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• First of all, I detest the movie because it didn't give the book any justice AT ALL! I hate to think that a great book such as twilight turned into such a suckish movie.
  
• The casting. IT SUCKS BIG TIME! Well, I know that there can't be any person in this world who can protray 'the' Edward Cullen, but I wish they could have chosen someone better. Robert Pattinson is a good actor, but not for Twilight. As for Kristen Stewart, her acting sucks. Well, not really bad, but her acting isn't Bella at all. Even when she said she's not afraid of Edward, she still looks scared. As for Nikki Reed (Rosalie), they should have chosen a prettier and a real BLONDE. Her depiction in the book is the most beautiful creature in the face of the planet for pete's sake! But Nikki Reed still passes for me. Jackson Rathbone was really okay for the role of Jasper. And I didn't dislike him at all in the movie (although he is very funny). I've got nothing to say to Elizabeth Reaser (Esme) except for the fact she looks too old for the role and Kellan Lutz was pretty okay too. Other than that, I give two thumbs-up to Ashley Greene (Alice Cullen), Cam Gigandet (James), Rachelle Lefèvre who played Victoria (although I wish her hair was redder than that), Edi Gathegi (Laurant), and Peter Faccineli (Dr. Carlisle) who were perfect for the role given to them. As for the human roles... I am satisfied.
  
• Another factor why the movie sucks is because most of the cast haven't even read the book! I have watched interviews, sneak-peaks, and behind the scenes and it was pretty much obvious they don't know much about the story other than the stuff written on their script.
  
• The effects. My GOODNESS! Cheap tricks and bad stunts. Hello?! It's already 2008! They should have provided better effects than that! And the way Robert Pattinson was climbing a tree? It was sooo OBVIOUS that he was being pulled up! It would have been better if they just pulled him at a pace a normal climber would then fast-forward it. Robert's arms barely caught up with the way he was pulled up while Kristen was on his back.
  
• The CULLEN house. I expected a more grand/wider/bigger/BETTER house. The house depicted in the book wasn't like that at all.
  
• The lines and scenes. There are a lot of reasons why people LOVE the Twilight Saga. One major factor/reason is the awesome and romantic lines Edward Cullen says to Bella Swan. Another are the awesome and thrilling love scenes. In the movie, you wouldn't appreciate Edward's love to Bella that much. (But I forgive the movie producers for this one. It will be hard to put every single scene and lines in movie that runs in less than 3 hours.)
  
• Bella's Lullaby. COME ON! It's a lullaby and Carter Burwell composition doesn't even sound like a lullaby! His version of Bella's Lullaby is awesome, but it just doesn't fit with the story. River Flows in You by Yiruma would have been a better choice, but I do understand that you guys prefer if Bella's Lullaby had it's own composition. Still, I am not satisfied of Carter Burwell's compostion for Bella's Lullaby.
  
• The romance. Okay, it was pretty obvious that this movie is somehow a love story. But the feeling of love and romance between Edward and Bella can not be felt at the movie. In the book, you can't help it but be moved about the way they love each other. The feeling of how safe it is to love again and never to have the fear of getting heart broken. Knowing somebody will love you for an eternity..... (okay. I think I got carried away). The good thing is that the movie still showed the essence of comedy but in a different way.
  
• The interpretation. I know it is basically impossible to make the movie exactly the same as the book. But the Catherine Hardwicke's interpretation of Twilight is just lame. You can find the true essence or meaning at the movie, but not feel it. Which is exactly the opposite of what it was suppose to be.
  
• Some are wrong.. JUST SO WRONG! Like in one scene that someone criticized Bella's Truck? In the book, it was pretty much said that it was a good thing that her car didn't blend in badly in the crowd since the most decent car in the lot was a silver volvo (Edward Cullen's car).
  
  

“Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated.”
-Rotten Tomatoes

The overall opinion seems to be that ‘Twilight’ has lost a little magic in the transition from book to film!
-Sugarlasm