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I saw the movie Twilight this weekend and I finished reading the book last night so this will be a review of both. I’ll give a short review of the movie and then the book and then talk in general about both. This will contain spoilers so you’ve been warned.

The movie was about what I thought, it was a chick flick and not really something I enjoy. The first 5 hours were a little slow, dealing mostly with the love story of Bella and Edward who turns out to be a vampire. Edward and his family don’t drink human blood so in a way they are good(?) vampires. The love story gets  interrupted by a 20 second scene where the bad vampires show up and we don’t see them attack a human. Later on we see them playing baseball and the bad vamps show up and one wants to eat Bella and then there’s a 5 minute action scene that involves edward and the bad vamp pushing each other into walls a few times and then the bad vamp is killed off screen. the next hour is then a setup for the sequel. I’ll give it 3 puke buckets!

Ok now the book, It’s the same story, except the bad vamps don’t attack the human, we don’t get to them until the baseball game. The love story drags on for 15 chapters before we get into anything else, the next 2 chapters at least we get some history on the family and on Carlyle, the ‘father’ of the group. We finally get to the bad vamps and the hunt is on. I thought this at least was handled better in the book and it seemed at least a little longer and more involved, but once again what happens to the bad vamp is off screen so to speak. The writing was OK I guess, not great but not bad either. Being generous, I would say it was 3 stars.

Now for more observations, this will be for both the film and book, but mostly the book. As I was reading this some things just bugged me, I had to look up the publication date but it was written in 2004 and published in 2005. I thought that maybe the author was an older writer but then I saw her on a movie preview show and that wasn’t the case, she was fairly young, in her thirties. In this day and age, it really bugged me that NO ONE HAD A CELL PHONE! I would say that maybe they didn’t have reception in Forks (the town they were in) except for the fact that late in the book when the are running from the hunter, Carlyle gives them one! These are teenaged girls, in 2005 most would have had cellphones, and a cop surely would have. I was late getting a phone and I had one in ’05. Bella’s mom was worried about her and would freak when anything happened to Bella, don’t you think a cellphone would be a requirement, especially since her mom travelled a lot?

What about iPods? in the movie Bella does have an iPod, but the book had her listening to a CD player. This one I would be willing to let pass even though iPods hit big in ’03, but then in Edward’s room that is full of high tech gear and hundreds of records and CDs, he doesn’t have an iPod?

Bella was in high school and was friends with girls there, there is no way she would be able to forget when the prom is, that is just the dumbest thing I have ever read. You might get me to believe that she didn’t know that was where Edward was taking her, but not that she didn’t know that it was that night. Don’t you think her friends would be talking non stop about it for weeks before? No way, this I call BS. I also find it hard to believe that Taylor would not make sure he was the one taking her, that was just silly.

Edward and family went to high school, why? They lived in a small town, they could probably get away with telling people they were home schooled or something. I know they said it was so they could stay longer, but I’m not sure on that but we’ll let that go. When I was in school, I missed a lot of days because of illness, so I know that at least back then, they only gave you a certain amount of days you could miss before you were failed, a doctors note was required for more then that. Ed and family missed a lot of days as shown in the book. Yes, I know what you are thinking, Carlyle was a doctor and could give them the excuse they needed right? Not really, first off, it didn’t seem like it was a secret that they were not sick, they were off ‘hiking’. Maybe the school didn’t mind? Doesn’t matter, the school would have to have records that go to the county and state, someone is bound to notice all the absences and wonder why the whole family seemed to get sick at the same time and the doctors notes were signed by the father! This might just shorten the time they can spend in a town, and not all towns would be accommodating.

Bella thinks that Ed is a vampire and decides to confront him the next day at school. She waits for him outside the school sitting on a bench enjoying the first sunny day since she got to forks, she is surprised and mad that he isn’t at school. The next day is the same, she waits outside in the sun for Edward the vampire and he doesn’t show, she is once again surprised. I wonder why he didn’t show?

