What do you think of Twilight?

[Ultress]

The books aren't terrible but not great either, I give her props for trying something different with vampires even if it is a bit stupid.Same with the movies, not great but no real abomanation.


The thing that really pisses me off about the series is really Myers ego, claiming her characters are better than anything Shakespeare because they are flawless. Sorry I'll take Iago over Victoria as a villain any day

 

[Nazulu]

Well I've only seen the first movie and it's very average, I can understand the female fanbase since this is chick flick but it doesn't deserve to be a long side the greatest horrer movies in the world.

It's not bad but it's not very interesting either, nothing out of the ordinary (besides sparkling vampires with super powers).

 

[Pandalisk]

I've never read the books
And the Movies...S'alright. The Main woman/Girl? (Belle?) Infruiates me to know end because she's an idiot.

Cullen, Again, Infruiates me.

And damn the wolves for giving women unrealistic assumptions on how every Man whose 17 should look, i girl literally asked me that, Im working on it damnit!.

 

[khiliani]

I have read the first 3, but havnt draged my self through the 4th one. i only read them cause my girlfriend said i would never do it. they are very average books, to quote a high school teacher of mine "the literary equivilent of a big mac".

What realy annoys me about the whole thing is the insistance of naming it the twilight "saga" which i feel degrades other proper sagas such as beowulf (the original norse legend, not the movie) in which something actuly happens

 

[thahat]

twilight: its like catnip for girls.
otherwise, utter suck. but it gets you bonus points with the girlfriend if you take her to one of the movies. she will though, be paying attention to the movie, and tottally not to you
( or so i have been told, i dont do twilight XD )

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Haven't read or watched the films. Being 15 years old and male, I have submitted to peer pressure and distanced myself from what is apparently a mediocre franchise.

 

[vaderaider]

I have suffered through the first two films, I felt physically sick after watching them.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

READ THIS BEFORE POSTING!
What do you think of Twilight? I don't want you telling me "REAL VAMPIRES DON'T SPARKLE!" because real vampires don't exist. All I want is to hear what you think of the books and/or movies. And I want this to be a respectful thread - Twilight fans posting they are Twilight fans shouldn't get a deluge of posts on why they're stupid. And on the other side of the coin, somebody who says Twilight is stupid shouldn't get told "You just diss Twilight cuz it's cool to do that." But do feel free to point out factual errors and stuff like that, though.

So tell me if you like Twilight or not, and tell me why. And please - be respectful. Don't call anybody a retard for not agreeing with you.

Oh, one more thing - surprisingly enough, this is search bar approved. There are extremely few Twilight threads around nowadays, and as far as I can gather there has never been a "What do you think of Twilight?" thread.

Stephanie mayer/bella isnt a very good or involing writer and describes bland and quite frankly very unlikable characters.

For example (im sorry Nerrimon but i have to plagerise) Bella comes accross as a very annoying attention seeking angsty girl. She hates her dad for being an uncool hillbilly for basically no reason even though he gives her a car.

She seems to find reason to be depressed about everything, even snow (which is described as little balls of white) seems to make her deressed and angsty and completely unlikable. Bella is obviously so bland so as to make the reader fill her shoes with their own personality.

Also she is obviously stephanie Mayers sad depressed teen life. For example at first Edward is mean to Bella and ignores her. This, OBVIOUSLY, was because he liked her. Yes Stephanie the football captain was only mean because he liked you really, you keep telling yourself that. Also Handsomer, i mean really, HANDSOMER?! She has an english degree aparently.

In conclusion Stephanie is, at best, a mediocre writer who makes characters so strange and unlikable that its impossible to get into her books. The pititful part is this is blatently Stephanies angsty high school fantasies about how popular she is and how "totally lame" her dad is, she makes Bella try way to hard to be the perfect girl Stephanie wished she could be. They even are described the exact same, read the description of Bella then look at Stephanie, you will see what i mean.

I know vampires are not real. BUT STICKING TO THE ACCEPTED BASE MYTHOLOGY OF VAMPIRES these vampires dont seem to do any of the cool stuff regular vampires do. In fact they seem to be a bunch of pansies who play "vampire baseball" an activity that amazingly manages to be as cringe worthy as it sounds.

 

[arcainia]

Honestly? I admit, I've never read the books. But a friend of mine who did gave me enough reason not to want to read them, ever. It's a mary sue in all its insecure glory. And it looks like the bad writing was perfectly expressed in the movies as well. Because watching the trailers made me lol. Hard. In fact me and a friend of mine are planing on making a movie night and watching them just for the giggles. So I guess something positive did come out from this horrible mind numbing fandom.

