Twilight

[fancycwabs]

So last night I went to see Twilight because the person I went with was a fan of the books. The little cwab is similarly a fan of the books, but that's hardly a point in the movie's favor. Is it bad? Is it, in fact, so bad that it's good?
The basic plot is this: Bella moves to Forks, Washington, where she meets James Dean, er, Cedric Diggory, um, Edward Cullen, a vampire who is so enamored of her B.O. that he at first rejects her, then falls in love with her. Then another vampire, James, catches a whiff of her amazing stinkiness and descides that she must be delicious. To that end they all drive back to Arizona where Bella, James, and the whole Cullen family fight via wire-fu in a dance studio.

There are lots of meaningful stares ("You want her!" shouted the director, "Roll your eyes!"), and apparently the new hip thing for kids today is to pose around their cars in the high school parking lot. Also, in one scene Edward has wings.

There's a setup for the next movie, where the hippie vampire will probably come after Bella, and I assume there's a werewolf.

Edit: ALSO, I just remembered, the chief of police likes to get the Native Americans drunk!

In short, Twilight is the best movie about hygiene and the importance of bathing you're likely to see this year.

Comments

[piemancer]

I can't believe it's set in Forks.


Seriously. Forks.

[loree-borealis.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's what I was thinking. The most exciting thing about Forks is the logging museum, which is the size of my kitchen. I bought a new tire in Forks once. They didn't have the right size tire, but it was close enough to get me home.

the new hip thing for kids today is to pose around their cars in the high school parking lot Every high school movie ever made, since movies and automobiles and kids have all existed at the same time, has kids posing around their cars in the high school parking lot.

edit: i like it better with commas.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

I read that she set it in Forks because it's the rainiest town in the US, and vampires cannot go out in the sunshine, but they can go out in the rain, so they all moved to Forks so that they can have more time Out and About.

Frankly, that's kind of clever.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Maybe so, but having seen the movie there wasn't any rain at all, but a whole lot of Blue Filter.

[redtheblue.livejournal.com]

The color blue was billed second but asked to be excluded from the credits when it saw the final cut. True story.

[magicninja.livejournal.com]

But they *can* go out in the sunshine! They get spangley when they do! Because hey, spangley vampires, why not? They havent been shit all over enough, right? :| Did you know werewolves fall in love at first sight, and are pedophiles?

I'd really, really enjoy murdering this watered down ann rice fanfic.net hack "writter" with a sack full of thesauruses. ...I mean...to each his or her own. Yes, definitly that. Not that other thing.