My obssesion with Twilight began a short while ago when after months of Yana forcing the book down my throat, I succumed. Vampire fiction is just not my cup of tea....or so I thought.
Once I got past the first few chapters of Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, I was hooked. I finished the novel in 2 days and made Alex stop by Barnes and Nobles on the way to Yuliya's upstate house (for a romantic weekend getaway). We drove about half an hour out of our way in Staten Island. When Alex came out of the store with his ussual sneaky smirk, that he has when he buy's me a present and tries to pretend that he didn't., I knew he had gotton all four books. I read the second book while we were on our romantic weekedn away (Alex was pre-occupied with sustaining the wood fire in our fireplace). I finished the next 2 books in the next few days - unable to do much else other than read the books all day and night. The last page of Breaking Dawn (the final installationof the saga) was bitter-sweet. I was happy that the ending was a happy one and I was happy to have finally freed myself from this whole-consuming drug that is Twilight, but I was sad that I was no longer welcome in the world of Bella and Edward. I would spend the next week or so truly missing these fictional characters.
Yana laughed at me when she saw me in my Twilight daze and refused to attend the screening of Twilight at our local UA movie theater. No one seemed too interested out of my fully-grown adult friends to go see , what had become, a teeny-bop movie. I decided to go alone and let Alex have , yet another, boys night out (he had been enjoying a lot of those in my Twilight daze period). I sat there alone with a copy of the third book (Eclipse) and watched the movie intently. Maybe too intently. Every line that was edited. Every character or minute detail that was in any way altered pissed me off to no avail. The simplest thing like when Bella arrived for the first time at her father's home in Forks she was, according to Stephanie Meyer, supposed to have one bag of clothes. In the movie she had several suitcases. Sure this was irrational and insignificant, but it truly bothered me.
Aside from my mania, I managed to pay attention to a few key factors - liek for instance that the movie was cheaply made and the actors obviusly underpaid - since thier skills were sub-par at best. The directing - was non-exisitant and the cinemotography, special effects, etc.. all collectivled SUCKED.
The next week I spent sulking about, depressed that I was simply not satisfied with such a poor show for such a fantastic story. I wished that a re-make could be done by next year. I was just not satsisfied. I become obssessive. Literally. I googled and you tubed everything Twilight. Finally, I found a satisfying , tantilizing little piece of literature. It seems that the next installation to the saga won't be quite an installation bt a character development piece. It will be Twilight (the first book ) written from Edwards, as oppose to Bella's, perspective. I found a link on http://www.stephaniemeyer.com/ that had the first few chapters of the book. After reading this preview, I begun to understand Edward like I really hadn't before.
The nagging feleing that I wanted to give Twilight the movie a second chance persisted for the next few days. After dinner one day with Yana and Mike , I convinced Alex to come and see Twilight with me. In the end I ended up going alone , again. But this time I really understood the acting a bit better. It was as though Stephanie Meyer wrote Edward's perspective of Twilight, after, being on the Twilight movie set. Now , many of Edwards intense stares and crazy reactions made a bit more sense. And I have to admit that I enjoyed the moview a bit more the second time around. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I had finished the whole saga. Mayabe it was Edward's perspective. Maybe I just wanted it to be better.
I had to control myself the next week not to go see it a third time.LOL
Pathetic I know.
Well here we go...
My overall review:
Acting= 1.5 out 5
Directing= 1 out of 5
Cinemotography= 2 out of 5
Script= 2 out of 5
Score= 2 out of 5
Overall biased opinion= 3 out of5
Average= 2
Go see it in the theater or wait for the DVD?
For most people, the answer is niether. For fans of the book, wait for the DVD.
Once I got past the first few chapters of Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, I was hooked. I finished the novel in 2 days and made Alex stop by Barnes and Nobles on the way to Yuliya's upstate house (for a romantic weekend getaway). We drove about half an hour out of our way in Staten Island. When Alex came out of the store with his ussual sneaky smirk, that he has when he buy's me a present and tries to pretend that he didn't., I knew he had gotton all four books. I read the second book while we were on our romantic weekedn away (Alex was pre-occupied with sustaining the wood fire in our fireplace). I finished the next 2 books in the next few days - unable to do much else other than read the books all day and night. The last page of Breaking Dawn (the final installationof the saga) was bitter-sweet. I was happy that the ending was a happy one and I was happy to have finally freed myself from this whole-consuming drug that is Twilight, but I was sad that I was no longer welcome in the world of Bella and Edward. I would spend the next week or so truly missing these fictional characters.
Yana laughed at me when she saw me in my Twilight daze and refused to attend the screening of Twilight at our local UA movie theater. No one seemed too interested out of my fully-grown adult friends to go see , what had become, a teeny-bop movie. I decided to go alone and let Alex have , yet another, boys night out (he had been enjoying a lot of those in my Twilight daze period). I sat there alone with a copy of the third book (Eclipse) and watched the movie intently. Maybe too intently. Every line that was edited. Every character or minute detail that was in any way altered pissed me off to no avail. The simplest thing like when Bella arrived for the first time at her father's home in Forks she was, according to Stephanie Meyer, supposed to have one bag of clothes. In the movie she had several suitcases. Sure this was irrational and insignificant, but it truly bothered me.
Aside from my mania, I managed to pay attention to a few key factors - liek for instance that the movie was cheaply made and the actors obviusly underpaid - since thier skills were sub-par at best. The directing - was non-exisitant and the cinemotography, special effects, etc.. all collectivled SUCKED.
The next week I spent sulking about, depressed that I was simply not satisfied with such a poor show for such a fantastic story. I wished that a re-make could be done by next year. I was just not satsisfied. I become obssessive. Literally. I googled and you tubed everything Twilight. Finally, I found a satisfying , tantilizing little piece of literature. It seems that the next installation to the saga won't be quite an installation bt a character development piece. It will be Twilight (the first book ) written from Edwards, as oppose to Bella's, perspective. I found a link on http://www.stephaniemeyer.com/ that had the first few chapters of the book. After reading this preview, I begun to understand Edward like I really hadn't before.
The nagging feleing that I wanted to give Twilight the movie a second chance persisted for the next few days. After dinner one day with Yana and Mike , I convinced Alex to come and see Twilight with me. In the end I ended up going alone , again. But this time I really understood the acting a bit better. It was as though Stephanie Meyer wrote Edward's perspective of Twilight, after, being on the Twilight movie set. Now , many of Edwards intense stares and crazy reactions made a bit more sense. And I have to admit that I enjoyed the moview a bit more the second time around. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I had finished the whole saga. Mayabe it was Edward's perspective. Maybe I just wanted it to be better.
I had to control myself the next week not to go see it a third time.LOL
Pathetic I know.
Well here we go...
My overall review:
Acting= 1.5 out 5
Directing= 1 out of 5
Cinemotography= 2 out of 5
Script= 2 out of 5
Score= 2 out of 5
Overall biased opinion= 3 out of5
Average= 2
Go see it in the theater or wait for the DVD?
For most people, the answer is niether. For fans of the book, wait for the DVD.
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