I have finally been won over. I am going to watch the “Twilight” movie.

I’ve heard the buzz for about the last year about the books. My sisters read them. My friends read them.

I didn’t care.

I was similarly apathetic towards the movie. A film adaptation of a book series I was never interested in starring a guy best known for a supporting role in the “Harry Potter” series and the daughter from “Panic Room” didn’t exactly send my heart a-flutter.

However, there was a small detail of the story I recently discovered, which has won my support.

In the majority of vampire fiction, sunlight causes fatal, or at least critical, damage to the bloodsuckers.

However, in the world of “Twilight,” sunlight has a different effect on vampires.

They sparkle.

As film professor Ken Jurkiewicz pointed out in an interview several weeks ago, there are several very interesting thematic points to be considered. Romantic vampire fiction like “Twilight” and the HBO show “True Blood” suggest there are no romantically ideal gentlemen left in today’s world, and they have all been dead – or undead – for generations.

But nevermind all that social commentary mumbo-jumbo. All I care about is that this movie has glittery vampires.

Seeing as how my dream of seeing a “Dracula” movie starring David Bowie will likely never come true, this might be the closest to a movie about glammed-out vampires (GLAMPIRES!) that I will ever get in my lifetime.

Buzz for this film has been all over the place. It has managed to capture the sleeping-giant demographic of young females, but many early reviews have been less than enthusiastic.

But, again, I don’t care. This isn’t a movie I’m going to watch to be impressed by film making technique, writing or acting.

For me, this is the “Snakes on a Plane” of 2008. Nobody saw that movie expecting the next “Ben Hur.” They saw it to see a plane full of snakes and Sam Jackson drop the “F” bomb in reference to his frustration with said snakes.

This movie is similar for me. I am going solely to see glittery vampires.

If there is any other reason, it’s to hear the line, “Your skin is pale and ice cold,” and then yell out, “Ice cold!” like the backup singers in “Hey Ya.”

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