Love of Vampires

Vampire books, movies and lore…

Ah, Twilight. I know I still have yet to review the books of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (I’ve read them all), but feel I must review the movie first because I saw the movie before I read the book.

I remember watching the movie, being interested because it was a vampire love story. I am a sucker (HA!) for vampire love stories. I watched the movie thinking probably what every other female on the planet was thinking when Edward Cullen first walks through that door and Bella asks Jessica, “Who’s he?”… My god, he is beautiful…. swoooooooon!

Other than not being able to take my eyes off the beautiful actor who plays Edward Cullen, I thought the movie was ok. A little slow at times, but hey, I like the love stories with awkward moments – makes for an interesting relationship, to say the least. Then, I read the books, and I watched Twilight again and loved it.

I have to say, knowing the characters that Stephenie Meyer created and being with them for 4 books helped me with the movie Twilight. It didn’t seem as slow and I thought the director of the movie, Catherine Hardwicke, had a vision really meshed well with Meyer’s world in Forks.

The meadow scene was beautiful, but my favorite scene had to have been the baseball scene. And it was set to the music of Muse, my favorite band. The movie really had great music all around – Blue Foundation, Muse and the Iron & Wine song at the end was absolutely a beautiful choice for that moment.

The sweeping views of the mountains and the overall mysterious bluish tinge to the movie made it a very pretty movie to watch. And I know that there are a lot of haters out there, but I love that the vampires in Meyer’s world sparkle! An interesting twist on the vampire myth, among the others she came up with.

So, even though this movie has vampires in it, I saw it as more a love story.  And as far as love stories go, I liked Twilight. I’ve seen New Moon, which I will review at a later date, and am really looking forward to Eclipse.

VVVV (4 fangs for Twilight)

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