We know we’re ultimately a fashion and celebrity site but when there’s an opportunity to give a nod to some hot men, we can be swayed to go a little bit off topic. And this is one of those occasions.

With Twilight Eclipse looming there isn’t much longer to wait until we get to see Robert Pattinson (aka Edward) and Taylor Lautner (aka Jacob) but we thought we’d speed it up a bit, under the guise of fashion of course. We’ve decided to put together a gallery of the two men and pit them off against each other in a fashion face off and we thought we’d give you a quick rundown of their fashions to help you out.

In TwilightR-Patz is dressed in casual, sensible attire consisting of jeans, with the odd shirt thrown in to smarten him up. However when he’s on the red carpet Rob’s style is eccentric to say the least. Instead of a standard suit, he’ll opt for unusual colours, take for example the maroon Gucci suit he wore at the LA premier of Twilight Eclipse, while Taylor went for a smart tailored suit. Lautner again wore a similar style for a screening of the film at the Crosby theatre last week. However, he looked less smart next to R-Patz when the two took the stage for the Live at Jimmy Kernall show. While Rob opted for a black suit with an open neck shirt, Taylor opted for jeans and a checked shirt underneath a v-neck top.

However, it’s clear that Taylor wins when it comes to the casual off duty look opting for smart v-necks and trousers while R-Patz chooses to dress down entirely in jeans and a baseball cap.

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Die-hard “Twilight” fans began lining up at area theaters hours before midnight screenings of “Eclipse” on Tuesday, including a group of fans in southwest suburban Chicago Ridge–who were about to have their dreams shattered.

NBC Chicago reports that fans began lining up at the Chicago Ridge AMC movie theater around 9 p.m. to see the third installment of the “Twilight” series. When they entered the theater, they watched the previews, but when the movie started, there was no sound:

“We’re watching the previews waiting for the movie and out of nowhere the sound just stopped,” said teen fan Soraida Botello.

The movie goers started booing and yelling for management, who informed them they were having technical difficulties and would try to fix the problem. Meanwhile, the movie kept playing with no sound.

Finally, when management conceded defeat they asked everyone to leave.

The theater agreed to refund their money–but for the angry mob of teen vampire fans, it was not enough.

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Vampire romance has become hotter — if you can believe the story.That seems to be the consensus by U.S. critics for the third episode of teen vampire saga “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” which debuted on Wednesday to a record-breaking $30 million box office in screenings just after midnight.

North American ticket sales beat predecessor “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” with $26.3 million and are the most for any movie’s midnight screenings, according to tracker Hollywood.com Box Office.

Critics said the movie boosted its romantic storyline, but the overall film was not entirely satisfying due to poor acting and execution, according to a consensus of reviews posted Wednesday.

The middle installment of the film franchise — Stephenie Meyer’s four books are being spread out over five films for maximum profit — was released in U.S. cinemas this week and again features a love triangle between Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner.)

The third film is “more of the same” from the first two movie, said USA Today, noting the physical attributes of the three co-stars are featured heavily in the film franchise that is wildly popular with the coveted teen market.

“This is definitely the most romantic of the films, although some of these scenes are set in flower-filled meadows that bring to mind feminine-hygiene commercials,” the newspaper said.

The New York Times said “Eclipse” was “a more robustly entertaining film than either of its predecessors” with added humor, more violence, “and, true to the film’s title, a deeper intimation of darkness.”

But it said with the exception of Stewart, “what there isn’t, as usual, is much in the way of good acting.”

Overall, the film has scored a 50 percent rating among reviews aggregated by website rottentomatoes.com with 53 critics saying positive things and 53 negative.

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I didn’t trust myself to see “Eclipse” alone and be able to come back with a fair-minded assessment of what I’d witnessed.

Having yawned my way through the first two flicks in the vampire series, I know that when it comes to all things “Twilight,” I just…don’t get it. Luckily, my sister is a committed fan: she’s read all the books, watched “Twilight” and “New Moon” multiple times, even rushed out to get “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner,” though it was available for free online, because she needed to add the volume to her collection.

I asked her to escort me to a Monday screening, and she was only too happy to accept the offer. My plan was simple: she would be my Twi-barometer, my finger on the pulse of Edward, my wolf pack interpreter.

And — whaddya know! — we were on the same page after an opening scene that follows the brutal conversion of Riley from an innocent kid into the eventual leader of Victoria’s newborn vampire army. The soot-smoked back alleys of rainy Seattle set the sinister mood as Riley is hunted by the unseen Victoria, as he flees in terror, as he ultimately succumbs in agony to her bite. It is as gritty and, in its own way, realistic as anything we’ve ever seen from the big screen franchise, and it left me hoping director David Slade was going to do something with his source material that his predecessors had not, something magical and transporting: turning Stephenie Meyer‘s prose into a movie I could actually care about. My sister? The opener left her literally on the edge of her seat, palms sweaty, a satisfied smile on her face.