Now for the one thing that really bugged me… Beautiful Edward. No, I had no problem with the character of Edward, It was beautiful Edward or gorgeous Edward or stunning…. WTF? She doesn’t write Edward without beautiful or a synonym of beautiful in front of it. OK I get it, he was good looking. It is so bad that I think I could safely bet that the word beautiful or a synonym of it is on every page from the moment the he appears. If you were to remove beautiful and it’s synonyms from the book it would be maybe two chapters. By the end of the book I wanted to fly to Arizona or where ever this Meyer chick lives and punch her in the face for every fucking ‘beautiful’ that is in the book! I’m not sure I could stomach the next book if it is the same!

I’m sure I could continue, but the post is getting long so I’ll end it here. I do want to post more about the Twilight series, but a more serious discussion so I’ll see about that another day.

Ok, I voted against the law that defines marriage between a man and a women here in Florida, I could care less who someone wants to be with. I’m sure I would have voted for gay marriage if I lived in California. But come on people, you lost, get the fuck over it and regroup. Remember, it was the ones (Blacks & Latinos) voting for the socialist dumbass that voted against you! Now you decide to punish the churches and businesses that don’t agree with you on the issue?  Do you really think attacking Mormons and Christians will change their religious views? Harassing old ladies and screaming at her at the top of you lungs going to endear you with them? Do you think next time they’ll change their vote because you treated their beliefs like shit, because acting like pricks will win them over? 

Here’s a lovely photo of an islamic gay wedding:

Beautiful couple right? That’s how Islam treats gays. I’ll bet that 99.9% of muslims voted against gay marriage, why are you not out in front of mosques protesting? Grow a fucking pair!

I’m more inclined to vote against you next time, just out of spite!

New anti Obama Shirts @ Bakerstreet’s Printfection store

Show your displaesure at America’s choice

Have a lot of more ideas for shirts, so I’ll be busy for the next 4 years!

I’ll need to make up a bumper sticker tomorrow. Plus the ‘Not My President’ T-shirts! Wonder if the sorryamerica.com domain is taken yet?

The weatherman said today would be a beautiful day, It appears he was way off. It has been cloudy and depressing all day, hopefully it is not a sign of things to come, hopefully the polls are way off too. We went to Starbucks and got our free $10 cup of coffee, I hate coffee, but I figured if I’m going to get fucked in the ass I want my free cup of coffee. We also went to Shane’s Rib Shack and got a free lunch, much better then the coffee.

The ones that will suffer the most if the one wins are our troops, he has promised to end the war (not win the war, win seems to be a word he does not know except for his campaign), in Iraq. A war has three outcomes, win, lose or draw. pulling troops out is losing. So the idiot is going to snatch defeat from the hands of victory and then blame Bush for his own stupidity I’m sure. Then he’ll do the same in Afghanistan too, Osama has been waiting for this moment ever since he got his ass handed to him by US troops. As he said when Clinton turned tail and ran from Somalia, ‘America is a paper tiger, bloody their noses and they’ll run.’ or something to that effect. Now comes the easy part, stage a major attack on US troops in Afghanistan that kills as many as possible and the idiot one will have an excuse too do the same as Clinton. I think Osama got it wrong though, and he knows it too now, it’s not America that is the paper tiger, it’s the democrats that turn and run from a fight.

‘Teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime, give the man a fish and he’ll be back tomorrow for you to give him another fish.’

That’s not really how the saying goes, but it’s more appropriate. The idiot actually thinks that people that have heath care will continue to pay for it when the ones too lazy or stupid to get their own are getting it from free? How stupid do you have to be? How about someone thinking of expanding their business and making it bigger and hiring more people, would they change their mind if it would make things worse for them? The sheer stupidity boggles the mind. There has been a lot of talk of going John Galt on the internet if his highness wins, and while I don’t think people will do so, it might happen as a result of the sacred one’s policies. Getting punished for working harder isn’t an incentive to make you work harder. If your boss asked you to work overtime for less pay, would you? Most likely not.