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Originally Posted by James

Yeah I've noticed that with geek-related stuff, you look at the (online) reaction to Robert Pattinson being cast as Batman... at lot of it was we don't want him because he was in Twilight, ie. for girls.

Im not going to pretend that things like this aren't prevalent, they definitely are, but to fair I think the main issue people have with him from Twilight is more that Twilight is awful rather than it being girly. Plus Pattinson is awful IN Twilight and that's the only thing a lot of people know him from (other than maybe his brief appearance in Harry Potter)... So they're judging him based on that role, which was also awful. Because the material was poor and he had nothing to work with. But plenty of people won't necessarily realise that.

We watched the Twilight films fairly recently with our daughter... Honestly if anything they're worse than I remembered. And the first one is the WORST one, the central performances are abysmal and... Well... weird... So the worry isn't unfounded.