twilight, do you love it or hate it?

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Roxas_XIII
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06 Apr 2010, 8:42 pm

MY grievance with Twilight can be summed up in four words:

VAMPIRES. DON'T. F@#$ING. SPARKLE.

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06 Apr 2010, 8:56 pm

Roxas_XIII wrote:

MY grievance with Twilight can be summed up in four words:

VAMPIRES. DON'T. F@#$ING. SPARKLE.

Well, their teeth might. Providing they haven't drunk blood recently and have been brushing their teeth. Someone should introduce these Twilight sods to Christopher Lee's Dracula.

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06 Apr 2010, 10:13 pm

Gifted-Monster wrote:

Vampires. Should. Not. f***ing. Sparkle!

Simple as that.

Twilight has ruined the genre, maybe beyond repair.

To be fair, the idea was that in sunlight, vampires were so beautiful that they were irresistible; making them perfect predators, which I thought was a novel concept, but I agree it was lame...lame...lame.

Of course, I liked the TV show Moonlight because it gave a more interesting view on Vampires. Got rid of some campy stereotypes often done. Those vampires could go outside in daylight but exposure to the sun could kill them if it lasted too long. Wooden stakes in the heart would paralyze them, but not kill them. Silver was toxic, but not automatically fatal. Once turned, they couldn't really eat anything but blood. The most intriguing part was the main character (Mitch) who was turned 50 years ago and longed to be human again because of all the "little things" that he lost that made the pros of being a vampire seem like an empty gain (nigh immortality, super strength, speed, reflexes and senses, super fast healing).

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09 Apr 2010, 8:04 pm

I haven't watched it, and don't plan to. There's just other stuff that's higher priority on my to watch/to read list. One of my neighbors has a custom tag on their car with some reference to Twilight :lol:

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09 Apr 2010, 8:13 pm

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Considering this is my desktop at work, guess:

[img][650:663]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/041/d/e/Down_for_the_Count_by_poopbear.jpg[/img]

That was my desktop on my laptop for a while

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10 Apr 2010, 3:47 pm

I saw it for the first time today, and was deeply impressed.

I haven't seen New Moon yet, though.

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10 Apr 2010, 4:31 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

I saw it for the first time today, and was deeply impressed.

I haven't seen New Moon yet, though.

Impressed how? Impressed how much it sucked or impressed how much it made you want to go blind, deaf and purchase an automatic rifle?

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11 Apr 2010, 1:31 pm

I dislike it.

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11 Apr 2010, 5:42 pm

Lecks wrote:

Tim_Tex wrote:

I saw it for the first time today, and was deeply impressed.

I haven't seen New Moon yet, though.

Impressed how? Impressed how much it sucked or impressed how much it made you want to go blind, deaf and purchase an automatic rifle?

Based on what I know of our Tim (and Tim you are free to give me a good cyber bonk on the head if I'm overstepping or offending you here), I am going to guess it is the way the series captures the longing of wanting and needing something that other people would consider negative, and the sense of unfulfilled desire.

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15 Apr 2010, 7:43 am

Roxas_XIII wrote:

MY grievance with Twilight can be summed up in four words:

VAMPIRES. DON'T. F@#$ING. SPARKLE.

Really? And you know this how? :wink:

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15 Apr 2010, 3:45 pm

Wrackspurt wrote:

Roxas_XIII wrote:

MY grievance with Twilight can be summed up in four words:

VAMPIRES. DON'T. F@#$ING. SPARKLE.

Really? And you know this how? :wink:

Because my ex-girlfriend was a vampire, and she didn't sparkle.

No seriously, I am not sh**ing you, she was a REAL vampire.

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15 Apr 2010, 6:14 pm

Roxas_XIII wrote:

Wrackspurt wrote:

Roxas_XIII wrote:

MY grievance with Twilight can be summed up in four words:

VAMPIRES. DON'T. F@#$ING. SPARKLE.

Really? And you know this how? :wink:

Because my ex-girlfriend was a vampire, and she didn't sparkle.

No seriously, I am not sh**ing you, she was a REAL vampire.

You mean one of those vampirism fetishists? :silent:

BTW, Roxas_XIII, I had to amend the swearing in your post. Alex must have forgotten to put that verb into the filter...

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20 Apr 2010, 5:00 am

Never watched it, but it doesn't spark my interest, so I don't think that I would like it even if I did watch it.

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24 Aug 2010, 6:02 pm

I don't understand the popularity of Twilight, i'm a 20 year old male so i'm not exactly the target demographic- even so, i know 15 & 16 year olds who hate the Twilight movies. I don't get it, vampires & werewolves were originally supposed to be creepy monsters who lived in castles, but they've somehow evolved into emo teenagers.

ok, scratch that last paragraph, i do understand why they are popular (I studied media in college & we even studied vampire movies as part of the course- demographics etc.) it's really well marketed to teens, just like Buffy The Vampire Slayer was marketed to my generation. even so, i don't like Twilight.

Buffy>Twilight

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25 Aug 2010, 3:37 am

Quatermass wrote:

Roxas_XIII wrote:

MY grievance with Twilight can be summed up in four words:

VAMPIRES. DON'T. F@#$ING. SPARKLE.

Well, their teeth might. Providing they haven't drunk blood recently and have been brushing their teeth. Someone should introduce these Twilight sods to Christopher Lee's Dracula.

Absolutely, that or Gary Oldman's Dracula. The sight of Oldman in that bat make-up would make them wet their knickers in absolute fear! Oldman also nailed Dracula's accent perfectly.

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25 Aug 2010, 8:27 am

I think it's silly. I prefer Anne Rice's vampire novels.

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