Honestly, I love vampires, I can understand the fascination. I can understand the romantic fascination too -- I was into the Buffyverse. The problem I have is that the writing is sooooo bad. And Bella (that is her name, right?) is a horrible character, she sets feminism back as further than Sarah Palin, as near as I can figure from reading descriptions of the books and excerpts. I mean, is this what women as obsessed with now? And of course, the Vampire is the the cheesiest character that ever cheesed. Characters that are that perfect make me throw up a little in my mouth. Seriously, Meyers must have the maturity/fantasy life of a ten-year-old.

The movie sounds like it might be kind of fun to watch on a rainy Sunday when it turns up on Basic Cable, a few years from now. It sounds like they managed to largely sweep aside the epic fail of Meyer's writing.

It's actually disappointing to me that there's this cool new thing out, and it's so lame.