You know who else didn’t make our hot list this year? Robert Pattinson.

Look, with the right styling he can be hot but overall he’s not. I like scrawny, troubled musicians and Pattinson still does nothing for me and he’s never really done anything for Stacey so we couldn’t rightfully include him.

And look at this photo. This is supposed to be Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, enjoying his honeymoon with Bella Swan. Edward Cullen who is supposed to have a totally ripped body like a marble sculpture. Uh… ? Ok. Some guys work out when they’re supposed to be playing a shirtless heartthrob, but I guess Pattinson just doesn’t roll like that.

More pics of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart filming a beach scene over at Us Weekly.

Stacey: That is what I never understood about casting R-Pattz…he shares pretty much ZERO characteristics with Edward in the book.  Like, in Breaking Dawn he is pretty much supposed to bang her up and bruise her so badly from being so muscular.  By these pictures it looks like he could do about as much damage as a wet noodle.

Because “facts” are something that we hold in low esteem around here I’d like to take a quote way out of context and share with you how I read into it.

Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon have a movie coming out called Water for Elephants and this month they’re on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and give the mag an interview. Here’s what Pattinson says in the interview:

Rob, on working with Reese: “There’s something about her. She’s just this genuinely nice person. I don’t know if she puts an effort into creating a nice aura, but her mood dissipates over the whole set. It was a completely different environment from when she wasn’t there. All the kids and the animals were just drawn to her. It made it incredibly easy to do my part – all my reaction shots are just watching her work brilliantly. She’s really cool and she’s just…never, ever annoying. God, that’s the worst description, isn’t it?”

This is how I interpreted that:

“Most of the movies I’ve worked on the actors think they’re entitled superstars and it’s really annoying. It was nice to work with an actual superstar who shows a level of professionalism” which is summarized by saying “my Twilight costars are super annoying”.

Beautiful.

(pic: JustJared)

Best Movie Poster Ever.

So who really was the worst  of the worst last year? Here’s the list of the movies, actresses and actors who are nominated for sucking BIG TIME last year. Mostly it’s The Last Airbender, Twilight Eclipse and Sex & the City 2, but you can check out the full list and our opinions after the jump. But first I’d like to defend Twilight Eclipse: sure the acting was full fontrum, and the directing was pretty bad but it is EXACTLY the same as the book and you know the author was on hand to make sure it stayed that way so I’m putting most of the blame for that movie on her, not on the people trying to make it less lame.

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Bella & Edward on their Honeymoon

So Breaking Dawn is filming right now and people are getting all excited about what Bella Swan’s wedding dress will look like. People have thrown around names of some pretty great designers who could be designing it but alas, now it’s rumoured that the plan has changed:

“It’s hideous. And it’s not the designer’s fault. Let’s just say someone who has final say on the matter has decided upon a terribly conservative and ugly gown.”

It’s sad because “Conservative” does NOT have to = “Ugly”. I have seen some fantastic uber-conservative and traditional wedding dresses in my day.

Why can’t Miss Meyer (because we know who that someone totally is) just accept that other people might be able to improve on her work instead of insisting on the creative death grip?

Stacey: “In my day”.  Tan, that makes you sound old.  And Stephanie Meyer is insane, that’s why.

(pic: Socialite Life)

Some people with too much time on their hands got together and made the entire Twilight series into a music video. It’s kinda funny, but it’s kinda awkward too. Is it worth the time? Well, it’s 3:50 on Wednesday afternoon so you’re probably not working anyway, so why not?

Not only can Twilight cause stinky farts and maybe cancer, but it could also possibly kill you.

A 23 year old man was found by staff in a New Zealand theatre after a screening of Eclipse. Police are investigating the cause of death and say there are no obvious signs of injury.

Think it’s possible that he died of boredom? Or maybe he couldn’t take the anxiety of not moving past second base? Or maybe he’s on Team Jacob and Bella messing around with Jacob’s feelings just broke his heart. Awwww. But he must have been there alone because his friends would have probably noticed that he didn’t get up to leave his seat after the movie. Weird.

If you’re looking to get out of going to see Eclipse you now have a good excuse: people DIED going to see it.

