A Word About Twilight...

Now, I realized that when I temporarily left this blog, I was crazy about Twilight.
I'm sorry guys, but I'm now a skeptic.
Look, the new movie just didn't do it for me. I thought it was so horrible and so overrated that I would rather do something else rather than watch the movie. The actors are horrible and turned the movie into something so idiotic and stupid that it's not Twilight anymore.
It's pure trash.
So, no, I am not looking forward to the new New Moon movie. Thanks for asking, by the way.
So if you are a twilight maniac, go ahead, send me hate mail. But frankly dear, I don't give a damn.
Just to be sure we are all on the same page with this:
Twilight Tuesday - officially over.
Fowl Friday will still continue.

Twilight Trailer

OMG! OMG!!!! I am hyperventilating right now........

Twilight Tuesday: More on Peter Fanicelli, AKA Carlisle Cullen

MTV: First off, give us your take on Carlisle.
Peter Facinelli: Carlisle Cullen is about 348 years old, but he doesn't look a day over 200. He's the father of the Cullen family, which is a small little vampire family in this town of Forks, Washington. He's started this little coven and tries to fit in with the humans instead of living the natural vampire world of feeding on humans. He's a vegetarian with his family, and they feed on animals.

MTV: And he's very philanthropic for a vampire. He's turned a lot of people over the years, but for good reasons.
Facinelli: Yeah, all the people he's ever turned into vampires have been either sick or dying, so I thought I was doing them a favor by giving them the gift of immortality. It's not like he's a bad guy at all.

MTV: Had you read the books before you got the gig?
Facinelli: I read ["Twilight"] right before I met with Catherine Hardwicke. I read the book in one day; I couldn't put it down. It was fantastic.

MTV: You had your own little cram session?
Facinelli: Yeah, they didn't have the script available; they just had some audition pages, and I was like, "I don't know what this is about." So I read the book, and I really enjoyed it.

MTV: Were you into vampires anyway?
Facinelli: Well, here's an interesting story: About four weeks before the audition process, I was reading a book about vampires in Hollywood through all the ages. Like 50 years of vampires! It was in an office. I was flipping through it, and I thought, "Wow!" I was never a big fan of vampire movies, until I flipped through that book and saw how beautiful they were and the mystery of it all. It's turned into a lot of gore and guts nowadays in a lot of vampire movies, [but] when I read "Twilight," it reminded me of the old movies when vampires were mysterious and had sexual undertones, and it was more of a beautiful vampire tale instead of the horror genre, which I liked.

MTV: What's it like playing father to people who are only a few years younger than you?
Facinelli: Oh, you're too kind. I've actually got about a decade on all these kids. And I have kids myself, so it's not hard paying the father role. We've all bonded, and they all call me Dad.

MTV: Have you tried to go off the script a bit and sneak in references to Carlisle's 350-year-long history? Maybe tell a story about the time you were hanging out with Abe Lincoln?
Facinelli: Well, I don't know if it will make it in the movie, but I made reference to a time when I met Babe Ruth during the baseball scene.

MTV: A lot of the actors had to undergo some intense stunt training. Did you?
Facinelli: You know, I didn't have that much wirework. But I had doctor training! I can do operations now. So if you ever need anything ... like a spleen checked or your liver removed, I'm here.

MTV: That will come in handy if my appendicitis acts up! So if the "Twilight" sequels get made, what's the one scene from the other books that you can't wait to shoot?
Facinelli: I would say I'm looking forward to the scene where the werewolves and the vampires team up to fight some bad vampires. That would be a fun sequence to shoot.

MTV: Are you Team Edward, Team Jacob or Team Switzerland?
Facinelli: [Laughs.] Well, I'd have to go Team Edward. But [my character is] so biased. I mean, as a fan of the book, I'm Team Switzerland. But sitting here playing Dr. Carlisle? I have to go Team Edward.

MTV: If there were such a thing as vampires, would you want to be changed?
Facinelli: Wow. I like the idea of immortality, but that is a tough question. Someone asked me what age I'd like to be changed at, and that is a tough one. I kept changing my answer: "18. No, 23. No, 26. No, 30. Ahh." It was like, "Anywhere between 18 and 40, I think." I like the idea of immortality, but I don't like the idea of drinking other people's blood or living off of animal's blood. That's kind of nasty.

MTV: If you were a vampire, would you want to go vegetarian, or would you go old-school?
Facinelli: Again, you're catching me on a day when I'm all in-character, so I have to say vegetarian. The thought of eating someone else's blood is gross to me. But animal blood? Warm animal blood? That's not so great either. I guess I'd have to go with the animal blood.

