So....I watched almost all of Twilight today. Quite an achievement, considering how very painful it was. Regardless that it was a teen novel (and those kinds of novels tend to be QUITE angsty) this movie seemed like an especially painful exercise in social ineptitude. I mean, really. Are we so desperate for a bad boy that we're willing to settle for this stuttering stalker? A far cry from the suave vampires of previous films, like Queen of the Damned and the famous Dracula. Perhaps he is appealing to so many crazies because he is so different from many of the vampires of films and tv shows past. Messy hair that looks like it hasn't been washed, an almost absolute inability to express what he feels (by word or deed)and, oh yeah, some dangerously psychotic mood swings. Ok, so the last one's pretty normal for a vampire, but in this one? It just seems like a boy trying desperately to be scary and failing miserably. I cry for Edward Cullen--heck, when you look to the villains of the piece for my bad boy fix in a VAMPIRE FLICK (where the bad boy du jour is supposed to be the main character) you know you're in trouble.