How about another new moon?

In an effort to kill some time today, I went to see Twilight: New Moon.
I haven't read the books, although the first book is sitting on my luggage bound for Utah. I figured after 2 months straight of learning about the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, I could use a little brain candy.

The series is written by a Mormon, which is kind of interesting and means the vampire and lovely young girl will be forced to keep a balloon between each other if they ever go dancing.

So not having any background I went to see the 2nd vampire movie.

I'm not going to say it was bad. That would be unfair. Bella was lovely and appropriately depressed when Cullen went away. The werewolf guy was uber hot after he cut his hair and started hanging out without a shirt. I couldn't quite get into the pale vampire hero partly because of the overuse of white foundation (I get why) and the weird lipstick - sorry, he just wasn't hot.

The thing that REALLY drove me nuts was the dialogue. It was HORRIBLE. Horrible. Ok, maybe horrible isn't the best word, how about simple. The dialogue was simple. A 12 year old could have written the dialogue. Blah.

It was a good waste of an hour and change, but I think maybe I'll skip the first book and go back to Thomas Wolfe or Styron or something. I was a literature major after all.

I did think it was very amusing that at the end (SPOILER ALERT) he said he wants to marry her before he 'changes her over'. In Mormon speak, we all know exactly what that means. Ha.