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dolorous_ett! You are not dolorous in the least, and I hope you have a good day.
I survived the dentist - I think (hope!) most of my anxiety was because I was seeing a new dentist, and you never know how the new guy is going to deal with the fact that I cry uncontrollably in the chair. He was brilliant, though, the nurse had pretty obviously prepped him, and every time he moved or picked up an instrument, he explained very calmly what he was doing. This was very reassuring. I'll need three fillings in upcoming months - this is not so reassuring. There were more things - discussions about how much tooth will be left and whether I will need a crown and there's a new kind of night guard for my TMJ, but I don't remember much of that conversation. The nurse toldlilacsigil, and she made the appointments and so on, while I wandered in little circles. lilacsigil was an awesome caretaker and ferried petrified zombie!me around, and bought me a sausage roll and a packet of mince tarts at the bakers afterwards. I don't have much patience with my own phobia. My brain, doing stuff all by itself with nobody at the wheel. I don't like it.
But Twilight? Twilight was brilliant fun!
The heavy-handed tone of the book lifted once the first-person narrative was gone. Even Bella's opening monologue worked well; it set the mood, gave us an idea of what movie!Bella was all about.
Most of all, though, I loved the way the secondary characters popped up into 3D. Charlie! OMG, it was the Charlie and Billy show, they were brilliant. I loved all the tentative rebuilding of Bella's relationship with her father, and the similarities between them: both silent, solitary types with a wry sense of humour. Pepper spray, omg. So funny and endearing, and I don't know if it's because I was reading too fast, but I didn't see any of this dynamic in the book. And Bella's mother could be bohemian and a bit ditzy without being portrayed as crazy!bad!mother.
And though there wasn't enough Cullen time for my personal happiness, I loved all of them, and I'm pleased that movie!Carlisle and book!Carlisle weren't significantly different. And that nasty blond colour in Peter Facinelli's hair didn't bother me as much as I was expecting. The Cullen house was not at all as I imagined, but I loved the open, modern look of it, and all the graduation hats, and Edward's room. At this point,lilacsigil and I differed in our assessment: I said that I thought that section with the piano and Bella's speshul lullaby and all was very deftly handled, and not nearly as soppy as I was expecting. lilacsigil said that section was dreary, and she got bored with Bella and Edward looking dreamily into each other's eyes. And I think the difference is that I've read the book, and expected much, much worse.
It was fun! I buy the Bella/Edward ship based on the hard work done by those two actors, they both took the characters and made them glow. Like, not literally, except where it was literally true. (The sparkle vision? WEAKSAUCE! Edward looked lightly misted!) I love the cinematography, and the scenery and the sound track. I totally bought the whole package.
All the teenagers sat at the front of the cinema, and all the serious fan-persons sat towards the back. When we came down from our lofty heights, we descended into a cloud of teen body-spray. It was a bit bizarre. But I felt a camaraderie with them. We were all happy campers.
dolorous_ett! You are not dolorous in the least, and I hope you have a good day. I survived the dentist - I think (hope!) most of my anxiety was because I was seeing a new dentist, and you never know how the new guy is going to deal with the fact that I cry uncontrollably in the chair. He was brilliant, though, the nurse had pretty obviously prepped him, and every time he moved or picked up an instrument, he explained very calmly what he was doing. This was very reassuring. I'll need three fillings in upcoming months - this is not so reassuring. There were more things - discussions about how much tooth will be left and whether I will need a crown and there's a new kind of night guard for my TMJ, but I don't remember much of that conversation. The nurse told
lilacsigil, and she made the appointments and so on, while I wandered in little circles. lilacsigil was an awesome caretaker and ferried petrified zombie!me around, and bought me a sausage roll and a packet of mince tarts at the bakers afterwards. I don't have much patience with my own phobia. My brain, doing stuff all by itself with nobody at the wheel. I don't like it.But Twilight? Twilight was brilliant fun!
The heavy-handed tone of the book lifted once the first-person narrative was gone. Even Bella's opening monologue worked well; it set the mood, gave us an idea of what movie!Bella was all about.
Most of all, though, I loved the way the secondary characters popped up into 3D. Charlie! OMG, it was the Charlie and Billy show, they were brilliant. I loved all the tentative rebuilding of Bella's relationship with her father, and the similarities between them: both silent, solitary types with a wry sense of humour. Pepper spray, omg. So funny and endearing, and I don't know if it's because I was reading too fast, but I didn't see any of this dynamic in the book. And Bella's mother could be bohemian and a bit ditzy without being portrayed as crazy!bad!mother.
And though there wasn't enough Cullen time for my personal happiness, I loved all of them, and I'm pleased that movie!Carlisle and book!Carlisle weren't significantly different. And that nasty blond colour in Peter Facinelli's hair didn't bother me as much as I was expecting. The Cullen house was not at all as I imagined, but I loved the open, modern look of it, and all the graduation hats, and Edward's room. At this point,
lilacsigil and I differed in our assessment: I said that I thought that section with the piano and Bella's speshul lullaby and all was very deftly handled, and not nearly as soppy as I was expecting. lilacsigil said that section was dreary, and she got bored with Bella and Edward looking dreamily into each other's eyes. And I think the difference is that I've read the book, and expected much, much worse. It was fun! I buy the Bella/Edward ship based on the hard work done by those two actors, they both took the characters and made them glow. Like, not literally, except where it was literally true. (The sparkle vision? WEAKSAUCE! Edward looked lightly misted!) I love the cinematography, and the scenery and the sound track. I totally bought the whole package.
All the teenagers sat at the front of the cinema, and all the serious fan-persons sat towards the back. When we came down from our lofty heights, we descended into a cloud of teen body-spray. It was a bit bizarre. But I felt a camaraderie with them. We were all happy campers.