The movie was a good one, whether you have read the books or not. it definately lived up to my expectations. There were some things (that I will not mention for spoiler reasons) that I thought were fairly corny, and one part that I did not like, but the rest were phenomenal. You really felt the motions of the characters, love, fear, wanting, etc. Very good movie to watch with 6 or 7 Twilight fans. ;)