Twilight

re Jacob - they can do amazing things with boxes, trenches, and CGI (which will be in play regardless because, hello, Big Wolf).

Am trading my Eclipse for friend's daughter's Breaking Dawn on Friday. Whee.

Still not sure I want to watch the movie, but I'll add it to my netflix cue anyway.

I was talking to one of my son's (oldest) friends who comes to visit when she can. Caroline works at Borders and she is absolutely livid that women are coming in and 'ONLY buying stupid vampire books'. I just looked at her with wide guilty eyes until she said...'the world is doomed with all these dumbass women and their love of TWILIGHT' :lol: I guess this is a common and secret sentiment among the Border employees.

Okay. Finished Breaking Dawn today.

Escapism, thou art my enemy.

Some very unexpected twists and surprises. Very enjoyable overall. Glad the saga is over, however. Of course, there's always the possibility of another book 6-1/2 years into the future. But I don't think so.

My ex-brother-in-law gave my 8 year old niece Twilight for Xmas. Glad she had no interest in it and it now lives securely under my sister-in-laws bed. Eight is just a bit young for this series. Perhaps when she is older. Mostly, none of us want to explain the romantic parts. She's had most of the birds and bees talk, but this would take us into greater question territory (resulting in me saying the dreaded phrase, "go ask you mother").

Guess I'll watch the movie when it drops on DVD. Maybe a friend or two will rewatch it with me.

Myth - So was your son's friend assuming that women who read Twilight never read anything else? And really, they're Borders employees...they have to be disgruntled about something. ;)

So the latest casting gossip is that Dakota Fanning will likely be cast as Jane. I'm actually hoping this one is true. I hadn't thought about Dakota, but I think she could be an awesome Jane. She's a young actress who has proven she can actually act.

Nobody has mentioned New Moon in my absence? Ok, I'll bring up the most important (to me) New Moon topic. Has anyone else seen Taylor Lautner's new body. OMG! My mouth dropped open, and I'm certain there was actual drool.

The New Moon theatrical poster just got released. I personally think it looks pretty cool.

http://blog.zap2it.com/.a/6a00d83451b92469e201156f9f867a970c-popup

Okay, this is a month late, but...

VAL! You cougar, you. I actually think that you can be arrested in some states for ogling 17 year olds. :twisted:

That poster looks pretty damn sweet!

It makes me have hope that the movie might actually be good.

Okay, finally saw the frakkin movie. It's taken me several attempts, including the send it back to netflix only to get it out again a few weeks later. And not that anyone cares, but...

Could we really have more stilted dialogue? (Let's hope New Moon gets over this.)

Could Taylor Lautner be younger and less sexy? (Let's hope he's looking older & hotter next go round.)(Team Jacob is feeling just a little disappointed.)(Okay, can't get over the fact that he really is only 17.)(Why this wasn't a problem when I was reading the book, I don't know.)

Am agreeing with Val that there should definitely be a naked scene in The Meadow. Shiny penises for everyone! That whole diamond effect was, well, he reminded me of the golden glitter bouncy ball my 3-year-old neighbor has. It's one of the gel filled balls that has glitter rolling around in it. Made me want to give Edward a good shake and bounce. (Get your mind out of the gutter Val.)

And, most importantly, when the hell did I become the "parents" in a teen flick. The 20-year-old in my mirror really hates this getting old business, even if it does beat the alternative.

Just in case any of you haven't seen it, here's the trailor for New Moon: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/new-moon-trailer.html

We had that on our morning Sunrise programming. Wondered who was going to post it here first. Personally, I was expecting bigger furrier creatures :shock:

I want New Moon NOW! Gimme more!!!! *pouts* Can it be November now?

Yeah, the werewolves just don't seem that scary to me. Not as much as they could have been.

I expected 'em to be bigger, but they may be and it may have just been an odd perspective or something. Don't know anything except I WANT IT NOW!!!!

I was discussing the werewolves with my friend and she says maybe they went more wolf-like as opposed to werewolf-like since these are supposed to be actual descendent of wolves but I still think they could have been more threatening looking. To me it just looks like a big dog.

Oh noes! There's trouble at Camp Twilight!

Read about it here and here.

They're turning the book into a graphic novel. I lost the link to the article. I know it was from EW, but I'm too lazy to go and find it again.

More from Comic Con. There was apparently quite a bit of Twilght backlash by the end of the convention. Since Comic Con does not clear each room after each panel the Twilight fans who had lined up for days were the first ones into Hall H on Thursday. However, the Twilight panel wasn't the first event of the day there. So what happened was tons of fans who couldn't care less about Twilight, but wanted to see the other stuff going on got shut out by Twi-fans who just sat down so that they would be assured a seat later on in the day. Pissed off fans were walking around with homemade signs saying Twilight ruined Comic Con.

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Now, why in the hell don't they clear the room after every event? Every other convention I've been to does that specifically to prevent this shit.