Twilight!

[Ree]

Has she ever heard of the term "fiction", I wonder?

But she does have a right to her personal preferences without being criticized for answering a question honestly. It's not as if she started a smear campaign against Twilight.
She was just asked a question, which she answered, and it got blown out of proportion.

I am not a fan of vampire related entertainment, either.

In fact, just a few weeks ago I was wondering why the whole vampire culture has become so trendy.

It really doesn't do a thing for me.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Now, the press is making a big deal out of the fact that Miley Cyrus refuses to read the books or see the movie because she doesn't believe in vampires.

Has she ever heard of the term "fiction", I wonder?

[Ree]

Now, the press is making a big deal out of the fact that Miley Cyrus refuses to read the books or see the movie because she doesn't believe in vampires.
Because Miley Cyrus sets the standards for everyone to follow...


As to your nephew, your stand on this saddens me.

As the aunt of a young gay man who is comfortable in his own skin, and who follows his own drummer, the rest of the world be damned, I applaud your nephew.

As was mentioned, the attitude you expressed is what keeps sexism prevalanet in our society.

Even in some of the comments in this thread it's clear that women are encouraged to be strong and independent and step out of traditional "female" stereotypes.
Why, then, is it so upsetting that a young man chooses to attend a movie that is seen as a "chick" movie, and he is told to check his manhood at the door?

[MystyGlyttyr]

I tried to read the books twice. First time I got through three paragraphs before I put it down. Second time I thought "Okay, well, I'm pitiful at starting stories too, maybe once I get through the intro it won't be so bad." I got to page 17 before I thought "If I don't stop, I'm going to HURT MYSELF." I do have a cousin who loves the series, but freely admits she likes it for the trashy factor. She has a thing for shameless stupid romance stuff and all that.

For reference, I went and dug out some ancient wrestling fic I wrote from when I was in high school, about 10 years ago before I really learned how to, you know, actually write. ...it was pretty much the same stuff. Seriously. Vampires and everything. I guess everyone who writes goes through that teen DRAWMA phase and vampires are a popular choice. Stephanie Myers just figured out how to make money off it. Can't fault her for that.

Can, however, fault her for thinking she's a legitimately good writer and getting all butthurt when anyone suggests otherwise. Successful, yes. Possibly best scam artist of our time, yes. Good, no. Seriously, if she would come out and say "Yeah, I pretty much just wrote this for the shit of it and lookit what happened," I'd be giggling at the joke right along with her. But she's so VERY INTO her own hype.

Eh, I'm more annoyed that I have to wait till after curfew hours to get into Hot Topic and buy my fishnets and nail polish, or else it's packed with little "goffiks."

[jackfaire]

Starting to really hope a Mercy Thompson movie actually comes out to give a strong female lead in a supernatural romance thriller .

That would be awesome. Said roommate was way to impressed by fame. I was supposed to be wowed about a story of Lou Ferrigno being a fan of one of her favorite authors. She was offended that I didn't care.

[kiwi]

Finally, it's pretty obvious that Bella is a self insert of Stephanie Meyer, placed in the story solely so that the author can live her fantasies about getting off with a vampire boy.

This is SO true! Thats what makes me truely hate the books, I feel like im reading her fantasy land diary.

Dear diary, today at school a boy who is a TOTAL bad boy had to sit next to me and OMG diary it was sooooo awesome he smelled so good. I wish he was a vampire so he could bite me mmmmm. His name was Eddy, thats SUCH a good name. I sat there and smelled him for the whole class and then omg I dropped my pencil. How clumsy am I! I dreamed that he just couldn't stop paying attention to me, and that he called me beautiful. Eddy and Beautiful isn't that like a match made in heaven, lol oh well I mean hell cos he would be a vampire hehehehe

the whole series is like that, a childish fantasy where she is the centre of the universer. YUCK

[bunnyboy]

Patricia Briggs rocks!!!

GRRRRR Vampire Diaries is not NOT inspired by Twilight.

