So I Saw Twighlight

As the title of this post points out, Christina and I watched Twighlight last night.  For the past few years I’ve heard all the craze about the movie and now I can finally talk somewhat intelligently about it.  I really hate to say this but I actually liked it and so much so Tyler and I will probably go out and find New Moon somewhere later today so we can get completely caught up.  I liked they didn’t go overboard with the werewolf and vampire aspects and you could tell the movie’s target demographic wasn’t a 32 year old, but it kept my attention which is saying something.  The guy on the far right cracked me up every time I saw him after he was described as always looking like he is in pain (also looks like Edward Scissorhands).  The movie is fairly original, it has a Romeo and Juliette undertone to it but it wasn’t overly annoying.  I liked when Edward’s family teamed up to fight James the tracking vampire, maybe it is the X-Men fan in me.  If you’ve seen it, what did you think of it and without giving anything away to others, was New Moon any better than Twighlight?

If you are ever visiting Portland, OR there is a nice log cabin restaurant called Stone Cliff Inn (movie related link and their website link here) on the top of a hill overseeing the Clackamas River.  I love when restaurants and companies put lots of time and money behind advertising but their website is terrible (sorry but it is).  Behind the restaurant is a very large wooded mountain where part of the film was shot.  You can take a quick walk back in the woods where they have pictures showing scenes of where the movie was shot.  That restaurant is only 5 minutes from where I used to live prior to moving to California.  Twighlight had lots of Washington and Oregon scenes in it that I recognized which also made the movie fun.