I can safely say this much – TWILIGHT IS NO HARRY POTTER!! And I’m still mad we don’t get Harry Potter until this summer. The movie is a little weird but if you’re a fan of vampire stories it’s probably worth seeing. I haven’t read the Twilight books yet and I can definitely tell you the movie did not make me want to rush right out and get one. I suppose I will at some point though but they can wait.
There were some teenage(ish) girls sitting in the same row and they giggled in delight every time Edward the cute vampire did something interesting so that was kind of fun to notice. Kristen Stewart’s constantly pouting and morose Bella left me uncomfortable much of the time and Robert Pattison’s (a.k.a. Cedric Diggory!), Edward was, well, I’m not sure what he was. He’s cute and everything but he’s no James Bond!
It definitely did NOT make me crave life in a small town. Ick. And most especially a small town in ever so rainy Washington.
While some are hailing this as a good movie for teen girls due to the whole hands-off-abstinence theme (apparently the author is a Mormon mom) I’m not so sure about the concept that bad-boys-who- secretly-long-to-kill-you-but-won’t-have-sex-with-you-are-okay is such a great message in the long run either.
If you are dying to see a movie but you are in no mood to watch yet another “my family is really screwed up but in the end we’re all cool about it” Christmas movie and you kind of have a thing for vampire stories then you might enjoy Twilight.
photo credit: Ezy Brenizzle