LJ SMith was writing books well before Stephanie Meyers got a bug up her butt.

I had a roommate accuse LJ Smith (creator and writer of Vampire Diaries the triloogy) of being inspired by Twilight.

She is no longer my roommate (no not for that reason)

Heh LJ Smith must have had the same time machine Terry Pratchett to steal Hogwarts some 20 odd years before it was written about, at least in that case the crap died down.

Starting to really hope a Mercy Thompson movie actually comes out to give a strong female lead in a supernatural romance thriller .

[LadyBarbossa]

Yeah, he's not just seeing a bad teen movie. He's obsessing over a bad teen movie in which the main characters think that suicide is a perfectly acceptable route to take should they lose their 'true love'. Edward openly admits that he was planning to kill himself if Bella had died in the first story, and tells her that if something were to happen, he'd try his best to end his life. When in dangerous situations, Bella can hear Edward's voice in her head, and because he has left her (and broken into her room to steal the pictures she had of him and his family to 'erase' their relationship), she purposely puts herself in harm's way to her his voice. She crashes her motorcycle at least twice and also jumps from a cliff, but always reiterates later that 'It's worth it to have her velvet-voiced hallucination'.

And as I stated earlier, my nephew is already of the mind that it's both acceptable and romantic to climb into a girl's bedroom at night to watch her sleep, without her consent. The fact that people at such an impressionable age obsess over this series so much is what concerns me. We have enough teens suffering from depression over romance, breakups, and the like without some deluded author publishing her wet dreams and selling it to them.

[jackfaire]

It was a horrible movie, but I had a damned good time, and that's all that matters.

Ah yes but what if the movie had shown an abnormal and creepy behavior that we adults look at and would judge as bad as a behavior that is good and healthy.

[AdminAssistant]

He's 17. He can likes whatever he wants to like. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that everyone else in the world has to hate it. Why should he avoid seeing a film that he wants to see because someone might see him? That's unfair and ridiculous. Y'know what? I went to see The Mummy 3 in the theatres by myself. It was a horrible movie, but I had a damned good time, and that's all that matters.

[jackfaire]

Patricia Briggs rocks!!!

GRRRRR Vampire Diaries is not NOT inspired by Twilight.

LJ SMith was writing books well before Stephanie Meyers got a bug up her butt.

I had a roommate accuse LJ Smith (creator and writer of Vampire Diaries the triloogy) of being inspired by Twilight.

She is no longer my roommate (no not for that reason)

[bunnyboy]

You think it's bad... I have two things to not look foreward to, Forks being down the way from the only way to it from Eastern WA for now.... and the fact that a GOOD vamp/wolf/supernatural in our normal world book will probably just get called a twilight rip off... yeah Patricia Briggs and other writers in the urban fantasy niche get tainted by the overly long fanfic that is Twilight... at least My Immortal was probably one of the best troll fics ever.

[BroomJockey]

Wouldn't that be vegans who cannot eat meat byproducts, not vegetarians?

I think (ethical, anyways) vegetarians by-and-large can eat animal by-products, like milk and honey, because it's produced naturally, and doesn't do any harm to the animal. Syphoning the blood from a creature doesn't exactly jive with the "naturally produced" nature of milk and honey.

But here's the thing. There's not really a strict definition of vegetarian. There's specific terms for ones who eat fish, or chicken, or eggs, but no one ever uses them, so vegetarian tends to be slapped on as a label any time someone doesn't eat mammals.

[Greenday]

There's also the fact that Edward can NOT be a vegetarian, cuz any kind of blood be it animal or human is a MEAT PRODUCT.

Wouldn't that be vegans who cannot eat meat byproducts, not vegetarians?

Just asked two of my girl friends what they thought of Twilight.

"Ugh."
"I don't read smut."

At least my friends are sane.

[Lace Neil Singer]

It pretty much is bad fanfic; it's even got a self insert. -.-

There's also the fact that Edward can NOT be a vegetarian, cuz any kind of blood be it animal or human is a MEAT PRODUCT.