retyopy said:
I suppose people hate it for the same reason people hate Call of Duty. Because it's popular. Or something.
My disdain for it derives from horrendously poor writing, be it pertaining to the plot itself or the characters within. We have scenes with no logic rationality behind how they reached that conclusion; Edward abruptly loving Bella for instance. Not to mention terrible over abundance of purple prose supposedly fill the novels, with Meyers going into excessive detail of every inch of Edward's body. You factor the subsequent poor acting, camera work, scenery on occasion, hilariously bad 'monster battles' and there is little redeeming it.
All that aside, one of the principle reasons Twilight is so vehemently loathed by some is for the portrayal of vampires, and to a lesser extent, werewolves. It basically makes a mockery of both, taking in nothing from the near century worth of lore to support either, instead running a completely foreign concept to the point we hardly recognize what they are. People are than forced to ask, "Why did you even call them, Vampires?" To which we all know the answer. "Vampires are popular."
So it comes a marketing gimmick and demonstrates just how uncreative and unimaginative Meyers is. The final nail in the coffin, as it were, would be the effect since Twilight's popularity explosion. We no longer see vampires depicted as they were, at least not frequently. Most are being utilized in a teenage drama-esque fashion to capitalize on Twilight. Thus fans of the pre-Twilight vampires and werewolves watched their fandom become tainted. If you detest the X-Men films, you have plenty of alternatives. Vampires have quite a limited scope nowadays, or so it seems.
Call of Duty may be disliked but it isn't a bad game, not be any stretch. There is documented fact to support the notion Twilight is indeed a poorly written novel and movie.
Frankly, you know a series is bad when the two lead actors absolutely hate it. Pattinson goes on to say the following...
"When I read it I was convinced Stephenie was convinced she was Bella and it was like it was a book that wasn't supposed to be published. It was like reading her sexual fantasy, especially when she said it was based on a dream and it was like, 'Oh I've had this dream about this really sexy guy,' and she just writes this book about it. Like some things about Edward are so specific, I was just convinced, like, 'This woman is mad. She's completely mad and she's in love with her own fictional creation.' And sometimes you would feel uncomfortable reading this thing."
He also says this...
"When you read the book," Says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid even without make-up, "It's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself'. I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just coudln't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated, the more i hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there."
