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Title: Twilight (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Kristen Stewart | ... | Bella Swan | |
| Sarah Clarke | ... | Renée | |
| Matt Bushell | ... | Phil | |
| Billy Burke | ... | Charlie Swan | |
| Gil Birmingham | ... | Billy Black | |
| Taylor Lautner | ... | Jacob Black | |
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Gregory Tyree Boyce | ... | Tyler |
| Justin Chon | ... | Eric | |
| Michael Welch | ... | Mike Newton | |
| Anna Kendrick | ... | Jessica | |
| Christian Serratos | ... | Angela | |
| Nikki Reed | ... | Rosalie | |
| Kellan Lutz | ... | Emmet Cullen | |
| Ashley Greene | ... | Alice Cullen | |
| Jackson Rathbone | ... | Jasper | |
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarries and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he doesn't... Written by Summit Entertainment
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This is the difference between reading the book and seeing the movie: The book is like talking to a Bella and getting all the details of her story and really feeling emotionally involved with her and her friends and all the characters because she's telling you everything that she felt and remembered. The Movie is like getting to see some of her home movies now, but you don't get every detail, and a few of the "memories" of how Bella told you the story were a little mixed up and you feel like there is so much more and why couldn't she just have videotaped her whole life for a reality show . . . it's just not fair! Well, at least that's how I felt after seeing the movie :)
But, having read the book, you can at least feel like you know "the rest of the story" and can fill in the missing details of the movie in you mind. I can see where it's "important" to see it more than once. The first time, I just kept thinking, "oh, they missed something" or "that's not how it happened", and it just seemed like chopped pieces of the story here and there. Now, I think I can go and just relax, being excited to review the parts of Bella's home movies that she does have and enjoy those parts of her story visually. The Movie did seem "Low Budget", and the make-up didn't seem consistent in some of the scenes, but then, as "Home Movies" go, the lighting is never the same and I can just rationalize it that way. Hope this helps you to relax and enjoy the movie, and re-read the book and see the movie again... and, I just can't wait until New Moon is released, or Midnight Sun is finished . . . and hopefully one day, the continuation of the story (please Stephanie).