i think the thing that people need to understand is that this is the first movie in the series. THEY. HAVE. TIME. RESTRICTIONS. they
have to leave things out. i mean come on, the book is like 500 pages long. I was watching a review for this movie and the person said this, but i agree; they said that since this is the first movie in the series, they cant afford for it to be too long. they need to make sure that people will come and see them before they make a 3 hour movie. that persons kinda right ya know. you cant watch a movie based on a book you've read expecting it to be as good as the book. its just not gonna happen. But in my opinion twilight was pretty close to the book. I reread the book recently and i was suprized to find a lot of lines that were in the movie in the book.
Now obviously with a movie like Eragon you cant do that because that movie just sucked so much its not even funny but, thats off topic