad as I made it out to be in my head. Sure, things were a little weird here and there. Eric Yorki is strangely Asian, Ben and Lauren didn't exist. The big white house wasn't white and the scene I wanted to see between Mike and Edward at the ward was missing as well as 'Because Technically We Don't Need to Breath' (like how do you miss out that? It was the most adorable scene in the book!).

I was happy that they added more horror/slasher elements to it by following James, Victoria and Laurent around in the beginning while they killed those two men. Sometimes one just needs to be reminded that they're watching a vampire film and not just a movie about beautiful, sparkley people.

Talking about beauty, wtf did they do to Pattinson? I mean, everyone else looked okay. James looked hot and vampish. Carlisle looked handsome and still vampish. Edward looked awful and completely overdone. Had they toned it down and made him look like the rest of the cast it would have been fine, but in their attempt to make him hotter than he is, they overdid the mascara and gave him stupid hair.

The best actors were Bella and Charlie. Everyone else was decent except Pattinson who was OOC. I mean, pass that boy one of the billions of copies lying around everywhere and make him read it. Edward is nothing like that.
Edward is smooth. Arrogantly confidant. He doesn't mutter or fumble constantly with his words. In fact in the books there is ONE moment where he does stumble on his words. How do I know this? Well, cause Bella actually thinks, "Wow, he's really nervous .... I don't think I've ever heard him stumble on his words before."
In the movie he stumbled and hesitated over pretty much everything he said. And also, Bella had a deeper voice than he does, I swear.

Also, Edward goes really deathly quiet when angry or when he feel like he's losing control. His voice becomes a perfect facade of calm.
In the car when they were driving away from the 'almost-rape' scene I swear I heard Pattinson's voice crack when he begged for a distraction.

Other than that, Bella is adorable. Charlie is younger and more agile than I pictured him and that's okay too. So basically it was really just Edward that cause the movie to be an uber crap movie instead of just a crap movie.
|