My oldest daughter was born in 1989 and a couple of months ago she loaned me the book of Twilight... I am now an avid 'Twitard' despite the fact that my initial reaction to her description of the book (i.e. A human girl falls in love with a vampire) was that it wasn't my kind of story since I'm more of a science fantasy freak (I love authors like J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings, David Eddings - Belgariad and Mallorean series, Raymond E. Feist - The Riftwar Saga and Terry Brooks - Shannara Trilogy). Twilight just sounded to 'Goth' for my tastes. But when I read it I was hooked within a few pages. So much so that I couldn't bear to wait for the rest of the books in the series... I went out and bought my own each time I finished the previous one.
So today my daughter came around her best friend and with the Twilight DVD in hand and the three of us watched the movie with laughs and sighs all round.
I loved the movie, but I was a little disappointed with the Edward character. In a way that was inevitable, having read the books first. According to the book, Edward is some gorgeously handsome 'Adonis' character. The actor chosen to play him is somewhat of a disappointment in the looks department... he's cute but he's not THAT cute!
Of course, I also noticed some discrepancies in the timelines. For instance, people didn't start going missing or getting killed until book two (New Moon). The characters of Laurent, Victoria and James never appeared apart from Alice's visions until the ball game in the clearing. And there were a whole bunch of other discrepancies from the time the Bella met Jacob, how she got away from Alice and Jasper to go meet James at the dance studio etc.
None of those things really matter though. As I said, I really enjoyed the movie. If you've read the books first it's always a little disappointing to see the movie because it's impossible to include as much information in the movie as it can in the book.
So today my daughter came around her best friend and with the Twilight DVD in hand and the three of us watched the movie with laughs and sighs all round.
I loved the movie, but I was a little disappointed with the Edward character. In a way that was inevitable, having read the books first. According to the book, Edward is some gorgeously handsome 'Adonis' character. The actor chosen to play him is somewhat of a disappointment in the looks department... he's cute but he's not THAT cute!
Of course, I also noticed some discrepancies in the timelines. For instance, people didn't start going missing or getting killed until book two (New Moon). The characters of Laurent, Victoria and James never appeared apart from Alice's visions until the ball game in the clearing. And there were a whole bunch of other discrepancies from the time the Bella met Jacob, how she got away from Alice and Jasper to go meet James at the dance studio etc.
None of those things really matter though. As I said, I really enjoyed the movie. If you've read the books first it's always a little disappointing to see the movie because it's impossible to include as much information in the movie as it can in the book.
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