 

[Goro]

I watched (I was forced to) the first movie, and spent the next 4 hours questioning the concept of a 400 year old immortal who keeps going back to school (because obviously he's trapped in hell) and falls for a 16 year old mortal. He's 400, she's 16. Legalities aside, she would seem to him so unbelievably shallow.....
But he's obviously not too bright, as he is still in year 10.
Awful.... truly awful, the movies are rubbish and the books.... I read the first to compare to the movie, and it's a choice between bitten by a rattler or a copperhead.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

I read the first one on a friend's recommendation. I found the prose to be overblown and very melodramatic, the characters to be shallow cut outs who I couldn't find any hint of likable emotion to relate to, and the entire story struck me as being extraordinarily creepy. If a guy stalks a girl, sneaks into her bedroom, acts all pissy and prima donna whenever she's around, and yet is still declaring himself to have 'true love' for her, that's grounds to have him arrested. What you don't do is form a relationship with him.

From what I've heard from this same friend about the rest of the series, it only gets worse, Stephanie Meyer decided she didn't need an editor, and apparently belives that the first thing she writes is the best (which has never been true in the entire history of literature), so doesn't need checking for inconsistencies. There are some major biology related plot holes in how his apparently crystal like skin can move, how his sperm remains body temperature and thus able to impregnate her despite his being at room temperature, how apparently in one hundred and eight years he has constantly been a teenager yet somehow never had a sexual thought about another girl.

And as for the overall moral, despite the aforementioned mind-numbing stupidity of the girl essentially falling in love with her stalker in book one, there is a very unhealthy message that comes through with her wanting to be a vampire in order to (paraphrasing from the book here) stay 17 forever so she doesn't suffer the horrors of growing old. Only a teenager would think that, and only a teenager would be so clueless as to think that was actually a good thing. She at least wouldn't be lonely because starting in the first book and apparently continued throughout she shuns her friends and close relations in order to continue to foster her romance with her emotionally dead, cardboard cutout stalker of a boyfriend and his murderous family.

If you think Twilight is a good love story with a positive message, you are provably wrong. If you wish to tell me I am wrong, fine, but I would at the very least like some clarification as to how Stalking Equals Love to a 17 year old girl.

 

[Mordwyl]

If amateur fan fiction made millions I may have chosen the wrong profession.

 

[Malyc]

I think that Twilight is the story of one girl's struggle with beastiality and necrophilia.

 

[Lexodus]

I think Meyer, although not the greatest writer of all time has managed to bring back what has been lost since Pride and Prejudice. A real gentleman who the world's women have fallen in love with. He is everything a traditional 'Gentleman' should be, down to the tragic flaw that lost Mr Darcy the love of Elizabeth. I think her writing is bland and her books tiresome BUT I feel for many she's filled a void that could have been filled with culture years before.

You cannot fault her creation of a model that young and old can take and mould to how they see fit, creating their own 'perfection', be that with Bella (who every girl wants to be), Edward (who is the perfect man with a fatal flaw) or Jacob (The best friend who wishes).

Oh, and no, I don't like twilight.

Perfect = abusive, dead, freaks out at people because they smell good and he can't read their minds, gives mixed signals ("I love you. Stay away, I'm dangerous. I love you, and I'd die if you ever left me. Stay away, I'm dangerous."), has the personality of a wall, is only thought to be 'hot' by the fangirls because that's all Stephenie Meyer ever says about him, stalks people and watches them sleep (god forbid, for that vacuous, hollow shell of a person (Bella)'s sake, she should ever break up with him), kills people in front of you, leaves a heavily-dependant girlfriend and cuts off all contact, before worming his way back into her life when she's finally getting some normalcy (i.e, a non-abusive boyfriend, who's still alive and isn't like kissing rock, which can honestly NOT BE THAT APPEALING, talking to real friends and doing constructive stuff, like building a motorcycle), disabling her truck so she can't see her friends... THE LIST GOES ON.

And don't get me started on Bella, or the rest of it (like the island on the WEST COAST OF BRAZIL, anyone? >.<).

 

[Artina89]

The best way I can adequately describe it is the literary version of oatmeal. I found it so boring I couldn't even get halfway through the first book. A friend also took me to see the movie (the first one I think, I'm not sure) and it was boring. Nothing happened! All the characters were far too bland and shallow, there is also very little atmosphere as well. I guess I have been spoiled by Bram Stoker, H.P Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King etc as in, in their stories, the characters have real depth and emotion and build up atmosphere and tension and as a result, tell an engaging story. Bear in mind as well that Poe and Lovecraft tended to write short stories as well, they didn't need four books with oh christ hundred pages that doesn't tell a real story and as a result, because of their ability to write a well paced, well written, engaging and atmospheric story, shows that they were true masters of their art (in my opinion at least)

If you are a Twilight fan, thats fine, each to their own etc, but I don't see the hype personally.

