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Post by megkrisericsk8whip on Nov 29, 2008 2:43:18 GMT -4
I thought Twilight was great! It roxs my soxs off! I would give it a 9/10...I also have all the books. Anyone else went and seen Twilight?
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Post by youkuro on Dec 1, 2008 15:07:43 GMT -4
i saw it and loved it. thrilling, crazy, and high-larious. i only read one book and had doubts about it at first but that's how i thought about Sweeney Todd even though i've never seen the Broadway. it was pretty awesome.
(-)Youkuro
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Post by vfanatic on Dec 2, 2008 11:43:17 GMT -4
I have no intention to see this movie or read any of the books. Twilight is a story that takes traditional views of vampires, shoves it out the window and into a high school setting. Twilight vampires are horrible constructs of what real vampires are, they have no mysticism just super strength, that's it.
That's not a vampire, vampires are creatures of the night, who hold the power of darkness, no normal vampire can survive sunlight only half human half vampires like Blade can. Also a friend explained to me the strengths of Twilight Vampires and weaknesses and it's bull shit, their skin is a strong as marble and the only way to kill them is to severe their heads and burn them, no human can kill them, even Dracula could be destroyed by mortal hands. It's unbalanced as fuck.
Now without Vamps this movie is basically a chick flick love story, so much like Smallville...*points finger in the air*
Studio Audience: IT'S DAWSON'S CREEK WITH SUPER POWERS!
Thank you, and you can nega karma me all you want I speak my mind, you can insult me for my views on what vampires are but the fact of the matter is I will never like Twilight and what it is.
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Post by newageretrohippie on Dec 2, 2008 13:18:33 GMT -4
Vfanatic, you basically said everything that I wanted to say about this movie. I held off, because I figured people were sick of my long rants by now.
In an attempt to bring something positive to my post, at least they did this with vampires instead of werewolves, zombies, mummies, etc.
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Post by pspgameboy on Dec 3, 2008 3:26:51 GMT -4
vfanatic pretty much said everything I was gonna say as well. To me its just seem like a bad fanfiction for girls that became so popular somehow. Sorry to anyone that likes the series but thats pretty much how I feel.
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Post by Trinity on Dec 14, 2008 22:30:16 GMT -4
In an attempt to bring something positive to my post, at least they did this with vampires instead of werewolves, zombies, mummies, etc. They're adding werewolves there. One of the characters there is a werewolf. D: Although they really killed the essence of a vampire (sparkling in sunlight rather than dying and no fangs), the book was not written so well. They have bipolar personalities in the story that you can't really tell what they are. Gah. Not enjoying the book and definitely not going to watch sparkling vampires.
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Post by newageretrohippie on Dec 15, 2008 4:10:04 GMT -4
You know I should be surprised, but I'm really not. Don't tell me they sparkle too.
Next story should have zombiefied mummies with demon blood or something then we're set.
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Post by vfanatic on Dec 15, 2008 16:53:49 GMT -4
vfanatic pretty much said everything I was gonna say as well. To me its just seem like a bad fanfiction for girls that became so popular somehow. Sorry to anyone that likes the series but thats pretty much how I feel. Now as much as I hate Twilight and all it stands for I won't call it Bad Fanfiction, nothing will EVER top that GokuxAnne Frank fic...dear god Super Sayain Hitler *shudders* But yeah it does seem like the writer was living out her fantasies with Twilight (Bela Lugosi fetish maybe?) and not actually considering the deep fantasy element she's treading into by using the term "Vampire"
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Post by cc on Dec 15, 2008 23:42:52 GMT -4
Now that just seems sad. Novels of all type, including the Vampire genre, were created in order TO let the author live out their fantasies. They had visions of creatures in their head, an entire world that was unknown to everyone else at the time, and they wrote it down for their enjoyment, without having to worry if some Fans were going to get huffy because they had a different take on a creature than everyone else.
I personally LOVE that the vampires are different from the standard. What's wrong with that? What, now conformity has seeped into fictional beings as well? Let the woman create her own version of vampires without jumping all over her back, for goodness sakes! The sparkling? Over the top, but still, it's at least something new.
