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My thoughts....keep it at 3 movies. End the third with the Wedding and then end with a shot of Edward turning Bella. We never have to see her turn..we know what's going to happen and if they should decide to make the 4th movie, they could somehow work in the pregnancy and all the rest. But if they don't, it's pretty neatly ended right there.

I'd be worrying about how New Moon would work as a movie before thinking about Breaking Dawn. New Moon is, like, 450 pages of Bella feeling sorry for herself before there's any plot development. 3 movies would be more than enough for the series unless there's a lot of embellishment, because not a lot actually happens in the later books. The formula seems to be that the first two-thirds of the book is comprised of relationship stuff, and the plot gets rolling in the last third. That's perfectly fine in book form and will work fine for the Twilight movie since there needs to be time to build up and introduce the characters, but it could pose a problem later on.

Updated On: 8/6/08 at 09:58 PM

Yeah but if they showed Edward being upset that he left Bella it would kind of ruin the surprise that he actually DID love her and all that... I don't see any reason why the books can't be made as is.. but I hate when books are made into movies and change a lot (cough harry potter cough) haha

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I snapped, and actually bought 'Breaking Dawn'. This is the first time I've spent money on a Stephenie Meyer book, so she'd better be happy! (The first two were borrowed from the store I worked in, and the publisher sent me the third for free because I worked in a bookshop and asked nicely. )

I'm actually pleased with how it turned out. Oh, it was absolutely terrible, but after everything I'd read online, I was expecting it to be EVEN WORSE. The first two books were pretty much terrible fanfiction (some ff.net member will be serving Meyer with papers any day now), but once we'd got through the really horrifically boring wedding, tedious pregnancy, and Jacob (who's meant to be my favourite character!) being dull, and some genuine conflict was introduced, it improved enough for me to almost say I enjoyed it. Yes, it was terrible, but it could have been worse. ^_^

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I thought I'd at least like Jacob's part as he's the only main character I find tolerable, but it ended up being pretty boring. The one thing that seems original and interesting to me in the books is the werewolf mythology Meyer writes, and while there were some interesting things (Jacob breaking off and forming a new pack, the way the thought-sharing worked), there could've been more.

I wonder if the Twilight movie will do respectable numbers after its opening weekend. If not, I wonder if that will affect HP's release. Probably not, since Bestie's probably right about WB staggering its summer blockbusters...

Updated On: 8/16/08 at 11:08 PM

I'm not sure how this thread got bumped back up without any recent posts (unless the most recent post was deleted), but it reminds me that I was going to post about Stephenie Meyer's snitfit.

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html - the full story is to be found here. It makes me laugh; why DO female vampire-novel writers get so snitty with the online faction of their audiences? XD

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I'm not exactly Meyer's biggest fan, but I didn't see any snittiness in that post unless she's edited it. I mean, I'd be pissed if someone I trusted leaked my unfinished, unedited manuscript that was intended for publication, too. And she was generous enough to make it available to the people who haven't already downloaded it.

I read all of these books last month. I read them so clearly I must've been enjoying them. I was a big fan of Jacob (Bella needs to freaking go away and Edward is boring as hell) but the last book was just...

so...

bad...

Ugh.

PS Weez, I know this is from the first page but I read Haruki Murakami and Dan Brown and I read Twilight!

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I think it's pretty snitty...

To say "I'm just... too sad to write this anymore because I'm so angry that I'd kill off the Cullens."

Most writers, (at least in my naive head) write for the love of the characters. She said herself she was curious about writing this and just wanted to see what this would have been like thru Edward's eyes, so I believe she started out with an intention of just fun. But her response just seemed like a money hungry author who doesn't care about getting her story out there to her fans.

I just lack respect for her as an author. I enjoy her story telling (sometimes, she's very descriptive, which I love, but then she just... over does the same idea too many times) but her plots kind of suck... and i just don't comprehend how she's being deemed the next 'JK Rowling'.

And sorry for this random fangirl vent, it's something I've been wanting to get out!

They are showing the final trailer for the film on ET tonight. Here's a preview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjC5AEikPlA

The movie... actually looks... decent.

I mean the first book is the only decent one if you really think about it, and I'm SO happy we're not going to be in Bella's head anymore.

And I think the cast looks great. We'll see how it is. Smeyer, you can have 10 more dollars of my money because this is the only movie I'll be seeing.