Clarification needed: Why do women LOVE Twilight?

[FallenRainbows]

Crap boring film, crap boring books, and the actor they cast for "Edward Cullen" isn't even good looking, he looks weird.

But his skin sparkles like diamonds in the sunlight and he smells like a cross between hyacinth's and lilacs! He's just sooooo dreaaammyyy... /swoons

Edwards Sounds Like me, Thats not good is it?

No, in the end you get the plain drama-queen with the uninteresting personality and no desires of her own who will be a source of constant troubles between you and your extended family.

You don't sneak into your girlfriend's room at night and watch her while she's sleeping do you? Because that's just creepy.

No, No I don't Hounest,
And the guy who said Its beacuse they are shallow, I agree.

 

[The_Chief]

jesus christ all of my best girl friends like twilight, they tried to drag me to the dam movie. pissin me off. anyways they like it cuz he is "gorgeus"(horrible spelling) according to all of my friends

 

[GloatingSwine]

Dan Brown is still a better author than Stephanie Meyer.

I wouldn't be so sure.

Dan Brown has committed some truly staggering atrocities against the english language. Stephanie Meyer's thesaurus trawl for every synonym for "longing gaze" is relatively tame by comparison.

 

[lordzouk]

because of edward of course, i dont hate the movie through.
But it is the same as why girls love the jonas brothers, or tokio hotel, because of small girls who think that there is this one person that they somehow think they can be with foreve...

 

[ohellynot]

Same reason guys like Spiderman. An unlikeable and selfish nerd gets bitten by a spider, becomes awesome, and then has beautiful women like Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane, Black Cat, (Kitty Pride) and others jump on him like he's the greatest thing slice sliced bread.

Twilight is the female version of this.

At least spider man had plots and was made by someone who's name is respected and has a fan base of more than spazzy teenage girls

 

[SnowCold]

There are so many ideas about vampires that are actually wrong. All this 'can't be seen in a mirror, turning into a bat, having visible fangs, etc.' that we all take for granted is actually WRONG, it all stems from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. He was as guilty of changing the ideas behind vampires as any trashy (or non-trashy) vampire film/novel today. Vampires are very versatile in that they have no set appearance, we only believe this to be the case thanks to Stoker's novel. The only truth behind vampires is that they originally came from various legends and myths that originated in the Far East. The stories spread and were later thought to have come from Eastern Europe, in particular Balkan countries like Bulgaria and Romania (hence Transylvania as the setting for Dracula, as this is a real place in Romania). There were many different legends that all played a part in creating the modern vampire. Some legends did indeed hold to the sort of thing explored in Dracula (for example, having no reflection and turning into a bat). However, these same stories also allowed for facts that are used in fiction today such as Twilight (e.g. sparkling in the sunlight, rather than being burned, or drinking animal blood rather than that of humans - note this is also a case in real life, with the actual species of bat called the 'vampire bat'). Anyone who deosn't like Twilight is entitled to their opinion, although I have to disagree with the Twilight bashing that keeps going on on threads like this. I am a straight guy who enjoyed the film and the books, and I understand that I am in a very small minority here, but everyone is entitled to an opinion and shouldn't be harassed by ANYONE (before you all start on me) for said opinion. I was able to read the books and watch the film not knowing if I would enjoy them or not, but with an open mind, because I was aware that Dracula and our pre-concieved notions of vampires are not the be-all and end-all, but that they are based on centuries old legends that are just as diverse as vampires in modern fiction.

Wait, so your saying vampires are real

OT:Well, the Twilight fad is over here in the holy-land too, and for some reason, almost every girl I know is reading the book, or if she has enough brains, she countinues to the sequle, which is thicker then the whole golden compass trilogy combiened, and isn't in hebrew yet. I guess it makes them feel smart to read a book or sumthing.

 

[Blow_Pop]

And, just for future reference:

If you want it to be possessive, it's just I T S, but if you want it to be a contraction, it's I T apostrophe S. Scalliwag.

for future reference, i know my grammar and spelling and if you notice 90% of the time i dont use any capitalization or grammar. its just laziness. but comparatively mine isnt half as bad as some of the people on this forum. english was one of my better subjects in school especially when it came to spelling and grammar. its a choice i get since i have to make sure everything is ocd perfect at work i slack off at home.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Same reason guys like Spiderman. An unlikeable and selfish nerd gets bitten by a spider, becomes awesome, and then has beautiful women like Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane, Black Cat, (Kitty Pride) and others jump on him like he's the greatest thing slice sliced bread.

