Movie Review: Twilight

Well, I saw Twilight at midnight launch with an old friend and haven't taken time to review it yet. I was sitting down to write about 24: Redemption and remembered I never wrote anything on Twilight yet...

So... Twilight... Obviously a chicks thing. Yeah it has the action and stuff but its mostly about the romance and all the beautiful male characters teenage girls fantasize over. Still, it is a rather decent book with well developed characters and there is nothing wrong with a dude reading it. I can see why the hype is so. I'm reading New Moon as we speak so just to take me away from my Ted Dekker stuff it had to be pretty good.

I think the movie was both a good movie and a good representation of the book. Obviously its thinned the hell out, the book is much bigger as expected and the movie is more a cliff-notes version of the story, but it does fit everything that really matters in, it has good music, and the casting was a job well done.

House... the more I think back on House it was a fine movie to complement the book, the book and the movie together were interesting but the movie alone would be a mess... I don't know about Twilight...

The movie contained a lot less than the book, but it was enjoyable and rather well made and it at least gets the point across. I can't imagine not reading a book first but if you're not a book person I think you can probably still enjoy Twilight just fine. I'm not going to say the book is better though, I'm just going to think it. By my standards though its pretty hard to please me with a movie based off of one specific book.

This was precise and enjoyable though.

I know a lot of fan girls who aren't happy with the movie but people who are really obsessive and in love with the books are gonna find flaw in it no matter what.

I don't really have much to say as far as a review... It was a good book, and I think the movie got it right for the most part.