Movies: Ruining the book since 1920

For a low budget movie I would have to say Twilight wasn't half bad. There are MULTIPLE things that bothered me. First off you can never find an actor that could play Edward. He is pretty much defined as being perfect and I don't think you could ever find any man on this planet, let alone an actor, that is going to be flawless in his looks no matter how much makeup you put on him. I didn't care for the actor that was chosen to play Edward. He, in my personal opinion, should have read the books before playing the role to find out who Edward was and how he was. When he first "smells" Bella in biology....... WHAT THE CRAP. The boy looks like he's going to vomit!!!!! And if you can hold your breath why in the world are you covering your mouth!?!?!?!? The makeup job on all the vampires had its good moments and its bad. The worst, the first time Carlise enters the movie..... HELLO is he albino???? Then in Edwards first scene with Bella his face is pale but the rest of him isn't. The musical score in the movie, I think, could have been better. When you read about Edwards lullaby he writes for Bella it is WAY more complex than what they had playing in the movie. Plus the music in a movie can either make or break a moment and it most of the time broke the moment. The chemistry between Edward and Bella was pretty bad. They just seemed so awkward around each other and their "love" for one another wasn't very obvious. And don't even get me started on the meadow scene. I envisioned the "sparkling" of the vampires to be a little more noticeable than that. If I would have come across Edward in the daylight I would have thought he was wearing a lot of glitter. I did like the baseball scene, but again it could have been better. The book describes the bases to be a lot farther apart, but other than that it was pretty cool. I did like their selection of actors for Esme, Rosalie, Emmett, and Alice. They all did a wonderful job with their characters and really seemed to understand who the characters were. I could continue to "pick apart" the movie but won't.

The book was great. The author has a way of pulling you into the story. She has a way of capturing the way a girl/woman feels when she is in love with someone and can't seem to live without that person. Sure its more of a love story but it also has its intense page turning moments that you just can't seem to put the book down until you find out what happens. I loved all the books. Just the way she has laid out the story in all the books was great. She really does have a way of drawing you into the story without boring you with all the details of describing something for 5 pages. She really knows and understands a girls "fantasy" life and her "prince charming" to be able to write these books. Sure no girl would want to have her life threatened as many times as Bella, but the love story of the books is dead on.

I know that movies will never be as good as the book. I'm just hoping that with this next movie it will be a lot better than the first.