i've never read twilight, but i've seen the movie. You know, the opinions surrounding twilight really seem to fall in the extremes, there's not really many lukewarm ( so i guess I remain the minority ). People tend to either think it's really dumb or really poignant. As for myself, having seen the movie, I really didn't think it was all that bad. I will admit the fact that I do think the protagonist's name is kind of pretentious, Bella Swan ( means "Beautiful Swan" ) but you know, it doesn't ruin the story completely. In the film, Edward and Bella ( Robert Pattison & Kristen Stewart ) have a lot of chemistry, and at the end of the movie, that chemistry really saved the film, because there were some very awkward/cheesy elements that kind of soured the mood of the movie. Overall i'd give it a 6.5/10