Twilight opened this past Friday.  You know that tween movie.. Yah, me and five of my girlfriends were smack dab in the middle of the mayhem. 

And.it.was.totally.worth.it.  Sort of.

If you can recall my recent post was all about not being a TeeHee girl, which I admitted that I am indeed a TeeHee girl with this teenager vampire love story.  Yeah, totally embarassing, but whatever...

Let me move on and say that I  had extremely high expectations going into the movie.  But I tried to throw a heavy dose of reality on the expectations because of the many flops that have been amazing books, but failures as movies. 

The movies pros:

*Yah, that would be Edward (Robert Pattinson).  His voice, his presence, his awareness, and of course his look completely sold me on his character.  You cannot help but notice this man. 

*The soundtrack.  Loved it.  I bought the soundtrack on iTunes about a week before I saw this movie so when I heard the music through out..it made it just that much better.

*The dreary mood that was created by the set/stage.

That was about it on the highlights in the movie for me.  

The movies cons:

*The number one thing that completely aggravated me about this book was they never built the relationship up between Edward and Bella to be this spectacular love as Stephenie Meyer portrays in the novel Twilight.  The novel makes your heart feel the angst, the passion, the forbidden love that the two main characters share.  In the movie, errrr, not so much. 

*And the other thing that really urked me was that they did not elaborate enough on the relationships that Bella has with the Cullen family.  The character Alice, who is very present in the novel barely has a part on the big screen.

Okay, I am trying to make this review short and sweet for you, especially for those that have not read the books.  I don't want to completely ruin it for you.  And honestly I think my husband is about ready to shoot me in the foot if I mention this movie or book one more time.  HA.

So the verdict, I left the movie theater feeling disappointed because they chopped the crap out of the book to make it Hollywood.  But having said that, if I had the chance to see it on the big screen again, I would go in a heart beat (**even if I was flat left yesterday when you punks went again without me).  And when it comes out to DVD, I am buying like ten of them in case one of them gets damaged (and of course to do a giveaway for you guys!!)

Was that review helpful?  Doubtful because I am awesome like that. 

**secret hidden message for my friends that went to see the movie again without me because some of us had to work and not go to the movies in the middle of the day.

Listen, I have never been one those groupie type girls.  The TEE HEE girls as I like to call them. The closest groupie type thing I have ever done in my life was wait in line for like an hour for Pearl Jam tickets.  My girlfriend and I purchased two eighth row, floor seats at Madison Square Garden for Pearl Jam.. squeeallll.. We were going to rock it out to our boy Eddie Veder.

Yah, not so much because we sold them for like $350 so we can go to Camp Lejeune and hang out with cute Marines.  Oh, yes we did.  And.it.was.totally.worth.it. :)

Okay, so back to the groupie thing.  I mean as a little girl I DID have Duran Duran posters all over my wall and John Taylor was totally going to marry me.  But, listen I was little girl.  What did I know? 

But as I grew older, and older, and sigh..older.  I have become even less interested with who is hot, and who is not.  I mean I have my favorites (See Clive Owen, Zach Braff, Josh Lucas) but I don't go having weird kinky bow-chica-bow-wow dreams about them. 

Yah, all that changed when I picked up the Twighlight Series by Stephenie Meyer.  And first let me please blame my friends Secret Agent Mama and Mommy is Moody.  I read their blogs, their twitters, and their Facebook updates and they were hooked.  I was in the market to find something new to read and figured why not?

In the book store when I pick up the first book and saw it was the number one best seller on the NY Times TEEN best seller. I almost walked away.  TEENS? ME?? I am almost 80, last thing I needed was Are you there God, It's Me Margaret (for you young folk that stop by here, Judy Blume was the BOMB back in the day).

But then I thought.. hmmm.. Mish AND ZJ are not the type to read garbage.  So I walked up, paid the dude some cash and went on my way. 

It took me FIVE hours to read the first novel.  The second novel in the series New Moon took me about six hours.  And by the time I had completed Breaking Dawn a mere ten days had past and I had read a total of 2,379 pages.  IT WAS THAT AMAZING.

This is where I get all TEE HEE on you.

I am not even gonna lie, here it is..

I, Kim P. at 36 years of age have a HUGE crush on the main character Edward.  There, I said it.  Hell, I have admitted to my husband that if Edward comes knocking expect to not see me for like say 5-6 HUNDRED years.  ummm ..he is a vampire..we may be busy or something.. :)

When I found out a short time later that there was a movie coming out based off the first book I squealed like a child.  But then panic set in.. OH MY GOD..who is hot enough to play Edward?  And then when I saw they chose the actor Robert Pattinson as the lead I felt disappointed at first. 

He.Is.Not.Sexy.Enough.  Yah, I have issues..

But then I saw the trailers to the movie (about 800 times).  And then I bought the soundtrack to the movie.  And I started to totally approve of Robert Pattinson as Edward.

And so today.. today I do twirls in the air.. today is the opening of the movie Twilight.  There are five of us going to the movies tonight at 9:50pm.  We bought our tickets two weeks ago to ensure we would have tickets to the festivities of the opening night event. 

There will be cocktails consumed before the movie.  A ton of giggle giggles during the movie because we will be acting like Tee Hee girls.  And then I HOPE a rave review. 

I am normally not a fan of books that were turned into a movie.  (Shudders of the memories of the made for TV movie..The Stand.. sorry Stephen King..they butchered that masterpiece). 

So tonight I will be sitting in my stadium style seating..with a slight buzz and a HUGE bucket of popcorn day dreaming of when Edward first bit me..

Oh I am such a Tee Hee girl..

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THE FANDANGO GIVEAWAY..Enter to win.. :) 
In honor of my very awesome husband letting me escape out of the house while the kiddies are tucked in their beds and he eats popcorn watching ESPN or something.. I decided to giveaway $35 to Fandango.com.  Have you ever used Fandango?? It is pretty sweet.  You order your tickets online and you can either print them out (if the theater you go to allows that), or you can print out your receipt..head to your theater and they will print your tickets out for you!!  Eassyyy  Peasssyyy..

Just leave a comment below by 5:00 pm EST on November 28th That is it.  Your comment can be as simple as Movies Now.  This is my own personal giveaway.. so you need not be fancy.. This is my way of saying.. hey go see James Bond or something because Edward is totally mine.. TEE HEE..

**for my Canada friends.. Fandango currently sells tickets to over 50 Cineplex Odeon theaters throughout Canada in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.