Why?

lila44

No I'm not trolling, or flaming, or whatever it is the kids call it nowadays....

Simply wondering, why do people hate Twilight so much?

I recently started reading the books, haven't seen any of the movies yet, but I think the books are great!

cherryghost

Twinkling sparkly half naked vampires, that's why

SadieSue

The writing style is horrendous and the stories are tedious.

lila44

but what's wrong with that? Have you read the books? it's such a small aspect..

SV

cos the people who like it are mostly semi retarded teenage girls.
it isn't all bad though, to be fair..it's just the majority audience are idiots so it doesn't attract anyone else.

MagicMarker

Vampire movies for teeny boppers.

WTF is there to like?

cherryghost

lila44 wrote: »

but what's wrong with that? Have you read the books? it's such a small aspect..

Yeah, it's pure teenage drivel with a dash of puberty shyte

caseyann

lila44 wrote: »

No I'm not trolling, or flaming, or whatever it is the kids call it nowadays....

Simply wondering, why do people hate Twilight so much?

I recently started reading the books, haven't seen any of the movies yet, but I think the books are great!

I actually like it quite funny in parts.I dont know many people who hate it after they saw it.But then again everyone has different taste.

lila44

SV wrote: »

cos the people who like it are mostly semi retarded teenage girls.
it isn't all bad though, to be fair..it's just the majority audience are idiots so it doesn't attract anyone else.

true.

it's kind of a guilty pleasure!

SadieSue

True Blood is where its at.

lila44

SadieSue wrote: »

True Blood is where its at.

i miss that show. hasn't been on channel 4 in forever....

Nodin

lila44 wrote: »

No I'm not trolling, or flaming, or whatever it is the kids call it nowadays....

Simply wondering, why do people hate Twilight so much?

I recently started reading the books, haven't seen any of the movies yet, but I think the books are great!

Twinkly bland whitebread shite for people who get scared seeing the words "penis" and "penetrate" in the same sentence.

lila44

Nodin wrote: »

Twinkly bland whitebread shite for people who get scared seeing the words "penis" and "penetrate" in the same sentence.

have you read them?

Nodin

lila44 wrote: »

i miss that show. hasn't been on channel 4 in forever....

TG4 start showing tonight - 1st two episodes.

Adam

if she really smelled so good he would have just eaten her and been done with it, i dont fall in love with my food, i nom it til it's gone.

lila44

Nodin wrote: »

TG4 start showing tonight - 1st two episodes.

series 2?

Biggins

lila44 wrote: »

No I'm not trolling, or flaming, or whatever it is the kids call it nowadays....

Simply wondering, why do people hate Twilight so much?

I recently started reading the books, haven't seen any of the movies yet, but I think the books are great!

I don't hate it but feel its too drawn out as a film and boring.
...But thats just my taste of it and everyone's different.

I'm told by the wife the books are much, much better.
This would not surprise me.

Daemos

lila44 wrote: »

i miss that show. hasn't been on channel 4 in forever....

You like Twilight, and use phrases like "in forever"

Argument won

Biggins

SadieSue wrote: »

True Blood is where its at.

O Yea!
Love that series. Watching the third at the mo.
Sookie can't get her clothes off too often enough for me.

Wot ...I'm a bloke! :pac:

SadieSue

I haven't read them but I am ashamed to say I did see the first two movies. Won't be watching the third. They.... talk.... real... slow.... and.... look.... like.... this.

Nodin

lila44 wrote: »

series 2?

Nein. Series 1.

SadieSue

Biggins wrote: »

O Yea!
Love that series. Watching the third at the mo.
Eric can't get his clothes off too often enough for me.

Wot ...I'm a chick! :pac:

FYP

plein de force

it's vapid ****e that's probably why

caseyann

Adam wrote: »

if she really smelled so good he would have just eaten her and been done with it, i dont fall in love with my food, i nom it til it's gone.

lol i think you find he does at some stage eat her :pac:

RolandIRL

True Blood > Twilight

twilight makes all vampires seem to be emo teenagers. true blood...well...IT'S EPIC :cool:

btw Season 2 will be starting in September on TG4 for all you True Blood fans

Jaxxy

It's badly written drivel with Mary Sue characterisation and Bella is a Stephanie Meyer self-insert who exists for the sole purpose of living out the Mormon author's monogamous pre-teen fantasies.

No thanks!

Terry

Nodin wrote: »

Twinkly bland whitebread shite for people who get scared seeing the words "penis" and "penetrate" in the same sentence.

Penetration of the penis is never good.

Anyway, it's the boyband of vampire films.
Teenage girls wetting themselves when some dude appears.

The Floyd p

I hate twilight because it's preteen **** with girls creaming themselves when some airburshed idiot comes on screen.

Scuid Mhór

lila44 wrote: »

No I'm not trolling, or flaming, or whatever it is the kids call it nowadays....

Simply wondering, why do people hate Twilight so much?

I recently started reading the books, haven't seen any of the movies yet, but I think the books are great!

because it's a ****ing awful book with a ****ing retarded fandom made up of pre-teen girls.

Coriolanus

Sorry to anyone who's illusions are popped by this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4uuGvmAxTI

ejmaztec

Vampires have been done to death in recent years, no pun intended. They're all over the feckin place.

fonecrusher1

Not exactly sure what this is all about but if your on about those films about weeping gay vampires who wear funny colored contact lenses then yes they look sh!te.
Look about as scarey as a mushroom.

Think the latest one is called Twilight Prolapse.

Faith

Terry wrote: »

Anyway, it's the boyband of vampire films.

That's a pretty good way of looking at it! It's just rubbish. I love all things vampire, but Twilight was just awful.

