Twilight [Blu-ray]

This is the story of Bella Swan. She used to live in Phoenix with her mum and her stepfather, but decided to move in a small town in Washington called Forks to try to live with her father for a bit.Bella, 17, feels different from the other students, and this is noticeable even by just looking at her features: Extremely pale and beautiful in a different way than other girls.At her school, a family called the Cullens are different. They are all extremely pale and beautiful. They are adopted by the beautiful blond doctor in town and his wife. The family consists of Dr.Carlisle Cullen and Esme, Rosalie and Emmett, Jasper and Alice, and finally the mysterious Edward.Bella and Edward are attracted to each other straight away. The film is very nice, but I have to say that the 4 books from Stephanie Meyer are amazing.Bella senses that Edward is different from her, because of his eye colour changing to gold and black, his speed and strength. She then researches and learns that he is a vampire, as well as his family. He warns her to stay away from him, but they can't. Edward and his family are different than others because they don't feed on human blood, but hunt animals instead. They don't want to be "monsters". However, there are other vampires who are just killers, or more precisely: "trackers". Edward and Alice have a power. He can read people thoughts (except Bella's), and Alice has visions of the future. They can go out during the day, but prefer bad weather, because when it's sunny their skin glows like diamonds and everyone would notice that they don't look natural, hence not human.Bella is not scared because she knows that Edward would never hurt her as well as his family. For Edward it's hard to be too close to Bella, such as kissing her for example, because she's like "his own personal brand of heroin" as he says. It's hard for him, because he would like to drink her blood, but at the same time he loves her. At the end of the film, Bella is still with Edward and would like to be an immortal as well so that they could be 17 and together forever. He asks her if one lifetime is not enough for her, and she replies that for the moment she can live with that. The film explores sexual tension for teenagers very well. It's also a very modern film about friendly vampires as we haven't seen since a long time. Maybe a bit in "Interview with a vampire", or in Buffy, but it's still very different.I recommend it, but if you can, read the 4 books first even if they seem huge, they are amazing and you will read them very quickly as they are extremely entertaining.

I thought I would write a review about the special features because lots of people have commented on the film and said very little (if anything) about the contents of the second disc. I liked the film, but I am going to focus mainly on the bonus features of this 2-disc set. If you enjoyed the film then the bonus disc is definitely worth watching.The extended scenes include a longer sequence of Bella and Edward lying in the meadow. 'If I ever hurt you I don't know how I would live with myself. You don't know how it's tortured me,' Edward tells Bella, who replies 'I'd rather die than stay away from you.' I thought this scene worked better than the one that is in the final cut. I don't understand why they didn't put it in the movie because it really captures the 'essence' of the book, as well as the relationship and chemistry between Bella and Edward.There are 2 deleted scenes of Bella and Edward. The first is a slightly different scene of when Bella dreams of Edward. She 'wakes up', sees him standing at the foot of her bed, reaches over and kisses him, before waking up for real, sees him standing there, puts the light on and then he's gone. The second contains the famous line 'Bella, your number was up the first day I met you.' The scene starts off quite serious with Edward warning Bella to be careful and not to wander off into the woods by herself, but ends in a playful manner with the two of them sprawled on the grass looking at each other.Other highlights are the features 'Becoming Edward' and 'Becoming Bella', A Conversation with Stephanie Meyer, the Twilight UK premiere and The Comic Con Phenomenon, where the cast are screamed at by 6000 fans and asked questions. When a fan asks if anything spontaneous happened during filming, the director Catherine Hardwicke shares with the audience that when Kristen and Robert were rehearsing the kiss scene, Rob got a little passionate and fell off the bed. The audio commentary could have been a bit more informative about the filming process. Catherine Hardwicke occasionally says things like: 'Rob, you're looking pretty buff in this scene,' which I thought was hilarious.Basically, if you saw the movie and thought there could have been more Bella and Edward, and left the theatre feeling short-changed because you could see the chemistry but felt it wasn't developed properly, I would recommend this edition for the extended footage and deleted scenes.OK, so it might not have made the final cut, but you can still watch it and obsess over it.

Hi, this is the first in the series of adaptations of Stephanie Meyer's novels about the young girl Bella who migrates to a remote rural community to live with her father, and ends up developing a crush on a young buy who turns out to be a vampire (Edward Cullen played by Robert Pattinson). Bella is also the object of affections of another young boy from the 'wrong side of the tracks' known as Jacob who turns out to be a werewolf (played by Taylor Lautner). Both parties are allegories for the type of boys Stephanie Meyer must have deliberated over back-in-the-day when she was growing up in a mormon community. The movie bears this out. The point of interest regarding this movie is that Director Catherine Hardwicke directs with a certain amount of indie style to the picture. It was produced on a low budget before the Twilight Saga became a huge commercial behemoth which altered the style of the movies that followed that were more conventional and creatively less risky, and the original movie deserves credit for this. The movie is very haunting and eerie at times and there are some standout moments that still engage; Rachelle Lefevre's Victoria is especially arresting. The movie is not perfect by any means; Kristin Stewarts Bella is flat and unengaging, Pattinson (unknown prior to this movie) is clearly above the material and there are moments when the movie turns into an advertisement for Volvo! The movie still holds up twelve years after it's release. Hard to believe it was released in 2008. This 2 disc edition features an in-depth look at the making of the movie with scores of additional features and documentaries.

great film