twilight review

okay, i admit i watched twilight last night... but before and after, i studied! gj me.

well.

there were parts when miki and i couldn't stop laughing. robert pattinson? not a good actor. so cute but so bad. has potential though. when it came to the sad, tormented, martyred, "cry me a river" parts, he was sooooo bad. when it came to the lighthearted, "yay! she knows i'm a vampire!" parts, he was great. probably coz he was just acting a little like himself. (you should watch him in interviews with kristen stewart. the two of them alternate between deep, un-hollywood like, stoner modes. it's very "wtf are they saying?" but in a really funny way). 

he does a lot of sighing when he's feeling tortured and he hasn't quite mastered the looks that edward cullen is supposed to give. but goodness, he is gorgeous, even the parts when his lips are soo red and his face is so white (in a really bad, i-don't-think-their-makeup-budget-was-so-big way).

kristen stewart, on the other hand... at the age of eighteen? if she can act that well, she's bound to get an oscar soon. she was fantastic. like, wow! always true to form, exactly like bella. she may not be conventionally pretty, but then she'd turn beautiful when you didn't expect it. good call!

for the rest of the cast, i have to admit, they were great. jessica was exactly like the book, mike was funny. eric, you could murder and no one could miss, he was annoying. 

as for the vampires. be still my heart! rosalie was kind of a mismatch. she's supposed to be really tall and gorgeous but then you get nikki reed who so obviously looks like a dyed blonde and is petite and curvy. at first, emmett's face looked like something you smashed in with a blunt fist (not to mention he's the dumb jock from 90210) but he wasn't bad. pretty good, in fact. jasper was arguably good, arguably bad, depending on who you spoke to. he always looked like a robot in pain, which sounds like an oxymoron but he was pretty good at doing it. i thought he was great and he has potential for the books where he does more things. alice was right on the money, voice, face, everything. esme is the married woman alex from grey's anatomy liked so it didn't seem like she was a great match, but she was really warm and motherly. for some reason, she didn't look too vampirey. 

and carlisle! WOW. not to be crass but that's a dilf, if you've ever seen one. at first he looked like a ken doll. but then, he started looking hotter and hotter. he was pretty good, too.

oh and jacob black was one hot indian. he was a colgate commercial, too! blinding white teeth. charlie was pretty spot on. james? a little gross looking but cam gigandet during the premieres was a sizzle. victoria was perfect and weird. and laurent needs his own movie, he has the exotic black dreads dude all perfected.

one friend said it was just "meh" which i understand. if you didn't get the directing and everything, you probably won't appreciate it for it's critical value. i have to admit, i liked the directing, except some parts were just off and they seemed like commercial breaks (like the part where victims were dying. it just seemed weird.). the cinematography was different, a little indie and handholdy camera effect. when it came to the present, it was great; the flashbacks were a little weird and kind of "are you afraid of the dark?" like. the scenery was perfect, but there were moments when you kind of felt like the studio didn't give them enough budget.

special effects and make-up coulda been better. but the fight scenes were pretty good.

the voiceover by bella? genius. it was like the book, with her narrating it.

don't forget to catch stephenie meyer's cameo as a diner patron.

and don't miss the ending credits. it was good!!!!!! at times better than the movie. haha.