Anyone here hate "Twilight"

I liked the first book the rest of them imo Bella came across as just annoying espically in the second

The films though omg! The wood scene with the whole 'your a vampire' me and my mate were trying hard not to laugh..something about it just omg this is so bad!
 
I tried to read Twilight when I first heard about all this hype about it. This was before the film had been made, but somehow I'd heard nothing aobut this and t was apparently like the next Harry Potter and everything. So I got hold of a copy and gave it a try.

It reminded me of English class from school. The book was written like an example of all the things you're taught NOT to do when writing! It was really god-damned awful. I could'nt quite believe I was reading a published book, let alone something that people were falling all over. I decided to skip forward a few chapaters to see if the writing got any better, but alas, it remained awful.

Really cannot understand how it got so popular. Still, it makes me feel more hopeful about getting published myself. If this drivel can get a publisher to buy it, I sure as hell can, too!
 
I bought this on dvd, just to see what all the hype was about. I just couldnt get in to the film, after watching it twice i still dont understand what happens. The only bit i enjoyed was the baseball bit - and that was due to the music.
 
Hate is a bit strong although I don't get the fascination with it and the films don't interest me at all.

Robert Pattinson is good looking guy, but I'm not really attracted to him if that makes sense, so I find him a bit overhyped too.
 
"twilight" is for the ugly teenage girls whose angsty, hormone-driven, burgeoning sexual frustration at being sidelined can be instead directed at "edward", the angsty vampire who falls for geeky, and probably ugly, chicks
 
Never read it or seen the film. But if it gives ladies some kinky vampire/werewolf fantasies then i'm all for that. Beats the whole tealights and bubblebath thing.
 
Just watched Twilight on SKY HD and it was pretty good .

The trouble is that ... it pale's (:D) in comparison to TRUE BLOOD !!!!

In the UK we are halfway through Series 1 of True Blood with another 9 books to go at !!!
 
For those scratching their heaRAB at the Twilight phenomenon, I would just like to say that it's success is due purely to great marketing, nothing more, nothing less.

You get the right people pushing the right product at the right audience then it simply can't fail, regardless of the quality of that product.
 
Snap. Spot on about the books, and I don't think the message they are conveying to teens about relationships is healthy at all.

The film - another matter. He's perfectly acceptable to look at!
 
my daughter just turned 15 last week and Stephenie Meyer was a huge thing in our house a couple of years back. I remember being parked outside a bookshop waiting for it to open when Breaking Dawn was released (even though we had it preordered and the delivery truck was nowhere in sight). I think at that point I knew this woman's whole life history....a mormon who loves Muse and writes about Vampires??) and I read the books to see what the hype was (didn't understand how my seemingly intelligent daughter could read these dire books).
The happiest day for me was when she saw the movie.......she HATED it!! couldn't understand the hype about RPatz, realised the dire script, and complete absence of chemistry between Bella and Edward on screen. She initially blamed the media, director, casting agent etc. but returned to her beloved books and was determined to reread them for the umpteenth time and reconnect with the characters she had fallen in love with in the first place...... I am thankful to say she didn't even manage to finish Twilight and the books are no more in her life.

She has now found a love for Jane Austen and the Bronte Sisters (fingers crossed Keira Shitely doesn't wreck these for her ;))
 
This is the crux of it for me.....

From where Im standing Edward Cullen is a bit of a c***. And if I dont buy him then NONE of the books/films make any sense to me.....

I mean to me hes just the fantasy boyfriend for women who like BASTARRAB! :mad: Simple as that.....

So hes devoted, attentive and chivalous one minute, cold, distanct, withdrawn and sulky the next???

And this is supposed to be attractive traits??

Plus you are right about controlling... HE calls the shots, always.....

VERY bad role model for women IMO....
 
I have never read a single page of the books or seen a single clip of the movies, except for the ones that appear on TV but I have encountered many people who say Stephenie Meyer writes the worst books they have ever had the misfortune of reading and I trust their opinions.

I have also never heard of one male who likes these books. Watching the premiere on the news tonight showed the entire crowd to be of the female persuasion.
 
I work in a bookshop and you'd be amazed at the age range of people buying the Twilight books - there are quite a few women in their 60s who come in who are just dotty about them :D

I don't hate Twilight at all. Sales of those books are pretty much keeping me in a job, and if people are coming in to buy Twilight, we also have the opportunity to get them onto other authors and series. It's a huge money-spinner;)
 
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