11.21.08
Vampires and more vampires..
Hmm, I’ll get to the gory parts first.
Yep, I’ve seen Twilight. The girls and I went to the midnight showing (the 12:02 show to be exact) last night. It was a MOB scene. Some of our homeschool friends went in prom dresses and suits (they were in the 12:01 show) and we got to hear the comments of the people standing near us in line as they were noticed. Surprisingly, there weren’t many and most were matter of fact.
We got there at 11 PM with our tickets in hand, or so I thought. I had purchased them last weekend when we went to see Eagle Eye and the girl had put the tickets and my receipt in an envelope which I stuck in my purse. When I opened the envelope and gave them to the ticket taker, he only found 2 tickets. Luckily my receipt clearly showed three tickets, so they let me in.
We then ended up standing in line for 40 mins. And it wasn’t a short line either. They finally opened the theater at 11:30, but it easily took us 10 mins to get in the door. We were able to find decent seats.
As for the movie (without spoiling it, I hope) I thought they did pretty well bringing the book to life. Nothing jumped out at me as totally offtrack or missing, though the girls pulled the Cullen’s house apart and especially Edward’s room.
(Doc, I don’t know how much of the town scenes and overall scenery shots were from around your place, but it looked gorgeous!)
On the topic of vampires. I’ve been watching Trueblood on HBO. Now I read the books when I found out about Trueblood coming out and they are cute, brain-candy, stories that I certainly enjoyed. (Remember, I’ve said before that I enjoy vampire stories.)
But while Trueblood started with the beginning of the first book. It is no longer telling the same story. They have taken it similar directions but added in so many “things” that it’s not the book and most of the “things” are things that are ruining what little quality it had.
For anyone following it: Lafayette is not a drug dealer and should be dead by now (okay, I’m enjoying him, so not killing him off is a good thing). Tara’s mother is not in the books at all, so all that story line is made up. Jason is not a druggie, and this girl, Amy, is not in the books either. V does come into that scene where Sookie meets Bill, but after that, there’s only stray references to it.
Anyway, this last espisode had Bill turning a young girl inorder to make up for killing Chow to save Sookie. (Okay, the killing Chow is in the book, but not Bill having to turn a young girl because of it.) And it turns out that while Bill feels soooo guilty doing it, the girl is ….
wait for it….
…
HOMESCHOOLED!
and comes from a right-wing, fundamentalist, over-protective, child hitting (with a belt) family. And she goes absolutely batty finding out that she’s FREE!
Okay, it makes Bill’s guilt at what he’s had to do obvious, but I will admit that I flinched when I saw the protrayal of homeschoolers.
Anyway, yesterday was a busy day with our homeschool group going down to Bloomington is see the IU Drama Dept’s performance of Hamlet. It was good, but very, very, very, very long at 3 hours and 15 mins. Their staging was amazing with these moving staircases that broke into pieces and shifted between every scene.
One highlight for me was that I finally got to meet Fuzzy and her two boys. That was neat though we didn’t get to chat for very long. She did bring me the soap that I purchased from her. (and some cookies for fun!)
The jigsaw pieces are for my step-mom and my sisters because we all do jigsaw puzzles. The Lego shaped soaps are for my two little nephews, and the skull and cross bones are for Girl (who I am hoping will be able to handle, but she’ll get a kick out of any way).
Doc said,
November 21, 2008 at 12:18 pm
The town of “Forks” in the movie is actually my town, Podunk, Oregon. During the filming, one of my animals was sick, and I had to make a quick trip into town to get meds. I was highly annoyed when some jerk movie-guy forbade me from parking near the vet’s office and directed me to park “over there”. Well, guess what? My ugly van is right there in the movie. I haven’t seen it yet, but my daughter went last night, and kept on and on about how “her scene” (she was asked to drive on camera through town with a lot of other people) was “cut”. Oh, the woes of stardom.
Teresa said,
November 21, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Meg, I can’t even express how much I enjoyed finally meeting you in person! I wanted to give you another hug before we left, but we had to leave (even before the clapping died down at the end). We had to walk/run across campus to get our lunch from the car and then go to the library for our co-op…oh wait, I already told you all of that in my email.
Anyway, I thought I had a long day, but yours is much, much longer! I’m waiting for Twilight (as opposed to Godot…haha) to come out on DVD before getting it on Netflix. I don’t like movie theaters.
I do hope the soaps will agree with your daughter. They are very mild, glycerin soaps, and I put in very little of the organic orange essential oil for scent. The other soaps are also mild, but have stronger scents…still fruity though.
Ok, I’d better go bake ds#2 a cake…I put it off until today. :}
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