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Twilight:
So i have been putting off seing this for a very long time. I just made fun of the movie based on reviews for the longest time but some Twilight fans started calling me a hypocrite. I decided to read the first book just to see how bad Stephanie Meyer butchered vampires. Just as Stephen King said, her writing is atrocious. It's an okay concept for a story but has been done a thousand times by one thousand times better authors. If you're a fan of Ann Rice then the Twilight series is going to be a huge, dumbed down disappointment to you.
The movie has me torn though. The first three quarters of the book are squished into the first half of the movie, and the first quarter of the movie is absolutely cheesy. The acting is so over done, and the facial expressions are so forced it made me want to cry. The last half of the movie was pleasant. From the baseball scene forward I was genuinely interested and sort of into it. The acting just got so much better, and the characters were closer to the book. A lot less silliness in general. Kristen Stewart is really good at tripping over heself and looking like a dorky teenager too. I have to admit I was entertained.
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