This afternoon, Girl and Friend went to see the new Twilight movie, New Moon.
From what I was told…
The movie was really good. There were funny parts, too. And, it followed the book better than the Twilight movie did. The only drawback was that the girls were surrounded by women as old as 40 or 50!! Sitting all alone. With boxes of tissues. The women would put their big purses on the seat next to them, and their big sweaters on the seat next to them on the opposite side. It was probably to make a buffer, to keep people from sitting next to them. You could tell they wanted to be left alone. The girls were even afraid to laugh too loudly at the funny parts, so as to not disturb the women and make them mad. It was just… [pause for emphasis] … creeepy.
Indeed! I cannot, for the life of me, fathom why grown women swoon over the abysmally written Twilight saga. The books are utter shite. I’ve read kleenex boxes with better plot and characterization for Pete’s sake!
I know 40-somethings who have gone completely junior-high over it. 40-somethings!! Lusting after fictional teen boys.
That’s not even cougar. That’s just plain creepy.
Sex sells?
DD and friend report that this movie “sucked ass a little less than the first Twilight movie.”
Movie reviewer is probably not a career possibility there. . . :)
Nance
Audrey:
Even if the books were written well, I wouldn’t understand what’s so compelling about teenage vampire love. :? Or, teenage drama of any kind, actually. Does that make me un-hip?
Lynn said: Even if the books were written well, I wouldn’t understand what’s so compelling about teenage vampire love. :? Or, teenage drama of any kind, actually. Does that make me un-hip?
Well, quite.
And, if we just look at the movies themselves, I have a hard time getting past the fact that the teen vampire “hunk” looks like a junkie who hasn’t bathed since the previous century. Please don’t tell me it’s some kind of return to “heroin chic.” That was skany enough the first time around.
So this probably woudn’t be a good time to mention that my wife has read all the books and is now working her way through the Vampire Academy series? Although she is in no hurry to see the movie – is content to wait for Netflix.
Did I type that out loud?
Chris:
But, we’re confident that she swoons only for you, Chris :D
When I wrote this post, I was really thinking about 40-something women (“cougars”) romanticizing and fantasizing about teenage boys. I mean, I like Adam Lambert, too — but, not in a creepy like-like way ;)