Twilight the Movie

Well, let me preface this by saying that I am unapologetically a Twihard freak, so I am a bit over expecting when it comes to the world that Stephenie Meyer so painstakingly created. I got really interested when I saw the teaser--just a hot guy standing in a forest talking to a young girl about him being seventeen for a long time. Then the full-size trailer premiered and I got a bit scared. The fight scene between James and Edward was a bit, um, stupid. So, going into the movie I was both dually anticipating genius and weary of bad directing at the same time. I got EXACTLY what I was expecting...some psychologist is nodding his head right about now.

First, the bad. Catherine Hardwicke was bad. I don't know what she was thinking half the time. Her decisions were overdramatic and banal. She turned the actors into seething anger-balls that made the moment when they actually smiled equivalent to the first time you light your Christmas tree in the winter. The budget: bad. With a ridiculously successful franchise, how could Summit Entertainment not have thrown more money at this thing? And because of the ridiculous budget, the visual effects were disturbingly terrible. The moment where Edward shows Bella how he sparkles was supposed to be sensual and personal--instead it was laughable. Also, when the vampires were like, flying...if that could even be said, was absolutely sad. Why oh why? You know what was really bad? The hair. I mean seriously...Alice is supposed to have a pixie cut, not a flippy bob circa 2002. And whomever did the dye jobs? Sheesh. The script was okay I guess, but with a book that is so much in Bella's head that I see how it was really difficult to translate onto the silver screen.

And now onto the good. Kristen Stewart: good. And this is saying a lot for me. I was highly disappointed in her casting decision, but she really knocked it out of the park with being alluring but not overly sex kittenesque. Actually all of the cast was pretty good. So, I guess that is one good thing Hardwicke did. I thought Billy Burke did an exceptional job as Charlie--he accomplished the small town quietness combined with protective witty dad really well. But I feel as though the Cullen's on the whole did not get enough screen time...I mean poor Jasper! But then again, their hair and makeup was so terrible, maybe that was for the best.

And now onto the subject of all girl's fantasies and waking dreams: Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullen. The highs were his hair, his looks and his moments with Bella. If the whole movie was just focused on Bella and Edward then it would have been an amazing film. Rob and Kristen had great chemistry and their first kiss, was...really hot. But the moments of Edward's torment were not so great. So much of Edward's actions are in his head, but couldn't they have had a ECU of his eyes switching from amber to black instead of him looking like he is going to vomit when Bella walks into biology. And um, I do not remember Edward sucking out James' venom with such gusto that he almost couldn't stop...ridiculous.

I really hope that this movie makes a lot of money so they can up the game on New Moon and hire a new director and hair/makeup team. Whomever takes over directing will probably be a bit angry over Hardwicke hijacking Victoria's anger which was supposed to be a climax in Eclipse. There were too many sophomoric mistakes for a blockbuster--like The DaVinci Code mistakes. Blurg.

Keep the cast ditch the crew. Sorry.

Love you RPatz...I didn't even care that you had chest hair and non-Roman God biceps. You are exactly my brand of heroine.

Twilight: 6/10

Election Night

I think I might go into an epileptic fit from watching the election night coverage. Who thinks of all this crap to put on the TV? I think the waving American flag on CBS just put me over the edge.