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An article every twilight fan should read.
The Top Twenty Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/twilight-lessons-girls-learn/
For those who despise reading, a few important points.
14. If the boy you are in love with causes you (even indirectly) to be so badly beaten you end up in the hospital, you should tell the doctors and your family that you ?fell down the steps? because you are such a silly, clumsy girl. That false explanation always works well for abused women.
10. Even though you have no intention of dating an alternative male who expresses interest in you, it is fine to string the young man along for months. Also, you should use him to fix things for you. Maybe he?ll even buy you something.
7. It is extremely romantic to put yourself in dangerous situations in order to see your ex-boyfriend again. It?s even more romantic to remember the sound of his voice when he yelled at you.
2. Secrets are good ? especially life-threatening ones.
and number one
1. If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you ? and you are the point of his existence.
These books are the psychologist's worst nightmare. Its teaching girls that guys like Edward are the greatest thing since sliced freakin bread. Any therapist will tell you that these books are destroying girls' abilities to have proper healthy relationships.
Source: Wired Magazine, my own experience while researching for my masters thesis in psychology.
The Top Twenty Unfortunate Lessons Girls Learn From Twilight
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/11/twilight-lessons-girls-learn/
For those who despise reading, a few important points.
14. If the boy you are in love with causes you (even indirectly) to be so badly beaten you end up in the hospital, you should tell the doctors and your family that you ?fell down the steps? because you are such a silly, clumsy girl. That false explanation always works well for abused women.
10. Even though you have no intention of dating an alternative male who expresses interest in you, it is fine to string the young man along for months. Also, you should use him to fix things for you. Maybe he?ll even buy you something.
7. It is extremely romantic to put yourself in dangerous situations in order to see your ex-boyfriend again. It?s even more romantic to remember the sound of his voice when he yelled at you.
2. Secrets are good ? especially life-threatening ones.
and number one
1. If a boy is aloof, stand-offish, ignores you or is just plain rude, it is because he is secretly in love with you ? and you are the point of his existence.
These books are the psychologist's worst nightmare. Its teaching girls that guys like Edward are the greatest thing since sliced freakin bread. Any therapist will tell you that these books are destroying girls' abilities to have proper healthy relationships.
Source: Wired Magazine, my own experience while researching for my masters thesis in psychology.
I don't think that's quite right. I think the idea of it appeals to the fan legion, but the actual movie is usually derided as between meh and FFS!Singularly Datarific said:
Prequels: Trashed - Nuke the Fridge: Trashed - Terminator with Boobs; Trashed - Everyone's a Nympho-Pirate! - Trashed; More people can name the actors than the Autobots - Trashed.
But of course, this is only because "we just don't understand how the NEW series is better".
Also see Star Trek, Doctor Who, Being Human or almost every re-make.
{Cuz I know someone will challenge this : None of those were bad, it's just they were a major departure from the original premise in order to appeal to the "youf".)
(Go on, challenge me on The New Munsters)
There's the rare occasion where it works (The Addams Family, Highlander after "That One", Aliens/Alien4) but in general it's the deathtoll only reserved for comic book adaptations.
What Hollywood fails to understand, or want to understand, is that the fans want the fans movie. The public want the public movie. If you hype the fans up with talk of a fan movie, and then pull the bait/switch to a public movie, you gross out the box office.
And then it leaves the franchise bleeding in a gutter somewhere.
Of course, if a fan movie does get out (Dark Knight, Watchmen), then invariably it's ignored by the "reviewers" in favour of the historically inaccurate (Saving Private Ryan) or the plain exploitative (Forrest Gump).
(Yeah, Star Trek etc. weren't historically accurate, but they never claim to be. "Based on a true story" means a little bit more than naming characters after real people, Good Morning Vietnam)
New Moon actually survives that by being as bad as Twilight. As for accurately representing the book, it's possibly one of the best films out there. Jeezuz, I just squicked myself out.
Although possibly not as much as "The Lovely Bones" will.
Woah dude, save your lamentations for when it surpasses The Dark Knight, now that would be a tragedy.Ranooth said:
OT: I read that article about what is driving Twilight's popularity. I hadn't thought of it but it makes perfect sense, as far as the girls go. Sadly, most of the twitards I know are guys. Friends of mine actually which does nothing but make it perplexing again. I could make fun of them for it but considering that knm (cookie for knowing what that means, it's from 2004, that's the only clue you get)is my favorite anime and that I actually paid money for Passchedaele I let it go, mocking them purely in jest. One of my friends has a set of fangs, that's how big a fan he is. I call him Dracula. So as you can imagine I'm irritated by the fact that I never hear the fucking end of it.
Point. But I'd call Alucard MORE than a vampire. He's more like the essence of what makes a vampire ramped up to over 9000- a true monster, hundreds of years old, deceptively human in appearance, whose shape is controlled only by his whim and who feeds on mankind but is less evil than utterly ammoral. Alucard has more in common with Castlevania's rendition of Dracula, who is more like a demon god than Bela Lugosi. He is a vampire because of his powers, not his weaknesses. I mean, it's a pretty lame monster that is defined solely by what it's VULNERABLE to. Frankly I think Hellsing's rendition of vampires is, if not mythologically accurate, then at least the defining modern interpretation of what a vampire is. And let's face it, when you're up against Edward "Pussy" Cullen, the so-called "vampire" who fucking glitters in sunlight, it's EASY to look cool and badass.Amnestic said:
Besides, Alucard specifically points out that he's resistant to the traditional vampiric weaknesses because he's an ancient vampire, a sort of elder or master. His protege Seras has all the traditional vampiric weaknesses (except, apparently, garlic).
That MW3 will feature Russians and mikuru with AK-47 fighting sparkling vampires?The_root_of_all_evil said:
Oh my god... I have an original idea!
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I dunno, I'm a girl (or rather, a young woman), and I ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS BULLSHIT. Ahem. Unfortunetly, I have a few female friends age who DO like this crap... (Sigh)FailingwithStyle said:I feel like I'm the only girl that hates this crap.
I'm not quite sure what it is that turns me off about Twilight, maybe it's the whole "Sparkly Vampires" thing that drives Vampire/supernatural stuff affectionados like myself batty. (Er... no pun intended.)
In short, chin up friend, you're not alone on this one!
Number 4 (the movie) will be hilarious. I wait in anticipation to see how they manage to film Edward ripping Bella's uterus open with his teeth. Also, the raunchy vampire secksing. Oh, and the wolfboy borderline-raping the newborn. Oh, and all the other terrifying shit she put in there that made not only the sane people, but also the fans to burn or return the books in their millions.
I think I'll enjoy that one XD
I think I'll enjoy that one XD
Oh. Dear. God.L3m0n_L1m3 said:
My faith in humanity (specifically teenage girls and romantic standards), just by Michael Bay and this series is dead. Guttered. Bleeding. End.
