Twilight is a very pretty movie. I love the Pugit Sound area (my grandpa lives just southeast of Forks). I really enjoyed the scenery and even saw a few things that I recognized. They captured the setting extremely well. But, me being a stickler for details, I didn't like it the first time I saw it.
I let the picture that I had in my head and the exactness of the book interfere with the entirely different artistic interpretation before me. It didn't help that there was a row of trend following teenyboppers in front of me and a row of robot clique girls behind who all talked and giggled throughout the entire movie, thus cheapening what the film was trying to portray. As I was walking out to the car with my Twihard buddy afterward, I heard said teenyboppers and clique girls exclaiming profanities and such things like "OMG! That was like the best movie ever!" and "I would so do Carlisle." Is it really a wonder that my opinion of Twilight the movie was so low?
I recently had the opportunity to see the movie again with my family as part of my birthday. Again the scenery drew me in. Then as the movie progressed, I found myself enjoying it. It helped that my birthday was on a Thursday so the theater was practically empty. Now I absolutely love Twilight. Sure, it still had its flaws, but overall I'm impressed with the mixture of realism and fantasy that the actors and effects brought to the film. The high school was perfect and the students were exactly the way they are in reality. The part where Edward shows Bella the view from the treetops was gorgeous. The whole movie was believable but totally fantastic at the same time which is the way it should be. In closing, I'd like to say that Jasper was totally adorable. So there.
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