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    Image of Raspberry Swirly Raspberry Swirly
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Twilight is a vampire book that sucks. Are we really surprised?
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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Augh, people. Just stay home and rent NEAR DARK!
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    Image of ObtuseIntolerant ObtuseIntolerant
    11/21/08

    @ObtuseIntolerant: Adrian Pasdar > Robert Pattinson!!
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    Image of thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe. thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    I'm seeing this with a friend on Sunday, and I'm relieved to hear that it's not merely bad, but so awful it's funny. Sometimes, that is just what you need. I'm hoping there aren't too many obsessed teenagers there.
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    Image of TildeMarks TildeMarks
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Ok, so I am to surmise that because I have a horrible addiction to Showgirls (which I watch every single itme it's on...knowing that it will be better this time...and it never is) that I will prob have a new one for Twilight. Crap. There go more Sunday afternoons in front of basic cable.
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    Image of IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    I was thinking about seeing this movie for the sole reason that I've had the hots for the leading guy since Harry Potter, and I'm totally into sexy vampires, but this just sounds way to terrible. I also don't think I could deal with all the excited teenagers in the theater. It always makes me feel like "Oh no, I was exactly like that a few years ago, wasn't I?" I don't know if I can deal with that on top of a terrible film.
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    Image of queenieinmanhattan queenieinmanhattan
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Well, the books, while a fun read, are not exactly full of sparkling, cheese-free dialogue. Any adaptation faithful to the book is going to be pretty damn cheezy.


    That said, I'm surprised they spent so long getting Bella to figure out what Edward is. I remember the realization coming pretty early on.

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    Image of Mediokra Mediokra
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Yeah, I was pretty much expecting this kind of review. And it makes sense as the books aren't even close to groundbreaking literature in any sense. BUT GOD HELP ME I read the entire series in a week and will be seeing the film this weekend. I can't help myself; the story made me crazy-hormonal. I have the vapors! Stupid sexy vampires.
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Attention all vampire fans:
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    Image of Diziet_Sma Diziet_Sma
    11/21/08

    @Diziet_Sma: well, I tried to embed a clip there, but, er, it didn't work. Oh, just check this out: [www.lettherightoneinmovie.com]
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Th NY Times bitchslapped this film: [movies.nytimes.com]
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    Image of Ipomoea Ipomoea
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Y'all, I will see this, but I'm going with my bad-movie buddy, which means we'll drink canned champagne in the parking garage before braving it.


    Also, I am reading the Buffy season 8 graphic novel, and Twilight will NEVER EVER EVER be Buffy. Or Angel. Or even Dru and Spike, or Angel and Darla, or Harmony and Spike.

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    Image of special_boots special_boots
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    I loved the books. Except the last one. I could take the creepiness up to a point, but not that point. She should write a very different final book and apologize for having penned that one.


    Anyway. Movie. It's gonna be sweet. I'm super jazzed. I'm twenty-two. I'm unembarrassed.

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    Image of denna denna
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    I'm leaving right now to go to a 1:55 matinee. I'm watching this the only way I know how: drunk. (Thank goodness for DDs!)
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    Image of Emily Brilliant Emily Brilliant
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Oh! I almost forgot to mention...


    Some overweight 40 something woman by herself was sitting behind me in the theatre and she started crying during the hospital scene!!! She didn't stop sniffling throughout the rest of the movie. Funny stuff.

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    Image of Fate'sBitch Fate'sBitch
    11/21/08

    @Emily Brilliant: Yeah, how dare an overweight woman go to the movies! the nerve.
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    Image of littlebunnyfoofoo littlebunnyfoofoo
    11/21/08

    @Emily Brilliant: Maybe her only daughter loved these books then died in a violent car accident before the movie came out and so she's seeing this to honor her daughter's memory and it brought back all the grief.


    Hmmm?

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    Image of Fate'sBitch Fate'sBitch
    11/21/08

    @littlebunnyfoofoo: I am funnier, but you're still an ass.
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    Image of littlebunnyfoofoo littlebunnyfoofoo
    11/21/08

    @katieb: in charge of the war on the poor.: Why am I an ass? Perhaps you meant the one who actually and purposely laughs at overweight people who cry alone at movies.


    I'm the one who was on your side and pointing out the cruelty in Emily Brilliant's comment!

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    Image of Fate'sBitch Fate'sBitch
    11/21/08

    @littlebunnyfoofoo: so sorry that wasn't meant for you at all.
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    Image of littlebunnyfoofoo littlebunnyfoofoo
    11/21/08

    @katieb: in charge of the war on the poor.: No worries.
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    Image of SahibaGadimu SahibaGadimu
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    HOLY MOTHER OF GOD you guys all need to get a grip and stop trashing the movie. And I thought I was cynical. I'm a 25 year old law student and read the books this summer after repeatedly failing to muster the strength to read Volume 1 of Robert Caro's "let's write 20 pages just about the grasslands of Texas" biography of LBJ. Was Twilight a masterpiece? No. Did girls giggle during the movie (yes, I saw it at midnight)? Fuck yeah. Did the dude that play Edward fumble a few lines? Yeah. But again, holy mother of god, do you not remember that teenage girls giggle at EVERYTHING?!! So us old-asses are giggling at the sparkle scene cuz our souls are dead and can't remember what it was like to be young and totally enamoured with X, Y, or Z and the kiddies are giggling cuz that's what their job is. To giggle. Jesus effing C*rist.
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    Image of Adora Belle Dearheart Adora Belle Dearheart
    11/21/08

    @SahibaGadimu:


    Why are we not allowed to call a horribly made movie a horrible movie? If the studio is going to create a bad movie, I think we are allowed to call them out on it.


    I also don't see how it is cynical of us to call out the author for ignoring completely established vampire mythos. I mean, its like saying that Frankenstein is not scared of fire, or that werewolves don't change at the full moon. We may be dealing with stories and myths, but people have actual emotional interest invested in these stories.


    Besides. The movie was just really, really bad.

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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    11/21/08

    @SahibaGadimu: Yes ma'am!
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    Image of ArtfulSlinger ArtfulSlinger
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight At Midnight: Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Um, this movie was produced by like some hole in the wall studio, had somewhat decent cast and was adapted from a piss poor book written about the sensuality of vampires with the Born Again credo - so we are surprised it sucked. I promised myself I would not get suckered into this and I am glad I didn't.


    And for any ex-goths, like myself, check out the South Park episode from this past Wed with the goth kids all mad about the jocks into being vampires. After Buffy, vampires just weren't the same.

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