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So rather than explain myself to the world individually I thought I would just post about my Twilight and New-Moon marathon last night. I said I would watch them, and so I did.

I expected them to be a dreadful cross between 90210 and Buffy and to be honest I wasn’t disappointed. All the lead characters need a slap, and whenever that vampire guy was there I found myself just staring at his eye-bows.

It was interesting watching something so female-centric. The guys were all entirely one dimensional, there only purpose in there world was to fall completely in love with the rather dippy Bella, despite the fact that she suffers from acute stupidity. The parallel with all the other male orientated films I had watch did not escape me.

It reminded me of a conversation I had recently about how women and gay men were represented in film. If nothing else these films have given me a chance to empathise a little better on that count.

I’m not, last time I checked, a teenage girl, and that is who the movies are squarely and unashamedly aimed at. I wasn’t supposed to like them, and I didn’t. I would like to rant about how gut-wrenchingly terrible they were, but to be honest they didn’t provoke the kind of passion that that would require. I can’t be angry at a movie like this, its like wondering into Dorothy Perkins and complaining that you can’t find a copy of Call of Duty.

Some of the settings were nice though. Canada is a beautiful country.