David Kross instead of Robert Pattinson

Rating: 2/10 (9 May 2009)

Robert Pattinson is a jejune actor with a pretty face who needs to go back to his music (which he does well). Imagine if he were replaced with David Kross, the fantastic new-comer who played Kate Winslet's lover in "The Reader." Herr Kross is focused and intense, with an innate sense of pacing, and would be a better talent-match for Ms. Stewart (whose screen street-smarts make Pattinson look even more incapable. I found it hilarious that RP said that Stewart was such a professional that he just shut up on the set when she was around -- good idea.) Kross might actually make the remaining "Twilight" movies bearable. His abilities would certainly please the teen set, especially since he is their age. (And while we're dreaming, let's hope that "Breaking Dawn" never becomes a movie -- someone has to have the good sense to stop with "Eclipse," add the wedding scene at the end, and leave it at that.)