When I went to The Hunger Games on Friday, the last trailer shown before the film started was a 50-second teaser for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, which, by the way, is like one of the most awkward-sounded movie titles ever. Not that it matters since everyone’s just going to call it Twilight anyway…
Anyway, with this trailer, the Twilight series continues to equate losing one’s virginity to being turned into a supernatural creature. Despite the fact that the Hunger Games and Twilight are petty much designed to appeal to the same audiences, this trailer actually inspired some pretty derisive laughter from my audience. Most of that laughter was directed at poor Kristen Stewart hunting that deer but Edward’s comment regarding both he and Bella being the same temperature also got a reaction.
But you know what? Everyone laughs at Twilight and then they sneak off and wait in line for 24 hours to see the next movie*. As for me, I love my freaky, mismatched eyes but I still think it would be fun to have at least one red vampire eye…
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* That’s right. I said “wait in line…to see the next movie.” Deal with it, yankee.
Through the Shattered Lens 
God, I had to sit through 3 trailers involving vampires when I saw ‘The Hunger Games’. First was the Abraham Lincoln one, which drew a huge laugh from the audience when the title appears on screen and they realized that yes, this is actually a film about Lincoln killing vampires. Then the new Burton film, and lastly this teaser. The only good thing I can say about it is ‘Yay, it’s almost over!’
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I’m not feeling this Dark Shadows, but I must admit that Eva Green has never looked better than in her role in this film as the witch who cursed Barnabas.
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