In a touching scene, Edward begs Bella to wait a few years before she becomes a vampire. "Why?" she wants to know. "I'm hoping you fill out a little more," supplied the Marines in front of us.
Put in a full day of work yesterday at the nuthouse. We get one English radio station out here, Wave FM, that we keep on all day. The Marines dee-jay it from one of the camps on the island. I liked one of the tag lines I heard on it yesterday-"Wave FM. Your alternative...to silence."
Dean called during the day to see if I wanted to go to New Moon that evening, the new teen angsty/vampire movie. I did NOT want to go, but I grudgingly agreed to anyway. I know Dean likes an immediate audience for his movie talking. Looking back, I really should have traded him doing the sink full of dishes for going.
We got to the movie a half hour early and it was already very full for Camp Hansen standards, about 50% occupied. Most of the Marines on Camp Hansen are single young guys and, as a rule, enjoy movie talking just as much as Dean. Marine movie theatres are not the kind you get shushed in. In fact, truly obnoxious comments during particularly poignant moments are usually rewarded with appreciative laughs or barks (yes, Marines bark). They have such a good time being insufferable, I am pretty sure that is why the base even bothers showing dramatic films in between the shoot-em-ups.
They were all in rare form during New Moon. They mock-cheered in high-pitched squeals when one of the young male leads whipped off his shirt to stop the heroine's bleeding. They laughed uproariously at the more romantic moments, and several times felt it incumbent upon them to advise the main vampire he had "no balls."
Overall the movie was pretty lame, but I would have to recommend going anyway if you have the chance to see it with a bunch of young Marine movie talkers.
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