YOU MUST BE STUPID !!!!

They didn’t make it clear why Bella and Edward love each other, they didn’t spend any time at all setting up that relationship. The movie lacked sustenance, and it relied too heavily on the fact that most people watching it have read the book. If you’d watched it without reading the books I really don’t think you’d say ‘OME, that was soooo amazing. It was the best movie EVER’

“But much of what made the relationship between Edward and the smitten Bella Swan work in Meyer’s breezy book has been stripped away on screen. The funny, lively banter — the way in which Edward and Bella teased and toyed with one another about their respective immortality and humanity — is pretty much completely gone, and all that’s left is a slog of adolescent angst.

If you’re coming into this material cold, though, you will be seriously baffled as to what the fuss is all about, and that becomes glaringly obvious in the way Hardwicke has staged her action sequences. When Edward leaps from one spot to another to show off his physical prowess, or when he races through the forest with Bella strapped to his back, it looks distractingly jumpy and false. (The moment when he sparkles in the sunlight looks especially cheesy.)

There’s nothing transporting about the visuals. “Twilight” was a famously low-budget production compared to most traditional blockbusters, but this is ridiculous.

It doesn’t help that, as Bella, Kristen Stewart looks singularly sullen the entire time. She’s supposed to be enraptured by the thrills of her first love. Instead, she merely appears to be in the throes of pain. Sure, they can feel like the same thing when you’re a teenager, but Stewart’s one-note performance makes it difficult to get swept away by Bella’s forbidden, romantic adventure.”

– Twilight takes a but out of book’s fun ( http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081121/LIFE/811210324 )