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[cleolinda]

I knew this was going to happen, and yet--I still can't quite believe it myself:

'Twilight': Early box office is bloody good!The film adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's vampire-romance saga scored $7 million from shows at midnight on Thursday, and it's on pace to bank as much as $30 mil on Friday, Variety reports. That Harry Potter-esque sum would

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[prncssaurora]

Just got back, and THE LULZ, OMG THE LULZ. This is the best movie of my entire life. My audience was very vocal, but thankfully at the right moments, although they did feel the need to squeal every time a character was first introduced. And there must have been a lot of Jacob fangirls in the audience, because he got squeals every time.

But the scene with Bella and Edward macking on her bed got the best reactions ever. From near the back of the theatre: "You go girl! Get it! GET IT!" And then when you see what she's wearing on the bottom half, the girl in front of me shouted, "WHERE YOUR PANTIES, GIRL?" Heee.

And was I the only one who couldn't stop giggling at the super emo score? I want to play it on my stereo all day long while I scrapbook.

[cleolinda]

From near the back of the theatre: "You go girl! Get it! GET IT!" And then when you see what she's wearing on the bottom half, the girl in front of me shouted, "WHERE YOUR PANTIES, GIRL?"

Okay, that's it, you had the best audience ever.

[prncssaurora]

RIGHT? It was amazing. My friends and I spent the remainder of the night after the movie randomly shouting those phrases (along with "THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLERRRR") and I am here to tell you, it is still funny.

[cleolinda]

Oh, and the score was done by CARTER BURWELL? The guy who works with the Coens so often? I still have no idea how they managed to get him.

[prncssaurora]

Yeah, I couldn't believe that either! And really, the score is beautiful. But in the context of some of the scenes (mostly montages of them staring into each other's eyes) it seems so very emo. But yeah, that's interesting that they managed to get him. Also, Radiohead over the closing credits! That was a surprise.

[mokeyhokey]

Radiohead?! What song was it? Between that and both Iron & Wine and Perry Farrell on the soundtrack, the only conclusion I can come to is these guys had some bills to pay. Why else would they agree to attach themselves to this?

[i_will]

whoa whoa whoa, iron & wine?! how the hell. times is hard, you guys.

[mokeyhokey]

Yes, I was most chagrined to discover that Sam Beam lent his music to the soundtrack. I don't even know where Iron & Wine would make sense in the movie, unless it's playing during the dinner/coffee scene or something.

[tigereyed24]

I'm pretty sure Sam Beam doesn't care who uses his music, he just throws it around. Someone once asked him in an interview what he thought of Garden State since it helped boost his career and he replied that he couldn't really say because he's never seen it lol. His attitude is basically "I have bills to pay, you want my music? use it." I can respect that haha.

(or this might just be me trying to cover my cringe when I discovered they were using his song)

[mokeyhokey]

Oh, yeah. I don't have any kind of elitist "SELL OUT!!1!" outrage over it. For lots of musicians, this is the way to make money in this day and age. I guess I'm mostly confused because the song they chose (Flightless Bird, American Mouth) really doesn't have anything in common with the themes of the story. And that's usually the point of songs on soundtracks, you know? It goes back to the annoyance I have with Stephenie Meyer's mixtapes on her website - the songs she chooses only fit the narrative she's trying to create if you're taking the songs at face value. That's fine for, say, Creep by Radiohead, but when she's tossing around Wolf Like Me by TV on the Radio because of "omg werewolves!" she's missing the point entirely. Which I guess is sort of the overarching theme for Meyer's entire writing career thus far, when I think of it.

I have put entirely too much thought into this.

[modpixie]

i seem to remember that sam beam has daughters -- maybe one of them is old enough to read twilight and talked him into using some of his music there?

[notemily]

It's when they're dancing at the prom. The music choices were all kind of weird, like "huh. really? okay, if you say so, movie." I admit I kind of squeed though, because I love iron & wine, and it's my favorite song from Shepherd's Dog.

[mokeyhokey]

That's... huh.

I guess nothing says "romance" like a lamentation of the death of the American Dream.

[notemily]

*snerk*

[gwynnywonk]

I'm pretty sure it was 15 Step from In Rainbows

[prncssaurora]

The song was 15 Step. :)