I loved the books that Stephanie Meyer has created. Knowing that I also know that no movie can compete with the book. I should have not have had such high expectations of this movie. I was just so excited that they were making it into one. With that said I think if you had not read the books it would have been really confusing. There seemed to be no flow throughout the movie. Plus they messed up the meadow scene. The whole reason the books were created. It just seemed like they could have done so much more with it. Their character picks were right on though and they did a great job at that.