****WARNING: SPOILERS OF THE TWILIGHT MOVIE!!!!!!*****
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**DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR HOW I FELT ABOUT THE FILM**
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* I'M SERIOUS*
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***WELL, IF YOU MUST***
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**DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR HOW I FELT ABOUT THE FILM**
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* I'M SERIOUS*
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***WELL, IF YOU MUST***
Well, I saw the Twilight movie today. And you know, I'll be honest, I was not very excited to see it. I had less than zero expectations. As I have posted previously, I really, Really, REALLY didn't like the last book. At all. And when I would see trailers and pictures and such of the movie, I was really skeptical that it would NOT blow chunks (I know it's a graphic description, but it's truly to how I felt).
Fears-
1) Casting: I am a Jacob fan. Yes, I know. I'm in the minority here. Big time. But it's true. I like tall dark and handsome, just look at my husband. I have a type! And I was really hoping a native American would be cast to play Jake. And when it was announced that my beloved wolfy would be played by "Sharkboy" I was less than thrilled.
Also, Robert Pattinson, even in his Cedric Diggory days, looks perpetually stoned, and though I prefer Jacob, I do love Edward and I was really worried Rob wouldn't be able to pull it off.
Kristen Stewart was a complete unknown quantity, so I had equal parts skepticsm and optimism on her ability to be Bella. But by the last book I wondered why I even liked Bella... so who cared who played her.
2) The HAIR! Oh my word, the publicity photos for the movie scared me incredibly. The hair on the actors looked absolutely ridiculous. I mean freakish.
3) I HATED 'Breaking Dawn': Dislike, disappointed. Yeah, those words are not strong enough for how I felt about it. Loathe, dispise, wretch inducing. That's a bit closer. Half way through the book I fell asleep and DREAMED of the scathing review I was going to write (Note: Yes, I'm a bit obsessive, but Russ says that he likes the fact that I'm fiery). Honestly, Breaking Dawn had basically killed my love of the Twilight series. It was just a festering sore for me. The thing I had loved so much had turned on me and mauled me severely.
This brings me to the movie. I had so many people around me sooooo excited to see the film and I tried to fein excitement, but I really wasn't coming up with much. But as the days passed and the release came closer and after dreaming the movie had turned out to be animated with no Jacob what so ever and didn't even follow the plot (a la Ella Enchanted book vs. movie *sigh*), I thought that the real thing couldn't be as bad as my dream, so I bought my tickets and saw it today.
I.
Loved.
It.
Seriously. It made me remember why I fell in love with the series in the first place. Why I was so emotionally invested to have the heaping pile that was Breaking Dawn smart so much. I loved Robert Pattinson as Edward. The scene when he first sits by Bella in Biology class was awesome. SO well done. Kristen Stewart was a better Bella than the one I imagined in my head. She reminded me why I loved Bella, why I cared about her life and the people in it. And Taylor Lautner as my beloved Jacob was cute enough that even my sister, who is the harshest critic I know, and more angry about the casting than I was, EVEN SHE found herself loving him. Though to be perfectly honest, my feelings about Taylor had softened quite a bit as I saw his personality during various filming blurbs on YouTube and such. It's a very Jacob personality. So the casting worry... color me converted, and happy to be so. The first movie doesn't have much of Jacob, but there were some nice scenes.... especially the glares at the end between Jake and Edward. w00t! Loved that!
The hair still was a little off for me, but not enough to make an impact on how I felt about the movie.
And as for Breaking Dawn... my sisters and I are pondering a petition that if they do a 4th movie that there will be no imprinting on infants, and that said infant will possibly be less squishy wonderful. Talk about sugar shock. *Must try to hold back bitter comments*
SO, to make a short story long, I LOVED the movie. I'm so thrilled and I think I might be back in the Twilight fandom. And I think I'm pretty darned glad to be back.