The screen faded to black…and then opened on a field of flowers upon which Edward and Bella sprawl. She reads aloud the Robert Frost poem, “Fire and Ice,” which Meyer employs as her book’s epigraph. No disrespect to Mr. Frost, but 90 years after those lines were written, his poem has become an undeniable cliché, the stuff of elementary school poetry units. To hear Bella intoning, “From what I’ve tasted of desire,” was to know that Slade’s sinister opening scene was an aberration, and I was in for two hours of straining teen angst, stilted dialogue and a romantic rapture I’d simply never be able to understand. Because it is Edward and Bella in the field with their Intro to Poetry seminar, rather than Riley and his cruel transformation, that sets the tone for what is to come.

What follows, then, is beautiful to look at — “Eclipse” is easily the most technically proficient and lovingly composed film in the series — but in the end only amounts to a whole lot of chattering. Bella talks about how she wants Edward to change her into a vampire. Edward talks about how he won’t have sex with her until they’re married. Jacob talks about how much he loves Bella. Bella talks about how she doesn’t love Jacob. Bella’s dad talks about how he doesn’t trust Edward. And the Cullens talk about Victoria’s nefarious plans to wipe them out.

Exposition is a necessary part of storytelling, but when I’m constantly told things without seeing them put into action, well, I strain to believe them. And that, I suppose, is one of my big “Twilight” problems. I’m a skeptic, whereas my sister is content to take all of this on faith. Of course Bella and Edward are soul mates; of course Bella and Jacob have a simmering romantic bond; of course Victoria and her army really have a chance of destroying the Cullens and the human girl about to join their clan.

As “Eclipse” pushed on, I kept glancing over at my sister. Her eyes were riveted to the screen when Edward finally asks Bella to marry him. She gasped as Bella hitched her leg around Edward during that much-discussed bedroom bump-and-grind. I even think I heard her tee-hee as the love triangle reached a steamy climax in the snowy tent scene. And there, so it seems, is your fire and your ice: Edward the cold-blooded vampire, Jacob the hot-blooded werewolf.

Yet I was left not caring how “the world will end,” as the Frost poem goes. Perhaps it’s not merely a result of the film’s storytelling shortcomings. The actors must bear responsibility too. As Jacob, Taylor Lautner has no setting except to turn his emotional dial to 10: I’m angry! I’m hurt! I’m tough! There is nothing subtle about his acting style, and it left me all too aware I was watching fiction. Robert Pattinson is simply done a disservice here, as he really has nothing to do; his sole directive is to keep Bella safe, and it leaves him without a character arc of his own. You could say this is his finest performance of the series, except that only leaves you wondering how much he would have excelled had his character been given anything interesting to accomplish. Kristen Stewart, meanwhile, is saddled with easily the worst wig that the big screen has had to offer in the 21st century. I’ve watched Stewart at her finest — see my Sundance review of “Welcome to the Rileys” — but she has nothing to dig her teeth into in these “Twilight” movies.

The most genuine moment of the movie comes when Bella and her father are talking in the kitchen about Edward. Her dad tries to tell her to use protection, Bella gets embarrassed, her dad gets even more embarrassed and finally Bella exclaims, “I’m a virgin!” It’s funny and, even more important, it’s real. And it serves to highlight how artificially constructed so much in “Eclipse” really is.

And so it goes. As I became increasingly bored, my sister only became more sucked into the movie’s romantic machinations. She readily acknowledges the franchise’s shortcomings, its occasional cheesiness, its incongruities, and she loves it nonetheless. “Eclipse” took her on a love-filled journey, and she was delighted with the results. The first thing she said as we got out of our seats to leave was, “I can’t wait to get the DVD.”

For my part, I couldn’t wait to get home. Yet as we parted ways at the subway, I had a feeling we both could be right. Goodness knows how she suffered her way through “Iron Man 2″ with me, a film I loved but which similarly strains logic, presents paint-by-numbers caricatures and delivers an anticlimactic final battle. I’ll side with Tony Stark and she’ll be happy to have Edward Cullen all for herself. And we can both continue to go to the movies together.

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1 – Girls think Jacob is hot. Duh. (Edward shows up first, but the first abnormal decibels at my screening were for Jacob’s smoldering – or was that pouty? – intro. scene in the parking lot.)

2 – Girls would rather date Edward. And marry him. (Jacob and Bella’s kiss? The real one in the snow? No discernible reaction. The Edward proposal? Audible sighs, and at least 4.7 rounds of applause.)

3 – Dudes don’t go with dudes to Eclipse at midnight on opening night. Or at any other time. Every dude in attendance (the 5 of them including me) was with a girl or a pack of girls. Or could claim it was for work.

4 – Dudes give other dudes (and other girls) the “O.k., you got me” look, right after they get the “Really? You’re at Eclipse?” look.

