Yes. I'm one of those people. The Twilight lover. I converted basically every female I know. But you know, all it takes is one hit and you're done for.
I started reading Twilight in 2008, right before Breaking Dawn was published. I had seen all the hub-bub about the book release in book stores, and the buzz about the Twilight movie online and wondered what it was all about. I was also really pregnant and immobile and bored and desperate for a good read. I grabbed Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse from Target and got to reading. I read them all within 72 hours. I couldn't put them down. I jonesed for Breaking Dawn to come out. The wait for Breaking Dawn was excruciating. The day it was released I picked it up and read it in just over 24 hours.
I'm pretty sure my family, especially my husband, thought I was crazy.
I didn't care.
As soon as tickets for the Twilight movie went on sale I jumped on them like a fat kid on cake. Or...like a fat mom on Twilight*. The thing is, I didn't know anyone else who was into Twilight like was, or, at at all really. I was alone in my obsession and didn't have anyone to accompany me. Luckily my sister was up for it and tagged along.
The movie was a cinematic disaster. I was embarrassed for the actors. It was sad. Sad, sad, sad. But I loved it anyway. Not because it was an awesome movie, but because it was freaking Twilight. My sister left super intrigued and picked up the books soon after. It didn't take her long before she was hooked too. One by one those around me were introduced the series and fed along side me at the sparkly vampire teet. Okay that sounded weird...and a little gross.
Anyhow, over 3 years later here I am, waiting for another movie premiere. I will not be going to the midnight premiere this time. I don't really think it's all that necessary. I've waited years, what a few more hours?
So, back to my nightmare...okay, so calling it a "nightmare" might be a little extreme. It wasn't a "good" dream though! I dreamt Mel and I finally made it to the theater, we were set up with a babysitter and everything! That alone should have been an awesome dream. So anyway, we're in the theater and the movie begins. For some reason, it's some sort of "children's" version of the movie. Everyone is animated, there's Disney'esque song and dance numbers, and it...was awful. So we complained to whatever movie employee was in my dream and told that it was the kids version and we were in the wrong theater. I was pissed, we'd already wasted 30 minutes on this movie! Did that mean we had missed the first half hour of the real movie?! We were moved to the correct theater and entered in 30 minutes late. The thing is, the projector was messed up and would stop randomly. Every time it stopped the movie would have to start over. So we were only seeing the beginning over, and over, and over. Of course, I was the ONLY one upset. Everyone just sat, staring at the screen. Not making a sound. I was mad, I only had another hour before I needed to get home to Grayson. There was other random weirdness too, but overall, just a weird dream about the Breaking Dawn premiere being ruined for me.
Maybe it's my subconscious expressing it's disappointment that I won't be seeing the midnight premiere.
Who knows.
I'm just another weirdy Twilight mom, twitching for her next fix.
*My theory is that fat girls love Twilight more than skinny girls. They also love Tinkerbell for some reason too. I don't like Tinkerbell anymore. But no matter how embarrassing it gets, I will always love Twilight. Also, I'm the first person to laugh at parodies and jokes on the matter because I'm perfectly aware of the ridiculousness. I just love it. ^_^
2 comments:
I can't wait to see it! My husband has read all the books too and seen all the movies. He didn't want me to go see with my girlfriends because he wants to go see it together! Can't wait.
OMG - I am right there with you and so is my skinny sister-in-law but she is way more into it than my rubenesque self! We will be going with my best friend to the 9:30 re-showing of Eclipse and staying for the midnight premiere...I took the next day off work and am so excited :) Love your post*
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