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Post by vfanatic on Dec 16, 2008 11:58:39 GMT -4
Saying Twilight vampires have any respect for Vampires of old and of Lore at all is like saying The New House of Wax was Better then the old one, and that's a pretty good Metaphor, Twilight Vampires are like the Paris Hilton of Vampires and Vampires of norm are like Vincent Price, chilling and awesome.
Vampires represent Horror, Terror, Fear, Darkness. The Twilight Vampires represent angst, teen drama, and girl's wet dreams.
Also these vampires she's made have such cliched powers, super strength, super speed, invulnerability, now I'm sorry but those powers have been used how many times? What's worse is they have NONE of traditional weaknesses, thus humans are incapable of killing them, now I'll excuse one or two, but ALL OF THEM? So if some kid whose secretly a vampire hunter is tracking down an evil vampire they're better off hanging themselves cause they're fucked anyway.
That's the problem with Twilight, it has no respect to fans of classic vampires at all, in fact it's a bitchslap to them, and shows the author only thinks of people like herself, not for others, Stephen Spielberg never thought of just people like himself who thought of aliens when he made E.T, he thought of man, woman, young and old.
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Post by cc on Dec 23, 2008 13:52:37 GMT -4
Exactly, it's that type of attitude towards fictional creatures that keeps them in the same old, boring routine. You as a fan do not get to decide what a creature represents entirely. You can take vampires from a book that portrays them as dark and horrible, and you'd be right that they represent it, in that book, because that was the authors vision of them. However, that does not under any circumstance mean that now because one author showed vampires a certain way, that no other author can EVER portray a vampire differently.
You can write your own book and have your fictional creatures act and have whatever abilities you want them to have. You have that freedom of creativity as a writer. You can not, however, take away that freedom from other authors. If I wanted to write a story about werewolves, guess what? It's my story, my world, my creativity. I don't have to follow ANY of the previous examples of werewolves. Heck, if I want, I can make it so that the man turns into a werewolf whenever he's licked by a dog and can only be defeated by a spoon full of honey! Is it different? Yes. Is it a little silly to have him defeated by honey? Yes! It's my story though, and I can be as different or silly as I darn well please!
So if you don't happen to like how she portrays the vampires, don't buy the book. Don't go around insulting her imagination though. I personally hate what you fans call the traditional vampires. I think THEY'RE trite and absurd and represent angst and drama. However, I have enough respect that I don't go insulting the author or their idea. They're free to imagine and write whatever they want, and I will never try to deny them that!
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Post by vfanatic on Dec 23, 2008 17:45:33 GMT -4
How at ALL did Bela Lugosi's Dracula represent Teenage angst? None whatsoever. Your making these brash absurd statements just because I don't like the books/movie, and with actual good reasons, it was a teenage drama that just to actually make it popular the author threw in vampires because she knew if she didn't it'd be ANOTHER Teen Angst story, and it IS, just with Vampires.
So stop making it like I'm out to destroy authors' rights because I don't like Twilight, so don't think that I'm some close minded conformity loving freak, I'm a person that doesn't like Twilight, because I don't like the vampires and I don't like teen angst drama, simple as that.
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Post by aheart4kris on Jan 9, 2009 22:51:48 GMT -4
i personally am not a vampire fan so i could careless on how the movie destroyed them or whatever. though i totally agree that the "sparkling in sunlight thing" was excessive. i was dragged to see the movie by my cousins, and i happen to find it fairly decent. i'm not "omg Twilight" or "omg Edward Cullen". the movie wasn't great, but it wasn't horrible. i'm just assuming that the people involved in the development of the movie tried to make the situation 'modern' in a sense. anyways i thought the movie was okay, i saw it as a comedy so i got my laughs out of it. but as they say 'to each his own'.
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Post by Negi Springfield on Jan 11, 2009 0:13:08 GMT -4
I feel the same, lol not vampires...there somthing else <.<
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Post by zeffy6 on Jan 11, 2009 15:36:44 GMT -4
Twilight was the bomb i reckon it made more than Australia, i watched Australia but i reckon the whole plot was about Nichole Kidmans Grandfather coz he used to own that meat racket industry n he was a curel man. Anyway yeh Twilight was Mad i love those teenager movies =P
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