Breaking down Breaking Dawn

[stgulik]

The St. Gulik household is a little schizo when it comes to the Twilight series. My daughter was about 12 when she got into the books. She insisted her dad and I read them, too. I disliked the writing style a great deal, but I gritted my teeth and got through them because I'd heard the books had s-e-x in them, and while I never censor my kid's reading materials, I do like to know basically what's going into her head. 

When Twilight the movie came out, it was a BIG DEAL to her and all her friends. A bunch of kids and parents caravanned to the first movie. We took over a huge swath of the theatre with our crowd. Same happened later at the second movie.

But the third movie (the name escapes me) was a low-key affair - just a couple of moms and a few close girlfriends.

Now the last one, Breaking Dawn (part one) is coming out this month. But my kid's friends are around 14 - 15 now, and all claim to be too cool for Twilight. Nobody would be caught dead.

"Does that mean we won't be seeing it?" I asked.

"Well, I sort of wanna see it," she replied, "but I don't want my friends to see me seeing it."

"How will your friends see you seeing it, unless they're seeing it themselves?"

"They just will." It would be a huge risk to venture anywhere near our local theatre on that weekend, just in case.

I think where we left the matter is, I agreed to take her to see Breaking Dawn, without her friends, at a remote theatre where nobody knows us. There may or may not be disguises involved. I will keep you posted.

Comments

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Snerfles.

Oh dear, the shame of it all.

[darklotus1211.livejournal.com]

lol! Oh the shame, the shame...

'There may or may not be disguises involved.' I'm picturing you two in trenchcoats with trilbys pulled down over your brows, and those $2 plastic groucho marx glasses with plastic eyebrows, nose and moustaches on them going to a remote theatre, only to be confronted with a blockbuster type line of similarly attired people.

I couldn't believe the word 'chagrin' could be used so very many times in one book. And don't get me started on the name Renesme...

Yes, I read them too - I kept thinking "it MUST" get better - but it didn't.

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

Yes, at the very least, trench coats and moustaches!

By contrast to my snootiness, my husband liked the whole series pretty well. He really has a thing for vampire novels.

[macaparket.livejournal.com]

LOL!

I actually love Twilight. Not as much as HP, but I do love it. And now it's mostly because of Robert! :D And to think I didn't like him when Twilight first started... :P Go figure!

I want to see BD SSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOO bad! But sadly in my little tiny tiny country cinemas obviously think that they shouldn't bother with it :P So I'll be waiting for a nice pirated video :)

[darklotus1211.livejournal.com]

You're definitely not alone in loving twilight! I know so many people who do and the world would be a boring place if we all liked the same things.

Did you read it in English, or in another language? If you read it in another language, perhaps the translation was better written.

The story had its moments - I liked the way she wrote Jacob, Rosalie, Emmet and Jasper.

I had a hard time seeing RP as Edward - I kept thinking Cedric lol! I've seen him in other movies now, so perhaps I should watch Twilight again - I've only seen the first one, and the thing I DID love about it was the wonderful cinematography of the landscape of the Pacific North West.

[macaparket.livejournal.com]

I read in Macedonian. :) The translation is not brilliant but it's ok :D It's not the best writing in the world but it's okay. A light book to read.

Stick to the first one LOL! That's my favorite and the best. They kind messed the make-up up in the New Moon (except the strut) and Eclipse (conitidentaly I just watched Eclipse (again) LOL!) :D

I didn't recognize him at first, but then my best friend said: "Hey did he play Cedric in GoF?" xD I actually started loving him after seeing "The Haunted Airman".

[droxy.livejournal.com]

LOL. Hugs you. =)

[justpinkpastel.livejournal.com]

My husband was the one to drag me to see the first Twilight movie. He apparently thought it was about vampires fighting, and not about a love story. I didn't want to go at all (hence the dragging), but I liked the movie. So I bought the book, enjoyed it, bought the rest of the series. Hated the second, was indifferent about the third, and didn't really like the fourth. But that didn't stop me from rereading them, in hopes of them getting better. Now, they aren't the greatest, and I still don't see why there is so much hype about it, but I will reread them if I am looking for something that isn't a complicated read.

But I have seen all the movies, and will watch the last two, just to finish them, even though I absolutely loathe Kristen Stewart as Bella.

[macaparket.livejournal.com]

Yeah Kirsten isn't the best Bella, is she?

But we do have the most wonderful Edward. hihi!

[magic-knickers.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoyed the books--let's all remember I read them as a Bella-esque high school student, though--and am still-but-not-really with the fandom. Your daughter's actions towards the film remind me a lot of my younger sister, a girl who is also much too concerned about what her friends would think to actually ask them to go see it in theaters with her. Good luck with your little adventure! :)