On November 18th, we will finally see the end of an error. Others would say era, I say error. The Twilight movies were never an era. Harry Potter, yes, but Twilight? Not really. The way I understand it, there will be two kinds of people at the theater. One is a full on Twilight Fan, AKA a Twihard but the second is the person who was dragged there by the Twihard. Now I have to say, I’ll be the second kind, not to offend anyone who likes the series and the movies. Before I explain why, you should know something.
In 8th grade, I was a twihard. I was Team Edward, I had read all the books multiple times, and knew everything about the story, up to what Bella wore for their first date to officially meeting the Cullens. I even had a Twilight Birthday party in which we watched twilight and I made my guests take the trivia quiz. Unfortunately when the first two movies came out, I started disliking it. They were getting all the details wrong and left out too much information. By the third movie, I wasn’t Team Edward or Team Jacob. I was Team “The-guy-who-almost-hit-Bella-with-a-car.” I felt Kirsten Stewarts acting ranged from breathing and raising her eyebrow, and then biting her lip. It sucked, as for Robert Pattinson I could understand why he liked being Cedric Diggory [In HP: GoF] rather than a 107-year-old creeper who watches his 17-year-old girlfriend sleep. Pattinson isn’t that bad of an actor but Edward is a hard character to work with. He doesn’t do much but brood and try to keep Bella from jumping off cliffs and freezing herself every time she hugs him.
So when I found out my guy friend was planning on dragging me to see “Breaking Dawn,” I was not happy. For one thing, it bugged me that Breaking Dawn decided to be split into two movies right after Harry Potter did. On another note, “Breaking Dawn” is supposed to be the most…intimate of all the series. The movie was almost going to be rated R for the sexual scenes, so that just foreshadows some awkwardness with my friend and I. And lastly, I was really hoping I wouldn’t get dragged to the second part.
Overall, the movies should just skip the theaters and go straight to DVD so people can watch them in the privacy of their own homes. Since that won’t happen, I’m going to wear a Harry Potter T-Shirt and hope that no Twihards try to suck my blood.