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Twilight's very popular (or rather infamaous) these days. A lot of people either love or hate it and I'm wondering why? I've never read the book, only watched the movie (which I thought was ho-hum, but not terrible).
If you post your opinion, make sure it's detailed! I don't want "I hate Twilight because it sucks". Also, if you haven't read the book, please say that in your post (since we all know the book is better then the movie).
Also, you can say whether you like the book and hated the movie or vice versa if you want.
Now I know I can't control what you guys say, but please no flame wars, I know this is a "Twilight" related subject.
Also I apologize if another topic like this has already been made, I haven't bothered to check the hundreds of other posts.

well written book. i don't like "twilight syndrome" though, because it describes every girls dream to have guys fight over her. Im not gonna deny it though, if i had two babes fighting over me I would thank Vishnu, but it is the fact that Twilight is actually read most often by a fourth grade demographic and now little girls (like my sister) are lost in the tweenagery of it and not having fun being a kid. I don't hate the story from group mentality but hold strong feelings of dislike towards anything that is just so mushy and romantic.

Also, it makes vampires look like a joke. After being a Cirque du Freak fan, i am not willing to think vampires are all glittery and shit

Surprisingly, the first time I've ever heard of it was when it was referenced in the Halloween Chapter. I didn't understand the reason why people were all butt hurt over it in the comic's comment section. It certainly isn't my cup of tea, but I guess I can see how it appeals to the more romantic-types.

This post has been edited by Purin: 18 January 2011 - 10:12 PM

Honestly, I hate Twilight. It'd be fine under normal circumstances, but it was released now-a-days, when the "bad-boy is actually a nice guy but still tough" is very popular with teenage girls.... who I seem to differ from on opinions... a lot... anyway, the fact is, the series was picked up on this topic, so the author based it on that. She wrote it to how she felt the main audience "I.E: The Girls" would enjoy. It turned into a series of books for girls who hate reading.. something I admire, but that's a different topic. I'm not saying it's a BAD book, what I'm saying is that the series is something that was written for a certain group of people, and not being in that group means you wouldn't normally like it... not saying liking it makes you gay also...

The movies are hilarious, I swear. A+

The worst part about them are the people who join the hate band wagons just because everyone else does, just like every other thing.

This post has been edited by Junior Boomer: 18 January 2011 - 10:17 PM

lolwut, on 18 January 2011 - 10:06 PM, said:

hey guys im a poor whiny girl that is a self insert of the author i am ugly and baw yet a vampire a wolf and like 2 oher guys are infatuated with me ok uh now time to live out the authors bizarre sexual fantasies go

I think the only truly bad thing about Twilight is the effect it has had on Meyer's reputation. She has written books in the past that didn't make me want to shoot myself in the head for reading them. Also, despite the quality of the writing, it does reach out to the audience. I find it hilarious when people complain about the series and when I ask them if they actually even read the books they go all, "No, it's stupid." Furthermore, each book draws parallels with famous love stories of the past. Twilight coresponds to Pride and Prejudice and New Moon coresponds with Romeo and Juliet. It's actually kinda clever in that regard.

I'm just saying that the main reason I disliked the books is because I actually liked them, and even then, it's not a case of me hating the book, it's a case of me hating myself for liking them.

And if you hated the writing of Twilight (as I did), just read The Host instead.

This post has been edited by Kaxbe: 19 January 2011 - 05:49 PM

and also

<Shotgun_wizard> twilight thread
<Shotgun_wizard> fuck
<Shotgun_wizard> this
<Shotgun_wizard> forum

For ruining vampires FOREVER.

At least I still have the old good World of Darkness. And Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines. Seriously, if you haven't, PLAY IT!

Valumior, on 18 January 2011 - 10:18 PM, said:

Torrented it, I was low on money... it was a good game, recommended for anybody

This post has been edited by DangerIce: 18 January 2011 - 10:20 PM

whf, on 18 January 2011 - 10:17 PM, said:

If you were you about to hook up with this smokin' hot chick (like 9 on a scale of 10), and she mentioned a word of Twilight to you...do you walk away, tap it, or tap and then walk?

No strong opinion either way. My mother tells me it is awful, but I honestly have no idea. ^_^

The concept has never appealed to me. I'm guilty of reading the first book, but I couldn't make myself finish it. Meyer could have taken a leaf out of Shan's book when it came to the mythological creatures, and not made them supermodels with paedophile tendencies. Not that Bella wasn't a two dimensional cardboard cut-out herself. I mean, who discovers a guy is a vampire and then wants to shag that shit? Getting past that with a healthy pinch of salt, when I came to the bit about Mr. Cullen sparkling in the sun like a prism, I was tempted to close the book and point-blank refuse to touch it again.

