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I make sure to take my cracky self to every Twilight movie on opening weekend if not opening night. I do this for a few reasons. I always try to support movies marketed towards women (if they are ones I want to see) on opening weekend because opening weekend is what Hollywood pays attention to and I’d like to see Hollywood continue to make female-centric movies. Granted, there will always be some idiot box-office prognosticator out there who will publicly claim to not understand how a movie geared toward women, with a woman in the starring role actually made money. And conversely, when one of these oddities that simply can’t be explained does open well and makes some dough, there will also always be someone in the studio who will take the credit for the success, whether he or she had anything at all to do with it. So it’s important to me to get out there and support these films if possible.

Another reason is the current age of entertainment media and the internet. There are literally spoilers everywhere and I. Hate. Spoilers. And lastly, I go for the sheer excitement and the rush. (Here I go with the substance abuse again.) There is nothing like the opening weekend crowd of a heavily anticipated fan boy/fan girl movie. I love the palpable feel of the energy and the buzz all around that makes going to a movie more like an Event.

Oh yes – the actual movie. As most of this readership is well aware, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is the third movie adapted from the series of books by Meyer. It stars Kristen Stewart as Bella, Robert Pattinson as Edward, the vampire who adores her and as the third part of the love triangle; we have Taylor Lautner as teen werewolf Jacob Black. Lautner’s abdominals also play a critical role in this film and I specifically mention them because they actually give a much stronger performance than Stewart. This assessment is supported by the applause and cheers the abs receive from the audience every time they come out to play – which is often.

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