Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate Spoiler Special

podcast on Help Me with the full title here, Dan, The Twilight Saga, Colon, New Moon.

That's correct.

Part two in the Twilight saga, based on the best-selling vampire novels by Stephanie Meyer,

and joining me remotely, which is why we may sound a little bit different, a little bit worse

than usual, but we're working on this exciting new tape from home technology

that will enable us to do many more spoilers.

So joining me from his home is in Washington, D.C. is Dan Cois.

Hi, Dan. How are you?

Good. And as regular listeners know, Dan Cois is our favorite go-to spoiler partner.

He's a film critic for the Washington Post for the website

True Slant and also a contributor to Vulture, which is the New York Magazine Culture Blog. So,

your job description having taken up three quarters of our time, Dan. And the title having taken

up the other quarter. Right, exactly. We'll have to say goodbye now. Thanks for joining me.

So I don't actually know what your reaction to Twilight New Moon was because I just thought last

night have not heard from you since seeing it. So let's roll just with, did you like it? Do you

recommend it? My reaction to it is sort of inseparable from the reaction of the hundreds of screaming women surrounding me.

I mean, which is to say that seeing this movie was a totally enjoyable movie-going experience,

even though a lot of the enjoyment didn't have so much to do with the movie and had a lot

to do with the sort of carnival atmosphere surrounding it.

Yeah, the audience is a big part of the enjoyment of this movie, and I saw it at a discreeting that was largely pressed so it wasn't as squealy,

but I still think that there's a lot of erotic energies between the audience and the screen in this movie,

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