Twilight: Eclipse. The Not-A-Review. Sort of.

[gategrrl]

No, I didn't go see this. Neither did my neighbor, whose daughter also wanted to go see it, along with Mermaid. I dropped them both off at the theater, and three hours later picked them up. After Mermaid was home, had eaten some chicken soup and had relaxed away from her friend from next door, she said, "It was boring, to tell you the truth." She couldn't remember the ending!  Mermaid is "into" the Twilight series, but not really any longer. It's more like a girl-bonding event, a tradition, that she and a friend go see these films.

Neighbor's daughter told me her mother didn't want to see it, either. Neighbor-friend told me that her mother would have laughed all the through the movie "like a hyena". Both girls were relieved their mothers did not go with them. And believe me, both of us were relieved we didn't HAVE to go with them!

Comments

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

I was curious and read the reviews today. Not good. Not good at all. I'm not planning on see this movie either!

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

The reviews coming in from the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender haven't been very good, either. It's limp. We'll see if that film has any legs. But honestly, who'd go see it if there's a hugely better version already on DVD? With characters that haven't been whitewashed?

[superbadgirl]

I am so ready for vampires to not be cool anymore.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

They're "cool" when they're actually...you know. Dead. Disgusting. Predators. And not many writers like to write them that way, unless they're writing actual HORROR novels. Not this kind of shit. They aren't human!

[sars.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen any clips from any of the Twilight movies until I saw the trailer for this one. Laughed myself silly at how bad the effects and makeup were. And the pic you've posted looks like a bad photoshop manip as well. WTH?

So glad Mae is too young for Twilight. Dreading the next big thing though :)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I grabbed the picture off of Google, but you know what? I think it IS a manip, and not an official poster for the movie! I'll switch it out if I when I have a chance. :-)

My own daughter has a weird 'relationship' with the books and the movie series. It's hard to tell if she read it because all her friends were into it, or reading it, or if it's the way it started, but then she got into it...and she *knows* what a stalker the vampire dude is, and I've talked to her about how twisted and unhealthy and misogynistic the relationships and books ARE, but it's still a love-hate she has with them. It IS the series that got her into reading for real pleasure (she's now reading much better written books with better characterized women in them).

Sorry for the mini-novella!

Is she still too young for Harry Potter? Whatever problems they have, they ARE fun books, and the first one, at least, starts the characters out only slightly older than her. She's grown SO MUCH! What is she into reading?

[sars.livejournal.com]

She loves Harry Potter, and we've read some of the Enid Blyton books. Really, she's not much into reading. The struggles she had last year set her back I think. She still tells me she "can't read" when I ask her to read something for me. We're slowly pushing her to read her own books rather than just the readers she brings home from school.

[khek.livejournal.com]

I saw the first movie, and I have to deal with teens who talk *endlessly* about how good the books are, and how wonderful the movies are, and why can't Stephanie Meyer write twelve more books?

Then I try to give them something better to read.

Personally, if I had a choice between a vampire (cold, dead, not breathing, all sparkling aside) and a werewolf, (who's alive at least, no matter how hairy) I know which one I'd choose. But then, I wouldn't be whining in East Podunk about guys, I'd be off doing something. So...