....Wow. I never thought I could actually like Twilight LESS.....But I do now. It was already pretty clear to me that Meyer wrote the book as wish-fulfillment, but there were times when I was reading that I was able to look past that. The movie, though. It makes it completely obvious, with the lame dialogue, and everything else, that she wrote the book purely for herself. She IS Bella. And the movie made that PAINFULLY obvious.
Oh, and I didn't pay for it....I'm going to confess that I have a bad habit with movies that I don't care to see in theatres. I find them online (not to download, just to watch, so I'm not completely dishonest).....It's bad. I know this. But I still do it.....Plus, I wasn't going to allow ANY money to get to Smeyer's pocket because of me. She doesn't deserve it. In an ideal world, authors would be paid according to their talent--and Smeyer would be about as poor as they come. I refuse to line her pockets anymore than I already have (in a momentary lapse from intelligence, I bought Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse).
On a more movie-related note, it DID stay true to the book, for the most part. There were parts were it deviated slightly, but it wasn't really that big of a deal. Unfortunately, it didn't deviate enough (meaning Bella DIDN'T die at the end, even though the story would've been MUCH better if she had've....).