Probably not because I hate movies based on a book. The book was really nice but what will the movie show? half of the time Edward will be watching Bella. True masterpiece.
wtfyourface said: ‘This woman is mad. She’s completely mad and she’s in love with her own fictional creation.’ And sometimes you would feel uncomfortable reading this thing.”
Falling in love with fictional characters is bad enough, but your own? That's like...falling in love with your own children...
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I enjoy killing and torturing my characters.
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Damn, if this woman can publish that thing, then I'll bloody well publish my books too. Now, to actually finish writing them...
FlyingChinaMan said: People think guys shouldn't read this series unless they're gay or something >_>. But I've read it and I'm straight.
I't not embarrassing to acknowledge it, we understand, we will accept you no matter what :D
Maybe I'll watch it after all.
If it's so bloody horrible, it might be worth the thirty minutes of bandwidth...
I wonder why people who hate the books bother to make such a big deal out of it, everywhere.
Disney and Twilight is in hate threads everywhere, or love threads. But at least the people who love them have a valid reason to make these threads.
(I'm a complete hypocrite, I always complain about the books.)
And for the person who posted that music list. GROWL! Now I'll need to work hard not to think of that before I listen to the songs again. Erase, erase, erase...
I'm definitely going to watch it!
Just for the pure enjoyment of seeing how they can possibly make the book worse.
I love Twilight...I'm in such a minority here.
I'll see it and all, but I already know I won't like it. They took so many wrong turns with this movie...
my acting teacher last year was in Interview with the Vampire. he's a fucking asshole. no wonder he was only in a small scene.
LOL. I hated Interview purely for the fact Tom Cruise really did not fit my description of Lestat and I'm a huge fan of Anne Rice's vampire books. Stuart Townsend made for a brilliant Lestat in QotD plus that Marilyn Manson/Korn soundtrack was to die for.
Starrlightx3 said: I love Twilight...I'm in such a minority here.
I'll see it and all, but I already know I won't like it. They took so many wrong turns with this movie...
Yeah I loved the book but the movie just looks like it's going to be another shitty adaption and just increase the hate it's already got towards it.
Justine said: I wonder why everyone assumes guys who likes Twilight is gay.
What does sexual preference got to do with Twilight?
It's a mushy love story isn't it? It's usually not socially acceptable for guys to like those. Especially not if it's one of those typical fantasy vampire - love stories. I've tried some myself, and didn't like them, but I still find myself attracted to girls, so I guess sexual preference really isn't related. Shocker.
Still, it's always fun to cast obscenities at people, and faggot happens to be one of my favourites. You don't need a reason to call someone faggot.
But ignore me, I'm weird.
Justine said: I wonder why everyone assumes guys who likes Twilight is gay.
What does sexual preference got to do with Twilight?
It's a mushy love story isn't it? It's usually not socially acceptable for guys to like those. Especially not if it's one of those typical fantasy vampire - love stories. I've tried some myself, and didn't like them, but I still find myself attracted to girls, so I guess sexual preference really isn't related. Shocker.
Still, it's always fun to cast obscenities at people, and faggot happens to be one of my favourites. You don't need a reason to call someone faggot.
But ignore me, I'm weird.
lolsuper agreed. no reason needed to insult anyone even if its not the truth about that person, Its fun to question the sexual preference of guys in line for movies that most men wouldnt be caught dead seeing.
then again, were they with their girlfriend??
you know she would be all "puh-leeze see it with me baabyy~ <3" and he was like..."I better be getting laid"
LOL
That or they're trying to pick up girls - they dig sensitive guys you know.
Ammy said: That or they're trying to pick up girls - they dig sensitive guys you know.
"Hey baby. Psychophysical tests have shown that my Visual and Auditory Difference and Absolute Threshold is 63% more sensitive than the norm, and my Gustation, Olfaction and Tactile senses are over 9000. Lets proceed to snuggle in a corner"
My friend just saw Twilight and she hated it. She was complaining how the last Harry Potter movie was better than it. I don't have time (or money) to watch any movies...so I doubt I'll see this one. I guess if my friends have a movie night and it really peaks my interest I'll go watch it with them, but otherwise, no. I don't really know what the book's about sooo, I guess there goes my decision.
Ammy said: That or they're trying to pick up girls - they dig sensitive guys you know.
"Hey baby. Psychophysical tests have shown that my Visual and Auditory Difference and Absolute Threshold is 63% more sensitive than the norm, and my Gustation, Olfaction and Tactile senses are over 9000. Lets proceed to snuggle in a corner"
Well I don't see how that is connected to homosexuality. >_>
But I can completely see why they' want to see it to get laid.
But we can't suspect all homosexuals to be people who loves mushy petty sparkly vampire stories.
It's insulting to homosexuals when anyone says that, why should gay be a crude word?
