The good news, I’m usually way off in my predictions,,,

Well, I hope I’m wrong to because I think you’re right.

I am sure this will make plenty of money and be enjoyed by many of its target audience, but a great or even good film it does not appear to be.

The good news, I’m usually way off in my predictions,,,

Yes so true, as I find it hilarious that the two lead actors are planning to marry in real life. Ah what idiots. I give that marriage a few years at best. It would be even more hilarious if they break up during the 3rd twilight sequel.

I smell a Twilight train wreck commin down the tracks,,,,

I’m not a hater of twilight, just its’ dramatic, clingy fanatics.

Fact is, both my girlfriend and I agree that the movie was much, much better than the book. However, there was still not a single redeeming quality out of either of them.

I just DO NOT get the love for this franchise comes from. The story is uninspired, uncreative, and the exact same premise of forbidden VampireXHuman love has been tackled hundreds of times before. Putting them in high school isn’t original *cough*Buffy*cough, and neither is throwing in werewolves.

I could look past that if the actual writing was good. Even a bland story can be entertaining if handled by a good writer. But it isn’t. Stephanie Meyer is one of the worst published authors I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading.

Would you like to super-size your order, sir?

Brilliant analysis Kofi, and I love your summation.

For my own two cents, I too hold a “you want fries with that” Liberal Arts degree, and while the book surely doesn’t measure up to _any_ literary great, it does succeed at maintaining a coherent narrative in the first person, as though you _are_ that first person. She’s clumsy, rather dense, and most definitely a _besotted teenage girl_, so I don’t suppose she’s going to quote Dostoevsky, Beckett, or Tolstoy, or delve into the deeper meanings of personal choice and sacrifice or civic responsibility.

It’s called _escapism_. To expect every book to be Tolstoy, and to judge them by such, is to doom yourself to a gray and dreary life, IM(NS)HO

The movie? Passable B-grade. Much better than I expected. That first poster looks like a pedophile and a stoned 12-year-old, creepy as hell… I mean really I thought it was staring Dakota Fanning for a second…

New Moon the movie looks much actioned up from the book, I look forward to this one, though I will avoid the, ah… monsoon… if you will.

From time to time I feel like watching a movie for the purpose of hating something, and so I did watch Twilight. I agree with the above posters, the plot and acting was horrible and the only thing that made the movie watchable was Kristen Stewart. I doubt that I’ll see New Moon, though.

I have always said from the beginning that Twilight will be looked back on as a failed adaptation. Box office aside, Fandango aside, I think that when it’s all said and done, when all of the films have been released and Stephanie Meyer looks back at her priceless work adapted on the screen, she will not be happy and ask herself, “Why did I allow this to happen.”

I truly believe that her literary work will forever be marred by the adaptation to film.

the fact the movie gave you a scene at all is a credit to the “guys” behind the movie.