I like twilight.

[Anarchemitis]

I don't care, I think its funny how much people hate it never reading the books or never watched the movie.

Classic comedy.
It's gonna beat out Buster Keaton in a few decades.

Actually, I hope not

 

[spartan231490]

Fargodog, and Razada, thanks for the imput, but I just don't see it. admittedly, the sparkly vamps is mildly disconserting, but on everything else I personally, don't see it.

Ok, I will sum up everything very simply.

People hate twilight for a few simple reasons

A) They loved Vampires before Twilight (The Darren Shan books got me through most of my teenage years) and now people think they like Twilight.
B) Connected to A), They can no longer publicly talk about Vampires without seeming to be sexually repressed morons
C) Vampires used to be awesome. Seriously. Drinking peoples blood. Running faster then cars. Turning into bats.
D) The books attack the nature of Vampire mythology without taking anything positive about it into account.
E) They do not fall into the "Teenage Female" demographic and yet they are constantly assaulted with Twilight despite having no interest in it.

F) And this is the big one. We have read real fantasy books. Better books. With characters who are believable, characters you can empathize with and a plot more complicated then a game of tic-tac-toe. Some of us have beloved authors who have failed to capture the media attention. Christ, George R. R. Martin is arguably much better then Tolkien. But tripe like Meyers stuff wins out.

There are probably more, I aint going to attack the fanbase, the hype, the fact that she is a mormon and this infects her writing like Herpes. Those are the reasons I hate Twilight and the reasons my close friends hate twilight.

I understood your reasons but, having read the books and seen the movies, I honestly don't really see it. I have read dozens of "real" fantasy books, and I won't say that twilight is the best, not even close, but it isn't that bad. also, multiple series about the same kind of vampires get boring, I like that she re-interperited the myths to make an original story.

 

[spartan231490]

Thats hilarious. My background on my comp is a pic of edward and bella with Wesley Snipes standing behind them.

 

[StonkThis]

We need to get you to a hospital, STAT.

 

[capin Rob]

I hate twilight, with the passion hitler hated the jewish people

 

[Caligula_II]

Even if the target audience is a teenage girl, a bad book is a bad book. For instance, all of Dr. Seuss is directed towards children, but they are still fun to read as an adult. The same goes for the Harry Potter series, His Dark Materials, Where the Wild Things Are, etc. Many cartoons are the same.

Also, reinterpreting is not what people are upset at. Christopher Nolan changed Batman for his movies, it worked out fine. But vampires. Do. Not. Sparkle. Or romance teenage girls. No. They bite them.

It's like if when Nolan made Batman Begins, Batman was instead a male model. Who sparkled. And did not fight crime.

Bad is subjective though, so what the hell.

 

[spartan231490]

dang, thats intents.

 

[Tanto-chan]

i like twilight BECAUSE i like (as i like to say) collecting vampire mythos and she took an interesting spin on things. that and i was pestered into it by a friend. if not for the time and the friend i never would have known. I read the first three all RIGHT at the cusp of the big hype boom (shiver) and if i have been any later i think i would have rather killed myself than read a hypey book and throw myself into this battle of 'it's good' VS 'it's horrid' VS 'it's the new god' (I swear there's a cult somewhere by now). I'm on the it's good side. I liked it for what it was and that i could finish it in three days and not lose sleep. I'm reminded of Harry Potter boom and pray that this one will fade down just as much quickly (no offense to fans i like the first few but after 4 i was done). I'm simply tired of all the stupid people flinging their hate around because they have nothing better to do just as much as I'm tired of the crazy in love stalking Rob Pattinson rabid fans. The books were nice. so was star trek and i thought that was boring as shit and yet i don't belittle the fans just cause i didn't like it SO THERE!

 

[Haagrum]

This explains it, really.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I troll Twilight chat rooms on my spare time.

I think that says enough about my opinion on Twilight.

 

[Brad Shepard]

I hate it with the passion of 1000 suns.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Tried reading it, and I honestly think she can't write, it's a shameless self insert fantasy that for some reason girls love.

If I was to ever watch a girl sleep or any of the other shit Edward does, I'd probably be slapped or worse. So I fail to see the main "Attraction" to these (In my own opninion.) crappy stories.

Also, these books/movie have bred stupidity. Did you see the article about the dumb teen who thinks Stephanie Meyer invented Werewolves etc?

 

[kurupt87]

The escapist is better, but thats kinda like being more religious than an atheist. Not much of an accomplishment. At least, the escapist is better in my experience.

Well, not to start an unrelated troll session here but why, by implication, do you believe religious people are better than atheists? If you didn't mean it then just think more about what you are writing. If you did mean it then I guess we won't be friends.

That.

That link explains with a simple picture why people hate twilight.

Unrelated really, but completely true.

Looking through the posts a recurring theme for why people particulary hate it is the in-your-face devotion that the series' fans give to people that do not like it. I mean Harry Potter was obviously another hugely popular young adult book but I don't remember any of its fans acting in the plain rude and obnoxious way that Twilighters do.

The fact that it murders and rapes what vampires are/were to any non Twilighter would be happily ignored by most people, but due to the rabid fans though this doesn't/can't happen. It's like your sports team lost at whatever game they play to a team that someone you know, whom you hate, supports. They bring it up every time they see you, in an unpleasant way and not in a friendly jokey way. It grates.

 

[Energylegzz]

Its not the books or the movies that annoy me, its the damn fan girls! When I hear their high pitched screams (of excitement not pain) I want to jam a spoon through my forehead. I'm not blaming all the fans just the annoying ones, I suppose there are always the radical ones in every fan base.But still if they would keep to themselves and quit screaming we probably could have gotten along and everything could have been fuckin rainbows and ponies.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I liked the books, movies are so-so great actors and actresses it's just theyre not given much to work with.

 

[jmoore4ska]

What she did, is she had a specific target audience: teenage females. Knowing this, she didnt waste her time trying to write with language or themes or dialogue they wouldn't understand.

If i were a teenage female, i would feel extremely patronized by both this sentence and the twilight series, too.