Twilight New Moon

I am one of those crazy people who stood in freezing rain from 9-11 Thursday night to see the midnight showing of Twilight Saga New Moon. It was worth all the waiting, but I noticed quite a few interesting things as I waited.

The first is unrealated to the movie or the other people there, but about one person in particular. People do not like to not get thier way and will do anything possible to get thier own happiness established. This is not true for all people, but I think for 90% of the human race it is true at least 40% of the time. Most people at some point want to get what they want, and will make it happen. At the movie this was proven by one young woman who was not happy the theatre could not offer her a switch of tickets due to them being sold out. She had purchased a ticket and could not sit with her group. She hounded three employees about it, even using feminine wiles to get to one empoloyee, he ended up finding her a ticket, after she had already gotten one from someone else. Then when choosing seats, she was not happy that the rest of the group found the dead center seats of the second row of the theatre, as in up front next to the screen, to be a comfortable situation. She did not get her way on this one and had to sit elsewhere.

Other things noted at the midnight showing. Notoriosly the midnight showing of a much anticpiated movie is full of die hard fans that go to extremes to prove thier love for a book that is turned into a movie. There weren't many people dressed up like the characters, although they did exist, many had shirts on depicting thier favorite character(s) and many were reading the books while they waited, probably for the 20th time this year.

What really made me angry though, and I am going to soap box about this, was that people brought 8-15 year olds to a PG13 movie on a Thursday night at midnight. This meant these children would be up until 3 AM at the least watching a movie they could go to for the next three months at a decent time for thier age. They would probably miss school because of the late hour, and this teaches them it is ok to skip school to go the movies and hang out until 3 AM on a school night. Not many were unsupervised, most parents were there with thier children, just as vehemently awaiting the movie and screaming and clapping for the body of a 17 year old male actor without his shirt on. That was disconcerting as well, I think that he worked hard to have a muscular body, but 30-70 year old women do not need to sexually objectify this 17 year old actor in the form of applauding and whistling when his shirt was removed 30 minutes into the movie, and swooning every time it happend for the rest of the movie. This teaches the children, mostly young girls, that a man (boy) is only as good as his looks. They didn't do this when he was average looking and looked like a child with a baby face up until that point in the movie, but once his make-over type transformation with a hair cut and very muscularly toned body were revealed; watch out those women would have kissed the screen if they could have! This is a bad thing to teach vulnerable young girls. Not to mention the fact that his body was not objectified in the book. It was said that he was more physically fit and his hair was short, but it did not get into a sexual realm concerning his body. In fact, one of the main patterns in the books, as I have said before, is that sex is not for children, it is for the married more mature group of people who have saved themselves for it. NOT TEENAGERS! I hate that Hollywood feels the need to make this series of very moral and decent books into thier usual Sex crazed, love sick, immoral, "adult" audience type filth! Get a clue Hollywood, the books were written by a MOM for her TEENS, to show them what love should look like and how they should act, probably because she couldn't find any other form of media to get this point across! So why are your ruining it!?