Why Twilight Can't Beat Harry Potter

Film.com - Movie Reviews - 2nd Dec 2008

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Harry Potter: I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with Laremy. I enjoyed the Twilight movie, much to my own surprise. I've read the entire series and found the books to be anticlimactic and the Bella/Edward romance to be, at times, completely illogical. But I felt the movie brought the characters to life in a way the book didn't. I loved that Catherine Hardwicke and Kristen Stewart emphasized what I find most interesting about Bella -- that she is an outsider by choice. She wanted no part of the popularity her new classmates were so ready to bestow upon her, and that helped me understand better why she was drawn to silent, moody Edward, even if he did spend his early scenes merely glaring and posing like a Calvin Klein model from the early '90s. I thought, when he did finally get around to speaking, Robert Pattinson showed us Edward's charm, while I'd always felt he came off as stilted in the books. And I thought the film gave us plenty of time to soak in the early tension between the lovers before James turned up. Secondary characters like Charlie, Billy, Jessica and Mike were funnier than in the book, and all of the Cullens (except Jasper) were well cast. Yes, the special effects and vampire makeup were cheesy, and Edward literally didn't sparkle enough, but I felt the movie was far from the disaster it could've been. But with all that being said, I think Twilight the movie officially resolves a big debate that's been raging among fans of literature and film: Twilight will neve

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