martha stewart in my head

[parthenia]

I took P. to see Twilight this afternoon.

*cough*

I thought it was awesome. So did he. *facepalm to the nth*

There were about 20 people in the theatre, most of them 14 year old girls. P. was awestruck with happiness when I told him they're making another one. He thought it was 'kind of cool.' I think it's partly because Twilight takes its emo subject matter very very seriously.

Oh God, I also fancied Robert Pattinson in it. Somebody save me.

In other news, I fail at Christmas. Thank you to yanks_02and <lj user="infinitemonkeys"> for cards and such. I have just about managed to send 6 corporate Christmas cards; I think I've bought all the family stuff, but it's hidden over half the house and I don't think I will ever find some of it again; and the house is a HUGE HIDEOUS MESS where I actually don't know where to start. Seriously. Piles. of. appalling. crap. EVERYWHERE.

to the tune of In the Bleak Midwinter

Crap was piiiiled
Crap on crap
Cra-ap o-on cra-ap
In the bleak Parthenia house
Just a moment ago...


What can I give her
Poor as I am?
If I were a clutter consultant
I would hand her a dustpan...

(Oh fuckety fuckety arse. *cries*)

Comments

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

I took myself to see it last week - and while I have no desire to read the books, I did think the movie had a kind of kitsch, naive B-grade charm to it. And as that was its saving grace for me, I was glad the effects were also naive and B-grade, because they fit it rather nicely. If it had tried to be more 'realistic' I would have enjoyed it a lot less.

Definitely didn't fancy RPatz, aside from the whole 'he's a vampire' thing - the various expressions that made me think he was terribly constipated were a bit of a put-off, but I thought he did a nice job of it anyway. I think she was very badly cast - so I kind of got bored with her, but I still came away thinking 'hey, that was kind of okay after all'.

I actually just really liked the whole 'family' and the dynamic between them. I'm a sucker for vampires that are a bit outside the square. (I may have also found the 'bad guy' vaguely hot *joins you on road to hell*).

The audience for my session was also small, mostly late teens / early 20 somethings in groups and couples. Some of them left, most of them seemed to also enjoy the kitsch.

*hugs*

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

I've read 2 of the books and I thought Kirsten Stewart was perfect as Bella - much less whiny than Book!Bella (yeah, yeah, I know). RPattz I like, and I thought he did a good job with a really pretty terrible role. Bits that I thought would be appalling (vampire baseball) were actually rather good.

Jasper made me giggle; and Alice was basically Bjork.

I thought P. would be horrified, but I think there's an element of understanding-love-angst that kindasorta appeals to him.