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It appears that the highly anticipated teen vampire movie, "Twilight", has been screened for some claims they saw it. From what I have read about the movie it seems like the real deal. The reviewer calls herself a "BIG BIG Fan", so it might not be the most unbiased review in the world .   Also, what the hell is a "fan-pire?"

As a warning, the following review contains spoilers.

HERE IT IS:

Hello Nuke the Fridge my name is "Seattle Mama". I am a BIG, BIG fan of "Twilight" and had a chance to go see a "secret" screening of Twilight the other day in my hometown.  I love your website and thought I would send you guys a review. 

I am not great at writing reviews but I will try my very best....

Any true fan of this book would have "killed" to get an early view such as the one I was so lucky to attend. A sneak preview to Twilight is just icing on the cake for me because I was one of many joining in on the hysteria of Stephenie Meyer's New York #1 bestseller.  Before the movie began a studio representative told the small audience that the movie was only 90% finished (Mostly some FX & sound not finished). Nevertheless the movie was still very impressive. For those of you who are not "Fan-pire's" this movie is a bit of a twist on the traditional Vampire.

It starts with Bella Swan (played by Kristen Stewart) an ordinary "Plain Jane" who doesn't care about any of the teen trendy stuff. She decides to move in with her father who happens to be the sheriff of the rainy, gloomy town of Forks, Washington. Not expecting much excitement to happen there she meets him, Edward Cullen (played by Robert Pattinson) a mystery as well as stunning sight. Bella can't help but get herself into finding out more about Edward and his family. She later finds out they're really Vampires. Bella starts to fall in love with Edward who is fighting himself not to kill her because of his love for her. Their relationship though has caused trouble with a clan of new Vampires passing by to threaten their town because of the fact that Edward doesn't just kill her.

So how is it compared to the book? I felt that the cast that was picked did an amazing job of trying to nail down the image and personality of their characters from the books (Rosalie - need I say more).  Especially great was Robert Pattinson.  I know what you guys at Nuke the Fridge say about him not being a good vampire, but to me he is the sexiest vampire ever on film.

Though I feel that this movie is not going to be as highly hailed as Lord of the Rings was for being "dead on" book wise.  But for the most part the book and the movie are pretty close.  There are a couple of differences, but I don't want to say too much other than one of the differences involves a death that didn't take place in the book.   There were also some things that I had wished were in the movie but if I were not a fan of the series I guess it wouldn't bother me too much because it flowed pretty well.  I did feel that the wire stunts were a bit too much at times.  Almost took me out of the movie a couple of times.   I do think "Twilight" will certainly be a hit and I feel that the studio will most likely continue on to making the next 3 films.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being best -  I give it an 8 ½."

Weinstein Company Blames Mystery Man For Spreading "False" Writedown Rumor

UPDATE: It's not just that The Weinstein Company is denying today's buzz in film financing circles that it's taken a $50 million writedown because of all the movies it's dumped into 2009. Nah, what's way more interesting is that it's blaming a specific guy for spreading the rumor. This afternoon, Harvey's attorney Bert Fields phoned to tell me on the record: "This story is complete false. There is no Weinstein writedown, not for $50 million, not for $5. We think we know who's feeding this venomous garbage to the media, and when we do he'll find himself on the wrong end of a very big lawsuit." So enquiring minds want to know: who's Harvey fighting with now? Because this unnamed guy, whoever he is, must be a heavy to have major people take what he says as near-gospel. Indeed, this morning I heard the buzz in film financing circles that The Weinstein Company had to writedown $50 million of Goldman Sachs' money this week. It's reportedly taking the loss because of those four films it dumped into next year, Crossing Over, Killshot, Fanboys and Shanghai, plus The Road... (And let's face it: who in their right mind thinks even one of those pics is going to make a dime of profit in 2009?) I also just received an emailed denial from Irv Reiter, the EVP of Financial Reporting at the Weinstein Company: "With regards to your blog entry of October 28 regarding the Weinstein Company I am writing to confirm that The Weinstein Company has not taken a writedown on any of the films mentioned; Kill Shot, Crossing Over, Fan Boys, Shanghai and The Road."

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by Zauberer   11 hours ago (Tue Oct 28 2008 22:36:54)    
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When and why did this start? Wasn't it stated a while ago they wouldn't restrict the boards to orange users?

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by Alex   3 hours ago (Wed Oct 29 2008 06:41:53)    
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