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Or maybe I'm just rationalizing ...
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11/20/09
guess who won?
11/20/09
Also, did anyone else feel like 2/3rds of that movie looked like the set-up to a porn? The dialogue was just so...porny.
11/20/09
I was with a similarly aged (28) friend in a cinema full of teens, but even the teens spent most of the film laughing. When he's in Rio? And he crushes the phone? SKIPPING THROUGH THE FOREST SPARKLING? Sorry, I have to have a lie down now. Funniest film I've seen all year.
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i guess she thought it was New Moon with Blue Moon.
11/20/09
butterbeer will fuck your shit up. especially when its actually tequilia.
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Such as: that particular kind of low-self esteem that looks like humility or lack of ego so some male character can say, all broody, "you just don't know how beautiful you are". It masquerades as an appealing/non-threatening trait. It's like nearly every story I've read by a certain type of 15 year old girl. Or romance novel. It's a trope that plays out again and again. Much like her physical weakness, dependency, etc. But all I can guess is that more girls and women maybe -feel- that way or relate to it somehow.
Of course, there's also the fact that, whatever else, it's a story from Bella's perspective, and the female perspective has been fairly rare in mainstream film for awhile.
I just...I wish it was a -better- perspective. One that wasn't so reliant on helplessness and victimization, or creepy tropes about "true love". Or was more self-aware of that. That's one of the reasons I love Buffy. The self-awareness. It knew when it was being overwrought, it knew how to self-critique, and it was far more complex.
11/22/09
why try to be great when a majority of people will always settle for mediocrity or less?
11/20/09
I aspire to yell this at every screening of everything ever henceforth. September Issue? March of the Penguins? Das Boot? Bring it on.
11/20/09
Then again, I did the same thing for the last movie and still ended up sitting behind crazed pre-pubescent girls that squealed every time Robert Pattinson came on screen. I almost rolled my eyes out of my head and kept saying to the Mr. - "this movie is truly terrible, but the experience of watching it like this may have made it worse."
I mean, I get it... but ugh.
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Hate Bella as a heroine. Always have. I write YA, and ever since I read Twilight I strive to make my female protagonists the opposite of Bella. That is to say articulate and active.
Won't be seeing the movie, but probably will be buying the soundtrack. So many good artists on there--Twilight franchise, why must you force me to support you?
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Vom!
11/20/09
They are full of ridiculously slow wind-blown shots, strange timing, unintentionally hilarious dialogue, jammed full with yearning and hot shirtless young men. YAY!