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AIBU?

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to think twilight is a pile of simpering shite

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ThatVikRinA22 · 13/05/2012 23:18

well. im trying to be typically girly and go all swoony about edward and the rather pathetic simpering bella.

but no. just not getting it.

pile of shite. what is the fuss about - really? what am i missing?

luckily for me DD thinks the same. i would have been secretly disappointed if she thought this was anything like good....

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AutumnSummers · 14/05/2012 09:22

No doubting Brad's hotness. I've often thought that he'd have made a better Lestat. He has the height and presence that Tom Cruise couldn't command. I did like the film, don't get me wrong, I just wish the two male leads had swapped parts.

DogEared · 14/05/2012 09:22

Watched 15 minutes of the godawful film, read the book in order to be a literary snob and say how terrible it was ...
But it's very very good.
The writing is terrible, but the characters work, and she really captures that teenage passion, the falling in love when you're young and not afraid to get hurt. It's a cracking idea.

Mrsjay · 14/05/2012 09:25

or maybe antonio as lestatt ?

AutumnSummers · 14/05/2012 09:28

Antonio would have been good. There are a LOT of people who would have been better than Cruise. Cruise is essentially agood actor but I've seen him miscast more than once. I loved him in Minority report though.

CaptainHetty · 14/05/2012 09:29

YANBU. I attempted the books after my sister told me how good they are. I lasted about 15 minutes before I got bored with it. It felt a bit like reading one of those Christopher Pike teenagery novels but trying to be a bit more sexy. It failed. I don't think they're particularly well written and I find the characters about as charismatic as a damp piece of cardboard.

Each to their own, though. I prefer my vampires a bit more... well... y'know. Vampire-y :o

LST · 14/05/2012 09:34

YABU. I loved the books. Re-reading them as we speak. And as for R-Patz? Pwoar!! Nuff said

extremepie · 14/05/2012 10:57

Lestat would eat Edward for breakfast and look cool doing it!

As my sister says "Twilight takes the N out of FANGS".

So true!

Have attempted to watch the first movie 3 times and have fallen asleep in the first half and hour every time!

Really don't get the whole Rober Patterson thing, although I liked him more in Harry Potter when he actually smiled. He also died at the end :)

There was a brilliant quote someone posted on my Facebook page by Stephen King

"Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing
what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it
is to have a boyfriend."

Someone else wrote
"At least you can read the Potter series without having to constantly be reminded how beautiful Harry is, or how great his abs are"

Hehe, I liked both of those!

ItsAPublicForumWhine · 14/05/2012 11:11

"Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing
what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it
is to have a boyfriend."

Best.Quote.Ever!

Mrsjay · 14/05/2012 11:23

Oh i love the Harry Potter quote (My copy and paste isnt working ),

although in a later HP film probably 7 part 1 i was a bit shocked to see dans hairy chest i still thought of him as a little boy not a grown man

MarysBeard · 14/05/2012 11:26

I haven't read the books and meant to watch the film last night but forgot :)

I imagine that it isn't any worse than the simpering shite I read as a teenager - my mum's collection of Judith Krantz novels for example and other chick lit.

IloveJudgeJudy · 14/05/2012 12:40

I have romped through the books. I enjoyed them as a light read. I didn't have to concentrate while reading them, I was checking what DD was reading and it was just what I needed at the time.

DD made me promise to watch the Twilight book last night. She hated it when she saw it at the cinema. I told her that it couldn't be that bad. I was wrong . I seriously think it's one of the very worst films I have ever seen in my life. I could not believe how bad most of the actors were and especially the person who played Bella. she didn't smile. The whole film made me want to give up the ghost.

DD still made me wat it the whole way through as I'd promised!

AnyFucker · 14/05/2012 12:45

Bella's Dad is hawwwt

Taylor Lautner is 12yo

that's it, really

NoOnesGoingToEatYourEyes · 14/05/2012 13:03

I haven't seen the films but I have suffered through the first three books (punishment to myself for buying the set of three from the website all in one go) and YABU to find Bella's dad even remotely attractive.

