'Twilight' Movie Review

I'm not going to mince words or go into a long diatribe about this film. All I can say is that it is incredibly entertaining, preposterously silly and annoyingly delightful. I absolutely love Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga," she's a brilliant writer with a distinct voice that has written a great book series with a legion of fans, who's passion boggles my mind. With that mentioned "Twilight" is a completely different artistic endeavor and entity and an ADAPTATION, and not a perfect book to screen copy, but certainly does the source material justice.

Director Catherine Hardwicke has done a stellar job helming this special little film, that just happened to turn into a ginormous pop-culture phenomenon. There's really not much else I can say accept go see the movie if you're interested or intrigued, and if you've actually read any of the Twilight Saga, seeing all the characters come to life will most certainly amuse and please you. It's just a cool movie, with a cool story, cast and fantastic soundtrack, that's worth seeing (maybe even more than once- and no I won't admit how many times I've already seen it.) My rating 8/10

Twilight Review Round Up

11/19/08

Though "Twilight" comes out on November 21st and there's a number of reviews out that aren't as obsessed as the 18 million people who bougt Stephanie Meyer's novels. As if anyone else's opinon mattered when it came to the film adaptation this incredible book, I was pretty excited, intrigued and nervous about what Entertainment Weekly would have to say (my main concern was that Lisa Schwarzbaum would write the review and we don't really agree on anything.) Thankfully Owen Glieberman wrote the review and gave it a solid B, which is honestly good enough for me, though I intend to see the movie at 12:01 tonight no matter what. Like almost every film adaptation (All the Pretty Horses excluded) I'm not expecting the film to be better or surpass the book in any capacity. I'm just really excited to see what Catherine Hardwicke was able to do on the biggest picture she's ever worked on. She is a woman, artist and director I highly respect and am inspired by...and ok yes Robert Pattinson, as well as Kristen Stewart and the rest of the case make me swoon. So here are a compilation of the "Twilight" reviews.

Guess who's back? Back again, Jenny's back, tell a friend...

Hello fair readers! I'm sorry it took longer than expected to , I've been suffering from the winter blues, incrediblly busy with work and obsessivley reading Stephanie Meyer's "Twlight Saga." I have been totally engulfed, in this utterly intoxicating and enteraining book series, but have finally come up for air to post, do some ranting and include some pictures of me from when I used to be adorable. So I hope you've missed me a little, I know Brian did (thanks by the by.) And have a great weekend, I'll be headed to New York for a wedding, so expect some random mobile posts & some stuff I've been meaning share peppered on the site throughout the weekend!

trailer trash- Twilight

so i haven't been posting as much this week, because i, like most people, was following the Election and subsequent win of President Elect Barack Obama. though the main reason to be perfectly and completely honest as to why i haven't been posting on the regular (thursday's were pre-drafted) is that i've been obsessively reading Stephanie Meyer's vampire-romance "Twilight." the series has sold over 17 million copies world wide and spawned a fan base that's reminiscent of that of Harry Potter.

coincidentally the film stars Robert Pattinson, who played Cedric Diggory in HP "Goblet of Fire," and the legitmately talented Kristin Stewart (who you may have caught in "Panic Room" when she was 11, or more recently in "Into The Wild,") as Edward Cullen the "unbelivably beautiful vampire" who falls in love the "incredibly clumsy human" Bella Swan. when i first saw the trailer for the film a few months ago, i was unimpressed and wondered "WTF is this POS." [which i might add is also how i felt the first time i saw the trailer for "The Matrix"...& ultimately ended up seeing 3 times in theaters.] but then Ms. Kelly lent me her copy of Twilight and i wasn't able to put it down to the point where i would have to remind myself to eat during my lunch break rather than just sit and read. the movie is directed by the eternally cool and incredibly talented Catherine Hardwicke, who also directed the heart-breaking and gut-wrenching drama "Thirteen" and "Lords of Dogtown." when "Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince" got moved from November 21st to next summer, Twilght's release was pushed forward to occupy that date and has created a frenzy and coverage like i have never seen before. i'm just hoping the film does this beloved book justice.

"Twilight Trailer"