Twilight your opinion

[colourcodedchaos]

I don't get it. WHY did you read all three sequels to a book you don't like? I just sort of ignored twilight as a whole because I never thought that anything good would come from reading/watching it.

Morbid curiosity, for my part. You know how in slasher films you know there's gonna be someone carved up with something rusty whilst being penetrated with something one's children can buy in a shop? And how you know it is going to make bile rampage towards your mouth like a herd of wilderbeest but you keep at it anyway just to see how much vaguely-corn-scented yellow-brown glop bursts forth from your stinging, burning throat? Kinda like that but with a book.

Meyer's a possibly insane evangelist with the writing ability of sausagemeat stuffing. The books are sexist and racist and horribly written... not even a guilty pleasure. Just pure, unalloyed guilt.

This is targeted at 12 year old girls.

If you don't fall into that group, don't expect to "get it".

This does not explain the phenomenon of the 'Twi-mom' - basically an overweight, sexually frustrated middle-aged woman with kids, a broken marriage and a tendency to shriek a lot.

 

[Nocturnal558]

Vampires don't sparkle in sunlight! Twilight is offensive to common vampire knowledge >=(

 

[Elesar]

God awful. Thanks for asking.

 

[orangeapples]

Why do females love romance novels? because guys are dicks, it's that simple. I mean, girls like twilight, guys don't, so guys end up being dicks about it.

 

[felltablet]

They are simply romance novels aimed at a market that has yet to read anything else in the genre.
When you boil it down, it is just porn for young girls. No intellectual value, but there is nothing wrong with enjoying the IP ...as long as it is recognized as not being actual an actual work of literature or film.

 

[Sassafrass]

Yay!
Twilight thread...again.

Anyway, haven't read the books but seen the movies and I am of the opinion they're not bad, but not amazing.

Off-topic, Ashley Greene is hot.

 

[Scrythe]

@ OP: Same reason MTV, hiphop, the Transformer movies, MWII and religion are successful. The idea that humans as a species, in general, are actually intelligent is laughable.

instead of the bloodsucking parasitic nostferatus they really are.

Vampires don't exist, so they can't "really be" anything... Just saying.

Allow me to rephrase then: As they in in their respective mythology.

Then again, I could easily say that because God doesn't exist he can't "really be" anything either. Just saying.

But really, where you implying that I believed vampires to be real? If it weren't for the fact that text can't convey tone or stress or sarcasm, I'd probably be insulted.

 

[Wayte]

Eh it's a shallow romance for shallow girls who still can't look beyond a guy's abs, and date for excitement instead of any shred of personality. As the sort of nerd who was at one point chronically friend zoned, it feels a bit like being a rape victim and radin a book that tries to empathize with a rapist.

 

[Caliostro]

Allow me to rephrase then: As they in in their respective mythology.

But really, where you implying that I believed vampires to be real? If it weren't for the fact that text can't convey tone or stress or sarcasm, I'd probably be insulted.

Fantasy and fiction are just that. It always bothered me people nitpick about certain authors interpretation of a mythos... "OH NO! ZOMBIES THAT RUN!". Who cares? They're not real so it's hard to argue it's not an accurate representation isn't it? It's not like you can claim it's "historically inaccurate" or that it's offensive towards real vampires. Twilight sucks because the writing is entirely shit, not because the vampires don't submit to an arbitrary guideline.

Then again, I could easily say that because God doesn't exist he can't "really be" anything either. Just saying.

You could, and you should, because it's true.