twilight dvd release

Okay I can't help it so I have to just say this. What in the name of Scorsese Coppola and Spielberg was Summitt Entertainment and Stephanie Meyer thinking when they let the nut job of a director Catherine Hardwicke try to adapt this novel onto the big screen?! Having read and reread all four of the books from the Twilight series in the last year I'm having a hard time understanding why any studio would allow a film with such franchise potential to be rushed into the way they obviously did with this one. Don't get me wrong the characterization was fantastic - everyone looked the part (with the exception of the token minority characters taking the place of Bella's cafeteria crowd) but they clearly weren't given the time or [appropriate, talented, right] direction in order to flesh out their characters in front of the camera. Ugh, I'm disappointed and ultimately bought the dvd more for the laugh than anything else. I suppose not every franchise can be Harry Potter - and even those have taken on an entity of their own.