The Twilight saga is in all the news these days due to the popularity of the books and the recent release of New Moon. Nevertheless, I've talked to quite a few people both inside and outside the sci-fi/fantasy community who not only dislike the series but seem to detest its popularity.
My response, of course, is "So what?" If we find the series to be mediocre, poorly written and flat, we don't have to read or watch it. I personally don't care for the franchise, but I have no problem with people who do. Everybody has their own tastes, after all.
Still, the fact that Twilight is so popular seems to have left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. So, why does it bother us--heck, why does it even phase us--that Twilight is so popular?
My only interest in Twilight is the backlash. Some of it has resulted in some very humourous internet commentary. I don't care about the franchise itself nor do I have an opinion of it, I know some women and teenage girls who are apparently fans but they seem pretty well adjusted so I wouldn't read overmuch into the fantasies (I'm sure someone could say some very nasty things about my own, no doubt).
The only important thing is that people disassociate their fantasy from reality, and I'm sure most people can manage that. Give 'em credit and such. Not that I condone or wouldn't critique it, but I haven't seen or read any of the material so I, again, have no real opinion of it.
So it does bother you and you could care less.It doesn't bother me. I couldn't care less.
It just makes me roll my eyes at how shallow, vapid and mindless teenage girls can be.
Doesn't phase me any.
It bothers me because I pretty much agree with Cracked.com.
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There are people here who aren't bothered by that?
Here's an example of Twilight's negative wave. Near Dark is NOT Twilight!!! Never mind that the guy is the "Bella" of the story.
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I had read about the first film and how terrible it was. I saw a few minutes of it the other day and it was awful. Bad acting, sparkling vampires....Vampire super baseball...wtf!!
Can't say I'll ever have the urge to watch the rest. And Robert Patterson....ewwww!
Who cares if this is porn for teenage girls? 90% of movies are porn for teenage boys. I don't care about vampire movies and didn't when I was a teenage girl, either, but why complain about this particular stupidity and not the stupidity of, say, making a movie franchise based on toys for little boys?
Who cares if this is porn for teenage girls? 90% of movies are porn for teenage boys. I don't care about vampire movies and didn't when I was a teenage girl, either, but why complain about this particular stupidity and not the stupidity of, say, making a movie franchise based on toys for little boys?
I heard a rumor that Kevin Smith (Silent Bob, director) spoke at last year's Comic Con in San Diego about how teenaged girls were more in attendance that year. People were annoyed at all the girls there, but he brought it into perspective by saying, "Don't knock these 14 year old Twilight fangirls because in 4 years or so they're going to be 18 year old Twilight fangirls, and since most of them are currently into emo, by then they'll be into Goth and submissiveness" I'm paraphrasing what I heard.
I heard a rumor that Kevin Smith (Silent Bob, director) spoke at last year's Comic Con in San Diego about how teenaged girls were more in attendance that year. People were annoyed at all the girls there, but he brought it into perspective by saying, "Don't knock these 14 year old Twilight fangirls because in 4 years or so they're going to be 18 year old Twilight fangirls, and since most of them are currently into emo, by then they'll be into Goth and submissiveness" I'm paraphrasing what I heard.
If, however, it's okay for teenage girls to enjoy that then I'm sure it's also okay for teenage boys to enjoy the odd comic book or video game with unrealistically rendered female characters ? That won't stop seemingly every comic book blog and news site moaning endlessly about the portrayal of women in comics, now will it ?
It's not just that it's bad, it's that it promotes a dangerously unhealthy view of women and relationships. It's basically teaching teenaged girls that love means subjugating themselves completely to emotionally abusive and dangerous men.
I have a friend who refers to it as "Mormon abstinence porn."
So it does bother you and you could care less.It doesn't bother me. I couldn't care less.
It just makes me roll my eyes at how shallow, vapid and mindless teenage girls can be.
Heh heh. There's a lot of that going around in this thread.
Who cares if this is porn for teenage girls? 90% of movies are porn for teenage boys. I don't care about vampire movies and didn't when I was a teenage girl, either, but why complain about this particular stupidity and not the stupidity of, say, making a movie franchise based on toys for little boys?
Now THIS bothers me.Doesn't phase me any.
FAZE!!! FAZE!!!![]()
If, however, it's okay for teenage girls to enjoy that then I'm sure it's also okay for teenage boys to enjoy the odd comic book or video game with unrealistically rendered female characters ? That won't stop seemingly every comic book blog and news site moaning endlessly about the portrayal of women in comics, now will it ?
I'd assume that's because comics are (obtensibly) for readers regardless of gender, even if it tends to skew male. The Twilight saga is unabashedly for girls. If we were to say, well, 'Power Girl is basically porn for boys', what would the reaction be - from the fanboys, no less?
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