The Gist
Isabella (Bella) Swan is a typical girl until her mom decides that her and her boyfriend are going to move to Florida and Bella soon decides to move in with her dad in Forks, Washington. When she gets there she couldn’t feel more distant from everyone especially her dad. Her first day couldn’t be more confusing she meets some new friends, and two of those friends instantly fall in love with her. At lunch that day she meets the guy of every girls dreams Edward Cullen. From the moment she saw him he was all she could think about. At night she imagined him in her room and everywhere she went she felt he was watching her. When she finally gets the nerve to talk to him in biology it’s a connection right away. That is until she finds out he is a vampire. From the point on Bella is sucked into the world of vampires, werewolves ect. Edward tells her that they are “vegetarian” meaning they only suck the blood of animals. Soon after finding out everything about each other Bella figures out that they are soul mates and Edward will stop at NOTHING to save her from danger, and when more vampires come to Forks Edward will do anything to save Bella from James who is trying to kill Bella.
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by The North Star
Run Time: 122 Minutes
Rating: PG-13
My friends and I went to go see this movie the day it came out and the movie theater we went too (and probably every one in the U.S) was sold out. We were all obsessed with the books so we were super excited to see the movie. After the movie one of my friends couldn’t stand up she loved it so much. Looking back on the movie now it was just about average. Robert Pattinson in my opinion plays the perfect Edward I think he captures the emotion of Edward very well and it really came out in his acting saying as his only other acting experience was Cedric Digory in Harry Potter. The actors playing Alice, Rosalie, Emmett, Carlisle, Jasper and Esme I could go on for a really long time about how amazing they were. The casting was also very well done because they are exactly as I pictured them in the book and like Edward they captured the Cullen spirit and acted like a real family. Now the things I didn’t like. For one I didn’t like Kristen Stewart as Bella because overall she is an OK actor but as Bella she seemed very awkward and just something about her didn’t seem right. The other thing that I really didn’t like about this movie was sparkling effect on Edward. It came over as very cheesy and not spent time on. I couldn’t even tell until one of my friends leaned over and told me that he was sparkling. The sparkling made him look like he had a disease on his chest or something and I think they should have spent more time on it. The last thing I didn’t like is the big kiss between Bella and Edward, it was very awkward and took at least a minute for them to actually kiss. At one point one of my friends screamed “JUST KISS HER ALREADY”. Overall there were definitely things they could have fixed but they followed the book for the most part and I was entertained.
Real Teen Rating~ C+: Just Average
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Well, I have to tell you, when I first saw it I was in awe of this movie. I was extremely excited and couldn’t believe that Twilight was a movie. I’d bought the soundtrack (which is actually pretty good) and listened to it every day before the movie came out. I truly thought it was an amazing movie. Then. I watched it again when it came out on DVD. And I couldn’t understand why I had thought it was so amazing. The plot…well, it was made after the book, so I can’t really complain. They followed the story very well. As for the acting…I agree with the North Star, that the casting and acting of the Cullen family was top notch. They couldn’t have done much better. I give them props on that. Edward…I don’t know. Robert Pattinson played a pretty good Edward Cullen. Most of the time he looked kind of scary though. But maybe that was what he was going for. Overall his acting was good, but could have been more convincing. Kristen Stewart did not play a good Bella Swan. At least in my opinion. Her acting was awkward and almost sloppy, and she couldn’t fit into the roll. She just didn’t live up to my expectations. For the main character – a main character as famous as Bella Swan – they should have either gotten someone better, or gotten her to act better. After watching this movie a second time, I had no desire to see it in the near future, or even the semi-distant future. I was entertained the first time watching, but the second was enough for me, and will be enough for a while. In my opinion, they should have put more into it. It paled in comparison to the book. Which is really saying something.
Real Teen Rating~ C- : I'd rather read a book.
Reviewed by Living Destiny
Reviewed by Living Destiny
I’m gonna say this now, before I even start the review. Just to get it out of the way. I never read the Twilight book series. *GASP* I know, I know. You are reading the insight of perhaps the only teenage girl to not read the hit vampire series.
With that out of the way, I thought the movie was just sort of ok. I saw it with some friends the night it came out on DVD. We went to some premiere party (which was totally lame) and then watched it when we got home. My first thought was, with all the hype around the books, and therefore the movie, it could have been so much better. I knew some of the plot from the book, but mostly it was new to me, and I thought that the movie should have had more detail in it. There was some stuff that just didn’t make any sense to me, though it did to my Twilight-reading friends. That was pretty annoying.
I thought the casting was fairly well done. However, the two lead actors could have done way better jobs. The whole Cullen family was well cast (I especially liked the Alice and Jasper characters), and Bella’s dad was also pretty good. Robert Pattinson and Kirsten Stewart were just disappointing. I mean, I heard about the amazing Edward and Bella from all of my friends (minus the guys of course). Edward this, Bella that. It got to the point where I died a little inside when I heard either of the names. Then I saw the movie, and just went WAAAA? The characters were not impressive, and weren’t very memorable. They were just there.
The special effects were pretty good, except for the whole sparkling thing. I didn’t really understand that to begin with, and the movie made it worse. To me, it sort of looked like his skin was bubbling and writhing, like boiling water. I was kinda disturbed.
This movie was a big let down, even without reading the books. Even the plot wasn’t that interesting to me. I’m sorry to all you die-hard Twilight fans out there, but this movie was really bad.
Real Teen Rating~ C: If there’s nothing else to see…
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