I don't know. I haven't seen it and probably won't at the movies, but I don't think you get it. From everything I have read, one of the reasons why teens, especially girls love these books are because Meyer depicts teenage girls at that age so realistically its not funny. I'm younger than my sister but I know when she was Bella's age, she had a similar attitude towards herself.  I knew a lot of teenage girls that do. I mean the heroine you are looking for or expect doesn't exist in the real world. Maybe Meyers made a character too relaistic for such an imaginary world for anyone but teenage girls to relate to. It seems to go way passed the loss of love and teenage romance stuff because we can all relate to that.  I`m not defending the movie, but a D seems pretty harsh. You read like you already had a huge hate on for Bella and the Twilight movie to begin with.

This may well be the  best movie of all time.

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TAKE THAT STARLIGHTGUARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just kidding, just kidding!

But Rob has thrown down the gauntlet. When you show up you need to bring the wrath!

My fiance is dragging me to this thing tonight. I'll agree with Rob, I've read the first two books thanks to her nagging and I have given up after that. I think Bella is kind of a bitch and hard to root for. It scares me that so many young girls can relate. Maybe it's her supposed awkwardness at that age but I don't know. I think the vampire mythology Stephanie Meyers came up with is cool but the characters aren't really that appealing. And despite that I still hold to my opinion that this movie will be infinitely better than 2012.

I couldn't agree more about Bella.  I've read the first three books...she is the selfish-bytch you knew (or know) from high school. 

Is this opinion based on the book and the reading for the rest of the series?  Because I didn't get any of these issues from the books and from what I have seen on the previews, it seems to flow with the book.  But to each their own, still can't wait to see it.  Thanks for the taking the time to share.  Good reading.

you let HIM review this? Why him?

it's like asking a teenaged girl to read The Odyessy

hell I could've given you an honest review -- and done it for free...I'm not afraid to pick apart things I love...but my god, robby boy's got a grudge against it....I hope a female in your presence makes you go see it another 3 times in just the next 24 hours alone :)

and how the hell is Bella the selfish bitch from high school? she's the most plain personality I've read about -- we're not talking Gossip Girl, Paris Hilton, or even Clueless here....

also, but not completely on the same subject, I wish these same teenaged girls who text and live and die by their cellphones were as mentally stable and level headed as Meyer is -- hell she's a  better role model for a 14 year old girl whose loyalties change with the winds and the opinions of the crowd.....I see that in my niece every weekend....

I don't know if I agree with the idea that Meyer's protrays teenage girls that realistically. 

First as to the whole selfish bitch question.  Yes, she is a selfish b****.  She wants all through the third and fourth book she even admits she is being selfish.  She wants Edward, but can't give up being with Jacob.  She toys with Jacob's emotions so that she can keep him from leaving her.  She knows exactly how Jacob feels about her, but doesn't do the right thing, the thing that she knows that she ought to do, which is to dump him and let him move on.  Even after (spoiler alert) she marries Edward and is pregnant with his child Belle still keeps leaning on Jacob to keep him around.  So yes she is a selfish b****.

I've know many teenage girls.  I've even spoken to a great many teenage girls about these novels and for the most part what I've discovered is not that they identify with Belle.  It's that they are attracted to either Edward and/or Jacob.  Lets face the facts here both Jacob and Edward are ment to be atractive to girls in their own way.  Jacob is a large muscular boy.  He's immortal, super strong and fast.  Plus the shapeshifter (not werewolves)  bond with one particular person and then are absolutly devoted to making that person happy for the rest of their lives.  Who wouldn't want that.  Edward has the whole mysterious vampire thing going for him.  Vampires have been on the collective thoughts of humanity for centuries.  Every single culture in human history has a vampire type mythology.  They are seductive, immortal, powerful.

While you can't generalize about any group of people because you will find a great range of personality types.  Most of the teenage girls I've know throuout my life have been kind, and concerned about the feelings and well being of others.  Look at Belle's girlfriends.  They constantly try to reach out and help her, but Belle keeps rejecting them.  While Belle on the other hand uses the people around her to get what she wants.  As an example she flirted with Jacob and used his feelings toward her in the very first book to get the answers she wanted about Edward.  Belle is a weak-willed adnd selfish individual and is not a person to aspire to.  Nor for the large part do I trully belive that girls do.  As metioned above I believe that the interest in this book stems from the attraction for both Jacob and Edward. 

Just for the record what counts as excessive profanity on this site.  I tried to post this and got a message that I was using excessive profanity.  I used the B word twice and it won't let me post it, but many of you get by with using it once.  What's up with that.  

I wish they allow someone who doesn't blatantly have a distaste for the things he reviews to review this stuff. I am not a Twilight fan. But my girlfriend and her little sister is and none of what this review says jives with what they try to tell me.