Twilight Saga Mania

Well, I got to go see it this afternoon and I can say it lived up to my expectations. I was looking forward to this over the rest because this book had the most action in it. The battle at the end was awesome and the back story leading up to it was very deep and gave you a deeper understanding of what the Cullen’s and other characters went through.

So, I have to say it stayed really close to the source and didn’t disappoint. It didn’t really go as deep into the back story as I’d of liked and I felt the ending battle scene was rushed. Even though I knew what was coming. They build it throughout the entirety of the movie and then the wall come crashing down. The triangle between Bella, Edward, and Jake is very well done and they make the jabs at each other come out and had the audience laughing.

They really didn’t go as much into the whole Riley story and I felt that Seth didn’t get his due credit. After all if he didn’t intervene, I doubt Edward could have taken Victoria and Riley.

Speaking of Victoria, Bryce Dallas Howard did a fair job. It just didn’t seem like Victoria though. The hair was much more red and of course her voice is very high and femine. They could have brought her voice down a little more. She just didn’t seem very scary like Rachelle did.

Overall I think the movie was well done and David Slade did a good job directing it.

I am excited that Breaking Dawn is next, but not that I have to see in over the next 2 years since they split it up.

I give it 4.5/5 stars.

Twilight was released in 2008.

Here’s a synopsis:

Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school.

When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn’t expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she’s ever met.

He’s nothing like anyone she’s ever met, period. He’s intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance – unorthodox because Edward really isn’t like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn’t aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he’s immortal. That’s right – vampire. But he doesn’t have fangs – that’s just in the movies. And he doesn’t drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice.

To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for – a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love.

But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair – between vampire and mortal.

- Summit entertainment

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When Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washington, a damp and dreary town known for the most rainfall in the United States, to live with her dad, she isn’t expecting to like it. But the level of hostility displayed by her standoffish high school biology lab partner, Edward Cullen, surprises her.

After several strange interactions, his preternatural beauty, strength, and speed have her intrigued. Edward is just as fascinated with Bella, and their attraction to one another grows.

As Bella discovers more about Edwards nature and his family, she is thrown headlong into a dangerous adventure that has her making a desperate sacrifice to save her one true love.

One of the more original vampire constructs around, this is Stephenie Meyers debut novel. It is the infinitely romantic tale of star-crossed lovers and resonates with a bittersweet edge.

Although Edward and Bellas romance and subsequent danger develops slowly, the pacing is appropriate for teens who want learn all the details in this suspenseful tale.

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