Twilight: You've gotta be kidding me.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:07 pm

Sparkles? Seriously?

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:09 pm

Lago PARANOIA wrote:Sparkles? Seriously?

I live in Eastern Europe and don't see new movies. What are you talking about?

-Username17

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:13 pm

I didn't see that move because I'm so fucking sick of vampires.

angelfromanotherpin · Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:13 pm

There's a book series about vampires called Twilight. A movie based on some part of the series came out recently. In Twilight, vampires avoid the sun not because it kills them, but because it causes their skin to sparkle.

Yeah, the vampires-as-sex metaphor is fairly unsubtle in that property.

TarkisFlux · Post by **TarkisFlux** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:14 pm

/sigh...

I envy your blissful ignorance of this annoying vampire book/movie tween girl craze.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:23 pm

I haven't seen the movie nor read the book, but I did see an Entertainment Weekly cover where the fucking male lead was sparkling.

I thought that was a parody, not a serious film, so I pointed that out to a buddy and they told me that the vampires were supposed to do that.

And I was like 'what? what the hell could cause a vampire to sparkle' and they were all 'sunlight'.

I thought I was in for one hilarious urban fantasy parody; imagine my disappointment when I found out that Twilight was your standard horny teen girl potboiler.

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:25 pm

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:46 pm

Honestly, I thought it was part of the Anita Blake series.

-Username17

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:59 pm

NM, again. Goddamn websites, not letting me steal their images wholesale.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:02 pm

Recovering Mormon reads them so you don't have to.

-Crissa

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:28 pm

I've actually been following the reviews of the series, as something of a bit of amateur cultural observation.

To be honest, what sells the series is the romantic lead male, Edward. Let's just say he's pale and pretty and he's always right--to the point of him stepping into a girl's life and basically taking it over and managing things for her, and there's a lot of people who want that sort of thing in their significant other. For reasons I can intellectually acknowledge but not emotionally identify with.

Really, the best analysis I've seen on it has been on the website Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.

This is the review of the book...

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ ... nie-meyer/

And here's some attention dedicated to Sir Edward of Sparklyville.

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ ... ut-edward/

Oh, and here's a trailer, and then a parody of a trailer. The actual trailer's on the bottom. I swear they have the same guy in the hoodie saying "She's not one of us!" in both of them...

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ ... ght-movie/

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:40 am

FrankTrollman wrote: I live in Eastern Europe

Well there's your problem.

I see Stephenie Meyer as the Anne Rice of our times. Perhaps not as mopey, unstable, or shallowminded of an author, but certainly marketable.
There's ALWAYS a plethora of chunky goth wiccans to cash in on, a renewable economic resource of Western culture.

I just find it sad that many of those same Twilight fans answer with a "hunh?" when asked what they think of Interview with a Vampire, movie or novel (movie: decent; novel: yawn).

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:47 am

Oh, there's a high chance she's on prozac and is unstable and shallowminded.

She's from Utah, and is a Mormon in good standing.

-Crissa

Lago PARANOIA · Post by **Lago PARANOIA** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 3:44 am

You know, reading the blogging of her book through an ex-Mormon perspective makes me feel bad for her.

Do Mormons really go through all that the LJer implied? That's really messed up.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:12 am

sigma999 wrote:
FrankTrollman wrote: I live in Eastern Europe
Well there's your problem.

I see Stephenie Meyer as the Anne Rice of our times. Perhaps not as mopey, unstable, or shallowminded of an author, but certainly marketable.
There's ALWAYS a plethora of chunky goth wiccans to cash in on, a renewable economic resource of Western culture.

I just find it sad that many of those same Twilight fans answer with a "hunh?" when asked what they think of Interview with a Vampire, movie or novel (movie: decent; novel: yawn).

The Wiccans and goths I know fucking hate Twilight. It's the preppy little blond bimbos that seem to love it down here in Texas.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:25 am

You're in Texas, uber? My sister lives in Texas.

...Sorry, that's all I have to add to this thread.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:04 am

Talisman wrote:You're in Texas, uber? My sister lives in Texas.

...Sorry, that's all I have to add to this thread.

Fo' Sho. DFW area currently. Any reason that I seemed like a Yankee?

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:31 am

ubernoob wrote:
Talisman wrote:You're in Texas, uber? My sister lives in Texas.

...Sorry, that's all I have to add to this thread.
Fo' Sho. DFW area currently. Any reason that I seemed like a Yankee?

DFW? hmm looks like we have several Denners in that area. If I'm right, Fbmf and Ramnza live somewhere in the same vicinity as well. I live in Denton these days.

ubernoob · Post by **ubernoob** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:40 am

A_Cynic wrote:
ubernoob wrote:
Talisman wrote:You're in Texas, uber? My sister lives in Texas.

...Sorry, that's all I have to add to this thread.
Fo' Sho. DFW area currently. Any reason that I seemed like a Yankee?
DFW? hmm looks like we have several Denners in that area. If I'm right, Fbmf and Ramnza live somewhere in the same vicinity as well. I live in Denton these days.

Midnight lives not ten minutes from where I go to school. Kaelik actually goes to the school I should be going to next year.

Denners be everywhere. We should all meet up at the next GenCon and carpool.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:20 am

dammit, I've got like one person in my vicinety, and to call it "my vicinity" is stretching the definition by a lot...

on topic: My girlfriend has become obsessed with the blood sucking fae, fortunately she's well versed in Ann Rice, Annita Blake, and actual folk lore...

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:24 am

Prak_Anima wrote:dammit, I've got like one person in my vicinety, and to call it "my vicinity" is stretching the definition by a lot...

on topic: My girlfriend has become obsessed with the blood sucking fae, fortunately she's well versed in Ann Rice, Annita Blake, and actual folk lore...

I would call neither Anne Rice nor Anita blake a fortunate occurence.

In other news: Sparkling as a symbolism for Vampires makes no sense.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:29 am

ubernoob wrote:The Wiccans and goths I know fucking hate Twilight. It's the preppy little blond bimbos that seem to love it down here in Texas.

Must be a different subculture arrangement than here on the east coast.

Talisman · Post by **Talisman** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 6:32 am

Maxus wrote:Really, the best analysis I've seen on it has been on the website Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.

This is the review of the book...

http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/ ... nie-meyer/

I read all 4 reviews.

They hurt my brain.

Damn you, Smeyers. Damn you, Maxus, for pointing it out.
Damn you sparkly Mormon vampires and pedophile werewolves!!!

I live near Louisville, KY, future home of The Arena No One Wants. Any other Denners nearby?

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:07 am

Yeah, the thing that got me about Twilight is that the female lead is around 16 years old, and the male lead is around 100. Great grampa is robbing the cradle.

The sparkle thing is really no worse than Underworld's werehorse lichens.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:08 pm

A_Cynic wrote:In other news: Sparkling as a symbolism for Vampires makes no sense.

Sure it does. Vampires are used as a metaphor for a lot of things, death, disease, nobles, sex, etc. In Twilight, they're exclusively a metaphor for sex. Sex is awesome, so vampires are awesome.

But sex (and thus vampires) in broad daylight is (are) awesome and super-pretty. The only downside is that people will get all up in your face about it.

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