Twilight tickets are sold out
for tomorrow night at both my town's movie theaters. Daughter No. 1 already has hers, and is planning to get there two hours ahead
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if y'all don't know what this is, you're out of the loop
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I know *, but it doesn't really affect me.
Except that there's a British actor in it. Go England! *And that's only thanks to heat magazine. |
I'm out of the loop. But if I had to guess, I'd say it has something to do with this week's South Park episode about "gay poser preppy wannabe vampire losers." :)
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I actually attended a midnight showing (and got my ticket two weeks in advance...) and had a pretty good laugh about how awful the movie turned out to be. As student-teachers, several of my friends and I got sucked in to the series through our Adolescent Literature class and so were among the many fangirls lined up outside to see the movie. The books are a nice, melodramatic "popcorn" type read, but I think too much was lost in the book-> movie transition.
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Daughter No. 1, who has many fine qualities but is not a reader, actually read a fiction book. Several. That makes me happy no matter how crap the book is. I'm reading it myself, so I can talk to her. I'm halfway through--it's not bad. So far, not great, but pretty good.
Movies have their own problems. |
I mentioned in Books You're Currently Reading that I read the first book at the behest of a cow orker.
I don't understand how that poorly written melodramatic crap became popular. |
I asked a few of the girls I've been teaching at the high school what they like about they series. Responses included things like "Bella (the main character) talks like we do" and "it's like Romeo and Juliet." Some of these students have never finished a book cover to cover before in their lives, so if Twilight is what it takes to get them reading, then so be it. Hopefully it'll serve as a bridge towards better books.
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Thanks, Bruce, I love a good diatribe.
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The link has the opposing view.
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