With the release of New Moon two weeks ago I’ve been hearing and reading a bunch of reviews about how terrible it is and I have no doubt they’re all true.  My problem lies with the fact that Kristen Stewart seems to be getting a fair share of criticism, with the main complaint being that she’s a bad actress.  To me that’s not right.

I saw Twilight and was truly shocked by how bad it was in every respect and it’s for this reason alone that I won’t be watching New Moon.  I also accept that Stewart was pretty damn ordinary in Twilight, but I don’t believe for one second that she’s a bad actress.  She was captivating in Into the Wild, one of my absolute favourite movies of all time and she was equally good in Adventureland (my #1 movie so far this year).  I really think that her performance in the Twilight movies is a combination of bad direction, a terrible supporting cast, an inane story, and Bella being such a whining needy spoiled emo bitch.

In addition, don’t let all the media coverage of her fool you, she isn’t Lindsay Lohan.  She does have talent.  Plus she seems to be genuinely painfully shy when giving interviews or appearing on talk shows.  That to me indicates that she’s not an attention whore like Lohan.  I hate to come across all Chris Crocker, but it just seems unfair to heap the bulk of the complaints about how terrible the Twilight films are at her feet when she’s done some great work.

Just remember that she does other movies and not just shitty tween angst “vampire” flicks.  Check out her IMDB.

Below is a video showing her singing in Into the Wild.  I actually think the non-singing stuff she does in the film is better but I couldn’t find any footage.