Let Me Be Objective (Critical)

So, yes.  Twilight pandemonium.

(Sorry, I'm watching The Soup while writing this, so I'm snickering while I'm trying to recount my thoughts).

Overall, it was a really good movie.  Getting into the effects and such, the "running" was decent.  People were complaining, but really, it's only like any other modern vampire movie, and specifically, I'm citing Queen of the Damned (yes, it didn't get fantastic reviews).  But the tone in which it was filmed was breathtaking at times, especially with the dramatically green Washington backdrop.  

The dialogue was decent, a few of the lines making the transfer from the novel to the movie.  But I wouldn't advise connecting the two.  I would put as being "loosely based" on the novel, because the director, Catherine Hardwicke, and the writer, Melissa Rosenberg, really morphed the movie so it would be told in a short amount of time, and that it would make sense to everyone.  So if one would go into the theater thinking it is exactly, or almost exactly, like the book, one will most definitely be disappointed.

Now on to the cast.  Yes, the boys were gorgeous, and Kristen Stewart is very pretty, but I found that Robert Pattinson's struggle with his accent hindered his performance, but he carried the part of Edward very well.  Bella, on the other hand, was not as easy to overlook.  Again, it is hard to detach oneself from the book when one recently read it (namely me, but I'm sure I wasn't the only one).  The annoying persistence (which is something I have against the book) of Bella's character, regarding her "love" for Edward, was there.  Stewart pulled it off, but I felt like I saw the same persona in the movie Speak (which I enjoyed very much) that I saw here, which was disappointing, personally.  Bella, novel Bella, grew on me over the course of four hundred or so pages, but it was hard to warm up to this Bella.  Book aside, Stewart's cold style of acting in these roles fit well with the rest of the cast, and as an audience of mostly teenage girls, some things that weren't supposed to be funny were.

My rant being done, I must go to sleep.  I'm tired and still not sure whether I want to go reaf laking (leaf raking, I mean), or sleep in.  I want to help the senior citizens, but I haven't gotten eight hours of sleep in almost a month.  But enough of me.

My final verdict: four out of five stars (being generous)

It managed to hold me captive, just as I as reluctantly held by the novel.

Go see it.