New Moon - Week two...

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Originally Posted by Riff Magnum

It is a pile of crap, but when i saw it the theater was full of couples and not just teenage couple. I'd say 60% of the theater was over 30. If kids have short attention spans then i'm wondering how they get through this movie. It's over two hours and hardly any action.
Btw, when i took my kids to see Fantastic Mr. Fox (great movie) this weekend, i noticed there was a poster for the next twilight movie, Eclipse, in the lobby. Release date was summer of 2010. They're cashing in before the fad wears out. Anyone have any predictions as to when the vampire thing will fade away? I predicted reality shows would die 7 years ago and look how that turned out.

So I guess New Line Cinema cashed in on Lord of the Rings before that fad wore out too?

The close release date (7-8 months) probably has more to do with the 2nd and 3rd movie being filmed together than trying to pump these out as quickly as possible. Harry Potter has been stretched out a lot, and it does just fine.

I think filming the movies together was most likely done because a) it's easier/cheaper (like LotR), and b) it keeps the young actors looking relatively similar across the movies, instead of aging a lot in between.

If you have the movie filmed already, there's no point in sitting on it forever.