5 – Eclipse is the best in The Twilight Saga movie series so far. It has more action, the actors have a better handle on their roles, and every CGI wolf is better rendered than those fake-looking beasties in New Moon.

6 – “Best” when describing the quality of a Twilight Saga movie is a relative term. This is not Toy Story 3. But it does top High School Musical 3.

7 – If you wait to buy tickets until opening day, you will be stuck in the second row. But if it’s a theater with reserved seating, at least you know you’re stuck in the second row, and can show up ten minutes beforehand, and avoid the screaming in the lobby.

8 – Anybody notice how the universes of Twilight and “True Blood” (the adults version of a vampire saga on HBO) keep expanding? More side characters, backstories, backstabbing and bloodsucking politics? In the case of Eclipse, that’s a good thing. There’s only so much mooning between Edward and Bella – “no, I love you more!” – a fully evolved human being can be expected to handle.

9 – Since I mentioned “True Blood,” I will also now put in a shameless plug for the show and my pal Ryan Kwanten, who’s thoroughly amazing on it as the dimwitted Jason Stackhouse. Did I mention “True Blood”? It’s great. Buy HBO.

10 – It’s 3:04am in the morning, June 30th. In conclusion, I’ve learned that the midnight opening show of Eclipse was also awesome because it is responsible for me posting the earliest update ever to the 100 days blog. That means I will now go to bed before midnight tonight. After I go to bed right now.

Ok, one last thing. If you do love The Twilight Saga, then there’s nothing you won’t love in this latest installment. I was serious when I said it’s the best in the series to this point. It’s darker, it has more action, and less cheese (although there’s still plenty of cheese). Plus, it co-stars a guy named BooBoo. I’m not sure why that’s prudent. But the fact that someone in this world is actually named BooBoo has to be mentioned. Alright. Good night.

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Eclipse opens today and Twi-fans will swarm the theaters over the holiday weekend for many different reasons. But in our unbiased opinion, it’s the chemistry between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart that really carries this franchise (sure, it doesn’t hurt that they’re dating).

Producer Wyck Godfrey recently told Time magazine he doesn’t think of Rob and Kristen’s romance in a good-for-business way, just that he hopes they “stay together” so there’s nothing awkward on set as they finish up the last two movies. Jeez, where did you read that a few times before?

But does the rest of the cast agree?

“Their chemistry is what has built this franchise,” screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg says about Stewart and Pattinson. “I could be the most brilliant screenwriter in the world, the books could be the most brilliant thing in the world, the director could be the most brilliant person in the world, and none of it means anything if those two leads have no chemistry. Rob and Kristen have a very rare and enticing chemistry.”

Agreed!

“It’s phenomenal,” Sarah Clarke, who plays Bella’s mother, says about Rob and Kristen’s heat. “They are super grounded, which is great considering everything they are going through.”

Sarah added that from the time when they first started Twilight to now, the fans excitement over “Robsten” has greatly increased:

“The fans of course were fanatical in Vancouver by the time I got there [to shoot Eclipse]. I had been away so I had no idea how strong it had changed from Twilight to now. The fact that every time I went out fans were like, ‘Are you going to see them?’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m just going to the drugstore!’”

As for how Rob and Kristen smartly attempt keep their private lives private, the cast members totally support how they handle all the speculation, but don’t think it’s on purpose.

“They are very private people,” Alex Meraz dishes about how his costars stay mum on their relationship. “I don’t even know if they are together or not, honestly, but I just think it’s who they are as people and it’s what they bring to their work [that makes the franchise successful].”

“You know it’s an old showbiz rule,” human Michael Welch laughed. “You leave them wanting more! I don’t think that was intentional on their part though. I think it’s worked out very nicely.”

Of course the small amount of you who believe Rob and Kristen are not more than costars say it’s only for P.R., well it’s not, trust us. But why not milk it if they can?

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Dear Eclipse,

Oh heyyyy!!!

Where do we start? Do we discuss the hits versus the misses of the movie? Do we talk about all the cheesy one-liners we already know we’re going to be saying for the next year and ½ until we get some new content? Do we talk about how the only thing going through our heads every time HE came on screen was “Oh heyyyyy”

How about we talk about how we want to set up a stool, pull David Slade up on it and give him a huge hug.

Let’s talk about how we love Howard Shore for including the Sia & Metric songs throughout his score.

Let’s be proud we can show our non Twi friends this movie because it actually seems like a “real” movie.

(Let’s squee for a second over the new Harry Potter trailer and also get a little freaked out about how much they gave away!)

Let’s discuss how we got the MOTHER EFFING LEG HITCH!!!

Let’s apologize to Edward for liking the Jacob & Bella kiss a litttttle bit too much

Let’s get Jake some blotting tissues for that last scene when he looks like he’s dying of yellow fever.

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