I liked the first movie. In the second, I was annoyed by all of Bella's incredibly over-the-top hysterics about being "dumped." What a wonderful example for young girls - if a guy dumps you, scream and cry for days, weeks and months upon end, for it is the end of the world.
New Moon is painful.
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I'll be honest, I'm with Trekker, I'm very anxious to see how they actually convey this scene from the book on film.What the fuck is wrong with you?
Well, not that I want to see this, though Bella is a character I hate so much so it'd be satisfying to see it, but it'll just be interesting to see how the pull it off and keep the movie PG-13 and not terrify the souls of all who watch it.
Obviously I'm not answering for Trekker, but in my case I did try to watch the first Twilight film because I'm a fan of Rachelle Lefevre. And I'd probably have watched New Moon for the same reason as well, if a) I hadn't become a member of the "Turned Twilight off after 20 minutes and put OHMSS on instead" club (well I put on a Harry Potter. Same diff) and b) she hadn't gotten screwed by the studio out of appearing in the third movie.
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100% of individuals that enjoy Twlight that I've had the unfortunate experience of coming into contact with have either been lying about it for some reason or were utterly worthless.
I've known plenty of intelligent women in my life and none of them would touch this crap with a barge pole.
10 years ago your statement about the Internet might have been true. Then this thing called 'Facebook' came along and everybody started plastering their very real personal business all over the Internet.
Some friends and I watched Twilight for the pure fun of it. Some commented on how Mormonism turned a regular vampire into a "glitter bug" other things like "we don't drink human blood, we're vegitarians", made us laugh too. There were references to the "Christian Vampires" too because they were the wild ones.
It was one big joke all around. I imagine had we gotten New Moon we would have had the same jokes.
It was one big joke all around. I imagine had we gotten New Moon we would have had the same jokes.
Reading the plot summaries on Wikipedia was quite enough to convince me that I wouldn't enjoy the films unless booze was on-hand. That being said, I did read some Twilight slash that I found entertaining.
I didn't realize the author was a Mormon, and I don't mean to sound denigrating, but that does explain a few things.
(shrug) Twilight is hardly the first franchise to have a fanbase that appreciates it for reasons that others find inexplicable, and most of those posting on this forum are likely in no position to claim the high ground.
I didn't realize the author was a Mormon, and I don't mean to sound denigrating, but that does explain a few things.
(shrug) Twilight is hardly the first franchise to have a fanbase that appreciates it for reasons that others find inexplicable, and most of those posting on this forum are likely in no position to claim the high ground.
It's hilarious how much hate this franchise is getting from some people just because it's so popular. The books are dumb fun. It was time for the Vampire genre to make a comeback, and the author was at the right place at the right time. I doubt that even she expected her books to be so huge.
Ashley Greene makes a very nice vampire.
Ashley Greene makes a very nice vampire.
Ladies and gentlemen: The ship has officially sailed. By the time we get to humourlessly bitter attacks on the fandom, ridiculing just isn't fun anymore.
And yet, there are.
Really, there are plenty of perfectly reasonable people who like the series. That's not a problem. People like different things, and I've read that the book basically is playing on women's fantasies, well, doesn't everyone have fantasies?
Well, I know that I don't hate Twilight because it's popular, I hate it because it's absolute drivel. Much as I hate to admit it, I've read all four books, and I was at the midnight showing of Twilight.... And oh my god, what horrible dreck.
I feel so fortunate to have joined the English Society here at my college, because one could give it a secondary name of "Twilight Haters Club." We've had quite a bit of fun discussing just how despicable these "books" are. And if anyone even tries to use the word "literature" and Stephanie Meyer in the same sentence, it'd better be as an example as to how Meyer's work is NOT worthy of the term.
I feel so fortunate to have joined the English Society here at my college, because one could give it a secondary name of "Twilight Haters Club." We've had quite a bit of fun discussing just how despicable these "books" are. And if anyone even tries to use the word "literature" and Stephanie Meyer in the same sentence, it'd better be as an example as to how Meyer's work is NOT worthy of the term.
^Well it's a good thing you have a literature group to save you from Twilight 
I'm an English teacher-literature is my game. I also like trashy vampire stories. Does this make me any less intellegent? No, I think not.
It's kinda like saying all Star Trek fans are 40 year old virgins living in their parents' basement. A generalizaton on a stereotype, right?
Is Meyer a writing genius? No, but she got published. How about you?
I'm an English teacher-literature is my game. I also like trashy vampire stories. Does this make me any less intellegent? No, I think not.
It's kinda like saying all Star Trek fans are 40 year old virgins living in their parents' basement. A generalizaton on a stereotype, right?
Is Meyer a writing genius? No, but she got published. How about you?
People that like shitty mormon slashfic that glorifies women being submissive idiots that do whatever they're told and then pass out during sex because they can't handle human intimacy are fucked up, even if they don't realize they are fucked up.
Twilight is twisted shit and the people that like it are on some level, broken.
Or being an emotive bitch who needs a man to complete her and acts like a complete nut case when he breaks up with her and threatens to kill herself until he gets back together with her. Nice lesson to learn there, teeange girls of America.
That and all of the uterus ripping should make these novels the most terrible things ever concieved.
That and all of the uterus ripping should make these novels the most terrible things ever concieved.
Star Trek fans are male nerds who have never had sex with real women. They have no social skills and are doomed for failure. They are ugly and don't shower and spend all their time debating Sci-Fi and Fantasy on message boards. They are masturbating to twisted fucked up shit like furries and hentai. The worse thing is, is that these guys think this is normal.
Hyperbole works both ways, hunh?
I doubt it's even half as twisted as some of the stuff I've read and/or seen, frankly. Does my love of black humour make me too a fucked up, broken human being, I wonder.
And would I like it better if I was 'fixed', made wholesome, bland and normal, a ticking little clockwork orange?
Hey now! I've never masturbated to furries, thank you very much.
The last time there was a Twilight thread, unless I missed one (wouldn't surprise me), someone linked to a youtube vid series that's pretty good for a laugh: link.
Hey now! I've never masturbated to furries, thank you very much.
Well I don't use Twilight as a relationship bible
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