New Moon Mania

By Kalee Brimhall, Staff Writer
    You see them everywhere: the booths in the mall that have the "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" t-shirts, hats, bags, and bumper stickers. There are life-size cardboard cutouts of both Edward and Jacob that you can buy at Partyland. There are even stores and shops opening up in complete devotion to the latest vampire craze sweeping the nation.  

    The new Twilight movie, New Moon, has many people excited. To no one's surprise, the film is already sold out from midnight to 3 a.m. Senior Kenzie McCuistion says, "I really like the love story and the books are really well-written, so I will definitely be at the midnight showing!" The previews have made the newest movie look much better than the first, which I am sincerely hoping for because the first movie was just pitiful and a waste of ten dollars I could have spent on Costa Vida, and two hours that I could have been sleeping.

    However, even after the completely horrendous first movie, even more people are excited to see the second, possibly because Taylor Lautner (who plays Jacob Black) and other beautiful men have no shirts on throughout the whole movie. There is even word that Robert Pattinson (Edward) is shirtless at one point, which is slightly pathetic considering his abs are painted on.

    Junior Shannon Tuttle says, "Taylor Lautner is totally gorgeous. All of my friends and I are so excited. Especially for his awesome arms and abs."

   Despite all this, some of those Twilighters out there dislike the books. Senior Kelli Ricks says that the books are, "sappy, annoying, and stupid." There are also some historical inaccuracies in Stephenie Meyer's writing. For example, it's ironic that Rosalie was very happy and rich because her father owned a bank in the 1930's, when the Great Depression was happening and the banks had absolutely no money in them.

    But, regardless of how you feel about Twilight, the tickets have been sold, the insanity thrives on, and people still plan to dress up shamelessly as Edward, Bella, Jacob, or some other obscure character at the midnight showing.