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[Velvet D'Coolette]

I... went a watched the first Twilight movie the other night. Other than 'oh god, oh god why?', I have to say I don't get the appeal. Why does this crap have so many women wet between the legs? It's not even a decent romance movie. I'll go re-watch The Notebook or The Lake house, thank you very much. And as for the Vampires? Geez, what a pack of wusses.

Yak. I've no idea. Really, I don't.

Saw a lady wearing a t-shirt saying 'Buffy staked Edward' the next day. Went to give her a high-five, but... she looked at me weird and told me to fuck off.

Bitch.

[The Mysterious Traveller]

"It's like a lion fell in love with a lamb."

I cannot understand how the actor managed to say that with a straight face. Or how anyone could find such a, frankly condescending, remark romantic.

[Velvet D'Coolette]

Mmph. You know, I saw some video footage once of a lioness who had adopted a gazelle lamb and was doing her best to look after it, although she kept nearly going for it whenever it made any sudden moves. You could see she was ambiguous about looking after it, but look after it she did. I think she'd lost her cubs a few days previously.

It was a sad story, actually: she unwittingly attracted a male lion who killed and ate the lamb, and she was pretty distressed afterwards.

[Morgan]

Twilight sure doesn't get me wet. I don't know why it does for any other woman. Something just downright repulsive about that movie. Like I said, I love romances, but I just detest that movie for some reason.

[Xian Shade]

It's probably the fact that everyone in the movie is socially awkward. Everyone seems uncomfortable around everyone, and I'm starting to think it isn't just the way they're 'supposed' to act... I think it's real.

I mean, it's understandable at first since the main character moves to a new town and everything, and barely knows anyone, but after a few months (or however long the movie spans), you'd think they'd get over it after interacting for such a long period.

Then there's the obvious relationship lies that keep getting spewed:

"I want to be with you forever." *next scene* "I'm leaving, you'll never see me again."

"I know what he did to you, but I'll never do that. I'll never hurt you." *next scene* "I'm keeping my promise, but only halfway. I'm not hurting you, but I'm doing exactly what he did and leaving. That's how I'm not hurting you."

Then there was the brilliant fact that the love interest and his parents left the main character alone 'to protect her', when there was another vampire family out to kill her, and had been since the first movie. Seven vampires in that family that are all probably over 100 years old, yet none of them thought 'Oh shit, maybe one of us should stay behind to at least keep an eye on her and protect her from someone other than ourselves'.

So yeah, lots of poor writing and worse ideas... and Vampires playing baseball? Really? Why not have them sparring to make the first movie even vaguely exciting, as opposed to the two-minute fight scene at the end where we don't even get to watch what happened to him?

[MistressAli]

I don't really like romance and when I do, I like it kind of twisted and angsty. I think Twilight had the potential for angsty twistedness, being human X vamp after all, but it didn't live up to any of that. Edward for instance goes on about how much Bella's blood tempts him, yet there is never really a moment when it shows. Does he ever grab her, barely on the edge of control and bare his teeth at her neck, giving her a moment of terror? No. He just controls it. *yawn* There's no suspense - you never think he might actually snap.
The fact she has no fear of him is boring as well. The fact that she never grows as a character and stays the same bland, weak (she always lets him get his way, though at some times she might passive-aggressively try to 'deny' him) and boring girl.

I... went a watched the first Twilight movie the other night. Other than 'oh god, oh god why?', I have to say I don't get the appeal.

The actors don't seem to have much chemistry, that's for sure (even tho they were supposedly dating in RL or something. Must've been one boring romance ) And if you think the movie's bad, just remember this...it cuts a great deal of the gushing on how hot Edward is and how 'boring' Bella thinks she is. (tho she is ) I mean, seriously, in the book, every time Edward smiled his charming 'crooked smile' there would be a paragraph at how once again, Bella realized how BEAUTIFUL AND HOT AND PERFECT AND WONDERFUL he was! Get all those paragraphs together and it probably amounted to 60% of the book

Also, while I think Edward's actor has his moments of looking nice, I don't get the hype over him. He's ok-looking, but half the time he looks like he just rolled out of bed and hasn't washed his hair in a week. At least, on all the magazine covers I've seen. Dude looks like a bum.

[Anaesthesia]

And if you think the movie's bad, just remember this...it cuts a great deal of the gushing on how hot Edward is and how 'boring' Bella thinks she is. (tho she is )

A friend of mine was just going on another forum about how that's the main draw of the Twilight books: it's not that Edward is gorgeous and oh-so-perfect, it's that he's gorgeous and oh-so-perfect and obsessed with the "ordinary" heroine who's really just a blank slate onto which impressionable readers project themselves. It's the juvenile fantasy of some stunning supernatural boytoy who's so interested in you, yes, plain old boring you, that it just melts his icy heart and makes him go to great psychotic lengths to protect you and keep himself from fucking your brains out sucking you up dry.

The whole thing is shameless wish-fulfillment.

[Jman1236]

NO NO NO!!!:Makes holy cross with hands: TWILIGHT BEGONE!!!!

It's bad enough that this degrades vampires but to make them the spokemen for the abstainance movement? WTF?!?!

[Velvet D'Coolette]

Abstance? D'you mean abstainance? Well, that's no way of preventing pregnancy: