{"id":360,"date":"2008-11-24T00:58:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T07:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/360"},"modified":"2008-11-24T01:01:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T08:01:54","slug":"twilight-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/twilight-the-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight – The Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TwilightAshley and I saw Twilight yesterday<\/em> with a theater full of adoring fans… including some very silly girls who screamed and clapped when Edward first appeared on the screen….<\/p>\n

First off, it was great having some mother-daughter-movie time.\u00c2\u00a0 Just fun to go hang out.\u00c2\u00a0 I miss being able to do that, so we must take advantage of the opportunity whenever it arises.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It was also great to have reserved seats.<\/p>\n

The movie was….\u00c2\u00a0 good<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Not great, not bad.\u00c2\u00a0 Better than ok.\u00c2\u00a0 Some characters seemed well very cast (Bella, Alice, Dr. Cullen, and Jacob in particular)<\/em> and others were good, but not outstanding.\u00c2\u00a0 Bella and Edward had definite chemistry on screen.\u00c2\u00a0 Edward (actor) didn’t bug me as much as\u00c2\u00a0I thought he would – he was pretty good… but he wasn’t perfect<\/em> for the role.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Laurent had a fabulous chest.\u00c2\u00a0 Character development was limited, and important characters weren’t given enough screen time.\u00c2\u00a0– It all felt a bit too shallow to capture the intensity of feeling in the book.\u00c2\u00a0 Felt more like a Cliff Notes version.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 I’m not sure someone seeing the movie without having read the book would really “get” the depth of the story.<\/p>\n

I could have done without the weird tree climbing scene (not part of the book, as I recall)<\/em>, and I was disappointed in the sunlight meadow experience.\u00c2\u00a0 It surprises me they didn’t spend a bit more on making this film, knowing how very popular it was.<\/p>\n

Of course the scenery in the movie was spectacular – it’s such a beautiful area.\u00c2\u00a0 Though almost everything had a blue cast to it that I didn’t see that much either time I visited<\/a>…\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

So see the movie – it was a fun afternoon diversion.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’ll look forward to on screen sequels.\u00c2\u00a0 But it really doesn’t live up to the standard of the book, imo.<\/p>\n

Have you seen Twilight?\u00c2\u00a0 What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashley and I saw Twilight yesterday with a theater full of adoring fans… including some very silly girls who screamed and clapped when Edward first appeared on the screen…. First off, it was great having some mother-daughter-movie time.\u00c2\u00a0 Just fun to go hang out.\u00c2\u00a0 I miss being able to do that, so we must take … Continue reading Twilight – The Movie<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviewsrecommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}