MTV: Who is the biggest prankster among the "Twilight" stars?
Facinelli: Edi Gathegi [who plays Laurent] was the big jokester. ... He does all these voices, so he would call me [on the phone] and pretend like he was different people. Like, he called my room and said he was some girl named Suzie, and I was like, "Who is this?" This is a funny story: One day I told him to call Jackson Rathbone and do Suzie for him and say he was Suzie from the production office. So he called and said, "Hey, this is Suzie from the production office. We just want to tell you that we're dying your hair back to brown, because we don't like the blond hair."

MTV: That's hilarious, because Jackson was already going through hell trying to find the right hairdo.
Facinelli: Yeah, and this was early in the production. [Jackson] was like, "Oh, OK." And he was actually on the phone with his manager, so he clicked over and was like, "Oh, yeah, they just called me. They're dying my hair back." And his manager goes, "Oh, thank God. I hated you with blond hair!" And then [Edi] called them back and was like, "It's just me." And [Jackson] had to call his manager back to say it's not real. And the manager was totally backpedaling! Jackson said it was funny.

Twilight News

My twilight buddies have informed me that someone breached Stephenie's trust and leaked a draft of her half-finished novel on the internet.
Seriously people, could you get more annoying?
Ever since Breaking Dawn came out, the Twilight world has gotten more divided than ever. At first, I would totally understand, but now, people are just making me mad. I mean, there is a reason that an author needs to have privacy. Did you just hack into her computer so that you could make fun of her writing skills? Gee people, stop being so harsh. I am so disappointed with ALL of ya'll.
Here is the link for the draft SO FAR: http://stepheniemeyer.com/pdf/midnightsun_partialdraft2.pdf
Have fun with it! And if you are the hacker, then shame on you. :(

Twlight Tuesday...

Dear Bookielicious readers,
I know you guys are just going to jump with joy when you guys find out that Twilight has been moved from December to November 21st after Harry Potter dropped down. I can't wait to see the movie, so I'm, like, hyperventilating right now!!! OMG! OMG! OMG! But, anyways, I must say, in keeping up with the Twilight Tuesday tradition, every Tuesday I post some more movie news, vids, etc. Here's a brand new edition of VH1'S Twilight Tuesday: Interview with Jackson Rathbone, the dude who plays Jasper Cullen.
MTV: Tell us about your character.
Jackson Rathbone: Well, I play Jasper Hale, also called Jasper Whitlock, or Jasper Cullen; I've got a lot of names. [Laughs.] Jasper's from the Civil War [era], and that's when he became a vampire. Since then, he's been sort of wandering around; he's got a great back story, but that takes place in the later books. In this movie, Jasper is very angry, and still very reticent about his lifestyle of not eating humans.

MTV: Every year, it seems, Hollywood gives us a ton of vampire movies. What's going to make the "Twilight" movie different?
Rathbone: Well, most vampire movies are all about the gore and the action and the violence. This movie's about the heart. It's about what moves us as humans, and what is so moving to us that it is even encompassed beyond humanity. These are creatures — they're not people, they're not humans, they're kind of the decrepit side of everything. They're dead; there's no oxygen. They can't feel cold, they can't feel anything, but they can feel emotions and what those emotions lead us to do. You can choose morality, or you can choose the life that nature has provided for you, which is death. It's kind of a life-versus-death-story, but not so much in the realm of "you're going to get killed or get to do some killing," but whether you're going to choose to love life and choose love.

MTV: Why, after all these decades of storytelling, do we still care about vampires?
Rathbone: Well, I think everybody wants to be a vampire. I used to want to be a vampire [when I was young]. It'd be great, you know? Run around at night, never die, kill people. It sounds like a great life!

MTV: Yeah, but is there more to it than just being able to live in a horror movie?
Rathbone: I think the appeal is the mysticism of it all. We're searching for something beyond ourselves, and we find it in a lot of folklore, and a lot of these old stories that get tossed around about living forever and always being beautiful and young. That's the allure of the vampire: You don't age, you don't have to worry about getting old, or never accomplishing something. Time is not a factor, and I think that most people, especially these days, are caught up in time.

MTV: And then, at the center of "Twilight," is this great "Romeo and Juliet"-caliber love story. What can we expect to see from the work that Robert and Kristen have been doing?
Rathbone: Edward and Bella have the greatest sadistic, masochistic relationship there probably is, because Edward is putting himself through hell by being around her; all he wants to do is eat her. But he can't, because of his morality. ... Bella knows what she's getting into, and Edward knows what he's putting her through. So, you get these great characters who are so concerned about each other that they're not concerned about themselves.

MTV: What is it, exactly, that makes them so enamored with each other?
Rathbone: It's a love that is bred out of interest, almost. I mean, he can't read her thoughts, which is something so beyond him and so beyond anything he's come across in his life, so he's intrigued. He's so attracted to her. And she's attracted to him and his ability to coast through everything and be so respected and admired. It's like he doesn't even try. ... What Rob and Kristen have brought to these parts is this amazing lifelike [quality]; it's never fake. It's never put on. There's this weight behind them, and you can see it the moment they call action.

