Review – Twilight: The Movie

I’ve been meaning to right a review for Twilight: The Movie. Just goes to show how procrastination works since the last time I edited this was December 2. Anyway..

Since it has been a while since the Twilight movie has debuted in theaters… here’s my random review of it. Nothing big, just something.

Going into it, I wasn’t expecting it to be like the book itself. (And anyone who did was most definitely disappointed.) Why? Because while the book was from Bella’s point of view, there was also the matter of getting the other characters involved to a point that would make a good production.

So while the movie is still focused on Bella, you do have to come up with a script that is mostly third person rather than first person. I think they did a good job with what they had. It was a bit rushed, some scenes from the book should have made it into the movie. But then some scenes in the book were joined together – for movie’s sake. I think they were able to pull that off rather neatly.

What threw me off was the tree-climbing. No mention of it in the book, so I guess they wanted that extra action punch that they figured climbing these huge trees would be fun. Jury’s still out on that. Umm.. the sparkle thing.. I’m not so sure about. Seems that it’s kind of cheesy. But, you know. Special affects aside, not all that bad. What does get me is the other characters reactions. Some of them seem to be a bit more extreme than the others. Edward in Biology? Jasper’s painful face? To me that’s a bit extreme. But I guess from a teenager point of view, you know, that’s how you would act as a teenager. Right? So. Yeah, but I thought it was really a bit too much to appear like he’s vomiting. The covering the mouth part was overreaching. And Rob’s expression when he sparkles was a bit painful too. Other than that, I think it was overall good acting.

Gives us another yummy guy celebrity to drool over, right girls?

There are several instances in the movie where it doesn’t correlate with the book, but I’m not going to name them all here. (Like the bookstore that isn’t open in the book, but it is in the movie?)

I’d suggest watching the movie for movie’s sake. Don’t go into it with your book in hand, trying to follow along. It won’t work. The book rarely ever really meets the movie standards. Especially since you have a timeframe to enclose the movie in while you can write on and on with a book.

That about covers it.

Thanks for reading my random rabble. I’m looking forward to the next installment: New Moon. Wonder how they are going to do the movie without Edward? Or will they find some way to include him in it at random intervals? Are we ready for a trip to the Volturi? Hmm..

~ by Anita on December 17, 2008.