'Course, I read a few more chapters, and when it became endless drivel about "ooh no i love u so much bt i must rzist mai bloodlus7", I couldn't go on. That's not drama, that's being a thick twat.

So yeah, I dislike Twilight. It would be greatly improved by the addition of Van Helsing and Blade.

twilight more like twishite

STORY TIME 8D
So when the first book first came out, I read it and hated it. Then a year later one of my best friends really, really got into them and begged me to give them a second chance. I hesitantly agreed, still disliked the first one, but the second one had come out and it had two things that turned me into a mini-twihard: more Jacob and more Mike Newton(minor character that is actually slightly ok written because Meyer left him a minor AKA didn't fuck him over). I became hooked and blinded and obsessed(though nothing like the people today), mainly for Jacob . I'm not proud. I quickly began to notice how bad everything was, just like with the first book, but it held a weird place in my heart? It is an easy book to obtain a guilty pleasure for as it is an easy read and can be entertaining at times, IMO. I was the co-founder of the official gaia thread (fffff) and known to be the person who dislikes them overall but is still somehow there. I ended up being one of the very first people to be involved with the Twilightsucks website. But once I quit Gaia years ago I never had any of it in my life so now it's overall apathy.
I really enjoyed the second movie . Mainly because the shape-shifters have always been my fav people in the books and it was full of them and had little of the vamps, plus Taylor Lautner is my boo, and the soundtrack is absolutely AMAZING.

The writing is very poorly done, the characters have little to no depth, plot becomes quickly ridiculous-especially with the last one-, she took too much 'artistic license' with the vamps, the main relationship is full of abuse and the book is crammed with so much anti-feminism, etcetc.

whf, on 18 January 2011 - 10:17 PM, said:

Hey, now what did I say about flaming?

Ubertoast, on 18 January 2011 - 10:30 PM, said:

Umm, did you read the rules? Give a reason!

Fruitso, on 18 January 2011 - 10:54 PM, said:

I haven't read the books, I dislike the fact Stephanie Meyer used vampires for her characters,
but I don't hate it.

Personally, I thought the movies were much better than Harry Potter's.
But that is probably because I have read the Harry Potter books and they are actually good.

Anyways, IMO.

I used to read a lot of vampire related books before it became a fad (back when I was 11ish, 10 years ago) since I was always into adventure, scifi, mystery, and etc. I tried reading Twilight despite the fandom and didn't enjoy it at all. The series pretty much defined a totally different culture of vampires, which has nothing to do with what they really were about. That's the one thing I hate about the series. Bring back the old vampire, Dracula, and classic werewolf books please

This is stupid, talking about "real" vampires and such when we all KNOW who the most vampiry vampire ever is:

This post has been edited by Leaving_a_Comment: 19 January 2011 - 12:08 AM

WTF, on 19 January 2011 - 12:06 AM, said:

I was just curious since everyone hates it.

It's just a very tired subject for the internets, Fruitsoap.

Probably the most terribly written book I've ever read. (I only read the first one, I refuse to read any more). Bella has about as much character as a PILE OF DOGSHIT. The author is obviously projecting her weird fantasies onto Bella. She's so paper thin that you can inject yourself into her position, that's why all the little girls love it because THEY CAN PRETEND THEY HAVE TWO BEAUTIFUL PRINCE CHARMINGS.

I have no interest in it outside of mocking its fans and its hambeast creator.

I don't openly dislike it, but it's not amazing, either. This pretty much sums it up:

Ah, bunnicula! Brings back fond memories, that does.

Fruitsoap, hehe, I might have to start collecting these ^_^

I think there's dislike for the book, story and whatever, and dislike for the fanburst it generated.

I could bet many people that absolutely hate Twilight wouldn't care much about it if hadn't spawn so many sparking vampire lovers.

You could also think like this: Twilight exists so some can make fun of have fun with it.

The problem with twilight is that the person that wrote it had no idea what a vampire is

Leaving_a_Comment, on 19 January 2011 - 12:01 AM, said:

Ohmygosh yesssss

I hate twilight because it sucks, luckily for the sake of discussion I have a reason for, it has utterly demolished the whole idea of vampire, the dracula image of a vampire, thrown to the wayside. Not only vampires either, I have honestly talked to people under the impression that werewolves were a creation of Meyer...*heavy sigh*

I haven't read Twilight, but Bunnicula was awesome.

