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Olives was the wrong snack. I spent the opening scenes of Twilight being altogether too cool for school. I was all like, why is Jacob ten? Is Charlie meant to be this attractive? Don't the Cullens realise they all have foundation lines?
I switched the olives for hot Ribena. And then along came the pea coat. It's always a coat that swings it for me.
The fact that my vocabulary now contains the phrase "pea coat" gives you some idea of how well the rest of it went down. :) The Ribena did the trick, not to mention the general mmm, pretty.
In fact, I liked both the leads so much I almost wanted a bit less of the mmm, pretty. As far as I can remember the book (it's sort of a blur now), one of the things I liked best was the dialogue. I love artifice in dialogue, and this was the proper processed cheese slice kind. Edward was always most appealing when he was talking Bella into corners. There's something about a man who knows his way around a sentence. Or, um, boy. Hundred-year old boy, in my defence. ;) Anyway! Sidetracked so easily I am. Where was the dialogue? The stuttering, the leaning, the long-lookering, it was all good. But I wanted more words and a bit less tree-hopping.
I loved the way they threw in the sparkling scene with such contempt. It was totally, "Wait! I have to show you how I look in sunlight because the bloody Meyer woman won't let us leave it out. Hurry up! See? Sparkle sparkle. Quick, undercover!"
Also, I think I may be slightly in love with Rob Pattinson after listening to the audio commentary. I love how every single thing he says is about how he looks. It's like, the most self-absorbed commentary ever but somehow he gets away with it, mostly by being self-deprecating and funny and hilariously honest. It's like when someone shows you their wedding photos and you fail to pay attention to any of the foreground action because you're checking you're not doing anything too odd in the background. (The last few weddings I have been to I am 1) touching my hair in every photo 2) inexplicably jumping up and down in a corner of the wedding video 3) wearing a skirt that is OMG ten times shorter when I sit down why didn't anyone tell me and 4) BRIDESMAID SMILE AT ALL TIMES. I had learnt my lesson by 4).
For the same reason, this is why hanging on the words of actors as to the meaning of any developments concerning their characters is always going to end in disappointment. The story is inevitably going to be secondary to their assessment of their own performance.
I am completely off-topic now. Where was I?
Oh yes, Twilight film. I think my main complaint was that it did make it a bit harder to blot out all the parts of Breaking Dawn that I have been pretending don't exist. Bella! Oh, Bella.
I am fearful for New Moon though. My jaw actually dropped when I saw a clip today of the new, trying-very-hard-to-prove-I-am-not-ten Taylor Lautner, but I can't help thinking that he's still a sweet young lad with a six-pack. I mean, can he even change into a wolf? I really liked most of New Moon. Bella suddenly had this lovely human story about finding that she still had things to live for when she was all broken, and it was such a nice change of pace and focus, and I can't help but think that it will all be replaced with extended Edward/Bella death-pact scenes.
Anyway, tonight I am better equipped. I have pink lemonade and a Wispa bar. I have to get my money's/public humiliation's worth, so I am off to re-watch. :)
There, I'm done. Gene Hunt returns to my life on Monday. We'll pretend like this never happened. ;)
I switched the olives for hot Ribena. And then along came the pea coat. It's always a coat that swings it for me.
The fact that my vocabulary now contains the phrase "pea coat" gives you some idea of how well the rest of it went down. :) The Ribena did the trick, not to mention the general mmm, pretty.
In fact, I liked both the leads so much I almost wanted a bit less of the mmm, pretty. As far as I can remember the book (it's sort of a blur now), one of the things I liked best was the dialogue. I love artifice in dialogue, and this was the proper processed cheese slice kind. Edward was always most appealing when he was talking Bella into corners. There's something about a man who knows his way around a sentence. Or, um, boy. Hundred-year old boy, in my defence. ;) Anyway! Sidetracked so easily I am. Where was the dialogue? The stuttering, the leaning, the long-lookering, it was all good. But I wanted more words and a bit less tree-hopping.
I loved the way they threw in the sparkling scene with such contempt. It was totally, "Wait! I have to show you how I look in sunlight because the bloody Meyer woman won't let us leave it out. Hurry up! See? Sparkle sparkle. Quick, undercover!"
Also, I think I may be slightly in love with Rob Pattinson after listening to the audio commentary. I love how every single thing he says is about how he looks. It's like, the most self-absorbed commentary ever but somehow he gets away with it, mostly by being self-deprecating and funny and hilariously honest. It's like when someone shows you their wedding photos and you fail to pay attention to any of the foreground action because you're checking you're not doing anything too odd in the background. (The last few weddings I have been to I am 1) touching my hair in every photo 2) inexplicably jumping up and down in a corner of the wedding video 3) wearing a skirt that is OMG ten times shorter when I sit down why didn't anyone tell me and 4) BRIDESMAID SMILE AT ALL TIMES. I had learnt my lesson by 4).
For the same reason, this is why hanging on the words of actors as to the meaning of any developments concerning their characters is always going to end in disappointment. The story is inevitably going to be secondary to their assessment of their own performance.
I am completely off-topic now. Where was I?
Oh yes, Twilight film. I think my main complaint was that it did make it a bit harder to blot out all the parts of Breaking Dawn that I have been pretending don't exist. Bella! Oh, Bella.
I am fearful for New Moon though. My jaw actually dropped when I saw a clip today of the new, trying-very-hard-to-prove-I-am-not-ten Taylor Lautner, but I can't help thinking that he's still a sweet young lad with a six-pack. I mean, can he even change into a wolf? I really liked most of New Moon. Bella suddenly had this lovely human story about finding that she still had things to live for when she was all broken, and it was such a nice change of pace and focus, and I can't help but think that it will all be replaced with extended Edward/Bella death-pact scenes.
Anyway, tonight I am better equipped. I have pink lemonade and a Wispa bar. I have to get my money's/public humiliation's worth, so I am off to re-watch. :)
There, I'm done. Gene Hunt returns to my life on Monday. We'll pretend like this never happened. ;)