The i hate twilight thread!

[luvmy3]

WooHoo I'm just sitting here counting down to the Eclipse premiere tonight. I just have to figure out if I should wear my Team Edward or my team Jacob shirt, I just don't know which will go better with my Alice choker and my Esme ring, and the colors have to look right with my homemade signof Edward Bella and Jacob
Oh, I'm sorry wrong thread


Actually I am counting down because I'm dreading going because I have to sit through another 2 hours of Twilight saga. The original movie was bad enough, and then I tried to watch New Moon yesterday but just couldn't take it. Do you think its a good idea to leave two 12 year olds alone in a movie theater at midnight? j/k

 

[cteddiesgirl]

I can't stand Twilight cause they made vampires 'cool' . What happened to scary and deadly vampires? Now EVERY tween and their mom is into vampires cause they think they are 'sensitive' . *rolls eyes hard*

Well, if there is any thing good to come out of it, rest assured in about 1-2 years this fad will be over as the core demographic grows up and finds out how ridiculous it is. (Hillary Duff anyone? )

Uhhh...Where have you been? Vampire romance novels have been a huge part of the market since before Twilight came out. Vampires have been cool for quite some time. Ever hear of Interview With a Vampire?

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Uhhh...Where have you been? Vampire romance novels have been a huge part of the market since before Twilight came out. Vampires have been cool for quite some time. Ever hear of Interview With a Vampire?

Anne Rice's vampires were vastly different from the schlock that Ms. Meyer created.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Anne Rice's vampires were vastly different from the schlock that Ms. Meyer created.

So? The point was that vampires have been cool for quite a while.
Not that the books are actually on the same level (which I honestly don't know).

 

[Toad_Passenger]

So? The point was that vampires have been cool for quite a while.
Not that the books are actually on the same level (which I honestly don't know).

No, I was just pointing out that the PP was stating that the vampires in Ms. Meyer's tale are "cool," not the genre as a whole. Whereas Ms. Rice's vampires were not "cool" or "hip."

Certainly the vampire genre as been an in-thing for awhile, but I didn't think that's what the PP meant.

 

[LuvOrlando]

I watch the Twilight stuff with my kids and think it's a bit on the painful side. I suppose it COULD have been cool but the characters are so darn deary, who on earth would want to live forever and be so melancholy? Ann Rice's stuff was bizarre, but at least it was entertaining. I LOVE the 'Blade' series and really enjoyed the first 2 Underworld films, then there was Gary Oldman's "Dracula" and as another said, "Interview with a Vampire". Twilight isn't anything even close, I think George Hamilton's "Love at first Bite" vampire was more engaging than these new buffoons. I think the acting actually causes me pain, and it's SOOOO cheesy. Vampires shouldn't be cheesy.

Sometimes I just like the macabre and every Halloween I drag out all the old classics, but Twilight will never be among my favorites.

 

[fenrir58]

Okay so we're complaining that people are venting on this thread as a waste of time, yet those same people opened the thread in the first place?
Quite frankly, if people are allowed to have fan thread, I see no problem about having an anti-fan thread too. Isn't that the whole point of boards? For common interest people to relate? I'm not going to "troll" the fan boards, so I see no harm in posting on here.
Okay back to what I was going to get at. I read enough Ann Rice when I was in high school (she really lost me with some of those later books though, I don't know, I just remember reading Blackwood Farm and I couldn't get through it as easily as Memnoch the Devil) and watched enough Buffy the Vampire Slayer (some episodes I liked better than others, midway through season 6 I stopped caring altogether) to fill me of my moody demon curiousity. The only reason I even bothered watching the movies however was to watch them with this(for MST3K fans as well):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpT8l94CKcs&feature=related

Before we get all "that's so mean, how would you like it if somebody did that to movies you liked?" They have. And I love them. You don't have to. Just my opinion.

 

[JenM]

I actually consider that over-analyzing. It's a teen story about teenagers FOR teenagers.

Just because it's about teenagers and for teenagers doesn't mean it needs to sound like it was written by a 4th grader on Justin Bieber stationary.

That's my least favorite defense of Twilight. It shouldn't get a pass because of the audience it's written for.

