$140.7 million.

That’s how much “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” made in its opening weekend. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

This series is the female equivalent of “Transformers.” Both break box-office records despite their poor quality.

As I had mentioned in an opinion piece toward the beginning of the semester, let’s call a truce.

Below are four reasons why the sequel was better (that’s not saying much) and worse than “Twilight.”

It’s better because…

1) Taylor Lautner is in it more. His smile is infectious and his acting isn’t too shabby. Wait, what was that you said? His physique steals the show? Totally forgot about that.

Taylor Lautner stars as Jacob Black in the Twilight Saga: New Moon. Photo by Kimberley French

2) Kristen Stewart fails to bite her lip on a regular basis, which usually is her sexual tension tip-off. This came much to the disappointment of my friend and I because we wanted to do an eating game with popcorn, similar to the drinking game for Emma Watson and her “caterpillar” eyebrows.

3) The special effects improved. After last year’s “sparkling in the sun” debacle, Summit Entertainment stepped up its game with more money. Those werewolves were cute and fluffy.

4) Casting tried its best to make the actors better with the addition of Michael Sheen and Dakota Fanning. Too bad they were barely in it.

Michael Sheen as Aro in New Moon. Photo by Kimberley French.

It’s worse because…

1) There not a scene in which I can go back to and remember the music playing in the background. In “Twilight” the baseball scene is Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole.”

2) It didn’t have the indie feel of the first one. In this film Kristen Stewart is caked in makeup and wearing fashionable-like clothes instead of that green bowling shirt. Plus, Robert Pattinson wears the same outfit the entire movie. It was probably from his own closet.

3) Was director Chris Weitz trying to make me sick in Bella’s monthly depression montage? Oh, and that title clip with the moon? That took up half the film time.

4) It’s the Twilight series. What else is there to say? Bad acting, writing, cheesiness. And I didn’t even eat nachos.