SO…. On November 19th, 2009, I was offered a chance to have a free movie and a dinner with my uncle, aunt, and sisters.  Of course, the main purpose of this outing was to see the midnight showing of New Moon.  It was mainly for my sister Reba and aunt who are DIE HARD fans of the Twilight Saga.

Let me preface the rest of this blog post by saying:

  1. I will do just about anything for free food
  2. I am NOT a fan of the Twilight series (YES, I read the first book and thought it was not so great)
  3. I am NOT a fan of romantic movies in general… esp if the romance part of the movie is cheesy and unrealistically fast paced.

Now, with that said… I had an AMAZING dinner at this noodles place in Oak Park (I forgot what it was called), had dessert at Ben and Jerry’s,  and then I  reluctantly waited in the movie theater for about 2 hours to watched the movie.  The crazed “Team Jacob” and “Team Edward” fans (this includes my sister and aunt both wearing shirts that say this) came into the theater with great excitement and tween squealing.  Throughout the wait, I was just wishing I had a book to read.

I saw the first movie, and I was squirming in my seat and making many faces and noises of disgust (which annoyed my sister).  So as this movie began, I came at it with a critical eye and a huge bias that it would suck like the first one.  I have to say that after watching the movie, that it wasn’t terrible (it wasn’t amaizng either).  It was slow in the beginning, picked up a bit, and Taylor Lautner looked hot nice. :)  The theatre went CRAZY when Lautner appeared shirtless, which happened several times in the movie, and someone around me yelled “He’s 17 you petefiles”  I just HAD to laugh out loud, cause he really did look good, and it was kind of hard to beleive he was only 17- plus it’s a bit gross!

ANYWHOOO…from what I heard from my sister, it was pretty true to the book, which was not the case for the first movie, so I’m glad it did that.  The ending was MIGHTY cheesy, and I LAUGHED OUT LOUD when I saw Bella’s face after Edward asked her a question…

For the most part, it was a decent movie.  I don’t think I would have gone to see it if someone didn’t offer the ticket to me.  The movie did make me gag, and I don’t plan on buying the DVD.  I know this “review” isn’t spectacular, and I’m sure I upset MANY Twilight fans… but this is how I felt :)  I think it’s pretty good for a person who usually doesn’t watch movies like this :D

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