The twilight saga

[Aecko]

I hear it's quiet a bad influence on young girls, too.

 

Apparently Bella is really whiney, weak, and dependant. Damsel in distress. Edward is apparently a controlling, angry jerk who she falls in love with. Result: girls think controlling, jerkish guys are attractive.

 

At least this is what I've read. I could be totally wrong.

[MonsterHunterMaster]

I heard they wear painting a sixpack on that vampires guy belly.

Means: He doesnt really have a sixpack.

[Skotte]

I do wonder why the sun is so neutered

 

Vamps typically violently combust, smolder slowly, or go poof in sunlight.

 

but Twilight saga vamps...

 

Oh dear lord! I'm sparkling!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (screaming like a girl)

[zprospero]

Well, my main problem is that it pretty much eradicates everything

about vampires that's from lore, other than the blood-drinking.

 

This is a vampire:

 

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp269/cafehey/Nosferatu2.jpg

 

That aside, the 'relationship' is incredibly unbalanced.

 

Is it 'love' because he doesn't snap her neck or drink her blood?

She's in complete surrender to his whims because he's cute?

A decidedly unhealthy attitude.

 

The movie, however, has many many things against it, even if you like the books.

 

The acting is... not up to par. And the screenwriter apparently refused to realize

that they were not writing a book. They transferred a great deal of things from the

book that have no possible way of working in a movie. You can't have characters stare

into each other's eyes for five minutes, saying nothing, with no voice-over. In a book

you can get away with it, not in a film.

 

That doesn't work.

 

I find the solution to this, mainly because I'm a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan,

is something called Rifftrax. Google it or look on Youtube for the samples, it makes

such movies much more bearable.

[MonsterHunterMaster]

NOSFERATU!!!(Do you call him that way in the US?)

I think the twilight saga is more for kinda little kids(6years old), to have their first experience with vampires

[zprospero]

Well, I suppose the concept of vampires in Twilight is easier

for parents to stomach showing their kids (all my own feelings aside)

since they do sparkle instead of burning to death, screaming in agony.

 

That being said it has far too many other messages

going on. If I had kids I wouldn't let them watch it.

 

I say let them watch the Christopher Lee Dracula so

they have nightmares about vampires, like they should,

instead of wanting to marry them.

 

Yes, we call him Nosferatu in the US, but his

name is actually Count Orlock. Bram Stoker

sued because they tried to use the name Dracula,

so they changed it at the last second. I think on my

DVD of it the speech cards say Dracula, though.

[zprospero]

It double posted by itself...

 

I'm here talking about vampires and my computer is haunted.

 

Great.

 

Seriously though, Horror of Dracula, the Lee one, has the best vampire death scene ever.

He doesn't sparkle, that's for sure.

[UncleRoe]

Never seen twilight,but i've got a few friends that claim edward cullen has taken their girlfriends away from them..one of them even has me believing he wants cullen dead..so.. the show can't be all THAT bad.