Thinking Before Acting

I do a lot of acting before I think. I know that may be incredibly hard to believe but it's true. For instance, about a month ago, I went up north to spend time with my family.

I went with my Dad, my sister Crissy, and my brother in law John to Costco. I like to buy things on impulses, because advertising affects me, and I really wanted to purchase an air mattress because I would love to go camping over the summer. But for some reason I started to throw a fit in the store about not being able to afford the air mattress. It wasn't like a full blown temper tantrum, it was just me whining.
My dad said to me "Aww poor baby, do you want to ride in the cart?" and before I knew it, I was standing in the cart, in the middle of Costco looking down at Dad, Crissy and John. And I was a little surprised. Like, why didn't I stop myself from climbing into a cart? Why didn't any of the people say something to me like "Lizzy, stop, you're going to embarrass us, or yourself."

I don't know what the point of this blog was going to be...
Looks like I am acting before thinking again.

The Twilight Movie...

Really?
Really?
......
Really.

I haven't read the Twilight books. Nor do I plan on reading them anytime in the near future. Some say I shouldn't speak because I don't know or whatever. But here I go, not shutting my big mouth! Oh, and I spoil the movie. I think. If it's not already spoiled itself.

Now, I don't always hate book to movie movies. Sometimes, like the Princess Bride, they are really good and keeping what is important in the book, and keeping the feel for the book. And they omit a lot of unimportant information, that is great while you're reading the book, but not necessary for a movie. Other times, like Twilight, they leave out all sorts of important information, throw in a lot of unnecessary random facts about characters that get a total of a minute of screen time. And the only true way to understand this movie is to read the books beforehand.

I got a little sick and tired of the poor acting, and felt as if there was no motivation behind what the characters, they were just acting goofy, or angry, or whatever emotion. Really like it when an actor can give you something that feels real and honest. Something that comes from a true place. But I did not get this from any of the actors in this movie.

The first maybe hour into the movie, my friend April, would try to help fill me in on the books during it, so that things made sense a little better.But at the same time, it's not my cup of tea to have someone sit and explain a movie to me. I want to be able to watch it for myself and let the story line play out. But, it was really necessary to have her there. But then we got to a point in the movie where she had stopped reading the book, and she was no longer able to fill me in on the missing information. Then we both sat there confused.

I felt Edward and Bella's relationship was really interesting. . . Actually. I'm not going to go into that right now.

I didn't understand why nothing happened in the movie until 2 hours into it. But then because they spent two hours wasting my time, they had to shove all sorts of 'action' into the last little bit. I found that it was really interesting when she was being chased by a bad vampire, and I wanted to know more about the villain, I wanted to know why he was doing this, but it wasn't as important as Edward and Bella's relationship, and he was dead before I knew it.

The movie wasn't the worst movie that I have ever seen. But by no means was it close to the best. At the end, I was really wishing that we had just watched Bottle Rocket instead of Twilight.

But the goal of this movie is to make money off of crazed fans, and not make a good movie. Silly me for expecting more.