Open Letter to Catherine Hardwick

Dear Catherine Hardwick,
Please stop directing movies...stat! After viewing Chris Weitz's New Moon, I must insist that you please. Stop. Now. Watching Twilight for the first time, a year ago, I was disappointed leaving the theater, but then got over it because it was, well you know, TWILIGHT, so I had to like it or else my whole world would have collapsed as I put so much of myself into everything related to Twilight. After seeing New Moon, I feel like I can now officially scream, TWILIGHT SUCKED! You know why...because of you. New Moon had the same actors, screenwriter, producers and studio as your film and you know what? It DOES NOT SUCK! Guess it must be you. I'm sure if you could defend yourself you would cite the lack of budget as the reason your movie was horrendous. Well the budget was not much larger for this film and yes, it may have all went into special effects, but I'm thinking if you had not been a hack and in the hands of a good director, the film would have worked. Chris Weitz has prior special effect experience which is a huge plus and a genius move on Summit's part to get him on board for the second film. Looking back, why Summit hired you in the first place is such a mystery to me. At the time, I guess they were only going for the teen romance angle and didn't think a bunch of teens would care about the effects and if you could handle them. Well Summit was wrong, and now we have to live with the God awful results that will forever be Twilight, the movie. Walking out of New Moon my first thought was, "can they remake Twilight with another director?" I know this will never happen, mostly because the actors wouldn't go there again and it would be unprecedented. If by some miracle this did happen, you would deserve the embarrassment, sorry but true. You took a beloved work and hacked into a million cheesy pieces and I will never forgive you for it. I truly hope we have seen the last of your work, please say Bye-Bye to your directing career and go back to set design or whatever you did before you thought you could direct a watchable film.
Signed,
One Truly Pissed Off Twi-hard