Poll: Twilight honored among "Exorcist" and "The Shining" at Academy Awards

[CriticalGriffin]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

... Wait, what?

 

[Shapsters]

To be fair, it is pretty horrorble.

I see what you did there, and I will be honest, I like it very much!

As for the OP, its kind of insulting to the other movies in the montage, but who really cares? Clearly its just a bunch of idiots putting it together so maybe we should just applaud the fact they managed to figure out all this new age technology.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

I think they did it because of politics, I mean, two stars from Twilight did present the video, so I could see why they'd put them in (even though they DON'T belong)

*On a side note: Did anyone else notice how most of those movies in the montage were OLD movies? Hmmmm, I wonder why?*

 

[Iron Mal]

It probably got counted as a horror film because of the following logic:

'It has vampires! They're scary...right?'

It probably got an Oscar due to it's sheer popularity (screw how good or bad the film was, it's the number of viewers that ultimately changes things in the end).

Put those two together (along with the fact that most modern young audiences probably haven't actually seen films like The Exorcist, The Shining and The Thing) and I think I've come up with the most likely explanation for this happeneing.

 

[LorChan]

It's a romance film. And a bad film.
And now that I mention it, so was The Hurt Locker.

The Oscars are all fine and dandy, but I wouldn't have watched if I wasn't invited to an 'Oscar Party' (don't ask).

Why? Because no decent films ever win anything. Also, everytime Precious won anything they showed every black man in the crowd, regardless of what movie they were in. Subtle racism, much?

 

[Cookiegerard]

Must.... stop...... urge.... to kill! WWWWHHHHHYYYYYYY??????!!!

 

[Wolfe-KuPo]

no, just no...
Twilight is defiantly not horror!

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Cover your ears Calumon. The internet aint gonna like this.

Calumon: This is why vampires are no good! *Covers ears*

Ahem

BULL-FUCKING-SHIT! Twilight is about as scary as watching 2 girls one cup! Yes it's scary but in a horrible way! The Exorcist scares the living shit out of people as does the shining as it stirs your mind before fucking it in the ear!

*Pats Calumon* I hope you heard nothing, you could never take it.

Calumon: I want Ice cream! Ice Cream! Ice Cream!

Some people may find Calumon annoying, but I sat through both Twilights. Calumon is an angel to me.

 

[RJ Dalton]

Gosh, you talk about soft-core porn and sexual stimulation like it's a bad thing.

If she's actually able to pitch the writing in such a way as you've described, and make such a grand commercial success out of it, then she's obviously an excellent author. Say what you want about her writing style, but no-one forced all those people to buy the very first book in droves, before the "trend" even began. You can't say "this is a calculated soft-porn" and then say in the same sentence "this has no skill" because a calculation like that requires a whole world of skill. Creative writers, artists, musicians etc search all their lives for that magic formula that appeals to so many people - very few find it and even fewer have the skill to exercise it. Nothing like this ever happens accidentally.

First of all, fame and popularity are bad ways to judge quality because they are totally arbitrary. No one has ever been able to find any objective qualities that determine popularity. As Mark Twain said, "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident."

But it is an accident because she has stated that as a "Mormon writer" her intent was to write a novel that held to the standards of her faith. Pornography being something Mormons regularly speak out against, the fact that she wrote something that has only its sexuality as its appeal cannot be intentional, unless she's putting on one hell of a convincing facade.
But I can't give her that because her writing is absolutely terrible. It reads like a piece of fanfiction written by a high school teenager. It's language is bloated and redundant, like she was sitting there with a fucking thesaurus and selecting words from it at random every sentence and it spends so much time repeating itself that it's like we're watching the second episode of a 90s TV series that, for reasons unknown, the producer decided should be a clip show.
Yes, this kind of shit happens by accident all the time. As the saying goes, a broken clock is correct at least twice a day.

 

[BonsaiK]

Gosh, you talk about soft-core porn and sexual stimulation like it's a bad thing.

