Twilight: A Movie Review

So for those of you who don’t know, I spent the last two weeks of my life reading the delightfully bad Twilight Series.  Now, I can’t hate on the books too much, because though I laughed at a lot of the dialogue and rolled my eyes at a lot (most) of the plot structure, I was still sucked in and couldn’t put them down.  Hillary and I have had many in-depth conversations about the books (why I think Jacob is better for Bella than Edward, the Mormon undertones of the whole “eternal commitment” issue, if vampires really are sexier than werewolves, etc) and so it only seemed logical that we would go see the movie together. Of course, Bret and Ryan were great sports and went with us.  They were glad they went, because they were treated to Gummi Sharks (they have teeth just like vampires- thanks Hillary!) and a good laugh.

Ok, so this movie was… for the lack of a better word… funny.  Now, I love and appreciate a good comedy (the world needs more laughter!) but honestly, this movie wasn’t trying to be funny.  Nonetheless, Hillary and I were laughing to the point of tears on more than one occasion.   The main actors were so caught up in emoting their thoughts through facial expressions, they ended up looking stiff, awkward, like they had stomach aches, and really just downright annoying.  The best characters were the shallow ones, like Bella’s friend Jessica, and Tyler, the only black kid in Forks.  They at least seemed more natural, and not so... brooding.  Having read the books, I have a general idea of the motivations behind the characters, but it totally didn’t translate on screen.  Ryan, the only one of us who hadn’t read the book, totally gave up on trying to understand the movie and just laughed at all the cheesy lines.

My favorite scene was where Bella goes to Edward’s house to meet his family.  One huge disappointment for me: the house.  Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for architecture, and this house was really supposed to be (in my mind) an old, white, 100-year old Victorian type house.  But the house in the movie was very modern, angular and blue with brown wood accents.  Whatever.  I liked the scene because the vamps finally looked almost normal, and relaxed.  Oh yeah, and the sweater Bella was wearing in the scene was the same sweater I wore to the movie last night.  (I was way too overly excited at that fact!!) 

Other great parts of the movie:

-Emmett’s velour track suit

-James’ abs

-Jacob (love him!! Go Team Jacob!!!)

-Bella screaming in pain (the best acting she did all movie!)

-Billy “keeping it real”

-Edward’s hair (Bret says he’s going to make his look like that! J )

-Jasper- misunderstood yet totally perfect

 

And yes, of course I’m going to see the sequel, cheesy lines and bad acting and all.  Sigh.