Yesterday was a pretty eventful day so I thought I'd share the happenings (and my review of Twilight) with you. . .
It started off with a Thanksgiving luncheon at Luke's work which was filled with lots of delicious food.
And even though I had to eat in a rush and didn't really get to visit, it was fun to see everyone and the food was yummy!
(Pictures courtesy of Roxanne. Thanks!)
The reason I was in a rush was because Peanut had an appointment for an ultrasound of her belly. It went well and she was amazingly good for not being able to eat for 6 hours and having to hold still for more than 30 min. We don't have a lot of info on the results of the ultrasound but the Radiologist (my favorite one I might add) said that she still has fluid in her belly because the portal vein isn't functioning quite as well as it should. Which isn't a surprise to me because Peanut had problems with her portal vein post-transplant. But we have yet to hear from the doctor about what this means.
I then spent two hours chillin' in the mini van while Peanut slept. Had some more food at Luke's work. Then left Peanut with Luke and went with my sisters and friends to. . .
Note: If you haven't seen the movie yet you might not want to read the rest of this post - your call though.My thoughts of the movie:
It was good. Not great, not wonderful, not horrible, not fantastic, just good. I really had a hard time with it at first and was not impressed but about half way through I finally started feeling like I could say I liked it.
I feel like they really rushed and didn't fully cover Edward and Bella's relationship. If I hadn't read the book I don't think I would've felt the magnitude of their relationship. It was almost like they met, Edward was repulsed, and then all of sudden they were madly in love with each other. I just think they could've portrayed their relationship better with more "getting to know each other" scenes instead of spending so much time in nature and introducing everything else. The ballet studio scene was one of my favorites, minus the cheese. And I quote "Remember who you are." Did anyone else want to laugh at that? And all the other random lines?
The acting was a little poor and the movie was pretty cheesy. But I guess the book is too so what could you expect!? I didn't like Edward at first but, once again, halfway through the movie, I started liking him. Bella was okay but struggled a little bit to meet her character. I liked Charlie but he wasn't what I pictured him to be. Jasper was the worst cast pick. Loved Jacob! But knew I would. Carlisle was pretty good but his makeup was horrible! You could totally see it! Which bugged me a lot more than it probably should have. Esme was perfect. The "bad" vampires rocked! Mike matched pretty good I think. Emmett held up to my expectations. And the rest of the actors were just so-so.
This movie did make me really excited to see New Moon as a movie though. Probably just cause I've always been such a Jacob fan and he doesn't/didn't play a very big part in Twilight, but also because it was fun to see the book "come to life" the best it could.
And last of all, I think I would like to see the movie again. It's not one that I'd go out and buy, but I would like to watch it again. Mostly because I think it took me too long to get used to the actors and like 'em and stuff, but now that I am, I'd like to give 'em another chance.
Well we're headed "home" for Thanksgiving tomorrow so we'll see ya'll in a week!
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