Twilight is the female version of this.

At least spider man had plots and was made by someone who's name is respected and has a fan base of more than spazzy teenage girls

what about the boys that like twilight? my gamer boy loves twilight more than i do....and both of us love comic books(graphic novels whatever they are called now), i just read through the series faster than him.

 

[bad rider]

This thread is two months old, let it die, no-one cares anymore. God damn zombie thread are coming out of nowhere, *whips out shotgun* get back in the grave you bastards!

 

[GloatingSwine]

Also, Syfy (Sci-Fi... uh you know) Want to make a Twilight Anime.

Yeah.

I'll let that sit in peoples minds.

See, the problem with making a Twilight anime is not that twilight is bad. There's plenty of Edwards out there in Shojo and Josei manga.

No, it's rather more fundamental.

See, the vampires in twilight can't go out and they get emo why? Because they get all sparkly in sunlight.

But any sufficiently pretty anime boy sparkles anyway.

See? The vampires have nothing to be emo about any more. (Also, they're going to have to step up the prettiness to compete, I'm (mostly) straight and I fancy Alto.)

 

[CapnGod]

And, just for future reference:

If you want it to be possessive, it's just I T S, but if you want it to be a contraction, it's I T apostrophe S. Scalliwag.

for future reference, i know my grammar and spelling and if you notice 90% of the time i dont use any capitalization or grammar. its just laziness. but comparatively mine isnt half as bad as some of the people on this forum. english was one of my better subjects in school especially when it came to spelling and grammar. its a choice i get since i have to make sure everything is ocd perfect at work i slack off at home.

Well, that was a Strong Bad quote, so calm down.

 

[FrankDux]

It's all about undying love and a guy that's willing to do anything for the woman he loves.

I think that pretty much sums up why it's so popular

 

[Blow_Pop]

And, just for future reference:

If you want it to be possessive, it's just I T S, but if you want it to be a contraction, it's I T apostrophe S. Scalliwag.

for future reference, i know my grammar and spelling and if you notice 90% of the time i dont use any capitalization or grammar. its just laziness. but comparatively mine isnt half as bad as some of the people on this forum. english was one of my better subjects in school especially when it came to spelling and grammar. its a choice i get since i have to make sure everything is ocd perfect at work i slack off at home.

Well, that was a Strong Bad quote, so calm down.

what's funny, is this is me calm. me angry....well i don't let myself online at that point.

 

[Curiosity's Cat]

As someone who was obsessed with Buffy and read a lot of Ann Rice, I have to say I've avoided the hell out this franchise, my ovaries be damned.

Though I'm in no position to judge it not having read/watched it, I have to say it seems like a sappy watered down version of the vampire romances I've already encountered. I find it hard to believe it could stand up against the Buffy/Angel romance or any one of Lestats encounters...

 

[benjimoon]

Because Edward is "perfect." That's all there is to it. It's personality/description word-porn.

And that movie about recycling and tits? Make it. I would watch that.

i noted the way edward acted in the film and i hardly think girls want a guy like that some one who stalks you, has mad mood swings between loving you and hateing you and to top it all off has told you he wants to eat you

But he's so pretty and sensitive.

and i can shoot shurikens and lightning. SHURIKENS AND LIGHTNING!!!

 

[MMMowman]

Vampire = great AWESOMENESS
Vampires = PURE AWESOMENESS
twilight = WTF!!!!!

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Because most girls hate guys, and want to PRETEND to like it just to piss us off.

 

[TopHatTim]

becuase twilight is the fantasy perfect relationship.
idk why edward cullen is so awesome and romantic.
several times in the movie he tried to drink her blood and fully admitted to it.
my girlfriend and all my friends and their girls went to see it together.
terrible terrible movie

 

[fuelle]

Because the actor playing Edward is hot. thats why, there just as shallow as men in that respect.

I don't believe that. Lindsay Lohan is a very attractive girl but how many guys in here saw Herbie: Fully Loaded or Georgia Rules?

Lindsay Lohan has been kinda a cock blocker ever since she jumped on the old tuna boat (so to speak).

 

[bvaisius]

Because Twilight is Gay and Women like gay shit. It is the way it always has been. If it were to change the whole universe would asplode.

grammar nazi is kinda contradictory but thats ok