a.k.a. I Was a Teen-Aged Were-Hunk...

UGH...first vampires, now werewolves. And not just werewolves - horrble CGI werewolves! What's next? Zombies with acne? OH NOES!

The reason the books (barely) worked for me was not because of the whole vampire/werewolf mythology, but because Bella's narration of the story was engaging and involving enough to keep me interested. In fact, the first few chapters of Twilight, when the story is just being set up and everything is new to Bella, are the most engaging, . Once the romance really starts to heat up, things get less interesting.

The problem with the movies is that Bella only narrates every so often, and once you actually see the book's events on screen, you feel embarrassed to admit that you were somehow engaged by a story so flaccid and banal. Take for example the scene in the trailer where Bella races to stop Edward from showing his "sparkly skin" to the public before the Volturi come after him to kill him. If you think that sounds weird from reading my version of it, just imagine how bizarre it will be to see on film. I dare you not to laugh!   

Some stories are meant to be experioenced only on paper. After seeing the first movie and the ads for its sequel, it seems to me that Twilight is definitely one of them. 

Yeah, you gotta love how the media likes saying "films of this MAGNITUDE" -- What magnitude? The only magnitude I see behind this movie is all the over-hyping in every form of media everywhere I turn.

Yeah, like 30 years from, this series will be on par in popularity with the likes of  "Star Wars" or "Star Trek"! It's called "flavor of the month" people!

I can't believe it: 28%! That makes my life a little less stressful. Someone knock some sense into Kristin Stewart, and convince her to do some indie films, rather than try to be some Miley Cyrus-like media whore who flaunts her fame. And she knows she's doing it -- don't buy the fakeness!

No doubt...in fact, they say you could wipe out 98% of the teen girl population by putting the dialogue line "Breathing is Uncool" into this movie. 

I wonder if Seltzer-Berg have already decided to do a Twilight spoof...??

That's really not shocking news. Come on, you'd have to be living under a rock for the past year not to think this movie wasn't going to be an overnight success.

Evidently it is going to have some legs. We went to the movies tonight and the lines for New Moon were huge. I haven't seen lines like that since the first Harry Potter movie, and it wasn't exclusively 11 year-old girls. Critical response hasn't been overwhelming but it's a bit higher than we'd normally consider and there definitely is an audience...a BIG audience and this is going to pull impressive numbers.  As I've been noting all along, this one probably just isn't one of ours, and the best thing we can do is ignore it and let it die a lonely death when it's audience finds something else to become enamored with...the guess here is that will happen around the time the third installment is released.