Twilight

OK, then... I'll be the first to admit that I'm a middle-aged male whom actually ENJOYED reading the Twilight novels. My wife read them and really loved them, and so to figure out what the deal was, I read all four of them. They're not my typical genre (I'm more of a Vince Flynn, John Grisham, the future-author-John-Goodale type of genre), but for what they were, they were OK, and "not unpleasant." And I could certainly understand the whole draw between Edward and Bella, yada yada yada.

So it wasn't necessarily with a whole lot of expectation that I went to see the movie (with my wife, of course). And ya' know what??? It was pretty good. I can say that I enjoyed it. I thought Edward and Bella were both way too serious, but overall, even the casting wasn't that bad.

But Twilight will certainly be a candidate for the Worst Technology Casting Oscar Award. Hear me out...

So here Bella is. An uncoordinated, intelligent "smartsy" type. The type of person we called while I was growing up, a "smack." She's not creative, nor artsy, nor athletic, nor none of those things. She's just a geek. So... why is it when you see her in the movie e-mailing her mother, she's using a Mac??? By Apple's own advertisements, the geeks of the world use PCs; NOT MACS!!! And in Forks, Washington, so close to Redmond, WA campus of Microsoft??? I'm sure the Redmondians would have thrown a fit!

Nope... never would have happened. That computer should have been cast as a PC. Shame on the production studio; the movie lost all realism to me by that casting choice! :-)