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Twilight7

On February 13th I saw Twilight in theaters for the 7th time. By no choice of my own, mind you. I was practically forced by four of my friends: Sarah and Kristy who had just read the book, Michelle who was in the process of reading and Tara who was reading Breaking Dawn. For the record, it is just as good the 7th time around and Robert Pattinson is just as swoon worthy.

Fortunately the movie was only $3 this time since it had moved to the discount theater. Woo-hoo!! Of course the popcorn is just as expensive. Bastards. The five of us enjoyed the movie and then went to dinner afterward. We wanted to go to Champps but they were charging a cover (WTF?) so we opted for Houlihan’s instead. I enjoyed some delicious meatloaf. It was nice to have some fresh minds to discuss the book and movie with. In retrospect I should have driven with Tara alone so we could have discussed the other books. Instead we had to bite our tongues and be hush hush as not to ruin it for the slackers others who hadn’t read the series. But they will, just like Renee will eventually read Twilight. :o

Twilight comes out on DVD in three weeks and I’ve preordered the Border’s special edition copy. Nice.
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Twilight5 & Twilight6

I saw Twilight for the 5th time last Friday night with my sister Lani and niece-in-law Megan. Lani had read the first two books, but Megan was a Twilight virgin. The movie was enjoyed by all. I thought the theater was still quite busy for the movie having been out for 7 weeks, but I suppose not everyone is a superfan like me who rushed out to see it on opening weekend. Of course, I was curious as to how many people in the theater had already seen it. Apparently the dad in the family sitting in front of us hadn’t seen it before, because he kept leaning over and asking his daughter questions.

I fully intended on stopping at 5 times. It seemed like a good number, and more than enough times to tide me over until the DVD comes out in March. But Blog Reader Kristen left me a comment that she was interested in seeing it again. Apparently she had to see it again to make up for that disgusting display in Grand Cayman, which it didn’t seem like she wanted to count in her total Twilight viewings. I drove to Cloud on Saturday night so we could see it there. Curtis accompanied us as well, not having enough Alice is my guess. That or he wanted to monitor our swooning, keep us in line. Somebody has to. I swooned over Edward as usual, but Kristen fully swooned over baseball Jasper.

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My journey into Twilight the Movie, and other movie related paraphernalia

Friday 11/21 was a day was the day I had been waiting three long weeks for. I bought my Twilight movie ticket online in advance in order to get a free iTunes download of a special “Bella’s Lullaby” remix. Since I didn’t already have a date for the evening I talked Renee into seeing it with me. I practically had to twist her arm. Here’s what I posted afterward on the cklahr forum:

Here is my experience (no spoilers, or anything specific about it for that matter)

Twilight definitely did not disappoint. I thought they did a great job adapting it, but am still glad I had the knowledge of the book. For example, they could have explained the vampire conversion process a little better, Renee was confused. She liked it a lot too, which surprised me because she made it quite clear before hand that she’s not into the whole fantasy thing and didn’t like Harry Potter or LOTR. I practically dragged her kicking and screaming. I think the only reason she agreed to go was because I told her you guys liked the book, and that even Curtis wanted to see the movie. So I was really surprised on the way out when she told me if they make a second movie we have to see the midnight showing so there will be less irritating girls there. Sweet, she’s in.

It would have been a lot better if the theater wasn’t full of teenagers, although it was humorous to see the hordes of parents parked outside waiting. And the moms taking pictures of whichever group of girls they were chaperoning. Here’s pretty much how our experience went: Movie starts = excited murmuring, clapping. Enter Edward = squealing, seat bouncing (yes, I could hear them bouncing). They only had one reaction to funny parts. Giggles. No laughing, chuckling, gasping or otherwise scene appropriate reaction. Giggles were the only vocal remedy to whichever situation arose. It was really distracting actually. I think I missed the entire scene after Edward first entered the cafeteria because Renee and I were laughing so hard at them. Good times, good times.

The experience was definitely crazy. The line of traffic to get into the theater was absurd, but apparently it was all drop offs and pickups, because we got rock star parking and there were tons of spots open around us, which is unheard of in Maple Grove on a Friday night no matter what time it is.

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Superbad

Superbad

Tonight I went to the theater to see Superbad with Nick and Bolin. It was another one of those dumb funny movies. And boy was it dumb. And funny. And filled with graphic sexual language and drawings of penises. The review below is not for the faint of heart.

Superbad is about three nerdy guys who are trying to have their last sexual high school hurrahs before college so they can be good at it when they get there. Seth (Jonah Hill) is trying to score liquor for a party so that he can get the hot girl of the school drunk and have sex with him. Evan (Michael Cera) is torn between getting a drunken blow job by the girl he cares about or being a nice respectable guy who tells her how he feels. McLovin’ (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) is the geeky party killer who ends up being the Mac Daddy of the night. The movie plot starts out with the three boys trying to score an ass load of liquor for a party with McLovin’s fake id. From the beginning things go awry and a wild adventure ensues with the guys first trying to steal liquor from another party and then trying to make their way back to the party they are supposed to be at while being chased by the cops.

It sounds rather tasteless, but it’s really not that bad. It’s filled with dumb humor and an underlying theme of separation anxiety that Seth and Evan are facing knowing they’ll be at different colleges in the fall. This movie was definitely worth the $9 to see it in the theater. I give this movie 4 out of 5 paloozas.

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AAAAA paloozas = See this movie in the theater for optimal viewing
AAAA paloozas = See this movie in the theater if you can
AAA paloozas = Pop some popcorn and rent this movie
AA paloozas = Watch this movie on TV … for free
A palooza = … I think you know where I’m going here…
No paloozas = Reserved for Eyes Wide Shut

Knocked Up

No, not me. The movie!! Nick and I saw Knocked Up on Friday with Curtis & Kristen. It was a funny movie from the writers of 40 Year Old Virgin (and most of the same cast). It’s about two people who meet at a bar and have drunken sex and (surprise, surprise) end up getting pregnant. She’s a successful woman who works for E! and he’s your stereotypical pot head loser. As they struggle to make it work as parents to be, the movie touches on the many different stereotypes of married couples, relationship miscommunication, hollywood, being pregnant, having children, etc. and of course is filled with the tastefully horrible yet funny jokes. I’d have to say my favorite parts of the movie are the cameos by celebrities who poke fun at themselves and/or hollywood.

The movie was good. It’s filled with dumb humor which typically takes 2 or 3 viewings before it starts to grow on me. Originally I didn’t have high expectations of it, but that morning I heard so many great reviews that after seeing it I was disappointed that I didn’t find it wet-your-pants-funny, as one reviewer put it. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I watched it with my originally low expectations. That and I couldn’t help thinking how I’d rather be watching Shrek the Third (which will be next!!). Anyway, I’d prefer to see this as a rental movie, but you won’t be wasting your money if you go to the theater. That’s why I’m giving Knocked Up 4 out of 5 paloozas.

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AAAAA paloozas = See this movie in the theater for optimal viewing
AAAA paloozas = See this movie in the theater if you can
AAA paloozas = Pop some popcorn and rent this movie
AA paloozas = Watch this movie on TV … for free
A palooza = … I think you know where I’m going here…
No paloozas = Reserved for Eyes Wide Shut

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