“Twilight” opened recently, Nov. 21 to be exact. I saw it one week after its opening, and it was still rather packed with females. As I sat watching the previews (which were the best part of the movie in my opinion) I noticed the excitement of every female in the room regardless of age. 

           I went in to the theater with an open mind for the most part, because I was prepared to take this movie for its own creation, rather than comparing it to the book. That was not the case for my female counterpart, as well as other girls I heard talking in the theatre. The film opened with Isabella Swan (Kristen Stewart) holding a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona.

            Isabella moves to Washington State. In Washington lives her father, Charlie Swan (Billy Burke), chief of police. The town to which she moves to is called Forks. This town is supposedly one of the cloudiest and wettest towns in the United States. Of course, because the sun rarely comes out, Isabella naturally finds a family of vampires known as the Cullens living there. This family basically ignores everyone else and everyone just thinks of it as “gorgeous.”

            The first time Isabella sees Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) in her biology class, a fan is conveniently placed in the room (even though you would think a rainy town in one of the coldest states in the United States would be chilled, or it would at least have air conditioning,) which blows Isabella’s scent in Edward’s direction. This scene in the movie made me burst out in laughter , for which I got many threatening looks, because Edward’s face when he smells Isabella was just an example of not only his horrible acting capabilities, but the bad acting in the entire movie.    

            If Bram Stoker (author of “Dracula”) were alive today, he would honestly be ashamed of what has come of his creation. I say this because the vampires in this movie sparkle in the sunlight like diamonds instead of dying. Not only that, but the only way to kill a vampire in this movie is to rip the vampire in to little pieces and then burn the remains. What happened to the good ole stake through the heart?

            Vampires in this movie have great speed and great strength. Edward demonstrates this by having Isabella on his back for a tree-climbing extravaganza. This part was some more sampling of bad acting, when Edward calls Isabella a spider-monkey. I found that my female counterpart and I were the only ones laughing at this part.

            The bad guy in this movie is James (Cam Gigandet), because he catches Bella’s scent while she is hanging out with the Cullens, and because of Edward being defensive of her, James decides it would be fun to hunt Isabella down. This character and Carlisle Cullen (Peter Facinelli) were my favorites because James is trying to kill the annoying Isabella Swan, and Carlisle just seems so wise and is actually played by someone who can act.

            Over all I would give this movie one star out of five, for its lack of acting abilities and how people who have not read the book cannot understand what is going on.