Anti Twilight?

[BOOSH]

Errr hate it!!!
Totally ruined vampires.

Saw the trailer for eclipse when I was in the cinema last week and actually laughed out loud at it.
What a waste...

Yes I know it was books first, the author was sh** also.
Used the same adjectives over and over....
OH SPARKLY VAMPIRE!
No, just no!

Anyway, is there all ready some sort of anti Twilight club going on?
Shall we start one?

[Patrick]

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[Shaun]

Terribly written nonsense angsty-teen crap.

That said, I found the first movie alright. A good 'movie' (ie. one you watch for idle entertainment, not to be moved or wowed with its message/art)

[Lee.]

Erm, surprisingly (to me) I loved the books. I read all 4 in about a week! I couldn't put them down!
I have my tickets for Eclipse already... The films are crap compared to the books but they're useful for some Cullen oggling!
I could tell you more about how obsessed my friends and I became actually... but I won't, as I think the slagging would be severe and I may even be banished from here for ever! :D

[Stu]

It's a pathetic franchise robbing bits and bobs from other more well written vampire stories and wrapping them up in Myers hideous, repetetive writting style. And the movies ... somehow ... made it even worse.

It’s a perfect storm of co-mingling fan-worship, too. You’ve got the teenage girl demographic, infatuated with this…****ing vapid, vacant pasty-faced asshole, with that face you just want to ram into a men’s room doorknob until his teeth litter the ground like bloody chiclets. That godawful brooding intensity, that mysterious “I’m the biggest, sexiest mistake you’d ever make, ladies, because I’m ****ing dangerous” scowl that makes all the women drool.

Tis' an entire franchise based around a pale, dreary bore who always drones on about his own existential angst, his eternal torment, his alienation from human society, and the constant struggle to contain the beast of his infinite rage forever crawling in his skin, lest it surface and harm those he loves.

I hate it I hate it I ****ing hate it.

[Lee.]

It's a pathetic franchise robbing bits and bobs from other more well written vampire stories and wrapping them up in Myers hideous, repetetive writting style. And the movies ... somehow ... made it even worse.

It’s a perfect storm of co-mingling fan-worship, too. You’ve got the teenage girl demographic, infatuated with this…****ing vapid, vacant pasty-faced asshole, with that face you just want to ram into a men’s room doorknob until his teeth litter the ground like bloody chiclets. That godawful brooding intensity, that mysterious “I’m the biggest, sexiest mistake you’d ever make, ladies, because I’m ****ing dangerous” scowl that makes all the women drool.

Tis' an entire franchise based around a pale, dreary bore who always drones on about his own existential angst, his eternal torment, his alienation from human society, and the constant struggle to contain the beast of his infinite rage forever crawling in his skin, lest it surface and harm those he loves.

I hate it I hate it I ****ing hate it.

Haha.. That made me laugh with quite a lot of force! I completely know what you mean, but you're right about him making women drool. Strangely enough, the teenagers who this is all written for seem to be indifferent towards the Edward attraction... it seems to be older women who are re-entering their youth and obsessing over a sparkly man in a silver volvo. ( I am not calling myself "an older woman") Well, I'm certainly not a teenager..

[Stu]

Haha.. That made me laugh with quite a lot of force! I completely know what you mean, but you're right about him making women drool. Strangely enough, the teenagers who this is all written for seem to be indifferent towards the Edward attraction... it seems to be older women who are re-entering their youth and obsessing over a sparkly man in a silver volvo. ( I am not calling myself "an older woman") Well, I'm certainly not a teenager..
Aye, the Twilight phenomenon seems to know no age limits. I have a 7 year old sister, a 19 year old shag on the side, and a 34 year old aunt who are all equally into it.

[InOne]

Wasn't my time really and I'm glad. Much prefer Harry Potter.

[BOOSH]

Aye, the Twilight phenomenon seems to know no age limits. I have a 7 year old sister, a 19 year old shag on the side, and a 34 year old aunt who are all equally into it.

That's scary....
LOL 'shag on the side'
Nice Stu :thumbs:

[BOOSH]

Just waiting for the twifans to go mental at this...

[Shaun]

Just waiting for the twifans to go mental at this...

The only fans of it on the site I know of are either too nice and afraid of debate to defend it, or too incoherent.

[Lee.]

Aye, the Twilight phenomenon seems to know no age limits. I have a 7 year old sister, a 19 year old shag on the side, and a 34 year old aunt who are all equally into it.

