I like twilight.

[spartan231490]

dang, thats intents.

 

[Tanto-chan]

i like twilight BECAUSE i like (as i like to say) collecting vampire mythos and she took an interesting spin on things. that and i was pestered into it by a friend. if not for the time and the friend i never would have known. I read the first three all RIGHT at the cusp of the big hype boom (shiver) and if i have been any later i think i would have rather killed myself than read a hypey book and throw myself into this battle of 'it's good' VS 'it's horrid' VS 'it's the new god' (I swear there's a cult somewhere by now). I'm on the it's good side. I liked it for what it was and that i could finish it in three days and not lose sleep. I'm reminded of Harry Potter boom and pray that this one will fade down just as much quickly (no offense to fans i like the first few but after 4 i was done). I'm simply tired of all the stupid people flinging their hate around because they have nothing better to do just as much as I'm tired of the crazy in love stalking Rob Pattinson rabid fans. The books were nice. so was star trek and i thought that was boring as shit and yet i don't belittle the fans just cause i didn't like it SO THERE!

 

[Haagrum]

This explains it, really.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

I troll Twilight chat rooms on my spare time.

I think that says enough about my opinion on Twilight.

 

[Brad Shepard]

I hate it with the passion of 1000 suns.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Tried reading it, and I honestly think she can't write, it's a shameless self insert fantasy that for some reason girls love.

If I was to ever watch a girl sleep or any of the other shit Edward does, I'd probably be slapped or worse. So I fail to see the main "Attraction" to these (In my own opninion.) crappy stories.

Also, these books/movie have bred stupidity. Did you see the article about the dumb teen who thinks Stephanie Meyer invented Werewolves etc?

 

[kurupt87]

The escapist is better, but thats kinda like being more religious than an atheist. Not much of an accomplishment. At least, the escapist is better in my experience.

Well, not to start an unrelated troll session here but why, by implication, do you believe religious people are better than atheists? If you didn't mean it then just think more about what you are writing. If you did mean it then I guess we won't be friends.

That.

That link explains with a simple picture why people hate twilight.

Unrelated really, but completely true.

Looking through the posts a recurring theme for why people particulary hate it is the in-your-face devotion that the series' fans give to people that do not like it. I mean Harry Potter was obviously another hugely popular young adult book but I don't remember any of its fans acting in the plain rude and obnoxious way that Twilighters do.

The fact that it murders and rapes what vampires are/were to any non Twilighter would be happily ignored by most people, but due to the rabid fans though this doesn't/can't happen. It's like your sports team lost at whatever game they play to a team that someone you know, whom you hate, supports. They bring it up every time they see you, in an unpleasant way and not in a friendly jokey way. It grates.

 

[Energylegzz]

Its not the books or the movies that annoy me, its the damn fan girls! When I hear their high pitched screams (of excitement not pain) I want to jam a spoon through my forehead. I'm not blaming all the fans just the annoying ones, I suppose there are always the radical ones in every fan base.But still if they would keep to themselves and quit screaming we probably could have gotten along and everything could have been fuckin rainbows and ponies.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I liked the books, movies are so-so great actors and actresses it's just theyre not given much to work with.

 

[jmoore4ska]

What she did, is she had a specific target audience: teenage females. Knowing this, she didnt waste her time trying to write with language or themes or dialogue they wouldn't understand.

If i were a teenage female, i would feel extremely patronized by both this sentence and the twilight series, too.

 

[Energylegzz]

Fargodog, and Razada, thanks for the imput, but I just don't see it. admittedly, the sparkly vamps is mildly disconserting, but on everything else I personally, don't see it.

Ok, I will sum up everything very simply.

People hate twilight for a few simple reasons

A) They loved Vampires before Twilight (The Darren Shan books got me through most of my teenage years) and now people think they like Twilight.
B) Connected to A), They can no longer publicly talk about Vampires without seeming to be sexually repressed morons
C) Vampires used to be awesome. Seriously. Drinking peoples blood. Running faster then cars. Turning into bats.
D) The books attack the nature of Vampire mythology without taking anything positive about it into account.
E) They do not fall into the "Teenage Female" demographic and yet they are constantly assaulted with Twilight despite having no interest in it.

F) And this is the big one. We have read real fantasy books. Better books. With characters who are believable, characters you can empathize with and a plot more complicated then a game of tic-tac-toe. Some of us have beloved authors who have failed to capture the media attention. Christ, George R. R. Martin is arguably much better then Tolkien. But tripe like Meyers stuff wins out.

There are probably more, I aint going to attack the fanbase, the hype, the fact that she is a mormon and this infects her writing like Herpes. Those are the reasons I hate Twilight and the reasons my close friends hate twilight.

700 internet points for the Darren Shan mention one of my favorite authors.

 

[zehydra]

The reason people hate twilight is not for the sparkly vampires, its because the girls flock to them like they're fucking chocolate pudding ice cream!

 

[oktalist]

almost everyone I know hates twilight because the vampires are sparkly.

What means sparkly?

I hate Twilight chiefly because of my perception that it promotes violence towards women. Oh, and because I'm not twelve.

 

[hangman717]

i always thought the main complaint was that they pretty much defanged the vamps haven't read them but thats what i hear

 

[supersixfour]

though you can like whatever to wish to like, so can i, twilight in my opinion is an enormously over hyped, movie and book, blood sucking juggernaut. there is a better way to convey a narrative than make it match its target audience, and the author could have possibly expanded her fan base by adding more mature language and dialogue to make the novel a little more serious to its readers. the movies just drove it off a cliff with the only remotely good acting done by Taylor Lautner, whose career is quite possibly ruined for being in such a tragedy, but when its all said and done, its not over all terrible its just, bad. That is my opinion.

 

[PrimoThePro]

*Sigh* It's poor writing, because Stephanie Myer dumbed down the writing of the original vampire just to get a target audience. That is not okay. She attempted to kill proper literature. She accomplished all of this by making it mainstream. Peeps wasn't mainstream. Mercedes Thompson wasn't mainstream. Alpha wasn't mainstream. I feel like Stephanie Myers whored out the idea just to make a buck.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

EDIT: Read Let the Right One In for an idea of how to do a more personal, emotional vampire story properly. Twilight is just god awful in every way.

I'll admit I haven't read twilight, but I agree with the suggestion that all readers of vampire books should acquire Let the Right One In and read it at some point.

I really need to get round to watching the DVD at some point...

 

[Projo]

I hate Twilight. I hate the reimagining of long established themes, I hate the bastardization of age old names, I hate the terribly shallow plot, and I hate the franchise it has established for itself.


And I am thankful that it brought people back to reading.

 

[saintchristopher]

The thing about Twilight is, once you accept how eye-stabbingly awful the whole enterprise is, it can almost become enjoyable. Try this little game:

Go to your local bookstore (or just grab it if you own a copy) and open any of the books in the series.
Flip the book open to a random page.
Read aloud a random passage on that random page.

I GUARANTEE YOU: it will be the most ridiculous thing you will have ever said out loud in your entire life.

 

[dbmountain]

I'll tell you why I didn't like the Twilight series, you even said it in the original post. Its target is for female teenagers. Both of which I am neither