In the midst of moving, with nothing at home, I fled the apartment into the world of the supernatural that is Twilight, and let my inner teenager fall for Edward Cullen.

Since I’ve read, and loved, the book I told myself that the movie would not be as good, but that doesn’t mean that I cannot enjoy it for what it is. And enjoy it I did.

To me it gave a more nuanced image, as we did not have to hear all of Bella’sramblings on how perfect Edward is, his god-like body and wondering "what he sees in me". But still Robert Pattinson was hot as Edward.

When I read a book I very rarely put faces on people, for most part they’re just faceless people; they can smile, show emotion, but they have now face. It’s weird, but that’s how it is. Even if I’m reading a book after the movie, knowing which actor plays which part, I still cannot see them, especially if I’ve seen the actor in something else. It can turn around; when I read High Fidelity I could not at all picture John Cusack as Rob, but when I saw the movie it all made sense.

Peter Facinelli as Carlisle surprised me. He looked great, was well-composed, a big change from the image I had of him as Mike Dexter in Can’t Hardly Wait. OK, so he was the only actor I’ve seen in something else and remember well (I’ve seen Elizabeth Reaser in Grey’s Anatomy, but the part of Esme wasn’t that big).

I liked the casting of Edward, Bella and Alice. Emmet and Jasper’s parts were not that big, so I didn’t get a feeling for them, Emmet looked the part, though.

As for Rosalie, she’s supposed to be the most beautiful girl in the world, but I did not see that. In a way it felt like she wasn’t beautiful enough to be such a bitch. Nikki Reid is beautiful, but something just didn’t work, if it was the blonde hair or the lipstick, Rosalie didn’t look as beautiful as she should have.

Another thing I wish they had done was the development of the relationship between Bella and the Cullens; namely Alice and Esme. In the book Esme tells her story during the baseball game, while Alice and Bella bond in the hotel in Phoenix. Those stories are important to the plot and it was bad that they decided to leave them out. Maybe a little less scenery shots would have allowed those stories to be featured, even though the scenography was beautiful. It’s not like they had to fill the movie with beautiful scenes just because the plot was thin, they had more plots to use, but chose not to. Leaving out those scenes of bonding was the one thing I truly missed from the book. Also, they shortened the time-frame of the movie, from a whole (school) year to just a few months. Why they did this I don’t know as it allows the relationship to grow and develop, not just start overnight.

Another blogger commented that the scene where Edward, wearing Wayfers, escorted Bella out of the car is already classis. She’s right. If at any point in the movie I would trade places with Bella it would be here.

My inner teenager got what she wanted. As an adult, I’m not sure I would enjoy the movie, had I not read the books. But since I have read the books, I’m already excited for the filming of New . As long as they develop other relationships more, not just Bella and Edward’s.

Book Tip – Twilight