Twilight - Your Take

[VintageMeGood]

I, personally, hate Twilight (both the books and the movie) with the burning passion of a thousand white-hot desert suns. But some people think it's Jesus incarnate. Share your opinion here, but only if you can present it with all death threats and personal insults excluded.

[The_Almighty_Stan]

I refuse to watch it based solely on the fact that teen girls love it. I'm just going to go on the assumption that it has as much substance as your everyday boy band but it's in movie form instead of musical form.

[The_Almighty_Stan]

Point proven.

[SirReal Killer]

i'm taking the christian stance here...

my take was that ive never seen it and still think its ghey.

[serendipityxo]

seen it. hated it. the storyline is dull, the actors are terrible, and vampires are not supposed to sparkle.

[VintageMeGood]

Personally, I think the author did nothing to grow her characters, and leaves a lot of more important ends untied in favor of gratifying her own fantasies. I think the main character is a Mary-Sue, her obsession is too perfect (as per Meyer's fantasies), and any real conflict is avoided at all costs unless it can end in Mr. Perfect coming to Mary Sue's rescue.

Also, it's annoying that Bella can't see past the tip of her own nose, nor acknowledge any sense of happiness or content. She's resolved to be an insufferable killjoy, and Edward still loves her obsessively for it? Can we say, "gluttons for punishment"? Or even "unrealistic," for that matter.

I find it too shallow and cliche. But that appeals to some people, because it coincides with the wishful thinking we often exhibit as young folk.

[Rip van Winkle]

I couldn't agree more, it is this silly fantasy of a woman who couldn't deal with the facts that rules are rules with vampires, I know for a fact that vampires don't sparkle! I have colorfully called all Twilight fans, Sparklers because of their silly attempt to try and come into the vampire genere and expecting the older vampire fans to automatically accept their trash of a novel and movie.

[VintageMeGood]

Even if you were to consider legends "tweakable," I still don't believe Stephanie Meyer did a good job with her characters. If you're going to change a legend, make it worth it. Make it interesting, deep, and almost believable. The fact that our friend Perfect Ed sparkles is something that I almost don't even consider relevant. I'm like, "Why did she even bother putting that in there? What was the point of that? Who gives a damn if he sparkles?" The scene was ridiculous, a letdown to say the least. But there is another example of Meyer's poor story development skills. She repeatedly builds up to...nothing. At least, nothing important. She's a cop-out who can't make bad things happen to the literary embodiments of her fantasies. After all, nothing bad happens in peoples' fantasies.

If Edward Cullen were to follow the conventional rules set out by vampire legend, he would have died at that point. Can't have that. But she DID need a reason for him to brood and feel sorry for himself, and talk about what a monster he was. You know, so she could create a so-called conflict. Thus, the Sparkle Scene. And, predictably, Bella "Mary-Sue" Swan is merely given another reason to be "in love" with him. Ugh. Just ugh. What horrible literature.

[Rip van Winkle]

I couldn't agree more, it is this silly fantasy of a woman who couldn't deal with the facts that rules are rules with vampires, I know for a fact that vampires don't sparkle! I have colorfully called all Twilight fans, Sparklers because of their silly attempt to try and come into the vampire genere and expecting the older vampire fans to automatically accept their trash of a novel and movie.

[Rip van Winkle]

As a vampire customer and also a vampire fan, I don't really enjoy how Stephanie Meyers took the legend and destroyed it. I'm a folklorist in nature and I find that it is so immature in its beliefs. I was forced to go to the movie with some some friends and I spent the whole time in the lobby reading "Interview with the Vampire" and being ridiculed by a bunch of teeny-bopper brats who wouldn't know good vampire fiction if it smacked them in the head.

I'm sorry, but a true vampire movie classic is clearly NOT Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lost Boys, and 1931's Dracula are the classics, not this little bit of teen trash.

[LadyD]

i like the book better than the movie but still enjoyed the movie
Biting is hot

[RandomRobert]

This is obviously soft-core porn for chicks. I had to watch 30 days of night to cancel this movie out of my head.

[serendipityxo]

30 days of night was totally badass! if you like vampire flicks, you should watch Let the Right One In, too. i'm shamelessly pimping that movie out to everyone i come across. it's sooo good.