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Rabid fans make Twilight a wild adventure |
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by Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid -
SGN A&E Writer Twilight Opening November 21 Okay, I confess, the closest I came to the books by author Stephenie Meyer was when I was the tarot reader at the midnight book release of Breaking Dawn, the latest in the trilogy of teen vampire books that has swept the world with their popularity. Still, being the vamp fan I am, I simply had to see what all the fuss was about - anything that makes the young women I did readings for glow like that has to be something special, I thought, watching them line up, on cue, at midnight, to get the first copy of Breaking Dawn at Parkplace books (one of many that had midnight releases of the latest book). And is the movie - a mishmash of the three novels - worth all the hype setting the internet ablaze? Yes, I guess. I say it that way, because the giggles and sighs and "oh my"s at the audience screening made the movie seem a bit more intense that it might have been. Still, I did like the film, which has that self-deprecating, almost campy quality one expects in films aimed at teens, especially teen girls. Trust me, I'm being fair here, really. Young Edward (Robert Pattinson) is a smoking hot vamp dude who is trying to stick to a diet of animal blood - he and his "family" of vamps have taken this turn to be "better" than the rest of their ilk, who happily indulge in the usual undead feeding frenzies - who finds himself drawn to a human girl (Kristen Stewart). At first he ignores her, which only makes her more interested in this brooding hunk, then he gives up all hope and they hang out, and he starts to reveal bits and pieces of what he is. This brought lots of giggles from the audience at the screening. So things progress and Edward introduces his gal pal to his vamp family, who turn out to be pretty nice folks, even the "born with attitude" Rebecca, who worries that bringing a human into their secret world will out them all and put them at risk. Fortunately, dad (Peter Facinelli in goth white face makeup and blond punk hair) convinces her and all's well - that is, until the "bad guys" (other vamps who have been killing humans at will) show up, and James (Cam Girandet) decides to hunt Edward's human squeeze as part of a vamp "game." Thus there's the inevitable vamp on vamp fight, with poor Bella (Stewart) in the middle getting banged up and nearly killed. Ah, but this is a teen film, so there's little blood, not a lot of violence and no sex - okay, there's a sort of sex scene, but Edward backs off at the last minute, lest he give in to those "other" carnal urges from his vamp self. Not Underworld or 30 Days of Night, but not a bad vampire flick either, and yes, you might even like it if you're over 15 and past memories of being the weird kid when you were in high school. |
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