14 DAY TRIAL // As millions of fans around the world are on their toes, waiting for “New Moon,” the second installment in “The Twilight Saga” to come out, there is one veteran actress who would rather die than have to say a kind word about it. Lauren Bacall saw “Twilight” at her granddaughter’s insistencies but she hated it and she’s taking to Twitter to address all vampire movie fans and urge them to find something good to do with their time.
According to the former screen siren, vampire movies are not supposed to make you fall in love with the main character but rather to hold you on the edge of your seat, almost forgetting how to breathe from sheer horror – or, at least, that’s what one might infer from her Tweets. After seeing “Twilight,” the beautiful love story between a human and a “vegetarian” vampire based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer, Bacall can’t think of anything else to call it but lame and not worth our time.
“Yes, I saw ‘Twilight’ – my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the ‘film’ was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece ‘Nosferatu’ and told her, ‘Now that’s a vampire film!’ And that goes for all of you! Watch ‘Nosferatu’ instead!” Lauren Bacall writes on her Twitter page.
Luckily, Lauren Bacall is one of the very few to see things this way. Just yesterday, for instance, the brother of director Chris Weitz, Paul, told the media that he had seen a first cut of “New Moon” and was absolutely psyched about it. He would not say what made the second film better in any respect than the other, but he did promise that it would offer fans an unforgivable experience, that it wouldn’t disappoint.
“He [Chris] showed me an early cut. And I thought it was awesome. Why was it awesome? Well, I just really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the first movie too. [Chris’ ‘New Moon’ movie] was really just an interesting story.” Paul Weitz said yesterday, grinning from ear to ear. “New Moon” drops in theaters on November 20 – still a long way to go until we get to verify the awesomeness that Paul is talking about.