Update: Here’s the full trailer!

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I will admit that I’ve read all the Twilight books and have seen the films, but I don’t consider myself a fan. The last film, New Moon, was cheesy as hell and it dragged on way too long. I still liked it, in that way you like that first s’more before you end up eating five and making yourself sick. Judging from the 10 second preview trailer for Eclipse, the third film in the series which is due out June 30 in the US, we’re in for more of the same. There’s even a shirtless Taylor Lautner standing on a mountaintop! We just need to know that these dreamy boys will be baring their hairless chests for our pleasure. We need some shirtless young men to punctuate all the endless swooning and lip-biting. (As a mom in her 30s, neither the vampire or the were do much for me, but I don’t mind admiring their physiques.)

So here’s the teaser trailer for Eclipse, which I had to read the plot summary for to remember what happens. Without giving too much away, the battle for Bella heats up and she finds herself torn between the two supernaturals who are inexplicably drawn to her. I’ll admit with my head held low that I’ll go see this. The first film was way better than the second, but this next one has yet a third director so maybe they’ll be able to make this glurge palatable again. There’s not much incentive to improve these films, when young girls will flock to see them no matter what. We may even get to see Lautner’s rippling abs in 3D at one point.

In other news about Robert Pattinson, I’ve heard about the ending of Remember Me and people are pissed. I’m not going to reveal any spoilers or even give a link (you can Google it if you want to know and a middle finger to the person who sent it to me without a spoiler warning) but the film is said to exploit a national tragedy in a way that’s cheap and offensive, by some accounts. If you know what happens, please be vague in the comments and don’t reveal that spoiler, although I have a feeling that if you follow celebrity news you’ll come across it soon. Remember Me is out March 12.

Update: There’s a new interview with Pattinson in Parade Magazine, and he gives a lot of good quotes. This kid is really growing on me. Here are my favorite responses that are sure to get repeated: he says he’s not forward with women and never asks them out and that he was beat up as a kid for acting arrogant. There’s more on Parade.com:

The dating game.
“When it comes to the opposite sex, I’m not as fully confident as the guy I play. I don’t even remember the last time I asked someone out on a date, like, just went up to them and that’s the first thing I did. I’m much more self-conscious and not wanting to fail. So I tend to hold back.”

He’s felt the pain before.
“I got beaten up by a lot of people when I was younger. I was a bit of an idiot, but I always thought the assaults were unprovoked. It was after I first started acting and I liked to behave like an actor, or how I thought an actor was supposed to be, and that apparently provoked a lot of people into hitting me.”

[From Parade]