Calling them a pathetic excuse for a human is waay better, or asking if they've got any pride left.
Justine said: Well I don't see how that is connected to homosexuality. >_>
But I can completely see why they' want to see it to get laid.
But we can't suspect all homosexuals to be people who loves mushy petty sparkly vampire stories.
It's insulting to homosexuals when anyone says that, why should gay be a crude word?
Calling them a pathetic excuse for a human is waay better, or asking if they've got any pride left.
One of my friends is gay, and knowing him, I'm sure he'd loathe this Twilight thing. I still call him faggot though. Because I can :D
Really. I find that word to seem quite offensive most often.
But I guess it all varies from people.
If your friend doesn't mind I've go nothing to say about the matter.
redreplicant said: One of my friends told me that this series was like the second coming or something so I ended up reading a lot about it.
My impression was that the entire series is a sad reflection of the fantasy life of Stephanie Meyer, where Mormon values really work and she's young, slender and beautiful. It's the only explanation for the lack of real development in the books: why do people like Bella? Nobody knows. What is Bella's biggest flaw? Being too skinny (!) and clumsy. Yeah, right. Huge character flaw there. I think the article on ED sums it up best; Bella is certainly a classic Mary Sue [edit: this is an ED link. Wear a rubber].
Twilight is simply the fantasy vehicle for the kind of immature, insecure woman who wishes that some guy would just drop from the sky and take care of her forever-- and that she'd no longer have to worry about being fat and ugly and unlikeable. Sure, it's nice to dream, but it doesn't make for great literature.
Hoho.
Literature based upon dreams should be limited to nightmares. Those are much more gratifying to read.
I can't ever understand those who wants happy endings.
Baman said: Hoho.
Literature based upon dreams should be limited to nightmares. Those are much more gratifying to read.
I can't ever understand those who wants happy endings.
Speaking of good literature, how about that dan brown and harry potter.
Quite deep and sophisticated stuff.
This book/movie is extremely overrated. My friend happened to get caught in the hype and started to read the books and now she badly wants to see the movie. I don't wanna get dragged into it. -_-
Ok, so I talked to my gay friend on MSN yesterday, and he seemed to feel insulted when I asked him whether he liked this thing.
There, Myth Busted; Gayness does not necessarily include a liking for Twilight.
We learn new things every day.
tr1ggers4d said: Speaking of good literature, how about that dan brown and harry potter.
Quite deep and sophisticated stuff.
>__>'
My sarcasm detector didn't bling. Surely I must have calibrated it wrong? Surely?
I was sure it was sarcasm!
How can it not be, Dan Brown and Harry Potter is entertaining at times when you feel like reading something simple. But surely no one finds is deep and sophisticated.
Baman said: Ok, so I talked to my gay friend on MSN yesterday, and he seemed to feel insulted when I asked him whether he liked this thing.
There, Myth Busted; Gayness does not necessarily include a liking for Twilight.
We learn new things every day.
And not all guys who like Twilight are gay either, I believe.
It only means they're... I shouldn't do attacks on people. Sorry.
"Vampires do not sparkle for fuck's sake!!!"-angry goth kid
here are some fun articles from jezebel:
"even as someone not biased, the movie sucked"
As for the movie, well… I swear I went in with an open mind and an objective attitude. My past at a teen magazine means I've read three of the books and, while they aren't amazing, they are certainly entertaining page-turners jam-packed with fantasy and romance. Plus, I loved The Lost Boys and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
But Twilight was not good.
For the first hour and ten minutes, we suffered. The story dragged while Bella tried to figure out what was so different about the hot guy in her school, Edward. A hundred people in the audience all knew he was a vampire, but it took Bella what felt like an undead eternity to figure it out. Meanwhile, Edward's scenes consisted of acting dramatically tortured to be in her presence, which caused many watching to erupt in fits of laughter.
Actually, there was lots of laughing — every time the main characters exchanged pained, lingering glances; when Edward's siblings would traipse into a room, all pancaked with chalky makeup and dressed in white with wide, paranoid eyes; and when the camera would focus in on Edward's eyes, fitted with bizarre coppery contact lenses.
After Bella finally pieced things together — cold skin! not around on sunny days! super strength! never eats food! — the movie picked up speed a little bit, although what should have been tender, emotional moments between the star blood-crossed lovers came off as clichéd and silly. Lying on the grass in a meadow has been done. Plus, many of the lines Edward said to Bella — "You're like my own personal brand of heroin" — just sounded hackneyed and dumb.
Worst of all, in Twilight, instead of being killed by the sun, vampires glitter — and in the film, when Edward showed Bella his skin in direct sunlight, the guffaws in the audience would not die down. Instead of making his skin look "like diamonds," the special effects looked more like Gay Pride parade body shimmer.