Stacey: Its like the first scene is Scream 2 when Jada Pinkett gets killed in the movie theatre giong to watch a movie about the Woodsburough murders.  Maybe some tried to suck his blood!

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After reading Lainey’s article about watching Eclipse, which was a little mean but incredibly funny, Tanya and I decided we still want to see Eclipse.  But then I thought, how can we like both Harry Potter and Twilight?

Our exchange:

Stacey:

I think I have become a HP snob now.  Like, how can anyone like those other books when you could like Harry Potter.  It’s like, do you have a really awesome friend that is friends with someone you can’t stand and think “how could she possibly like both of us”?  That’s how I feel about HP and Twilight.

Tanya:

I know what you mean. But it’s like enjoying both organic filet mignon with a delightful red wine reduction and McDonalds Chicken Nuggets. One takes a lot of time and care to make perfect and the other is mechanical, heartless and probably gives you cancer. The filet will keep you strong and healthy and the nuggets will probably give you the sh*ts but they’re both delicious. Just in different ways. When you finish Harry Potter you have a warm full belly, and when you finish Twilight you get the farts, but both satisfied the need for a world that is both different and relateable at the same time.

Twilight is crap, but it good too. Harry Potter is the best of the best so it’s hard to compare to anything, really. I had a hard time picking a book to read after I finished HP because I knew that nothing would be the same

Stacey:

I am going to post that.  Love it.  Did you compare Twilight to giving you the sh*ts?

For the record, I love Twilight.  While it may not seem like it right now, because I am in love with Harry Potter, I do love Twilight.  Shamefully.

So, I leave it to you:

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Tanya: Don’t get me wrong here: I like Chicken McNuggets. And I like Twilight. But when you really think about it, both of them are not good. Harry Potter is… well.. like I said to Stacey: it’s hard to read anything after reading Harry Potter because it IS that good.

Harry Potter > Twilight. Hands down.

Team Edward and Team Jacob that is.

Stacey: I totally love it. 

(pic: Socialite Life)

Buy my book! I heart Edward!

Stephenie Meyer has a new book coming out to tide the Twihards over until Eclipse comes out and she’s recommending that you buy it before seeing the movie:

“When there is so much going on off-stage so to speak, it leaves a lot of mysteries,” she says. “Of all the Twilight books, Eclipse has the most going on outside of Bella’s view. For the movie to work, we have to see and understand some of these things.”

I do see where she is coming from, and if you read the draft of Midnight Sun (Edward’s interpretation of the book Twilight) it makes his “pained” (aka “constipated”) expressions make more sense. And it’s always nice to see the scene from another point of view.

But at the same time it seems like a cash grab because if you haven’t noticed by now: Twilight sells. Big time. And it swept the MTV Movie Awards last night – so clearly people love it. So why not put out a short story and take advantage of it?

People.com says that you’ll be able to read the book novella for free at breetanner.com starting June 7th, but it’s already the 7th and I don’t see anything live, so in the meantime I’d recommend clicking the link in this side panel ———-> and buying it from Barnes & Noble. Not only do you get your fix, but you will be supporting us! Yay!

Stacey: I will not be buying or reading this book.  I don’t need to know more about Twilight.  Especially from a character’s point of view that up until this point I didn’t even know about.

But it will sell.  Because people are sheep and will buy anything that is related to these books.

Who am I to talk though?  I am pretty sure I would read anything JK Rowling would put out with regards to Harry Potter.

Correction: the secondary ladies of Twilight, were on hand and Vanity Fair to do a photo shoot to promote Eclipse.

The interviewer for this piece seems kinda like “urgh, Twilight shoot. Why prep for that?” because she doesn’t know who Julia Jones is or plays, she gets Dakota Fanning’s birthday way wrong, and the only person she shows interest in is Bryce Dallas Howard because “Bryce is the daughter of Ron Howard”. Isn’t it an unspoken rule (or maybe loudly spoken, I don’t know) that both interviewers and celebs have to pretend to be interested in the interviews?

I think Julia Jones is the perfect casting for Lea Clearwater. I am excited to see her in the role. And in some other roles too, but it look like her only other movie right now is Jonah Hex with Megan Fox.

Stacey: Lets be honest here.  Do any of us care about the secondary ladies of Twilight?  I didn’t think so.