Twilight!

So I'm not going to explain the story line - if you haven't read Twilight yet... you probably shouldn't talk to me... I don't think we can be friends (kidding - but I probably will harrass you until you read it).

Overall, I think you woul dbe TOTALLY confused if you hadn't read the book.

A friend of mine, Jackie, was going to sleep over at my house and we were going to go see it. I picked up the tickets around 3 after school, and the lady said they were almost sold out for the 7:10 viewing and to get there very early. So I went home, cleaned, did some homework, and got back to the theatre around 5:45 to meet Jackie. We met at the Dollar General - sneaking in Raisinettes, Capri Suns, and Oreos. Then we headed over to the movies around 6; there were already some people in there. We got good seats and just talked until the movie started. It was almost full by 6:30. I love going to the movies - I get to see people I haven't seen in ages, since I go to school out of town.

Since there were so many kids, there were security guards and workers in the theatre watching us; I felt like I was being babysat. One of the workers asked us to move over to fill up the empty seats - there went our good seats (they were next behind the railing so we could put our feet up). I had two seats to my left, and Jackie was sitting next to a sweet old woman who tried to strike up conversation. The theatre started to dim and I thought I'd get off easy and not have to sit next to anyone (I don't do well with strangers) until two 20something guys in camo and a girl walked in, running up and down the aisles trying to find seats. The worker made them sit next to me.

Two seats, two guys, and one girl. One of the guys, who I assumed was the girl's boyfriend, told the girl to sit on the floor and he and his buddy sat in the chairs. She said she wasn't comfortable and he pretty much said "sorry, too bad." They smelled like alcohol and tobacco, talked like rednecks, and were all up in my space - I think I sat more in Jackie's seat in my own because he was taking up so much of mine. They talked through the whole first few minutes of the movie, and even asked the girlfriend "What's this movie called? What's it about?" - totally ignoring all the shh-ing until the sweet old lady leaned over and yelled "CAN YOU TWO PLEASE SHUT THE **** UP?! SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO LISTEN." Haha.

The movie. So I was pretty much disgusted by the casting. Victoria's hair was not flaming red - it was like burnt sienna orange. The movie tried really hard to make them politically correct - Laurent was not black, Angela and Eric weren't Asian, Lauren wasn't even in the movie. Doesn't sound too fitting for a town of 3,000 to find such a multicultural group of friends... Jessica was supposed to be fat. Jasper looks gay. Edward looks evil and scary instead of sweet and beautiful. James looks like my mom's boyfriend's son in a few years, haha. They casted Mike very well though - he really did remind me of a dog. And Carlisle's voice was like I had imagined. Their inter-clan relationships were supposed to be a secret, too.

The special effects were super lame. I think I'll look back on it in a few years and go "what the crap... I enjoyed this?" But honestly, it'd be near impossible to do special effects correctly with some of the stuff Meyer came up with. I loved how parts of the movie were so funny - yet that's only because you knew what the characters were thinking. If someone who hadn't read the books were watching, they would be like "what? why is he giving him that look?"

It always bugs me when books are different than the movies - but the movie would have been 6 or 7+ hours long if they had put in everything. Nobody was murdered by the the Nomads in the book; Alice saw them coming in a few months, and then they suddenly appeared early while they were playing baseball. They really skipped out a lot on the conversations and dates that Edward and Bella had, or Jacob's and the friend's role. I cried when Bella left her dad; that scene was the one that almost made me stop reading the whole series.

They had their first kiss in the woods, not her bedroom - did anyone else notice that Bella's pants were suddenly gone? And at the end of the movie, was it Victoria or Rosalie? I thought it was Rosalie crying because Bella and Edward were together; but if that's so, then they're really playing into this whole RosalieIsJealousOfBella thing. Jackie thinks it was Victoria; but Edward would have totally picked up on it if she was there.

Bella's house was similar to how I had pictured it, however the Cullen's was not. It wasn't as big as I had pictured; I don't think Edward's room could hold a bed as it does in the 3rd or 4th book - and there was no black sofa, and no tour of the house. The sunshine scene was a pretty big letdown. His skin made noises- twinkletwinkletwinkle, and didn't really glitter. The sun was photoshopped too. He had planned to take her out there, and they had deep conversations there. Edward made a big deal about it because he was afraid he'd hurt her so she wanted to make sure somebody knew he was going to be with her. I think there excuse was they were going to Port Angeles or something. Edward was kinda a creeper. He just dragged her out into the woods before school started, said she tasted good, did some tricks, and then ripped off his clothes and twinkled in the sunlight. They left out a lot of information that is needed to understand how the vampire world works. The school was big - Bella described it in the books though as being so small that it looked more like a smattering of buildings than an actual school.

And the prom scene... that doesn't look like a school gym to me. Alice DEFF would not have let Bella out of the house in a dress and converse shoes and leggings. She looked incredibly ridiculous. Bella had been dressed up at the Cullen's home all day by Alice, and she thought she was going to be transformed. Alice made her wear heals. I swear to you, this year everyone's going to be wearing Converse shoes with their prom dresses... ugh.

I have to admit, Alice ripping off James' head was pretty BA. But the chase part was mediocre, and the movie was unintentially funny. Overall I give it a 2.5, maybe a 3 out of 5.

Anyways, that's all for now. I think I could take hours to discuss the book or movie - but homework awaits.