Just got back from seeing Twilight - not spoilery; spoilers under LJ cut

[feministyogini]

I wanted to get my thoughts out before I forgot them ;)
Okay, so I first heard about Twilight back very early this year.  I kept seeing icons of Twilight and, since I'm usually up on popular tv shows/films I was perplexed when I couldn't figure out what it was.  Who knew people were iconing a movie that had yet to come out?  Eventually, I got it.

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[wax_wane]

my favorite parts

[feministyogini]

see, those melodramatic phrases are common in the book and you DO roll your eyes at them :) interestingly, no one laughed much in our theatre, even at the intentionally humourous parts.

also, the cliches are also in the book - bad boy, controlling most beautiful guy? also in the book (Bella, ad nauseum, tells the reader Edward is the most beautiful creature she's ever seen) - see, you've identified all her flaws without reading it!

Audience reaction - first, I went to a 8screen theatre so I think seeing it in a multiplex would have been different. It was the 4pm showing and it was in the smallest theatre (fewest seats), which surprised me given how much of a phenomenon it's been hyped to be. Definitely not sold out. Maybe 30 people? Audience was mixed, there were about 3 single people (myself included) and the rest were groups of 3-4. Ages ranged from 40s? (single woman to my left) to 14-15yr olds. Most people fell into the 100% dead serious/squee-ing over Pattinson group :)

[rokeya]

I find little hot about abstinence + teen angst! Probably because my experience with this as a teenager was being around Christian fundies.

I missed most of the references here since I don't know the film or the story, but I enjoyed reading your critique. :)

[feministyogini]

I can see where you're coming from. Growing up Catholic, I definitely learned to equate sex and guilt :)
But, Canadians don't really have the fundamentalist Christian experience en masse that Americans do. Growing up, no one had promise rings or chastity pledges or anything like that (and I went to Catholic schools!)

I guess I can "appreciate" (? not best word) the teen angst around sex from this outsider's perspective. Though, I do get that the horrible anxiety/guilt around sexual attraction imposed on young Christians is not sexy per se.

[feministyogini]

ETA - I felt really bad after watching Jesus Camp because some of those kids struggled with their faith. There is one girl who agonizes over whether it's okay to dance and concludes that she can dance because she uses her body movements in the name of God. It broke my heart to see these children in such pain over keeping to their faith...children!

[anonymous]

Re: spoiler-ish comment - screen?

[feministyogini]

When I'm done Breaking Dawn , I'll have a better response to this. I don't know how it ends exactly.