Although there are notable differences between you and I — I didn't hate the movie, but I like the book much better, mostly because while Pattinson is pretty, he and Stewart seemed too wooden (well, aside from the fact that Stweart was very twitchy). The hospital scene was painfully bad to me. And I'm hard-core Team Edward (which is wierd, given that I am generally a far bigger werewolf lover than I am a vampire-lover).

The fact that the vampires sparkle didn't actually bother me in the book, but man, did it look hokey on film. XD

Have you read Midnight Sun? I hope she finishes it someday, as I like what there is of it best out of the series. Actually, my oder of liking them is in order of publication, Breaking dawn second-best, Eclipse third-best, and so on. I kinda hope she'll do them *all* from Edward's perspective.

But, I was a little embarrassed by the misty, Senior picture, romantic camera shots

My least favorite was the swirling around the couple forest scene where Bella figures out Edward is a vampire. WHY movie WHY.

R.Patz (as all the fangirls call him) did a good job, I think. As did Kristen Stewart–I think she did a good job playing t subtle. At the midnight showing (yes I was there) I remember a teen girl sitting in front of me complaining that Bella didn't blow up at her Dad when he told he'd called her Mom (after her almost accident where Edward stopped the car), like in the book. Instead she just seem internally aggrevated and I thought "Wow, that's much better." Hence, one of the many reasons I think the movie is superior.

I don't know if the movie is an honest portrayal of teen angst, but it did have teen angst that I could relate to (at least more than some other recent teen movies). In a way, it's kind of weird that I think this movie does teen angst well, since I can not stand the director's other teen angst-y film, Thirteen.

And on a slightly unrelated note, I am still to this day dissapointed with how Harry Potter ended. JK Rowling betrayed me. BETRAYED.

The book might have been better if she wrote Edward's point of view into it in the first place since Bella's perspective did get a tad annoying.

Now that the movie is out on DVD, a friend and I agreed to get together with some other folks last weekend and watch it for the first (and hopefully the last) time. We couldn't get five minutes into it before the MST3K snarking commenced. It was so painful to watch. Maybe it is an honest portrayal of teen angst, but I'm old enough that all the whining is mostly just annoying. And Edward is supremely creepy to me, what with all the stalking and staring and ranting about how he loves her so much he wants to eat her (and not in way that would be fun for her). We pretty much agreed that the most interesting storyline in the whole thing was Bella's dad and his apparent drinking problem.

In conclusion, I am old and set in my ways. These kids today need to stop moping and putting themselves in stupidly dangerous situations. (And get off my lawn.) And for the love of all that's unholy, vampires burst into flame in sunlight. No more crappy CGI sparkling!!!