1)It destroyed the possibility of vampires ever being cool again.
1.5)It also screwed up some of the were-wolves awesomeness as well.
2)When it first came out some of my friends (I should have wondered why it was only the girls saying it) said it was a good book with vampires in it. So a few days later I found my self at the airport with a 5 and a half hour flight ahead of me and nothing to do or read so I picked twilight up from one of the book stores in the terminal. Needless to say it was the among the most wasted 5 and a half hours of my life I have ever experienced. I got to the end and literally thought "What the fuck? Where's the horror, the blood drinking, stakes through the heart and all that usual vampirey stuff"
3)Anything to do with Twilight is just fail. So in my opinion I automatically deem this thread fail

This post is about to become about twilite.
This post is fail now.
I hate the movies but not because they suck.
Not becasue they aren't manly enought.
Not becasue edward freaking sparkles.
Not because bella spends way over half a movies timeline in a chair.
Not becasue some of the fans are so incredably into it that I am sure I could get punched out for saying I throught that best possable ending would be if after the world is saved edward and the werewolf come out of the closet to bella and then wander off into the forest holding hands together to the wrong person.
Not becasue they managed to work in the whole "chosen one" angle along with every other re-used thing in the book.
Not just because it is a chick flick.
Not because the whole "secret sosiety of super beings" thing makes no sence. Why hide when you could own the world?

Because it is a chick flick that has gained so much power that my grandma made me watch all the movies so far along with the rest of my family becasue we couldn't just say no to that nice ladys face.

Stop giving twilight power. Stop posting in this thread. Stop posting in any of the threads about twilight. Just go see the danm movie if you want to and leave out the haters like me. Someone delete this and the thread it is in because it is FAIL.

Vampires were never cool in the first place guys, they were the slowest shittiest villains in the world. The only good one was Dracula and that wasn't because he was a vampire, that was just a plot device.

Anyway, Twilight, you mean Goths vs Furries right? Something like that?
My sister likes the books, I've never read em, nor have I seen the films, but from what I gather, they were massively over-hyped and not particularly good.

I also gather the story is essentially "waaaaaaaaagh love me" and a load of other pretentious teen bullshit, just with vampires and werewolves to spice shit up.
Ergo, I will never read it, as I hate that stuff, it's not true to life in any way (unless you got serious issues), and it's rather depressing.

Edward is Joseph Smith.

Meyer wants Joseph Smith to put it in her.

Too be perfectly honest, vampires are a stupid mythological creature that I have never cared for so I don't really give a shit if Twilight "Ruined" vampires. Oh no someone wrote them in a very controversial way, lets overreact everyone. All aboard the hate train, choo choo. Hate it for the right reasons, like the terrible writing, story, and characters.

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Count Dracula actually introduced most of what we would consider to be typical of vampires, including several of their powers, weaknesses and mannerisms. ^_^

Oh, and Discworld vampires. They are fun~

Let people who like twilight to create their threads and comment on them.
Don't they have their free will rights, too?

Respect it and move along.
You can even say they're wasting their free will on some idiot fandom, if you wish

I feel like a good majority of this thread is "LET'S ALL COMPLAIN ABOUT A BOOK SERIES WHICH WE HAVE NEVER EVEN READ/GAVE A CHANCE TO BEGIN WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

ewwwww kaxbe likes twilight

Kaxbe's making valid arguments! Quick, shun him!

Gabe has Twi-Cooties.

count Chocula is the only true vampire lord

I might have given the book a better chance.

If it didn't spend the majority of it talking about how hot it thinks the male characters are.

It's a stone's throw away from yaoi. And we all know what yaoi does.

I hate twilight because they destroyed the vampires honor...
(I never read the book)

I hate twilight for two reasons A. It gets vampires completely wrong I realize this is a petty reason, but hey come on. 2. The fan base is outrageously over zealous. There was an account of someone stating they hated twilight to a group of fans and they mauled him. I talked to a Twilight fan and asked why that "werewolf" guy (he is not a werewolf) takes his damn shirt off so much. She told me because his body heat is much higher then regular peoples so he is hot all the time. Now if your smart you will realize this is crap biology and in reality he would be cold all the time. When I pointed this out she just hand waved it away. 3. yes I can add another reason if I want. It pains me that woman can be sexist in their movies and when I point this out I am a sexist by default and get harrased for it.

Note: I don't know if the books are good and won't form an opinion on them a good friend of mine likes them so I will give them the benefit of the doubt, but I have seen one movie and it was painfully angsty.

This post has been edited by Rawrdinosaur: 20 January 2011 - 04:58 AM

This thread should be about Castlevania.