It's an awful, terribly written book series. Meyer has created what has to be the most self-centered, useless excuse of a female character that it left me downright offended for my entire gender that this schlock (as another poster perfectly put it) continues to be popular.

I've got friends who like it, and so be it...there are plenty of things I like that they don't....but wow, I just wish this "saga" would go away already.

 

[jekajekalynn]

And besides, I don't want anything to do with a vampire who takes more time doing his hair then I do.

 

[luvsJack]

Well, for heaven's sakes; is it really so difficult to understand that some people like Twilight and some don't? Just like some like Harry Potter and some don't.

What possible difference does it make if it makes vampires or werewolves cool? Newflash: They are not real!! So they can't really BE anything.

I happen to like Twilight and I like Harry Potter. I like the fantasy part of both stories. Am planning to finish re-reading Eclipse tonight before I take dd and friend to see it tomorrow night. And after that will begin working my way through HP again looking toward movie 7 !

Do I think Twilight is some great piece of literature? No. But its great for light reading, when I just want to read, relax and not have to think much.

Do I think the movies are going to go down as great classic movies? Not hardly. But they are fun and exciting in parts (looking forward to the fight scenes in Eclipse).

As for the romantic parts, I have talked to dd about it and how its a movie/book and not reality and that obsessive love is not healthy nor something you really want. For the most part, she and her friends seem to realize that and just enjoy seeing the wolf pack!

 

[Nomi]

I just found out that today was the last day of Toy Story 3D in the Imax near me today. It was bumped out for the new Twilight movie.

 

[SAHDad]

Is it just me, or does it seem like half the posts in this thread are people coming in to defend Twilight? Maybe I should go over to the Twilight threads, and see how many "Twilight stinks" posts there are.

I've skimmed parts of it, and frankly, when I get around to forcing myself to read the whole thing, it will be to make notes on how to write the perfect Mary Sue, because Bella tests off the charts. . .

 

[wdwgirl03]

Don't you know it isn't nice to have a thread hating on something?

No, j/k, seriously I can't stand Twilight either. I wasn't going to bother reading any of the books but finally caved because I was so curious what everyone was freaking out about. All I can say is it is one of the worst books I ever read. I kind of had to force myself to finish it, thinking (hoping?) it would get better. I just didn't get it at all.

 

[NotUrsula]

Had to come back to mention that if you can't stand Twilight, you just have to hear (or read) Bob Mondello's review of Eclipse for NPR. It's hilarious. (Note that the review is much funnier if you listen to the audio version; it has clips.)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128164077

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Had to come back to mention that if you can't stand Twilight, you just have to hear (or read) Bob Mondello's review of Eclipse for NPR. It's hilarious. (Note that the review is much funnier if you listen to the audio version; it has clips.)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128164077

Thanks for the link. I loved his review, and the clips just affirm to me that the acting is just as wooden and 2-dimensional, as the characters on the pages.

 

[Disneyglobegirl]

I liked the first 3 books but I could have done without Breaking Dawn, what a disappointing ending to the series. The movies are not very good, though I do like Robert. I can't stand Kristen.

LOL- wanna see Edward Cullen get slayed? Check out Buffy Vs Edward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwM3GvaTRM

 

[metalis4ever]

I've already posted on here my disdain for this abomination but I would like to share a humorous quote that I heard on the radio this morning:

"I would rather go see Sex and the City rather than Twilight at least that way I'd be entertained while watching people who look like Vampires"

 

[SAHDad]

I will confess that I have decided to break down and actually try to read the thing, rather than merely rely on exerpts and casual skimming. Right now, my experience is summed up thusly: "It's like a root canal for my brain."

I'm trying, really I am, trying to give the book and the series a chance. But I have already set aside much better books to use as a reward for slogging through 20 pages of Twilight at a time.

 

[shortbun]

I tried to read the first book and could not get through it. Poorly written, boring tripe. The good vampire literature already came from Ann Rice. Now that was powerful stuff.
2 of the 3 lead actors(I use this term loosely) can not act their way out of a paper bag. That Taylor Lautner is ugly, can't act and runs around with his shirt off like he's got some great body. I've seen many, many better male physiques. His is immature and overrated. Kristen Stewert-meh.