I think (for us oldies anyway) that Meyer manages to capture completely the feelings of teenage angst associated with affairs of the heart during our schooldays. The whole "does he like me" "does he hate me" "god he spoke to me" "why hasn't he spoken to me today" and then the feeling of utter desolation and devastation of being dumped!
When you're in your 30s with kids, mortgage, housework and responsibilities in general, those feelings seem a lifetime away so I think that's why the books are popular amongst women. My friend said "god they make me feel just like a teenager again"
Also Edward may be a ridiculous character to a lot of people, but again to women he has it going on.. big time! He is quite dominant and selfish in a lot of ways but will do anything for his woman and also (as he was born in 1901) has a lot of old fashioned values...
God, I'm wittering on on a public forum and standing up for a fictional VAMPIRE!! WTF is wrong with me??

[Lee.]

The only fans of it on the site I know of are either too nice and afraid of debate to defend it, or too incoherent.

Oh.. I've just defended it. lol
I'm actually lol'ing at myself here! I can't believe I am defending it either! I'M A GROWN WOMAN FFS!!!

[BOOSH]

Oh.. I've just defended it. lol
I'm actually lol'ing at myself here! I can't believe I am defending it either! I'M A GROWN WOMAN FFS!!!

Shame on you!
Haha

[Stu]

I think (for us oldies anyway) that Meyer manages to capture completely the feelings of teenage angst associated with affairs of the heart during our schooldays. The whole "does he like me" "does he hate me" "god he spoke to me" "why hasn't he spoken to me today" and then the feeling of utter desolation and devastation of being dumped!
When you're in your 30s with kids, mortgage, housework and responsibilities in general, those feelings seem a lifetime away so I think that's why the books are popular amongst women. My friend said "god they make me feel just like a teenager again"
Also Edward may be a ridiculous character to a lot of people, but again to women he has it going on.. big time! He is quite dominant and selfish in a lot of ways but will do anything for his woman and also (as he was born in 1901) has a lot of old fashioned values...
God, I'm wittering on on a public forum and standing up for a fictional VAMPIRE!! WTF is wrong with me??
As poorly written as they are, I can see your points. However, most of them relate to women. So we can draw the line :hugesmile:.

Any man that likes Twilight is off the cool list forever.

Forever.

[Lee.]

Shame on you!
Haha

You'd be piling a lot more shame on me if you could see my outfit for going to see Eclipse! :D

[BOOSH]

As poorly written as they are, I can see your points. However, most of them relate to women. So we can draw the line :hugesmile:.

Any man that likes Twilight is off the cool list forever.

Forever.


Bye bye man points!

[BOOSH]

You'd be piling a lot more shame on me if you could see my outfit for going to see Eclipse! :D

Haha, oh gosh do i even want to ask?
Yes, yes I do.
...

What is it?

[Lee.]

As poorly written as they are, I can see your points. However, most of them relate to women. So we can draw the line :hugesmile:.

Any man that likes Twilight is off the cool list forever.

Forever.




Hahaha... I have to agree with you there.
Although, my brother in law was feeling left out I think as my sis and I and friends were into it/talking about it/having Twilight parties etc and to prove how crap the whole thing is, he has started reading them.. Now, he says they're complete nonsense..... but he's still reading it? :D

[BOOSH]

Hahaha... I have to agree with you there.
Although, my brother in law was feeling left out I think as my sis and I and friends were into it/talking about it/having Twilight parties etc and to prove how crap the whole thing is, he has started reading them.. Now, he says they're complete nonsense..... but he's still reading it? :D

TWILIGHT PARTIES?
Oh.My.God.
(That was in Janice's voice from Friends)

[Lee.]

Haha, oh gosh do i even want to ask?
Yes, yes I do.
...

What is it?

I'm not going in a cape and plastic teeth or anything like that... that would be sad. We've made it a red/black theme, but lets just say there may be a few white faces and amber contact lenses too.. :joker:

[Lee.]

TWILIGHT PARTIES?
Oh.My.God.
(That was in Janice's voice from Friends)

Jesus! I'm actually reading what I'm writing here, and even I'm shocked!! hahahahaha..

[BOOSH]

I'm not going in a cape and plastic teeth or anything like that... that would be sad. We've made it a red/black theme, but lets just say there may be a few white faces and amber contact lenses too.. :joker:

Do you heve team Cullen/Jacob T-shirts?

[BOOSH]

Jesus! I'm actually reading what I'm writing here, and even I'm shocked!! hahahahaha..

