Twilight - 1989?

Well, I didn't hate the movie, and hopefully my opinion will soften over the next few days, but honestly, I thought it was pretty cheesy. And the effects and the makeup? Felt like an 80s movie to me. Someone got a little carried away with the white pancake makeup. They're vampires, not Casper. And the slanty camera angles were overdone.

I knew that the storyline would be abbreviated and I had read that there were some new scenes. Okay, I can live with that. And all of the abbreviations made sense in the movie... it didn't make it seemed rushed, BUT... hmm.... I guess I felt like it just didn't flow. It felt choppy. Like flashes of a story instead of a story. Cliff notes, if you will. The thing that bothered me though was that it wasn't just the story that was abbreviated, the characters felt shortened as well. I LOVE the Cullen family. I have made no secret of that on this blog. While I was watching the movie, I felt like if I hadn't read the books, I wouldn't care about the family by the end of the flick. You also don't get a sense in the movie of just how cool a chick Bella is, and that's a shame. She is one groovy lady. Bella would never let Charlie eat in a diner like that! She can hold her own in the kitchen!

Luckily, some of that is just my attachment to the books though. Brett didn't think it was overly cheesy and he liked all of the characters.

So for tonight, I will say I didn't hate it. HOWEVER:

- Umm... did anyone else have a problem with Billy? First of all that guy looked way too young, he shouldn't have been driving the truck, and where was the nobility that this chief was supposed to exude?

- Seriously? Why was Jasper's gift not even mentioned? I don't get it.

- Alice looked stupid drawing the picture. I never say that word. I think it's horribly mean. But drawing in a trance? Yeah. That's not how it works, and it upped the cheese factor by like, a whole box of Velveeta.

- There was FAR too little of the charming, light-hearted Edward that we all know and love. Too serious, too often = melodrama!

It's late. I'm sure I'll have more to say later. Lucky you! I will try to be more positive though.