A year ago I would not have contemplated writing that headline. Even earlier this year or six months ago, I wouldn’t have written that either but sometime this year, I fell out of love with Twilight.

A few months before The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One opened I was excited for it. Couldn’t wait for November 18, 2011 to come so I could see it opening weekend. Saw the trailers when they first became available online but as I said, something happened that maybe from highly anticipating this film to I couldn’t care less.

I have a theory as to why and that is the filmmakers decision to break the final Twilight novel into two parts. This is where I fault my beloved Harry Potter for this. While I think creatively it was very necessary to break Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows into two films, I think if they didn’t then we would have just had one Breaking Dawn movie but because Harry Potter did, that is why we have Breaking Dawn Part One this year and Breaking Dawn Part Two next year.

I stand by what I said in an earlier blog, Breaking Dawn did not need to be in two parts. There is so much you could have cut out of that mammoth book and still be a decent movie. For Deathly Hallows, there was nothing you could cut from that book to make it one movie.

Anyways, despite my misgivings and after almost a month of it being in theatres I saw Breaking Dawn Part One.

The basic plot of Breaking Dawn is Edward (Robert Pattison) and Bella (Kristen Stewart) get married, honeymoon in Brazil, have sex, she gets pregnant with a human-vampire hybrid, wants to keep the baby but the werewolves think this baby is a monster so plot to kill it but Jacob (Taylor Lautner) protects Bella and her unborn child that is slowly killing her. And then we get Jacob -SPOILER ALERT –  imprints on little Renesmee so that means the werewolves can’t kill her. Bella “dies” and the movie ends with her waking up and is now a vampire.

What can I say about this movie? When I read the book, I actually couldn’t wait for this to be a movie. After three movies/books of sort of foreplay/seduction, we get to see Bella and Edward consummate their relationship. I thought it would be more passionate on screen and it would sizzle but I actually felt nothing during their honeymoon scenes. I thought there was more heat in their first kiss.

The much talked about wedding was okay and Bella’s wedding dress was okay too. The funniest part of the reception was Jessica’s (Anna Kendrick) speech.

There were tons of unintentionally funny scenes like when Edward breaks the bed during his lovemaking or that Maggie Grace looked constipated during her scene objecting to the presence of a werewolf (Boo Boo Stewart) and of course when the wolf pack were conversing with themselves in wolf form.

Melissa Rosenberg, who has written all of the screenplays, gives a film that is filled with corny dialogue and, to be honest, lacks any tension or suspense or even romance. However, I am glad that she gave Elizabeth Reaser (Esme) more to do in this one than she ever did in the first three films. Kudos to her for also heavily condensing the Jacob chapters from the book as that was the most annoying aspect of the book but felt that she could have cut out more.

Also, while in the book I thought it was very creepy that Jacob would imprint on a baby, even if said baby was really cute, what I thought was a bit clever was showing the grown up Renesmee in Jacob’s mind to make it less creepy.

The acting is pretty atrocious too. Kristen Stewart can’t act. She can’t emote if her life depended on it and she had four movies to get Bella right or as right as you can be with this character.

Director Bill Condon can also be to blame for me not caring about what is happening in this film. He needed to give us more tension and action to the scenes. The only scene that did bring a slight shudder was when the baby broke Bella’s back.

But I will give credit to one thing and that is the effect that they applied to Bella as the baby was slowly starving her. We see how bony Bella’s frame has become during the pregnancy and also how Bella gets healed as she slowly turns into a vampire that I thought was cool.

However, when Bella opened her eyes to reveal the redness that is typical of vampires and the movie ends, I didn’t find myself saying November 2012 can’t come soon enough like I did when Deathly Hallows Part One ended. Even that bonus scene after the main credits with the Volturi did nothing for me.

I am sorry Twilight but you have list a former Twi-hard. I guess I have always been and always be a Potterhead.