Thoughts on Twilight

So I went to see the movie Twilight with some other folks, so we could snark and otherwise enjoy hating the thing.  Having gone in expecting to be entertained by the badness, I was a little taken aback to be disappointed in it.  You could see the bones of a story that had the potential to be a decent movie, but the acting wasn't even wooden, it was one-dimensional  teflon--no substance, and nothing could stick to it.

Since we listened to the director explain what she wanted us to know about the cut scenes she chose for us to admire, I decided that it HAD to be her fault (she made it clear where all the vapid came from, that's for sure);  as popular as it is, the book couldn't have been that  totally empty, even factoring in the lowered taste one would expect from teenage girls.  I ordered the book from the library, and let me tell you--in the first three pages, Bella shows more personality than we saw in the whole movie, cut scenes and all.

Damn, but that movie was bad.  The kids squeeing were bringing the book with them.  There is no other explanation.

I may report back when I've read more than three pages, but it clearly deserved a better screen translation than it got.

Another literary note

I was telling a friend about a book I was reading, and couldn't remember the name, or the complete list of authors, so before I turn it back in:  "Duainfey" by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (I can ALWAYS remember the Miller part!  *laugh*).  It's a little bit Jane Austen meets the fairies; I thought it was a good read, but really should have been part of a larger work, because the ending was just the intro for the NEXT book in the series, and the only plot was "girl discovers she's been had, in service of a bigger plot."  Presumably, we see more of that bigger plot later.  Possibly they can't publish lengthy tomes any more (and Jaqueline Carey argues against that thesis), but that's what it felt like--the first half (or less) of the real story, chopped off and dropped into a cover.

I'll still pick up the next one(s).