I Drank the Kool-Aid

This is me = / right now. I am so torn and angry with myself about how I feel about this stupid book and movie. I know Sara will be please to hear that I do like both of them. She told me I would, and I hate her for being right, but I hate myself for believing I wouldn't cave.

I think one reason I resisted reading the book was that I knew myself way too well that I knew I would like it, and if you know me at all, I do not like following the trend. But Twilight is not just a trend, it's more like a cult, and I have drank the Kool-Aid. Eff.Emm.Ell. I also literally went out and bought the freaking movie!! I KNOW! And let me tell you... it was not easy to come by... I practically had to go on a wild goose hunt to find it.. and then coughing up 17 bucks for it was like signing my life away. But in my defense, I had to write a movie review for my Lit. and Related Media class (which is the class I had to read the book for) and Brandon didn't have the movie, so I had to go find it and watch it in its whole enitrety... so yet again... I drank the Kool-Aid.. more like I drank the whole pitcher.

But let me set things straight. I am still not in love with this whole thing. I will NOT go see the New Moon opening weekend, UNLESS the ticket is purchased for me, no I take that back. I am not sitting in a theater full of Twilight obsessed cult-following teeny-bopper girls, who will scream at the first glimpse of what's-his-face when he comes on the screen. I would rather shoot myself in the face. I think it might be a LaGrange movie... but that's still pushing it...

I have found myself wanting to READ New Moon, and well the other two.. I don't know the titles off hand.. But only because I want to find out if Bella ever gets to be a vampire. ell.ohh.ell. I might make that like a winter break goal, to read maybe just New Moon... I'll wait til Courtney has the third one so I don't have to get it myself.

I don't hate myself for reading it, watching it or even liking it, but I hate myself for being such a hater in the first place. I never gave it a shot, a second thought. I was like "its just another thing girls are gonna go nuts over, and I am totally not gonna fall for it." I read it. yes. I watched it. yes. I didn't fall in love with it. Nope. But I am a sucker for a good book and an even bigger sucker for a good movie, and let me tell you something.

Whatever people say about the book or the film and how awful they are just don't know. Yes. I know. The book is awfully long and full of Bella jabbering on about every little thought and detail but it's still a good story. And yes, I know the actors in the movie aren't A-List celebrities... well, I guess they are now, but they aren't very good at what they are paid to do, but the movie is pretty accurate to the book, minus the fact you're not stuck in Bella's head the whole freaking time, and all the "teen romance novel" garbage is pretty much kicked to the curb.. it's a pretty decent movie.

if you haven't seen it, or read it, don't judge it. You can't judge something you have nothing to base those judgement on. Don't be prejudice against books and movies based on the cult. ahaha. Maybe you should give it a chance. You never know what you like until you give it a whirl.