MTV: Your character was a Confederate soldier back in the day. Have you done research into the period?
Rathbone: Yeah, I did a bit of research about the Civil War. I was always interested in it, and I did spend a bit of time [living] in Texas, so whenever I took Texas history, I learned a lot about the Civil War. I was lucky enough to have that background around me already. What I've focused on was the stoicism. ... I never really grew up in the South, I grew up all over, but for my family values and all the Southern values: You don't speak unless you're spoken to; you keep a very calm demeanor; you try to keep everything as light as possible, but if things get heavy, it's not like you're not going to step up. But it's weird to talk about the actual character elements of (Jasper), because it's all so intertwined with the story of the third book, which is where Jasper begins to expand on his heritage and how he was turned and how he lived.

MTV: So, are you planting little seeds in "Twilight" that will pay off in the sequels?
Rathbone: Yeah, I'm putting it in, here and there. It's nice. I can't do too much with Jasper's power. Jasper has the power to manipulate emotions. There's a danger in that. There's a danger in having that ability, because if you're constantly manipulating emotions around you, there's no reality around you. And because Jasper is able to distort reality, I wanted to steer away from that. I wanted everything to be as real as possible. So I've tried to make the choice for him not to use the power [for now], to be as stoic as possible, be as still and just concentrate on keeping himself at bay, especially in terms of the hunger.

MTV: I can't help but notice that you've naturally got a Southern twang in your voice. Are you keeping that for the character, to show his roots?
Rathbone: I try to keep it as light as possible, because he's been around for 200 years. He hasn't been in Texas that entire time. ... With Jasper, it would be too much to have that accent, especially when you're pretending to be a normal kid. If he had a Texas accent in Washington, in Forks, I think people would tend to notice him a little bit more.

MTV: Are you signed on for the next two sequels?
Rathbone: Yes, I'm signed up to do all three. So, hopefully, all the fans like me in this one.

MTV: What's the coolest thing about being a vampire?
Rathbone: The singular coolest thing, to me, would have to be the ability to just stay out of the sun. I'm not really a sun person; I'm not a beach bunny. I'm more of an indoor-sports kind of guy. You know, just sitting at home with a guitar, very simple. I'm all about nightlife. I live during the night, so that would have to be the coolest aspect for me.

Review 1: Breaking Dawn

Title: Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Publisher: Little Brown and Co.
Rating: 8.5/10
The Lowdown:
Caution: reviews contains spoilers
We left Bella and Edward engaged at the end of Eclipse. And now, after almost one year, we meet them again in Breaking Dawn (shortened to just BD in this review.) A lot of people were pissed off by Meyer's new book, because of the ridiculously happy ending and the stupid message that it portrayed.
Before buying my copy of the book from Kroger's, the reviews had made me a tad bit skeptical. But anyways, I spent 14 bucks on this book and after almost one day of reading it (the book goes by fast) I am extremely satisfied by the ending. Call me a softie at the heart, but to all the BD haters, I got one message for you: Buzz. Off.
Yes, there is a lot more, uh, physical intimacy in this book than all the other books combined. But it's after marriage, of course, since Meyer is a Mormon. There's also a baby involved (half-vampire, half-human), Bella becomes a vampire with total self-control, her baby is a genius, and the baby causes them to mess with the Volturi.
How. Awesome.
The Good:
A. The writing was clear, but the length of the book was way too long, and it was sort of like Harry Potter 5: unnecessarily lengthy.
B. The narration of Jacob. Totally kewl and unexpected.
C. I'm on Team Edward, so obviously this book is my fav.
D. Less of Bella roaming around and moping (totally annoying.)
E. The Volturi are back!
F. The vampire appendix.
The Bad:
A. The unnecessary length.
B. The weirdness of Bella suddenly wanting to be a mother. I agree that was freaky weird.
C. The plot is excellent at beginning, horrible at the middle, and OK at the end.
D. Jacob imprinting on Bella's daughter. WTH??? (But it does make sense.)
E. Meyer publishing a official guide and movie guide. Does she just wants more money from the franchise now that it's over, or is Midnight Sun abandoned so soon?
The Consensus:
Some people are extremely concerned about the message that this book delivers. Heck, someone hacked into Twilight Lexicon to protest the ending! And Stephenie, poor Steph, lashed back at the readers. Seriously, though, the hacking thing is not cool. But anyways, the book can be interpreted as if to say that marriage is the ultimate goal in a girl's life, because Bella does not get an education. However, this was Bella's choice, and Edward wanted her to go to college so bad, he probably hacked into Dartmouth and got her in. So, ultimately, it was Bella's choice, and it's not Steph that is trying to deliver this subliminal message. She's staying totally in character, and you know what, people. Sometimes, girls can get everything they want. So if Bella's life is perfect, I totally agree with it. It could have been better, but it was OK.
I wonder why no one lashed out against Harry Potter 7. I mean, it was a pretty happy ending, after all.