While the action sequences at the end of the movie were well done, when the lights came on, I turned to my (straight, male) friend and declared, "There will not be a sequel." He replied: "You don't think so? I had a ball!" He was among those laughing the hardest. I didn't want to write this, but I'm afraid I have to: Twilight is a vampire movie that sucks.
how twilight is damaging to our society
First, a confession: some of us hadn't heard of Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn until a reader asked us to cover it. But tips kept pouring in, and we realized that this young adult novel, the fourth installment of Meyer's Twilight Saga and featuring both teenage werewolves and teenage vampires, is actually a huge deal. At a Los Angeles-area Borders, we found not one but two whole tables devoted to the books and related merchandise. Although we passed on the sour gummy vampire bats, but we did leave with a copy of Dawn, Meyer's disturbingly rosy account of teen marriage and pregnancy, vampire-style. And just as our readers warned, there was a lot to get mad about here.
[Lots of spoilers follow.] First there's heroine Bella's willingness to marry her vampire lover Edward, even though it means becoming a vampire, leaving behind her family, and sacrificing any hope of a normal life. Then there's her pregnancy. She conceives during the honeymoon, and although she's never wanted a child before, she immediately falls totally in love with the green-eyed baby boy she's sure she's carrying. "I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe," Meyer writes, "Not a choice — a necessity."
This creepy antiabortion allegory quickly gets literal, as the half-vampire fetus (actually an interesting metaphor for any pregnancy) starts killing Bella from the inside out. Even as it breaks her ribs and sucked the life from her, she proclaims, "I won't kill him." But does she have to face the consequences of this choice? No, because vampire magic suddenly allows mother and father to hear the fetus's thoughts, and to discover that it already loves them!
Edward telepathically tells it not to hurt its mommy, and while he does end up having to bite it out of Bella's body with his teeth, everything is again fine because he uses more vampire magic to heal her wounds. Because she is now a vampire, Bella is even hotter than she was before pregnancy, and after a short recovery period she's able to have all-night sex sessions with her husband while the extended family takes care of the perfectly behaved, telepathic baby. In the Breaking Dawn universe, teen motherhood just makes your life rad.
All this radness is made possible in part by the idealized relationships all the vampires and werewolves have. Gone for the most part is the sexy rapacity of Dracula; gone is the fine long tradition of gay vampires. These vampires mate for life, and they mate straight. Werewolf love, meanwhile, involves imprinting, which can happen at any age. The werewolf Jacob imprints on Bella's baby — who turns out to be a girl — giving her a "promise ring" when she's only a few months old. Basically these mythical creatures live in a very safe, heteronormative world — and a boring one.
This is actually the book's biggest problem. It's 754 pages long, its heroine's dominant personality trait is low self-esteem, and, as Amazon reviewer Eventide points out, nobody really has to give up anything. Even the tedium of immortality is glossed over — these vampires just keep busy with their hobbies. If I had an eternity to read, I still might never pick up this book again.
Breaking Dawn does seem to be promoting a fundamentally conservative ideology. But then so does The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and they will pry that book from my cold, dead, godless fingers. I think ultimately we shouldn't worry too much about what ideas young adult books promulgate. We should worry about whether the books themselves are awesome. Because awesomeness promotes thinking, and thinking promotes becoming the kind of adult we all want more of in the world: the kind who can understand the message of a book — or a movie, or a blog post, or a presidential candidate — and decide for herself whether she agrees.
TWILIGHT IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER IN HISTORY TO BE MADE AND I LOVE IT AND EVERYBODY SHOULD SEE IT AND READ THE BOOK BECAUSE IT WAS AWESOME AND ALL OF THE VAMPIRES ARE SEXY!!!!!!!!!!
I find it interesting that people are getting so worked up over a piece of fiction that they didn't like. If you didn't like it, and you're not going to see the movie, great! But what makes you feel you need to bash it and laugh about it in this thread? I believe the intention of this topic was supposed to be for people to say if they were going to see it or not.
It's a fictional book aimed at young girls. It's entertainment. Look at some of the best selling fiction books and authors aimed at women in the world. Nora Roberts? Danielle Steel? Harlequin novels? No one could possibly say these are "works of art", and neither are they trying to be, but they're obviously popular. You may not enjoy them, but you can't deny it. Are teenage girls also not allowed to read a book of romance and fantasy, and enjoy it simply as entertainment? Must they always read something "deep and sophisticated"?
Everyone has some form of entertainment that they like and they can escape to. Romance novels? Video games? Anime, maybe? And they all can be criticized in their own right. But that's never going to deny the fact that some people enjoy them.
As for myself, I will probably not see the movie in theatres. The acting and special effects looked pretty awful to me from the previews, and in the "upcoming movies" they play before the previews of the movies start, I saw an interview with the guy... and he sounded like a moron ^^ He apparently was only cast for his pretty face. I'll probably watch it on dvd or the tv though.