mistakes, we've all made a few: the buzz about Twilight

[seraphcelene]

As I continue to indulge my fascination with Twilight the movie -- yes, the same fascination that led me down the primrose path to reading the book -- I spent a portion of last night watching interview footage on You Tube. Why would I do such a thing, you ask? Well, I had read somewhere that Rob Pattinson (aka Cedric Diggory and soon to be Edward Cullen) was rather disdainful of the novel and the character he's playing.

Well, turns out all is true. It also turns out that Rob Pattinson is a complete and kinda adorable dorkus. Like, totally. Most of his interviews are totally incomprehensible. Generally, he stammers and then breaks down into giggles. WTF?! To be fair, I don't know how much of that is the pressure of Twilight and how much of that is him because there were one or two interview where he was pretty together and kinda intelligent. But as the buzz and attention around Twilight increased, so did his discomfort. He's admitted that the whole phenom is rather terrifying, poor lamb. He is, I think, totally out of his depth. Yeah, absolute spaz! And clueless.

Another point of interest is how little the cast really do think of the books. Those who have read it struggle, and I mean STRUGGLE, to answer questions about the books versus the movies and the characters they are playing. Rob, Kristen Stewart (Bella) and Peter Facinelli (Carlile) seem to have it the worse. Kristen Stewart isn't usually so thrown in interviews, but the simplest questions render her almost speechless. And they repeat the same bits over and over and over in every interview. THEY don't even find anything really all that interesting or compelling about the characters they're playing.

I wonder who's signed up for the sequels and who hasn't and what that could possibly mean to the franchise.

Comments

[my_daroga]

Oh, that's priceless. I can't imagine playing Bella--I mean, my contempt for her is so vast that is might almost be fun.

We should make our own movie. It'll be great. I call Edward.

[seraphcelene]

LOL!!! There's no one that I could fathom playing. I'm not that good an acyress and I fear my contmpt for Bella would show.

Kristen Stewart is eighteen going on thirty. It's crazy to watch such a talented young actress struggle through reasons for why her character isn't crazy, obsessive and useless. She stammers slightly less than Rob. And that's not saying much.

[my_daroga]

Man. I need to check them out. This movie is going to be the lolfest of the year.

[seraphcelene]

First, let me apologize for all the damn typos. I was typing one handed on account of the carpal tunnel and me trying to ice my left forearm. I went to the gym today and pretended that I was Super Woman. All was well and good until I got home and it turned out I really WAS just Linda Lee.

Anywho. The one thing that the whole Twilight thing has done for fun, is give me a bit of a hard-on for Rob Pattinson. He isn't the best actor ever, but I find him goofy and adorable. Also, kind hot. So, I'm watching bits of his stuff. Last night was The Bad Mother's Handbook, which was actually kinda bad ( although not the worse). Next comes The Haunted Airman and I fear that's going to be all kinds of misery. Rob seems to do better with playing characters who are lovably off beat. We'll see.

[my_daroga]

Those little obsessions are pretty funny. Man, the things I've watched to get a Jeremy Irons or Alan Cumming fix. (Right now it's Orson Welles, which is a little bit different as he's a director too, etc)

I do not at all regret going to Forks with tkp.

[seraphcelene]

I have watched many, MANY crappy movies because of my deep and abiding love for Julian Sands.

I do not at all regret going to Forks with tkp.

See, that's something fun to do that might make everything somewhat more interesting. But for me it's all about the movie, now. I can forgive LOTS in a movie, books, just not so much. So, I'll be all ready to visit set locations once all is said and done, no matter how craptastic the movie is. Hell ... I still, for reasons that I do not understand, watch Queen of the Damned when it comes on TV.

I am sad.

[my_daroga]

I still plan to work through Sands' ouvre in a systematic fashion.

Forks was not about respecting the book, but about LOLing at stupidity. You see, we actually hate the books, but cannot stop reading them and staring at each other in horrified wonder that it exists and (more importantly) is popular. We actually had to pass through Forks to make a tour around the Olympic Peninsula, and it was just the icing on the cake.

Though we did get kind of into it.

We are certainly going to the movie with glitter on, oh yes.

[seraphcelene]

I am far more willing to watch a bad movie than read a bad book. Twilight just made me angry and then I started to obsess. *hangs head*

We are certainly going to the movie with glitter on, oh yes.

That would be MOST excellent and I expect there to be photos!!

[my_daroga]

There will be! I have been documenting our Twilight shenanigans on my journal.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I think its hysterical that even the actors find the whole thing boring.

[seraphcelene]

Dude!! They are OVER IT! The actress who plays Rosalie and the actress who plays Victoria are, perhaps, the most enthusiastic about the whole thing. Somehow they are able to come up with affection for the project. But even the director has commented numerous times on how long winded Meyers is and how they've had to consolidate the plot and beef up the action. Of course in nicer terms, focusing on passion and vision blah blah blah. It's a mess.