“Weitz… who has essentially made a succession of interlocking music videos”- This is so true! I didn’t get the music. Nothing fit. The film was SO slow…I’m like, Kristen, just say your lines already. There’s no need for a 10 second pause between lines!

I wonder what the stars of the film think of the movie. They seem to be relatively intelligent people; can they honestly think they made a good film? I hope they’re not as blinded as their obsessive fanbase.

While I can only hope for a better job on Eclipse, if New Moon is any indication, more disappointments are sure to come.

I would like to correct one point that Brandon wouldn’t have known (only reviewing the movie and not having read the 4 books): the “werewolves” in Twilight are not categorically werewolves, they’re shape-shifters. Actual werewolves are referred to as “children of the moon” in the last book. The Quileute wolves just happened to have historically taken on the guise of wolves; they could have been any other large predatory animal.

Regardless, I don’t have any problems with Twilight skewering all pre-conceived (classic, traditional) notions of vampires and werewolves. I mean, these are myths and folklore, not science, so the creativity keeps things fresh and allows for different stories. On that note, no one gets mad at George Romero for constantly re-adapting zombies – both within his own movies, and changing how zombies were originally conceived (Voodoo magic – no braaiiiins or flesh eating, just revived undead slaves).

Don’t be hatin’ on the creativity, man.