Don't get me wrong here. I ADORED the books. I read them on a whim, picked it up wondering what all the fuss was about. And against my strong will, I fell in love with the story that when analysed, is actually very terrible. Nevertheless, I couldn't get it off my mind.
So you can imagine my disappointment when I saw the movie. It lived up to NOTHING. Infact, as a movie, it was sh!t. As a representation of one of my favourite books, it was even worse. The acting was so bad it was hilarious, the special fx pathetic, and the script was pathetic.
Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) may serve as some good eye candy, but for most of the movie he looked constipated. In the first classroom scene, his overreaction to the scent of Bella's blood was ridiculous, to the point of hilarity. To prove a point; most of the people in the cinema laughed at this scene. Although, to be fair, his acting did improve with the end of the movie (with some exceptions).
Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan) was a different case. She was terrible the whole way through. I hate to be scathing, but her erratic eye blinking, along with her deadpan eyes and monotonous voice were a turn-off. She constantly looked bored, and half-awake, and didn't seem that amazing. Although I didn't much like her in the book, Kristen Stewart made the character of Bella somehow more repugnant.
Other than the two MAIN characters (ironic, I know) I believe the rest of the characters were casted pretty well. Jacob was amazing at his part, though there wasn't much seen of him, and the rest of the Cullen family (maybe with the exception of Jasper. Although he was meant to be in pain, he did look more constipated than Edward). Also, the villains were played extremely well, to be honest.

Now lets move on the the 'choppy editing'.My boyfriend had not read these books- we walk out of the cinemas, he didn't know what had happened in the movie. Only someone who had read the Twilight books would understand what the hell had just transpired in that movie theatre. There were so many pointless characters (eg. Jacob) who play such bigger parts in other movies, but had to be introduced for the sake of it in Twilight. Readers would of course, know all about Jacob- but other people would not. Even so, assuming that the movie was aimed toward Twilight readers...the plot was barely recognisable. Things were sped up and taken out, and instead we got a half-assed video, which went too fast to portray the depth of their love. Instead we got some scene which showed them having deep conversations for a while, and then they were in love and blah blah.

To be continued..

I know the critics said that it followed the book. How would the know! Have they read the book? Probably not. The few lies that he said that were from the book were in the wrong scenes. I understand that they had to cut some stuff out but not change it completely. I'm surprised that Stephenie Meyer didn't tell them something. She should give the director some tips. I heard her and the director got along well but sometimes had fights about the movie. I was still very dissapointed with the movie and who they casted as Jasper and Rosalie.