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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:41 pm
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Shadow__Dweller Rishon I like vampires, i remember how i felt when i first saw Underworld. that movie was amazing then vampires kinda fell out of my life. now i think the only good Twilight has done is renew my love with vampires. but for all the wrong reasons. this disease known as that book with the freaking apple on the cover has swept teen girls like a virus, or pregnancy. i found then that the story is really like a watered down virsion of a fan fiction with vampires and 90210. and the previews make it look like all the vampires are superman with fangs and black jeans. the main girl looks like someone i would never hang out with that says "OH MY GOD" a lot. also the main vampire looks like he just took the needle out of his arm before he went in front of the camera. i then asked myself "are there any good vampire movies and books" and upon this quest i found Anne Rice. i am now in the process of reading Interview with the Vampire. the book is amazing, a little perverted and homosexual but good none the less. and it focuses around the life of a vampire and the psychological effects not "OMG!!!!!11 my BF is like...eh.. totally a vampzireizzle biggrin biggrin heart whee biggrin " "the main girl looks like someone I would never hang out with".... so you only hang out with people who you judge by the way they look first? Twilight and the Vampire Chronicles cannot even be compared. They are aimed at 2 completely different audiences with completely different stories. Anne Rice is a genius but she is not writing for young teenage girls. I think Stephanie Meyer does a great job at writing for her targeted audience, and I can appreciate the book for what it is...just pure silly entertainment. It's not a great work of literature but it's not meant to be taken that way and anyone who does take it that way is just missing the point all together. I haven't seen the movie, nor do I intend to, but I'm sick to death of people saying Robert Pattington is ugly. I don't have a huge crush on him, I'm 20 for goodness sake, but there is no way he's ugly. I'm glad that he was chosen because it's good to see someone who looks a little manly (square jaw and all) rather than the usual effeminate male that young teens seem to love these days. Twilight promotes real love and romance, when everywhere we look in society teens are being persuaded to "grow old before their time", what with sex everywhere in the media...and if Twilight gets kids and teens to read books, and makes them believe in real love, then it can only b e a good thing.
i do agree with the fact that the only thing Vampire chronicals and twilight have in common is vampires. and you say that the books promote love with out the sex but they have a kid together. surly i don't have to explain the connection.
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:53 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:54 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:19 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:45 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:00 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:41 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:27 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:51 am
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:59 am
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Rishon Shadow__Dweller Rishon I like vampires, i remember how i felt when i first saw Underworld. that movie was amazing then vampires kinda fell out of my life. now i think the only good Twilight has done is renew my love with vampires. but for all the wrong reasons. this disease known as that book with the freaking apple on the cover has swept teen girls like a virus, or pregnancy. i found then that the story is really like a watered down virsion of a fan fiction with vampires and 90210. and the previews make it look like all the vampires are superman with fangs and black jeans. the main girl looks like someone i would never hang out with that says "OH MY GOD" a lot. also the main vampire looks like he just took the needle out of his arm before he went in front of the camera. i then asked myself "are there any good vampire movies and books" and upon this quest i found Anne Rice. i am now in the process of reading Interview with the Vampire. the book is amazing, a little perverted and homosexual but good none the less. and it focuses around the life of a vampire and the psychological effects not "OMG!!!!!11 my BF is like...eh.. totally a vampzireizzle biggrin biggrin heart whee biggrin " "the main girl looks like someone I would never hang out with".... so you only hang out with people who you judge by the way they look first? Twilight and the Vampire Chronicles cannot even be compared. They are aimed at 2 completely different audiences with completely different stories. Anne Rice is a genius but she is not writing for young teenage girls. I think Stephanie Meyer does a great job at writing for her targeted audience, and I can appreciate the book for what it is...just pure silly entertainment. It's not a great work of literature but it's not meant to be taken that way and anyone who does take it that way is just missing the point all together. I haven't seen the movie, nor do I intend to, but I'm sick to death of people saying Robert Pattington is ugly. I don't have a huge crush on him, I'm 20 for goodness sake, but there is no way he's ugly. I'm glad that he was chosen because it's good to see someone who looks a little manly (square jaw and all) rather than the usual effeminate male that young teens seem to love these days. Twilight promotes real love and romance, when everywhere we look in society teens are being persuaded to "grow old before their time", what with sex everywhere in the media...and if Twilight gets kids and teens to read books, and makes them believe in real love, then it can only b e a good thing. i do agree with the fact that the only thing Vampire chronicals and twilight have in common is vampires. and you say that the books promote love with out the sex but they have a kid together. surly i don't have to explain the connection.
I agree with what all of u are saying.. but maybe the point of love without sex is that they don't have sex from the very beginning... it takes like wat two more books for that to happen... he waited and so did she til they were married, right? maybe that's the point!! They waited.. didn't do right off the bat!! Like most stories and movies now a days!!! Sorry for budding in like that!!! Couldn't resist!!
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Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:00 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:01 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:53 am
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I used to be a follower of Twilight.
Used to.
However, the staggering amount of commercialization, lack of creativity in anything beyond the first book (and even then I'm giving the thing some leway), and the hoardes of fanboys and fangirls proclaiming themselves to be Edward and Bella has really wanted to make me take a gun loaded with silver bullets to my werewolf-loving heart.
If anything, yes, the genre has been tapped out. Vampire love stories were great when they were new and...sparkly (I used it, yes I did,) with something no one had really read about before. However, I find that Twilight went beyond love story into relationship dependant/dementia.
I've seen it. Guys saying that they must be Edward to their girls. Girls saying that they want so badly to be his Bella. God damn! Now all I see where there once was a person with his/her own uniqueness are mindless drones with crazed posession in their eyes.
But perhaps this is what the tweens want. So be it. However, this age group has a bad habit of swarming to one idea one year and then leaving it for another. Pokemon as an example anyone? Harry Potter?
I will never watch the movie. From what I hear, the acting is horrid, the scenes are not well played out, and all in all it progresses into a Mary Sue-ish style of damsel-in-distress, only Robin Hood craves blood and sparkles in the sunshine.
All in all, if you really must read a love story, read a good one. If you want a vampire story, read a good one! There are plently other series and novella that far outrank the Twilight Saga in both style, dictation, drama, horror, and romance.
To those of you who remain fans: So be it. Perhaps one day you will really be taken for a ride with a story worth the glamour and fame Edward Cullen has.
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Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:20 am
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