Speaking of car crashes, I watched Twilight the other night.
I've secretly been itching to see it out of morbid curiosity. It was...pretty much what I expected. I have a feeling the book would have been better than the movie if only because the ridiculous way they portrayed Edward and the other vampires made me lol. Even if they described them in a dumb way in the book, it's easier to just picture what you want anyway. Dude, these "vampires" looked like fucking geisha they were wearing so much white powder. Except I think geisha actually remember to powder their ears, too. One has to wonder how these vampires are living in secret amongst human society when you can spot one by just looking for the guy with fangs and lipstick.
I have to say I didn't find Bella to be as Mary Sue as I was expecting. Edward, on the other hand, was far too "ideal" and made Bella Mary Sue by extension because she has Edward. For no logical reason at all. That Romeo & Juliet aspect annoyed me quite a bit, too. "I NEED YOU. I'M SO ADDICTED TO YOU. YOU ARE MY LIFE NOW." Uh, why? "OH, UM, BECAUSE YOU'RE REALLY CUTE."
Baseball, wtf? Firstly, everyone knows that actually
playing baseball is
not "the American passtime." Watching it on television while drinking beer is the American passtime. Or surfing the internet. For porn. If the American passtime actually involved exercise then most of America would not be obese. And who the hell actually does outdoor activities with their family? I swear only a Mormon could be this blissfully out of touch with reality.
When I told my mom about halfway through the movie that the author was Mormon, she went, "Ohhhhhh. Now it all makes SO much more sense." And the bit that prompted me to share that was when I saw the two dads were going inside to watch sports (hey, they almost got that one right) while carrying a 6 pack of...
RC Cola?
My mother's nitpick was that in a town of 3000 people, they sure seem to have every combination of race and nationality on the Earth well represented. With high school age children, nonetheless.
What I did like was the ditzy girl, Bella's friend. She was the perfect parody of that type of girl, assuming she was meant to be a parody. I found her amusing in quite a few scenes.
