Twilight Movie Reaction
Okay...just got home from seeing Twilight. It's 2:44am. I'm tired, even though I rarely go to bed much before this anyway, especially on my day off. Here are some of my initial reactions:
- The movie was neither as bad as I'd feared or as good as I'd hoped. There were some moments that were really freakin' cool and then there were some really awkward moments.
- I'm reminded of the fact that the first book was actually my least favorite of the four - the "declaring our love" scenes just make me cringe, although there are moments I really liked. But really after reading the first book, I probably would not necessarily have reached for the second if I didn't work at a bookstore and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. (Loved New Moon, Eclipse and many things about Breaking Dawn.) For the most part, what I liked and disliked about the books translated to what I liked and disliked about the movie. Awkward awkward awkward embarrassing scenes of teenage love declaring themselves. Awkward. Which is exactly how I felt originally reading it. It was incredibly embarrassing reading it when I was alone at home, but witnessing it with a crowd of several hundred others was cringe-worthy. Can't wait for the other movies so that we can just enjoy them figuring out their relationship with each other and their relationship as a couple with the rest of the world instead of this very awkward (did I mention VERY awkward) moments of declaring their undying young love!
- I really like Kristen Stewart and Billy Burke's scenes together. They were both exactly as I'd pictured the characters and when they were together they shared a perfect chemistry of awkward but loving and respectful father and daughter.
- Edward seems to be getting ready for his suicide in the next one. I liked him best when he was smiling, which was unfortunately not very often. I also liked him playing off Jessica for some reason. Maybe her perky pettiness breaking through his moroseness and forcing a moment of amusement out of him...I don't know.
- I loved the vampire baseball scene! Freaking awesome!
- Several things that I was worried seemed off or wrong in the previews we'd seen online actually worked well in the movie - Jackson Rathbone as Jasper (intense and unsure of himself around Bella, but sure of his place among the Cullens), the whole Bella meeting the family (which to me seemed potentially awful in the rough clips we'd seen on line actually worked really well for me in the final cut of it).
- Not enough Cullens! But hopefully we'll see more in the deleted scenes on DVD.
- I'm probably gonna see it again.