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    Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
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    Image of Kittenish Kittenish
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    That review is the funniest thing I have ever read in the Wall Street Journal!


    Personally, I had not even heard of this series until recently and I maintain that, in this case, ignorance is bliss.

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    Image of Cam/ron Cam/ron
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    I haven't seen the movie yet but there is a scene that is actually scary or at least creepy? Even The Count from Sesame Street is a little sinister.
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    Image of disco2000 disco2000
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    I don't care how big this movie gets, Robert Pattinson will only ever be Cedric Diggory to me.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    These kids should be forced to go rent The Lost Boys, Interview with a Vampire, and the Kristy Swanson/Luke Perry film version of Buffy..
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    Image of maggeimerc maggeimerc
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    I want to see the movie but only to see if Stewart's hate for her costar is seen on screen. Read the interviews with her. She hates the character, thinks the novels are pedantic and thinks her costar is a flipping loon. It is AWESOME.


    Don't read his interview. It's better to think of him as Phoenix light then to realize he's actually just an idiot with a huge ego.

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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    11/21/08

    @maggeimerc: oh his interview was fun, he can't take any of it seriously, all his comments are a total send up, british style.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    Wait, why exactly is it that they can't have sex?
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    Image of MontanaWildhack MontanaWildhack
    11/21/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Well, in the Buffyverse at least, sex was equated with bloodlust - so I assume that if Edward/Bella get it on, he will want to suck her blood, too. Anyone more familiar with the books and/or movie, feel free to correct me.


    But I have to ask a question that always bugged me on Buffy... just how *does* one have sex with a male vampire? I mean, no beating heart, no pumping blood, no erection... just sayin'?

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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    11/21/08

    @kc2002: I wondered if that was it. I don't really know how I feel about this bloodlust/sex equation...
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    Image of quatrevingtquatre quatrevingtquatre
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    I would like this whole deal to be over so that the overwraught vampire voiced toolbox who does radio promos about Forks tourism here in Seattle WILL STOP.
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    Image of exelizabeth exelizabeth
    11/21/08

    @thatonegirlsays: That's why I only listen to NPR and KEXP.
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    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    Also, since I want to teach middle school I think it may be a professional requirement that I become acquainted with those books.
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    Image of Khrushchev Khrushchev
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    Also, my YA romance of choice throughout high school was Ron and Hermione, who were wizards and still more realistic than this. I could give a shit about two whiny emo dying-for-each-other Ashlee-and-Pete-Mowgli-Simpson-Wentz... morons.
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    Image of SisterSonny SisterSonny
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    This sort of thing really annoyed me when I was a teenager. I stopped liking such things with kids incorporated. My friend pam, who is 32, is stoked about seeing this shitfest, having read all the books. God, I wish I was genius enough to come up with some crap like this and make millions.
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    Image of Oranges w/ Cheese has 2 cats! ahahaha. Oranges w/ Cheese has 2 cats! ahahaha.
    11/21/08

    @SisterSonny: I think I was too young to realize how craptastic Kids Incorporated was. I just liked the music, I don't remember an ounce of the plot.
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    11/21/08

    @Oranges w/ Cheese: There was a plot?
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    Image of exelizabeth exelizabeth
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    I haven't read these books, but might see the movie because I feel that it would bring back memories of the good part of being a 12 year old girl (yes, there are good parts).


    Haters can hate, but that burning, yearning desire for forbidden romance is so bittersweet and it's fun to indulge sometimes. I mean, my obsession in middle school was Rogue and Gambit from the X-Men (they couldn't touch! But they wanted each other! It's epic romantic!)

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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    11/21/08

    @exelizabeth: Wait, so what I'm gathering from this review and your comment is that Bella and Edward DON'T have sex. Seriously, if there's not hot quasi-vampire sexin', I have no reason to see this.
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    Image of OldEnough2BYourMama OldEnough2BYourMama
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    Why does a 100 year old vampire have to go to high school?
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    Image of happysquid happysquid
    11/21/08

    @OldEnough2BYourMama: HA!
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    Image of LadyFabulous LadyFabulous
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    "You're my own personal brand of heroin." my teenage heart swoons. Swoons I tells ya! *end sarcasm*
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    Image of NowhereGirl NowhereGirl
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    I am just thankful that when I was in high school, and went through my vampire book/movie craze it was with Interview With a Vampire, which where both really good, instead of this crap. Lestat & Louis FTW!
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    Image of emilyanne emilyanne
    11/21/08

    @NowhereGirl: it's funny as a 14/15 year old, which was when I had my vamp stage, I wasn't a massive Anne Rice fan but I worshipped Poppy Z Brite, she was my goth horror gay novel queen.
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    Image of disco2000 disco2000
    11/21/08

    @NowhereGirl: Looking back, I don't think Interview and the series were that great of books, but they were certainly entertaining and worthy of the vamp genre. Twilight, with sparkle vampires who don't drink people blood and hang out in foggy high schools are a poor substitute for the real thing. It's like off-brand maxi pads.


    I've actually been fairly into vamp stuff lately though - I'm enjoying True Blood, and after a friend had begged me for years to watch Buffy, I've gone through seasons 1-4 and season 1 of Angel. True Blood is violent and sex-filled, while Buffy/Angel are smart and sophisticated. I don't see much of either in Twilight.

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    Image of Cam/ron Cam/ron
    11/21/08

    @NowhereGirl: Indeed, we had that movie and Francis Ford Coppola's overproduced "Dracula" melodrama. I'm still amazed about how fast Ryder fell in love with a creep wearing red glasses.
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    Image of rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
    11/21/08

    @Cam/ron: To be fair he did have the power of mesmerism.
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    Image of Samanthrax Samanthrax
    11/21/08

    In reply to Twilight: "Questionable Casting, Wooden Acting, Laughable Dialogue And Truly Awful Makeup"
    Yeah, this whole Twilight thing just makes me miss Buffy moreso than usual.
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