If she's actually able to pitch the writing in such a way as you've described, and make such a grand commercial success out of it, then she's obviously an excellent author. Say what you want about her writing style, but no-one forced all those people to buy the very first book in droves, before the "trend" even began. You can't say "this is a calculated soft-porn" and then say in the same sentence "this has no skill" because a calculation like that requires a whole world of skill. Creative writers, artists, musicians etc search all their lives for that magic formula that appeals to so many people - very few find it and even fewer have the skill to exercise it. Nothing like this ever happens accidentally.

First of all, fame and popularity are bad ways to judge quality because they are totally arbitrary. No one has ever been able to find any objective qualities that determine popularity. As Mark Twain said, "Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident."

But it is an accident because she has stated that as a "Mormon writer" her intent was to write a novel that held to the standards of her faith. Pornography being something Mormons regularly speak out against, the fact that she wrote something that has only its sexuality as its appeal cannot be intentional, unless she's putting on one hell of a convincing facade.
But I can't give her that because her writing is absolutely terrible. It reads like a piece of fanfiction written by a high school teenager. It's language is bloated and redundant, like she was sitting there with a fucking thesaurus and selecting words from it at random every sentence and it spends so much time repeating itself that it's like we're watching the second episode of a 90s TV series that, for reasons unknown, the producer decided should be a clip show.
Yes, this kind of shit happens by accident all the time. As the saying goes, a broken clock is correct at least twice a day.

Yeah well Mark Twain was a noted smartass. The fact is, he worked very hard at his craft and fame/popularity was something he actively pursued, not just with his writing but also his inventions and other areas. There's nothing arbitrary about the fame that he received.

The sexual overtones in Twilight and the author's Mormon upbringing are no doubt directly related. Repressed sexual urges always emerge somewhere, so maybe this is a permissible way for her to experience and write about sexuality. Is it porn? I guess that depends on your definition of it. More than just Mormons like it though, and presumably they're not all just masturbating to it. I've met plenty of people who like the Twilight book but I haven't met one who gets off on it, although I'm sure those people do exist. The appeal is obviously broader than just that.

 

[Godavari]

Twilight is just soft-core porn for depressed teenage girls. It is not a horror film. It's a crappy love story.

 

[Infinatex]

I didn't notice that there was a clip from Twilight in the montage, but the I haven't seen the film so I wouldn't know it even if it was there. I assume it has vampires in it, so that is probably why it is there.

 

[Hollock]

did ANYONE think that this was a horror movie?

 

[tsb247]

Of course Twilight is a horror movie. It's a horror movie in the sense that it is, "Horrible!"

 

[MONSTERheart]

I wonder how much money they had to throw at the academy to make this happen.

 

[Dexomega]

Two hours of watching teenage angst and hilariously long stares at each other all while attempting to save a sinking plot-line is horror?

Wait, that makes a lot of sense actually.

 

[The Heik]

You heard me, "Twilight" was honored in a horror movie montage that included such films as "Jaws", "Silence of the Lambs", "Friday the Thirteenth", "The Shining", "The Exorcist", and "Rosemary's Baby" among others.

As another personal slap in the face of horror movie fans, the tribute to horror films was actually presented on stage by the two stars of the second Twilight film.

Your thoughts?

It's freaking teen romance erotica for God's sake! If Twilight is a horror movie, then the Three Stooges is a Shakespearean tragedy. There's not a single thing about it that's scary, with the exception of the sparkling.

Can someone please explain their reasons for this screwed up decision? Because I'm starting to think that they were payed off......

 

[Blatherscythe]

The only horror aspects in Twilight is the frighteningly bad acting, story, characters, mythology and the scary horde of fans. And the fact that such horrifiying literiture can be produced by one woman.

 

[NeuroticMarshmallow]

I was remarkably pissed when I saw it. Talk about kissing up to the bubblegum culture

But in its defense,It is horrifying...but..well...not intentionally

 

[Harbinger_]

I don't have alot of fair in those award shows anyway.