Mush. Mush. Mush. O.M.G. The amount of mushy-ness can last me a lifetime. It was just so darn mushy!! To the point where its just insanely too much! If there was a Meter of Mushy-ness the little red light on top would be blinking, sirens would be screaming and a mechanical voice would be going "Warning! Overload! Warning! Overload!". Seriously. It was just so...so....what's the word? Wait wait wait. I know the word. It's at the tip of my tongue. Hold it....ah. Right.
MUSHY!.

Okay. What on earth am I exaggerating about now. *no people, Nat has not gone crazy and started talking random nonsense* I'm talking about the new movie Twilight. Just came back from the preview at Curve with Marsh. Malaysian Today (our cousin's newspaper) was organising it so we got free tickets.

Anyways. Back to my ranting. *do bear with me people and please forgive my ranting but this has just got to be said*

I found out about Twilight, a fiction book by Stephenie Meyer, when her latest book Breaking Dawn was on the best sellers list in the bookshops. So thought I'd check it out. Me. Fiction lover. Ya know? Then I found out it was going to be made into a movie. Once again. Me. Fiction lover. So I thought, ok cool, a movie to look forward to.

But I had NO idea how HUGE  this whole Twilight thing was!! Apparently loads of people have been reading the books. And some couldn't even wait to see it in the cinemas so they've been watching bits and pieces of the leaked out version online!! Whoa. It's like some massive thing....which I didn't realise until earlier this evening.

Right. Now the main point. The movie.

It was soooo soooo so so so so mushy. Yeah you probably already know that by now. I guess it was supposed to be a supernatural/action/romance kinda movie. Needless to say, that wasn't it. It started off ok. After about 30 minutes, that's when it all started. There was  hardly any focus on explaining the scenes and dialogue. So if you haven't read the book, you'd have no idea why this or that is happening. Maybe they wanted to save the answers for the second movie. But come on lah, it'd have been much more logical to put them in this one.

Wish they had cast a different guy to play the main lead which was that dude who played Cederic Diggory in the Harry Potter movie. Personally, I don't think he's cute, and therefore doesn't define the term 'vampire' which are supposed to be the best looking people ever. Instead he looked freaky and possesed. *i'm so mean*. Geez, even his vampire brother was better looking. (im so so SO mean). And what on earth was with the vampires' makeup people?! He-looo?? Sure vampires are pale. But pale does NOT equal white. It's as though someone poured a whole bucket of white powder all over their faces. So white that it's so fake. And what's with all that hair gel man?

Acting skills weren't that great. But then again, you don't look for that in fiction movies. So nevermind about that. What you do look for is the special effects. Which were pretty okay. I did like the forest scenery though. That was nice. Soundtrack wasn't that bad either. Owh and it did follow the book quite closely. But they cut out the most important parts - the parts with explanations in it!

And yes!! The editing!! You know when you cut scenes from a movie, you have to do it properly so that you don't notice that something has been cut out? Well whoever did the cutting for this movie better go retake Editing Movies 101. It was SO obvious that scenes had been cut out. The guy is half-way through a sentence and then suddenly he's saying something else. They even cut out one whole critically important part of the explanation dialogue, so that even though the second half of the explantaion was there, you still wouldn't understand because the first half got cut out.

Even for a fiction lover like me, this was a 4/10. Personally, I'd stick to the books. This was yet another good example of an unsuccessful book-to-movie-adaptation. If there are any Twilight fans out there, do forgive my mainly negative review. To each his own ya know?

If you're not a fiction fan, don't bother. If you're a fiction fan, read the book first. Then buy the pirated DVD and watch at home. Plus side: you can fast-forward all the mushy parts.

Phew. Glad that's all out now. Heh. Once again sorry about all the ranting. My update post and it's about me negatively reviewing a movie. My apologies people!! Ahhh now I can have a more peaceful sleep tonight. Til my next update then! Don't worry, I promise you there won't be any complaining in it.

~give me the book. now. need to get rid of this bad impression in my head~