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Post by darkdeception on Nov 22, 2008 14:47:28 GMT -5
Although I do have to say that they casted the movie very well, for the Cullens family at least, save for Carlisle. Mike was a good call, and Angela and Jessica. Eric seemed too cool to be a nerd though, and didn't resent Mike as much as he should have.
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Post by Kat on Nov 22, 2008 15:20:39 GMT -5
SPOILERS! Okay, what was up with the Cullen house? It is NOTHING like in the book! How are they supposed to do all the stuff involving the house like in the books? And also, Jasper. He is portrayed as a serious character in the books, and I feel like the made a big joke out of him in the movie. His mannerisms were not that awkward in the book. On to Edward, I don't think they captured they mannerisms of the Edward in the book. He wasn't socially awkward in the book. He was on the shy side, but he came off as overly awkward in the movie. Don't even get me started about the appearances....
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Post by whiplashken on Nov 22, 2008 15:23:50 GMT -5
See...that is why I hate watching movies based off of books. They never get it right, they always tweak stuff to make them "better", and it's completely stupid.
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Post by Kat on Nov 22, 2008 15:25:22 GMT -5
It's no big deal if you haven't read the books. But it's the little things that pissed me off the most. =/
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Post by whiplashken on Nov 22, 2008 15:29:06 GMT -5
You know what the sad part about all this is? These books (Twilight, Harry Potter) and what not were written so they could be adapted into films, yet the film makers still fuck them up!!! I never read a single Harry Potter book...but the last movie I saw...Forgot which one it was...it seemed more like a trailer for the movie without the annoying announcer voice over.
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Post by darkdeception on Nov 22, 2008 15:39:05 GMT -5
If Twilight was written to be transformed into a movie, then it was a failure from the first word.
First-person books are especially difficult to portray as good movies, only because the reader of the book gets every detail of the character in question, the the emotions as they come, the narration throughout the entire book.
Transcribed to a movie, it loses the first-person-ness, if you catch my drift. Yes, the woman narrates a little, but not a lot, not all of it. She couldn't.
There are always things that movies lose in translation. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Twilight, I thought, lost the most.
My biggest complaint with the movie (I actually liked Jasper's character, though the entire theme of the movie was giggling and awkwardness, which bothered me a great deal) was the fact that, out of all the scenes they tweaked and twisted, I don't think they showed the scene from which the title of the book came from.
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Post by Kami Suki on Nov 23, 2008 19:50:05 GMT -5
It was ok for someone who hasnt read the books...but to me (who has) it was ehhhhhhh......well yeah i was expecting edward to look a little bit like lestat from queen of the damned and really hott and it wasnt like the book at all yea the first scene just pushed me it was awful...
oh and did you know that the guy that plays Edward plays Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter Movies???
he did good with the American accent i have to give him props for that
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