If they kept him true to the book this is a man who has lived alone for 15 years, managed to be someone important in the police force but who is incapable of cooking a meal for himself and allows his daughter to stop eating her own food so she can go and cook his for him. I wanted to stab this man in the eye when I read the books.

No wonder she has a face like a bag of sour lemons and was torn between dating some glittery stalker and a paedophile wolf.

minipie · 14/05/2012 13:22

"Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing
what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it
is to have a boyfriend."

So, so true

Twilight is aimed at the sort of teenage girls who count down the minutes till they see their boyfriend, think they will be together for ever and ever and ever, and think that nobody quite understands that this is True Love.

Or alternatively, the sort of teenage girls who don't yet have a boyfriend and fantasise about a tall dark handsome vampire stranger inexplicably choosing them out of all the girls in the world.

As for Bella's clumsiness - pah. See endless feminist articles/posts about why this is always the default "flaw" for female leads, because they have to have a flaw to be likeable but they couldn't possibly not be pretty.

SusanneLinder · 14/05/2012 13:27

Yes Twilight is twaddle, films are crap-but I quite like it. Don't get the whole Edward thang tho. I do like Carlisle Cullen actually. :o

Bella is a drip, and Kristen Stewart is the worst actress on the planet, but yes I will book my place and go and see Breaking Dawn Part deux..... :o

minipie · 14/05/2012 13:33

Oh yes Susanne I still read all the books and am watching the films on TV despite thinking it's all tosh

ENormaSnob · 14/05/2012 13:41

I liked the films.

BoboksAndCot · 14/05/2012 13:51

Meh, R-Patz looks like a girl and wears too much lipstick.

Now True Blood on the other hand, theirs a good sex fantasy series

akaemmafrost · 14/05/2012 13:55

"AIBU to think twilight is a pile of simpering shite"

Yes, yes it is but I love it anyway, books and movies, I love it all .

insanitymove · 14/05/2012 13:58

YABVU. about my Edward and Jacob and Bella I must be 14 in my head

Ambi · 14/05/2012 14:01

A young girls choice between necrophilia and beasteality.

Drivel, had to watch to see what all the fuss was about, nope I didn't get it either. Hundred year old sparkly vampire hangs around school for teenage girls, nice!

bettybat · 14/05/2012 14:09

True Blood completely spoilt the whole vampire genre (in a good way) by taking up the Buffy mantle of a sassy, well rounded female lead, and an ability to not take itself so seriously all. The. Time.

But then this is unrelated to Twilight, since Twilight is a simpering, wet, boring mess all in its own right anyway.

There's always been two kind of camps - the vampire story fans who take themselves very, very seriously, and the kind that is a bit funny, a bit quirky, a bit sassy and way more entertaining. Stephanie Myers took that seriousness to a whole other level, unfortunately.

Why anyone, particularly teenage girls, would prefer Twilight, Bella and Edward - all grey and miserable - to Sookie, Eric, Bill, Lafyette etc, being all hot and funny, is beyond me.

SusanneLinder · 14/05/2012 16:40

See tbh, I don't get what people get their knickers in a twist about. Yes it is a pile of tosh, but it ain't aimed at adults.It's aimed at TEENAGERS. It isn't meant to be Pulitzer Prize winning prose.

And the whole boyfriend thang, well I am sure that most teens aren't dreaming about Edward/Jacob for any more than 5 minutes after they have watched the film/read the book. .

I think the messages are lost on most teenagers.None of them aren't going to meet a brooding vampire, and three teenagers later, none of them think that getting married at 18 is a very good idea, or are that desperate for a boyfriend any more than we were at same age. I think we are really doing our teens a disservice by thinking that they would be affected by a stupid book.

Honestly, let the kids read and escape for a while into the world of vamps and wolves and let them enjoy it without putting such an adult spin on it.

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ThatVikRinA22 · 14/05/2012 18:19

well Dh got DD the first book - i am pleased to say she didnt get many pages in before ditching it
good lass.

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nothingoldcanstay · 14/05/2012 19:00

I was a bit disturbed by the other werewolf guy who had "turned" and ripped his girlfriends face off. He really loved her though and couldn't help himself -she was sticking by him. I thought that was bad..surely it's not romantic to stay with someone dangerous in this day and age.

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