Overature

in my day, vampires sucked blood not cock

SugarHigh

SadieSue wrote: »

True Blood is where its at.

True blood is just as bad.

Biggins

SugarHigh wrote: »

True blood is just as bad.

:eek: Blasphemy!!! :pac:

SugarHigh

Biggins wrote: »

:eek: Blasphemy!!! :pac:

Why not watch well written and well acted tv like "Breaking Bad"?

Jaxxy

SugarHigh wrote: »

Why not watch well written and well acted tv like "Breaking Bad"?

+1 for Breaking Bad, quality show. True Blood has moments too though I think, and I much prefer the direction Alan Ball has taken it when compared to the original plot of the books (another thread altogether). However jury is still out on Season Three.

Biggins

SugarHigh wrote: »

Why not watch well written and well acted tv like "Breaking Bad"?

...Or catch a re-run of "The West Wing"
(Best show ever)

Vinta81

Biggins wrote: »

...Or catch a re-run of "The West Wing"
(Best show ever)

Watched the entire series in just under a month! Quality show. Although the writing got a bit poor after Aaron left.

Biggins

Vinta81 wrote: »

Watched the entire series in just under a month! Quality show. Although the writing got a bit poor after Aaron left.

True but at least still much better than a lot of stuff that was on at the same time and it managed to get to a firm close all lose ends conclusion.

I'd recommend it to anyone that like to have their brain in gear when watching something.

SquirrelFace

Why don't I like Twilight?
1) I'm literate. This means I can pick up any book I like and read it. Thereby I don't have to read a book where "said" is replaced by "breathed". Also the books have NO SUBSTANCE. So far, four books, one novella and another promised book all based on one love story? Talk about dragging it out!

2) Its blatantly aimed at what preteen girls want. For proof of this, watch the films esp the last one. Ahhh I wonder why Taylor Lautner/that guy who looks like an alpaca never has his shirt on?? Surely he's just too warm!

3) When Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, Im pretty sure he never thought that vampires would one day SPARKLE, not go near humans (aren't all meat-eaters vampires then?) and generally be ponces. There.


And not to aim this at you personally, but by god, mentioning you don't like Twilight to a fan = CERTAIN DEATH!!!

Vinta81

Biggins wrote: »

True but at least still much better than a lot of stuff that was on at the same time and it managed to get to a firm close all lose ends conclusion.

I'd recommend it to anyone that like to have their brain in gear when watching something.

Indeed. Was a fantastic show, writing, cast were perfect! Think i might have to pull out the boxset now!

Pace2008

I read the first book and watched the first film to see what all the fuss was about. The book is derivative, twee, and very poorly written; the screen version does a good job in capturing this essence. Most people dislike the Twilight franchise (to call it a saga is like describing Spot the Dog as an epic) because it is so ubiquitous, because of its rabid, overly protective fanbase, and because there are innumerable books out there that deserve more success.

I've been told: "Oh, don't mind the first book, it gets sooo much better after that!"

**** off. I'm not falling for that one again.

desertcircus

It teaches highly impressionable preteens that if your boyfriend ever loses control and hurts you, it's YOUR FAULT. It teaches them that they'll only ever fulfil themselves by getting married. It shamelessly harnesses the confusion that puberty produces and shovels money by doing so. It teaches them that your identity and personality have to be completely subsumed by your boyfriend's. It teaches them that an aggressive control freak who watches someone sleep is being "romantic" rather than "unhinged". It's a thinly-veiled attempt to terrorise teenagers into abstinence and marriage. And it's being targeted at people who are too young to see what's being done.

I really have to buy my little sister the Buffy boxset before it's too late.

Biggins

Vinta81 wrote: »

Indeed. Was a fantastic show, writing, cast were perfect! Think i might have to pull out the boxset now!

Have the presidential one myself.
Have watched it twice now straight thru since I bought it.

I'm still looking for a good replacement to it - The Wire and The Shield came close for a while.

Coriolanus

Biggins wrote: »

Have the presidential one myself.
Have watched it twice now straight thru since I bought it.

I'm still looking for a good replacement to it - The Wire and The Shield came close for a while.

I need to buy the boxset. Watched it in fits and starts when it was on Sky, but was never able to do so consistently.
To Bargain Alerts, Batman!

Biggins

Nevore wrote: »

I need to buy the boxset. Watched it in fits and starts when it was on Sky, but was never able to do so consistently.
To Bargain Alerts, Batman!

http://cgi.ebay.ie/west-wing-every-episode-/110561108976?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_CDsDVDs_DVDs_DVDs_GL&hash=item19bdf4a3f0

Terry

desertcircus wrote: »

It teaches highly impressionable preteens that if your boyfriend ever loses control and hurts you, it's YOUR FAULT. It teaches them that they'll only ever fulfil themselves by getting married. It shamelessly harnesses the confusion that puberty produces and shovels money by doing so. It teaches them that your identity and personality have to be completely subsumed by your boyfriend's. It teaches them that an aggressive control freak who watches someone sleep is being "romantic" rather than "unhinged". It's a thinly-veiled attempt to terrorise teenagers into abstinence and marriage. And it's being targeted at people who are too young to see what's being done.

I really have to buy my little sister the Buffy boxset before it's too late.

This is the definitive answer (coupled, of course, with my boyband analogy).

steddyeddy

i dont like twilight because people are forgetting that theres great vampire films out there like near dark or bram stokers dracula

Coriolanus

Biggins wrote: »

http://cgi.ebay.ie/west-wing-every-episode-/110561108976?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_CDsDVDs_DVDs_DVDs_GL&hash=item19bdf4a3f0

:eek: Kudos to you!