Hahaha! Well it's good you're not taking it so seriously like other fans

[Harry!]

I'd rather have my blood sucked from a vampire then watch Twilight.

[Lee.]

Do you heve team Cullen/Jacob T-shirts?

No. fgs, that's a bit sad! :hugesmile:

[BOOSH]

I'd rather have my blood sucked from a vampire then watch Twilight.

Haha!

[Tom4784]

They're guilty pleasures for me, I read the books out of sheer boredom and I find the films decent but ultimately disposable films, like Shaun said. They're good for a bit of brain off entertainment. They're badly written and trashy but I enjoyed them for their ironic value.

[MrGaryy]

I respectfully disagree entirely.

[Jords]

I thought this was about Emily.. :laugh:

I havnt seen any of them, nor read the books.

[setanta]

It's a pathetic franchise robbing bits and bobs from other more well written vampire stories and wrapping them up in Myers hideous, repetetive writting style. And the movies ... somehow ... made it even worse.

It’s a perfect storm of co-mingling fan-worship, too. You’ve got the teenage girl demographic, infatuated with this…****ing vapid, vacant pasty-faced asshole, with that face you just want to ram into a men’s room doorknob until his teeth litter the ground like bloody chiclets. That godawful brooding intensity, that mysterious “I’m the biggest, sexiest mistake you’d ever make, ladies, because I’m ****ing dangerous” scowl that makes all the women drool.

Tis' an entire franchise based around a pale, dreary bore who always drones on about his own existential angst, his eternal torment, his alienation from human society, and the constant struggle to contain the beast of his infinite rage forever crawling in his skin, lest it surface and harm those he loves.

I hate it I hate it I ****ing hate it.

Yep, pretty much how I view it apart from the fact that you don't have to smash him against a doorknob because he and the plot are completely toothless to begin with. Vacuous rubbish that makes a mockery of the vampire myth.

[ButterflyGirl]

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[ButterflyGirl]

I love

Interview with the Vampire
Fright Night
The lost boys
Underworld
Van helsing
From Dusk till Dawn

Real vampires don't sparkle :cool:

[KG.]

I love

Interview with the Vampire
Fright Night
The lost boys
Underworld
Van helsing
Dusk till Dawn

Real vampires don't sparkle :cool:

I'd like to add 30 Days of Night to you list :)

[KG.]

Yeah it's a pretty good vampire film, I love how it wasn't the clichéd portrayal of "vampires."

[GypsyGoth]

I love Twilight movies and I love other vampire films :love:

[Twilight]

I've watched the movie, it was good but its overrated,a lot. And the book is wayy better.

[Niamh.]

I've watched the movie, it was good but its overrated,a lot. And the book is wayy better.

I thought this was a campaign against you:joker:

[Braden]

I think the films are very over-rated.

[MojoNixon]

Errr hate it!!!
Totally ruined vampires.

Saw the trailer for eclipse when I was in the cinema last week and actually laughed out loud at it.
What a waste...

Yes I know it was books first, the author was sh** also.
Used the same adjectives over and over....
OH SPARKLY VAMPIRE!
No, just no!

Anyway, is there all ready some sort of anti Twilight club going on?
Shall we start one?

I'm in.

[setanta]

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Very good.

[Vicky.]

I absolutely love it :D

[Zippy]

Near dark is the best vampire movie ever.

Twilight is for schoolgirls.

edit; and Vicky! :p

[Callum]

The books are much better than the films but all in all Harry Potter is ultimately superior than Twilight.

[MassiveTruck]

I like them.

The atmosphere in the films are brilliant. The cinemetography is ghost like and all the ambience from the characters to the set are all sullen and noirish.

I think some of the dialogue is pretty dire at times but generally they are films that aren't over hollywoodised.

I know what will happen in the later films and I am disappointed about that but I think the overall premise and intentions are a good one, sealing up the saga nicely.

So yeah, love 'em. Better than the sex obsessed obviousness we get from Hollywood these days. Not that I dislike that but a change and a difference is always good.

[MassiveTruck]

Yeah it's a pretty good vampire film, I love how it wasn't the clichéd portrayal of "vampires."

Exactly. It's all very different and they don't try to imitate life either. They create a distinction between all these different beings and keep it like that.

Buffy tried to humanise vampires and all these other shows did too. Even Anne Rice but I think with True Blood and Twilight we get vampires being vampires.

[Ramsay]

Darren Shan > Twilight

[bansheewails]

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Love this, hehehe.