@deanduncan63Saw #Twilight. Find I am resisting, from the start: this franchise isn’t & shouldn’t be for me; I must set an example of elderly dignity & decorum; …
… Mr. Pattinson does not at all correspond to my own notion of ideal male beauty (think Ryan Smyth’s most resplendent hockey hair) …
… I pause, & realize that though all this is understandable, none of it’s very valid. Judge things on their own terms!
#Twilight. What are those terms? Well, attempting to initiate blockbusting franchises usually leads to considerable caution …
… sometimes unto dullness. Check! The movie may suffer, but isn’t the investment more important? So, to a degree, fair enough! …
… Further, youth-properties partly or often aim to alienate old fogies like me. I don’t like it? Success! This is also kind of fair.
#Twilight. I admire the film’s exposition, the early establishment of setting & character & conflict. I think Ms. Stewart does a very creditable job.
#Twilight. I endorse the conceptual, the mythological underpinnings. LDS author, committed to discourses of chastity …
… exploring the place & power of sexuality in the lives of abstemious young women who desire deeply. Very important. Lovely, in fact!
#Twilight. However, at the moment that Edward starts to get all sparkly, I’m out of there!