Edward Cullen: "Bella, I don't want you to come!"

- From the film version of New Moon (which I did not manage to finish, despite several shots of tequila)

Tiger Beatdown has an amusing/thinky post today about RPattz, Edward Cullen, objectification, and Twilight-as-porn:

Robert Pattinson talks shit about the projects he is in. Robert Pattinson is honest about the fact that he is not the best actor. And Robert Pattinson’s main source of employment is facilitating his own objectification, which he does ( Read more... )

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Twilight is the worst book I have ever actually finished (a record previously held for many years by Wizard's First Rule). Yet here I am tonight, facing the film adaptation armed only with caps lock and a bottle of red wine.

( You probably don't want to read this if you unironically love Twilight )

1) Teh fambly is winging its way back to Colorado. I will miss them, but I will not miss running the dishwasher at least twice a day and doing so much driving. Especially driving in Montréal, which is rather terrifying to someone who is used to what passes for traffic in Vermont. (I obtained the Canadiens' new stripy third jersey as a surprise for ( Read more... )

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I have obtained the first seven chapters, although there's no way I'm going to actually read all that tripe. But just in case you were wondering if Stephenie Meyer's writing has improved since Twilight (the only one I've read), the answer is NO. Also, Edward still farts rainbow sparkles and Bella, as personality-free as ever, still slavishly adores ( Read more... )

1) I'm rewatching Batman Begins. (You know, the one that's actually about the title character, not about an overhyped villain?) I did like The Dark Knight, but I don't think I'll ever love it the way I love BB. If only TPTB had hired Maggie Gyllenhaal for BB, since she'd have been great as BB's Rachel Dawes, who actually got to do important things ( Read more... )

I stayed up way too late chortling over the Breaking Dawn spoiler wank.

I'll just say that Stephenie Meyer's streak of epic fail remains unbroken and that I think a lot of Harmonians became Twilight fans. And shippers.

*virtuously resists breaking out huge sparkle text*

P.S. Twilight: still the worst book I've ever finished.