Gone (Crazy) ’til November

Co-Creator A here, and I think you all know what this post is going to be about. Unless you were visiting family in Denali, you saw last night’s Mtv Movie Awards. I will attempt to say everything I need to do say before making another lap around my house, screaming “OH MY GOD I CAN’T WAIT ‘TIL NOVEMBER!!”

Deep breath.

Ok, firstly. Rob is ridiculously hot. No one can pull of a 1980s royal blue blazer (that may very well have been cut for a woman) like our RPattz. Swoon city! Confession: everytime he was on camera (which was about 8,000 times) I screamed and giggled like a schoolgirl. Seriously, it was like the second coming of the British Invasion in my living room. My dog was practically hiding in the bathtub. I digress.

Second, KStew. Here at ATWIM, we’ve made no secret of our dislike for KStew. However, last night she out KStew-ed herself and it made her kind of endearing. First she SHOCKED us with her complete not-awkwardness during the Best Kiss award. In fact, she looked downright confident while pretending to kiss Rob! (A hint that something really is happening with them??) When she presented the trailer, we welcomed back our old KStew as she shuffled her Converse (seriously, at least wear a pair of Sam & Libby’s!), stared at the floor and looked like she was considering making a break for it when it was her turn to say her lines, which she eventually mumbled to the floorboards. When she dropped her popcorn during her Best Actress acceptance speech, the tide changed for us. Anyone that bumbling and Bella-like has to be our friend. Heck, it looked like something I would have done! I can’t hate on that! When she recovered by saying, “so it was just about as awkward as you thought it would be,” we were sold. We kind of heart her now. 

Ok, enough about the wins (5 in total), time to say what we’re all thinking: The New Moon trailer was perfect!! PERFECT!!! I cannot say enough about how freaking perfect it was. (I think I need to take another screaming lap, BRB.) Phew. Ok, seriously. The CG was not at all cheesy, Tay-La looked amazing (so much so that I dreamt about making out with a 17-year-old, thanks Tay), Edward had no trace of a weird accent…it was all though all the stars aligned! Chris Weitz is definitely my hero right now!

So, now what? We have to wait until November to see the rest of the movie!!!! In the meantime, there’s a good chance I will wear a trail around my living room from all the running and screaming. That is, if I don’t get evicted for all the noise first. 

What did you think of the trailer?? Discuss!!

Family Matters

In what might prove to be a fatal mistake for the company Blackberry, we set our google alerts to tell us whenever something related to Twilight hit the web. We included such search criteria as Stephenie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, Bella Swan…even Forks, WA made the cut (did you know they’re rennovating Forks High School? We did.). Between all the email alerts clogging up our computer inbox and the beeping coming from our phones, it’s been a busy (and noisy) time around the ATWIM offices.

As obnoxious as all this might seem (moreso to our not-so-Twilight-friendly pals than to us), it has helped us realize we have a problem. (No, not that we’re too addicted to Twilight…that’s not possible, duh!) In fact, all this news flashing has proven to us that we like our Twilight facts, folks and figures contained. We like to keep it all in the (Cullen) family. For instance…

Yesterday, we received an email letting us know that Summit Entertainment has announced Rob Pattinson will star in “this generation’s Love Story,” a film called Remember Me, written by the heralded screenwriter of Rachel Getting Married. 

Sure, sure, this is great news for RPattz. He’s finally going to be more than just Edward Cullen…a Hollywood leading man in his own right. His career will benefit exponentially. But that’s just our problem. We don’t want him to be anything other than Edward. Don’t get us wrong, we love the guy and wish him all the success in the world, but only if it comes by delivering lines like “you are my life now.” If he takes the summer off to shoot this new film (which, thankfully, wraps in time for him to return to Vancouver to shoot Eclipse), we lose our Edward fix for three whole months! He will remove himself from his proverbial Edward suit to don a new persona with a questionable dialect and that just doesn’t sit well with us. 

We can’t stress this enough, we wish nothing but the best for the whole cast and crew of Twilight, but couldn’t they achieve that by sticking close to Forks? (Hell, even the Cullens found a way to stay there!) And you know you agree. Did you read Stephenie Meyer’s other book, The Host? We didn’t either. But we, like you, are on red alert (as is our Amazon account) waiting for the loooooooong-awaited release of The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide. Who wants to read about the other voices in SM’s head? Not us!

It’s this same logic that permits us to follow the oft-buzzed about love triangle between RPattz, Nikki Reed and Kristen Stewart, but makes us scream into our pillows when we read about his rumored exploits with the likes of Paris Hilton and Natalie Portman. We like when the stars keep it in the family…it perpetuates the Twilight world we’ve created (and occasionally choose to live in) in our heads. We love that the cast goes out together. We love pics of KStew, Nikki and Taylor Lautner shopping together. We can’t get enough of the cast spottings at Jackson Rathbone’s band’s shows or Nikki’s BFF’s Dill’s concerts. And knowing that they were all hanging out together in their Canadian hotel rooms playing music and possibly Twittering  makes us happier than Edward on his wedding day…or Alice behind the wheel of her Porsche 911 Turbo! But then we had to go and read that Taylor might be dating Selena Gomez, who we needn’t remind you, has no role in anything Twilight-related. (In fact, she plays a wizard, not a vampire. Not even a werewolf!)

Is the solution to end our Google alert subscription? No way! Then we’d never know that Kellan Lutz likes to consider Rob his brother when filming their scenes together so he can properly portray their bond and that reading the never-published ‘Emmett and the Bear’ chapter of Twilight helped him understand the relationship. Is realizing that these are just actors portraying characters from a book the key? Heck no! We’d never have anything to talk about if we went and did something silly like that.

No, we think the answer is simple: the cast and crew of Twilight should accept the fact that they are and always will be just that. If only in our minds. 

Is that so much to ask? We didn’t think so.