Twilight.

[phe0nixblade]

Re: Twilight.

*skips reading whole topic*

I don't get how people could be so obsessed with a movie, kind of reminds me of Pokemon: The Movie. Or any other cult movies for that matter.

Now people left and right are jumping the bandwagon to fit in.

Hey, I for one actually like pokemon.

[Svaz]

Re: Twilight.

Hey, I for one actually like pokemon.

The Digimon Movie was far superior, imo

[coraleaterlinda]

Re: Twilight.

sparkling vampires make me lol. now, the lost boys, that was a good vampire movie.

most of my freinds are obssesed with it. and we are college student - i personally think the books are written mainly for preteens and young teenage girls. it just seems too fangirl-ish for me. it is definately not something i'm interested in.

[Bojack2424]

Re: Twilight.

pees and rice...were still talking about this movie -_-

[Syhto]

Re: Twilight.

Stephenie Meyer is like one of those retarded, rabid, cross-pairing obsessed fangirls on fanfiction.net. Seriously. I know most of you know what I'm talking about.

Have you heard of what her "vampires" do? She took way too much liberty with them, so much that they don't even deserve the title. I like vampires, I know them. I can safely say they don't "sparkle" in the sunlight. They start BURNING TO DEATH. They never go in the sun, never. Daywalkers don't even count as vampires, they're only used when the plot of whatever a person is writing doesn't work in a constant night setting.

trust me, there are many more errors. I would sooner call Stephenie Meyer's vampires spider people.

anyways, beside her amateur/fangirl writing style and ideas, logical fallacies, and butchering of the vampiric name, she's alright I guess. I mean whoring a book series and brainwashing kids with this bull**** for money and fame is something I would do. Maybe. I know people enjoy this series and I'm not going to bring them down. All I'm saying is I ****ing hate the woman and the books, and as far as I can tell the movie is even WORSE. I will never give her a dime of my money.

I don't care about the people that like Twilight. I haven't met one twilight-fan that forces the book upon people as though it's the bible or something. Hopefully that doesn't happen.

P.S. You know what's funny? How little controversy this is really getting. Somehow vampires and pre-marital sex and etc are less controversial than a kid that waves a magic wand around? Does anyone else remember how controversial harry potter was?

I don't know how Stephenie Meyer did it.

[devonin]

Re: Twilight.

Easy, the character is so helpless, repressed and useless, that nobody can generate the effort to give a ****.

[tha Guardians]

Re: Twilight.

Damn you Anne Rice! Even since you introduced that lovelorn supermodel turned bloodsucker Lestat, the vampire has been romanticized all out of proportion. Cold yet compassionate, sexy but spurned, the supposed supernatural monster has gone from corpse to Casanova in the twinkle of a dateless spinster's eye. Now comes Twilight, the latest entry in the continued compromising of the classic Stoker archetype. Aimed directly at the ADD-addled attention span of the average Facebooker, aside from being no fun at all, it stands as one of 2008's most crass commercial statements.

Like a ghastly grrl power Lost Boys fused with a half-dozen copies of Janet Quin-Harkin's Ten Boy Summer, Twilight is a preposterously preprogrammed snoozer that preaches to the fan fiction choir already predisposed to this dross. It's a spotty spook show romance bathed in the glow of a thousand tween journal entries and accented by a million microns of misspent adolescent hormones. The legions of "Twilighters" -- devotees who have each of the four novels in Stephanie Meyer's franchise memorized -- will lap up every pulled-from-the-pages moment of this manufactured motion picture. All others will be left scratching their heads and wondering what the big deal is.

When it comes to bringing something new or fresh to the vampire dynamic, director Catherine Hardwicke is hemmed in by the incomplete mythos of the books. She has to stay true to it, lest the demo revolt. But that means we get vampires with luminescent skin, the ability to hang out during the day (as long as it's cloudy), and an appetite for preppie attire. Their lust for vein V8 is apparently pretty far down on their macabre to-do list. Even worse, these creatures offer no sense of danger. Even your non-horror high school angst-fest provides a little pubescence-driven dread. But here, the most frightening element is how readily accepted Bella is among her classmates.

As with any movie made from a popular fiction franchise, Twilight's need for faithfulness flummoxes anything remotely resembling entertainment. As long as it includes the mandatory scenes that readers have obsessed over, they're in the clear. But not even the decent turns by Ms. Stewart or Master Pattinson (looking exceptionally effeminate here) can salvage such forced insularity. The best adaptations of standing series find interesting and inventive ways of bringing the mainstream into their private fold. Twilight is one boring, overbearing phenomenon. It's the poster boy for the whole "terror as tragic figure" fallacy.



The secret is vampire mousse.

Get 'um, Bill!