My Review of the Movie

Well, I put off reading this book for over a year and a half now. I clearly remember last summer (2007) when my roommates were reading the book and gawking at Edward and saying that our friend Jason is just like him (I was curious to find out why, but I don't really see it). Of course I'm talking about Twilight.

Since the movie just came out, I figured that the girls in my family would want to see it in the theater over Thanksgiving break; therefore, I caved and read the book. The 20-hour drive home would be the perfect opportunity to knock it out, and everything went according to plan. I finished the book last night, and lo and behold, my mom and I went to the movie today.

I knew there would some funny Twilight fans, so I googled "Twilight fans + funny reviews." Well, I didn't waste any time choosing a site, and although I could have spent hours looking at what people have said about both the movie and the book and their respective obsessions, I'm not obsessed and therefore settled for the first site I found. I learned that some girls live the "Twilife" now and are "Twihard." Interpret that as you will. They even dyed their hair dark brown because Edward prefers it--good thing that's my natural hair color (phew).

Anyway, as I mentioned before, I finished the book last night and thus had every detail from the pages etched in my mind. While watching the movie, I thought about how I could have written a better screenplay because they left out some important things/added some strange things/didn't make the movie flow as well as it could have. After thinking this, I thought about how hard it really would be to make a 500-page book into a 2-hour movie. Still, though. The acting was pretty horrible and the music was dreadful, but I was very excited when Muse's "Supermassive Black Hole" started playing during the baseball scene. It was a breath of fresh air because I, along with my sister Jo, absolutely love Muse. I have now included the song on my playlist just in case you're curious. (Okay, so I just learned on IMDB--shout out to Kari--that Robert Pattinson--Robert plays Edward in the movie--is a musician and some of his music was included in the movie. I'm guessing he wrote the piece that he played on the piano, and I actually thought that was pretty. If he was responsible for much more than that, though, then . . . . Do I sound like a critic yet? I'm really trying not to be critical!)

All in all, I liked the movie. I can honestly say that. Despite all the bad things about it, I liked it as a whole. Is that weird? I guess you could say that I wanted to re-live the book again (in a shorter amount of time, of course). I think Edward is insanely handsome--yes--but I'm by no means obsessed with the book or Edward. I mean, let's be honest about this reader-Edward relationship--I also fell in love with Mr. Knightley in Jane Austen's Emma and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. It's not just you, Edward. It happens with all of them, I'm afraid to say.

As a side note, Robert Pattinson also played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter. My mom pointed that out during the movie--nice work, Mom. I have to say that I like it better when his skin is very pale and he has that wave in his hair goin' on. He can work that hair-do as long as he wants, as far as I'm concerned. But he's got nothing on these two gentlemen.

James McAvoy now and Robert Redford back in the day. Will someone catch me? I'm about to swoon.