 

[Mr. Grey]

Some - maybe just that one guy - people say that the concept is good... it's the execution that's bad which I agree with. I'd like to add - however - that... the concept is poorer for it when you realize something like The Southern Vampire Stories by Charlaine Harris actually pulled it off. It's everything Twilight isn't, it actually does the job right. It also predates Twilight by four years. However, everything must die with age and it too seems to be heading that route... tis a shame too.

For the record: I couldn't give a shit if they sparkled, that made sense by an evolutionary standard. Venus Fly Trap and all that jazz can explain that much. Even an Angler Fish has a lure that attracts other fish to be eaten. Is it so odd that a vampire would also? It's the fact they're this "perfect" race that has no weakness is my main concern considering everything has a weakness... even we humans have one and that's when we don't have our shelter or tools... the fact these vampires don't irks me.

And everything else is a problem with Twilight. The pacing being interrupted by pages of "OMG! Edward is so perfect!" and then going back to a page - maybe two if you're lucky - of plot before repeating the whole "OMG! Edward I love you!" nonsense, the fact the very character herself is bland and - arguably - a cookie cutter for the reader and author, then there's Edward himself... him and Jacob that have to fight over this one girl. It's a wet dream fantasy gone awry, I don't like seeing these kinds of books published -- especially if they can't entertain me with a laugh or actually being freaking good, which has happened.

Oh and here's a kicker, the girl that is Sookie Stackhouse in The Southern Vampire Stories reads minds and the reason she prefers the company of vampires is because their minds are blank and void to her. I'm sorry, that's a bit too obvious for me... there are other things that make Twilight seem to be this amalgamation of plagiarism, it's just this one seems to be what Twilight draws the most from.

I wouldn't know for sure, however... considering Stephanie Meyer could be a decent writer. Not good, not great, nor bad or terrible... just an okay writer. If she would just stop the freaking nonsense that plagued Twilight.

 

[Redratson]

I didn't enjoy it, when the freaking Twilight craz came into my school all my girl friends where like "omg! you don't know what your missing" after arguing with them for days I decided to borrow the first book after reading half the book I lost interest due to the dull story imo.

 

[Skoldpadda]

I don't give a shit about what it does to vampires. As the OP said, they're not real. Sparkling vampires are just an idea like any other, and a good writer could've probably done something decent with it.

Meyer, however, is not a good writer. She's a terrible writer. I've read the first book, hated it, and I have to say it really reads like it's written for exactly the demographic it's so popular with.

I don't think much of the argument that it has made people read who otherwise wouldn't have, because the people I know that like this crap quite literally don't read anything else, and never will.

I don't find anything redeeming in Twilight. It's complete and utter shit.

 

[Lexodus]

As a female I have read the twilight saga more times than I have fingers and toes mainly beause a) my friands never shut up about it and I got roped in very quickly and b) it is like crack cocaine!

Stephanie Mayer has created the ultimate man that every girl would want thats why it became so popular because of the character of Edward Cullen not the overly whinney Bella! And honestly if this was written in anything but the first person people would very quicky turn away from it because of her clinngy needy and whiney ways!

And then because of every girl hating Bella's personality the girl in question becomes to put herself in that place and the fantasy of being with a guy that is truly perfect would make any girl love the book!

The films are good and fairly true to the books thought New Moon I didn't like though thst has Edward disapper for 1/2 of the 2 hour movie!

Yet we all have to accept that Twilight will be arround for some time as there is 3 movies still to come out (including Eclipse next month) and the first part of Breaking dawn will not arrive till November 2011! so Guys you are just going to hav to put up with it! Or pray that something better comes out!

I do like Twilight the books are better than the films and the best is Twilight by a long shot and could have done well on it's own but then again you couldn't get a coppy of Twilight (in England) before the movie was announced now every book shop everywhere has it!

But still it's better than most books that are aimed to Teenaged girls!!!

If you are not a troll, I'm giving my Beretta a blowjob.

 

[Devi Darkside]

Honestly, I feel that the Twilight franchise is a bit much for what it is. The books didn't sound that amusing but of course when I asked a fan of Twilight what they thought of the movie while it was in theaters and when I heard "It was bad but I'm going to go see it again." I knew from there it was becoming something a bit more obnoxious than the usual geeky obsessions.

So I watched both the movies and found the first one to be garbage about a stalker sparkling vampire (Who's played by someone who resembles a heroin addict) and a boring impressionable girl who somehow fall in love with out any real romance. And I found it to be so under dramatic and over dramatic without any middle ground that it just was hilarious to watch.

The second was just...Blah. Seriously. "I want to be with you, but I don't, but wait I do." (Misquoted) moments killed a lot of the potential of any story, and everything else...Well, was either pointless or filler.

So my opinion of the Twilight franchise is just that it feels a lot bigger than it should be and that it's all a waste.