Far Out

Went out with the girls to catch Twilight in the cinemas to honour our pact made what, a year ago? or whenever when we vowed to watch the movie which would inevitably be made based on Stephenie Meyer's written work because vampire romance stuff is always the rage. Midnight screening somemore, just like we planned it. Well, almost - We went for a 2130h screening but left close to midnight, which was close enough.



So now let's split this up - The good and the bad. Bad gets to go first.

Twilight the movie was disappointing and just plain stupid.

That said, the stars are very good eye candy and although Robert Pattinson aka RPatzzzz looked seriously wonky in numerous scenes, he made a good Edward Cullen. I suppose the lines (which were abysmal, and that's quite an understatement) didn't do him justice. Contrary to my initial feelings on the casting, I would not have wished for Gaspard Ulliel to take his place 'cause then I'd have to put up with other silly giggling underage prats who jumped on the Twilight bandwagon just because of the hype and good looking stars. ( I am, however, not averse to GASPard being Edward Cullen in my fantasies)

It would positively kill me to listen to other girls go on and on and on about Ulliel's gorgeousness. Correction: Okay, it wouldn't kill me, I'd clobber them. I'd sock them hard on the nose and pinch their BBs or SBs, depending on what they had.

Okay, back to the movie.

I felt the editing was very awkward because the scenes didn't flow smoothly. For example, Bella gets hospitalised and then suddenly she's going for the prom with a cast. And the beginning parts of the movie were quite excruciating to watch. Wtf, that's how you're gonna slit in the accident and rescuing scene? I'm quite certain the girls and I can come up with a better adaptation.

Next, the confrontation between the Cullens and James' coven of vampires was downright ridiculous. The only outstanding thing I can remember about the scene was Rosalie's derriere. It was perky, especially when she was arching forward as though preparing for attack.

Then there's the lines.
Seriously, people, seriously. There is no need to follow the cheesy atmosphere so prevalent in the book! It's bearable on print because... Okay, I admit it: It's nice to imagine yourself in the place of Bella Swan being romanced by the extremely attractive Edward Cullen. Imagining yourself spouting those trashy lines just adds to the fun.

On the other hand, seeing it on the big screen makes me cringe. I could see Sharlene slapping her forehead many times too. I don't know what the other girls did, they were out of my line of sight but I'm fairly certain that Eunice and Hajar didn't enjoy them that much. The same can't be said for Meena who declared proudly that "cheesy is my favourite flavour!"

Also, wtf is up with the close-ups? Are they really necessary? Why were they so many? Are they meant to be erotic or something? Are they supposed to highlight the character's features? They don't look exceptionally brilliant with the close-ups, in fact, they just look somewhat bizarre.

There was a baby who started bawling in the middle of the movie. Poor poor baby. Wtf, mum, couldn't you leave someone to care for your child? It was 10.35pm, of course the baby would rather be in its cosy cot as opposed to sleeping on your bony shoulder for 2 hours plus. So inconsiderate. The baby was probably hungry or cold too. Poor poor baby.

Lastly, the guy sitting beside me chided us for being so noisy. We were just laughing and gasping and swooning and pointing out excitedly to anything that moved, okay? In our defence, it's a teenage movie loaded with eyecandy, for fucksakes! Hell, even we expected other members in the audience squealing whenever RPatz came on. Or Cam "My Baby!" Gigandet. You simply MUST expect silly adolescent behaviour like that. To put it into perspective, you can't be surprised when you see a man jacking off in a porn movie, can you? I've never been to a porn movie screening myself, but I imagine those kinda things would be the norm in the given situation. In any case, it's not as if we were noisy all the time. In fact, we actually tried to tone our responses down but I suppose our excitement got the better of us.

So I'm not sorry we spoilt your movie experience. The movie was shitty anyway.

And that's all I have for now. I'm sure there were others, but I can't remember much about the movie now. Maybe Sharlene will cover them on her blog in which case, go over to Shar's blog.

The good:

Okay lah, RPatz is hot in the movie.
(To think that I petitioned for a recast.)

The secondary characters are the ones who lent some credibility to the movie. Billy Burke who played Chief Swan may have had a limited number of scenes but he did gooood. Cam Gigandet didn't disappoint me in his portrayal ofbad, kickass, humanbloodthirsty vampire James. I particularly liked him when he tortured Bella. Such a pretty face terrorising the poor girl? Awwwwww. So macho!
Joking, joking. Still, he's awesome in those scenes.

Speaking of James, the part where Emmett and Jasper Cullen burnt James to a crisp was damn hilarious. Shar and I just laughed out loud when they looked as if they were dancing around the fire in sheer joy and jubilation. I think they were supposed to add firewood to the blaze so James would be properly incinerated.

"Jasper so happeeee!"

Last but not least of all, the baseball scene. MUSE'S SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE WAS FEATURED OMGOMGOMGOMGGGGG. It magnified the scene's awesomeness by like, infinity times a trillion. The baseball match could have been choreographed better but it was decent enough by my standards, maybe partly because I haven't seen much baseball.

I liked the scenes where RPatz was trying to keep his bloodthirst for Bella under control. It made him look like a positively constipated ape and tickled my funnybone delightfully.

And that's pretty much what I've got for now.

Moving on to non Twilight stuff, a cute guy sat in our table while we were having dinner. He looked like a Chinese + dunno-what-race hybrid. Very very very kyooot. (I'd post a pic of him, but that'd be a further intrusion on his privacy.) I'm quite proud to say that I practiced a lot of self-restraint and did not gush and keep looking at the guy.
The girls kept ribbing me about how he only interacted with me when he asked to keep a lookout for his stuff but I think that's only natural because I'm the closest person to talk to. It's far easier to look at a person who's sitting opposite of you. Sharlene may be just beside him but it requires more effort to turn your head. Plus, he probably didn't get to see her or he'd have chosen to communicate with her instead, lol.

Also, I can't believe how they kept trying to make my identity known to that poor guy. My name was frequently called upon and they took a perverse delight in asking why I was so quiet and pretending to be so "malu malu kucing" or "shy shy cat". I had nothing much to say what! Besides, I was conserving my energy to watch and make very audible responses to Twilight scenes.

Another thing, he wasn't checking me out, wtf. Your persistent teasing is somewhat flattering but for the love of all things sane, you girls just looooove making me look like a complete fool in public right? And stop passing comments on the BB stuff. I'm still no NSL. I'm Supergirl Vampire. I have messy hair, I sparkle in the light upon very close inspection and my Superlogo was clearly shown on my tshirt. So there.

Oh and last and most definitely not least, HAPPY BELATED LIKE BIG GOOSE FART BIRTHDAY TO SHARLENE GOH CHING YI! Hope you like the card we made you and we're very sorry we didn't give you on your birthday itself. Our clashing schedules make it very hard to do so but it doesn't mean we love you any less. You're the best Sharlene we ever got to know, hahahaa.




Awwww dang. I look even shorter than Hajar.

And hey, whaddayaknow. Another sane group photo that we can use for someone's birthday card, haha.

I hearts PWC (:

p/s. RPatz cut his hair!!!1!1!!1!!11!!

pp/s. No, I'm not besotted with him.

ppp/s. OMGOMG GASPARD ULLIEL MOVIE GONNA COME OUT SOON WOOTS WOOTS.

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