Lionsgate’s Ron Schwarts, exec VP and general manager of home entertainment, said in a statement: “Consumer demand for ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2″ reflects strength in all segments of the home entertainment marketplace – packaged media, digital and on demand. This is further proof that author Stephenie Meyer has created a timeless classic that moviegoers want to enjoy over and over in a wide variety of formats.”…
“Timeless classic” my . . . Ahem. I’ll just say I’m not a fan of Twilight. And that’s me being generous. So stop reading here if you’re a fan. We’ll just agree to disagree. Keep reading at your own risk, Team Edward or Team whoever. Because the truth is, I DESPISE Twilight and everything it stands for. Stephenie Meyer watered down the lore and legacy of vampirism and whitewashed the sinister image of the undead, repackaging it as nothing more than a puddle-deep exploration of some teenage girl’s repressed libido and infantile romanticism, turning the bloodsucker of nightmare into a sparkling feeb prettier than the high school student he obsesses over.
Yes, Lestat was pretty, too, and Louis did his fair share of emo navel-gazing. But they still had at least some degree of the menace a vampire is supposed to have. Yes, even Dracula has sometimes been portrayed sympathetically, as a romantic interest. But he still had his aura of inhumanity, his innate darkness about him. Meyer has stripped the vampire of every ounce of fear, shorn and gelded the werewolf, turned the potent Horror genre into a sketchy version of something about as frightening as Sesame Street. Who’s with me?
Yes Twilight is an awful book and ruined the image of vampires. But there is an upside. When I was younger Buffy was all the rage. Young teenage girls saw the show and wanted to be vampire hunters and killers. (hence the term Buffy) You had some teenage girls attacking the people they thought were vampires. Or making the life of people they accused of being vampires miserable. Now vampires are treated a lot better and there have been a lot fewer attacks. I mean not all real vampires are viscous and blood thirsty all the time. Attacking them and hunting them for no reason is wrong.
teak you! im a vampire too you no bat a do dak bood all the tam
Uuumm….there are no “real vampires”. Yes there are people who call themselves “vampires” and drink blood, psychic vampires, etc….but that’s all complete bullshit…if that is what you are referring to. Those are just human beings that probably need psychological help. Yes there are several books about the various vampire legends and myths. Most of the myths about vampires that inspired writers like Bram Stoker came out of Eastern Europe. But that’s all that is…. A MYTH.
We must be the same age because I remember when the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series first came out. Years before that there was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie written by Joss Whedon. I remember going to see it in the theaters. It bombed horribly and Joss was so unhappy with the way it came out that he decided to turn it into a TV show. But yes, it was mostly popular with teenage girls when it first came out. I remember my girlfriend at the time would always watch it and that was the one time I couldn’t talk to her on the phone or anything because she didn’t want to be interrupted while watching Buffy. Of course when my real obsession with vampires started in my early twenties, I began watching the show and discovered that it was actually really good.
But getting back to what you were saying about Buffy being popular with girls….yes that was true in it’s early days but….girls going out and attacking so called “vampires”…that just sounds crazy. That makes me imagine young girls widdling wooden stakes and going after people…that’d probably get you arrested if you did that. I don’t know what you’re talking about but that never happened in my town.
I guess the only thing we can agree on is that Twilight sucks.
And then Buffy staked Edward. The end.
I dot lik twilight
That was awesome, very well written. Finally, someone on this site has the balls to come out and straight up say that Twilight sucks. Which it does…don’t kid yourself… it’s horrible. What Stephenie Meyer created is an abomination. She totally bastardized the vampire genre.
Okay, what most people don’t know is that the whole idea of vampires bursting into flames and dying in the sunlight started in the 1922 silent vampire film Nosferatu. Director F. W. Murnau
wanted to make a movie adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but Stoker’s widow refused to give him copyright permission. Therefore, he just changed the title of the film from “Dracula” to “Nosferatu”, changed the names of the characters, and set the story in different locations. Instead of killing the Count with knives like Stoker did in the book, Murnau had him burn up at the end when the sunlight hit him. And for some reason other filmmakers and writers loved that idea so much that they adopted it into their own stories to the point where it is now so ingrained into pop-culture that people not only love it but are shocked when they go back and read Dracula and other vampire stories before that in which vampires have almost no problem with the sun.
So even though I know how the idea of sunlight killing vampires started, I love it too. However, what Stephenie did by saying the reason that vampires can’t go into the sun it’s not because they burn up…it’s because they sparkle….it’s just really stupid. SHE CASTRATED THE VAMPIRE BY DOING THAT! when I first read the book and saw it in the movie, I actually thought she was on some serious drugs while writing that.
Here’s the thing….Stephenie Meyer wrote a vampire book and she had never read another vampire book, seen a vampire movie, or even researched vampires when she created this crap. ASK HER…SHE ADMITS IT! I know in the first book she has Bella go look up vampires on the internet and she has her find that website called “Vampires A-Z”. Yes that is a real website cause I looked it up while reading that part…but you’ve gotta do more than that. Supposedly, Meyer didn’t even really look at the website. She just glanced over it real quick.
Basically, she thinks just because something is fictional, that she doesn’t have to do any research on it.. That’s just plain old lazy, stupid, and she’s flat out wrong. You know, she still won’t even read other people’s’ vampire books or watch other vampire movies. She said she tried reading The Historian when it first came out but couldn’t finish it because “it was too far away from her vampires”. Also, her husband tried to get her to watch The Lost Boys and Interview With The Vampire, but she wouldn’t do it.
I hate everything about her vampires, and I don’t just mean the sparkling. They have no fangs, they go to high school over and over again, and of course they are not scary at all. I hate Twilight altogether. I have almost given up on the vampire genre because I feel like Stephenie Meyer came along and killed it. It used to be when people thought of the word “vampire”, they thought of stuff like Dracula, The Lost Boys, Buffy, Anne Rice….stuff that was cool and scary. Now when you say the word “vampire” to another person, it’s usually something like “F*ck that Twilight shit!”. Basically, it’s like Bram Stoker is the architect that designed The World Trade Center, and Stephenie Meyer sent Edward Cullen and Bella Swan to fly airplanes into it.
So thanks, Meyer, you pretty much killed one of my7favorite genres. I feel like someone came along and shot my dog! I don’t know, maybe someone will come along and write something good in a couple of years that will save the whole vampire thing….but I doubt it.
‘