Why?

fonecrusher1 · 19-07-2010 06:49PM

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 · 19-07-2010 07:09PM

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 · 19-07-2010 07:13PM

in my day, vampires sucked blood not cock

SugarHigh · 19-07-2010 07:15PM

SadieSue wrote: »

True Blood is where its at.

True blood is just as bad.

Biggins · 19-07-2010 07:16PM

SugarHigh wrote: »

True blood is just as bad.

:eek: Blasphemy!!! :pac:

SugarHigh · 19-07-2010 07:18PM

Biggins wrote: »

:eek: Blasphemy!!! :pac:

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

Jaxxy · 19-07-2010 07:21PM

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 · 19-07-2010 07:21PM

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 · 19-07-2010 07:31PM

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 · 19-07-2010 07:34PM

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 · 19-07-2010 07:44PM

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 · 19-07-2010 07:46PM

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 · 19-07-2010 08:01PM

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 · 19-07-2010 08:12PM

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 · 19-07-2010 08:32PM

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 · 19-07-2010 08:36PM

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 · 19-07-2010 08:37PM

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 · 19-07-2010 08:38PM

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 · 19-07-2010 08:39PM

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

Coriolanus · 19-07-2010 08:41PM

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!

Ollchailin · 19-07-2010 08:49PM

I don't like it because that Robert Pattinson looks about as much craic as having a tooth pulled without anaesthetic. And his hair looks like it's never washed.

I also don't like it because if I wanted to spend two hours looking at moany teenagers dressed in black, I'd hang around that ball thing at the bank on Dame St.

Deus Ex Machina · 19-07-2010 08:53PM

A lot of people hate it is because it is cool to hate it, a lot of other people hate it because it is awful.

Takeshi_Kovacs · 19-07-2010 08:56PM

Tbh Blade needs to come back and slaughter all these faggy sparkling vampires that 'care'...

Daith · 19-07-2010 09:06PM

I watched Buffy and Angel. Why would I possibly like Twilight?

Bob the Seducer · 19-07-2010 09:22PM

I was looking at the book sales charts in the Times Culture section yesterday...

Thanks to the book chart, I now know that Bella and Bellend or whatever his name is get married in the fourth book.

If only all magazines did people the service of divulging this surely nobody would bother with any of the books or films, at least until they got to that one.

Biggins · 19-07-2010 09:27PM

Daith wrote: »

I watched Buffy and Angel. Why would I possibly like Twilight?

...Because you want to give your brain an hour and a half off instead? :pac:

Terry · 19-07-2010 09:37PM

Biggins wrote: »

...Because you want to give your brain an hour and a half off instead? :pac:

You leave Buffy alone.
Angel sucked, but don't ever dare criticise Buffy. She was awesome.

ejmaztec · 19-07-2010 10:11PM

What kind of stupid twat chases after some hot woman, catches her, then sucks the blood out of her?

It's the same kind of crap with Friday the 13th, where another stupid twat chases after some hot woman, then when he catches her, stabs her to death.

It's a feckin waste of hot women.

Biggins · 19-07-2010 10:27PM

I watched Buffy and Angel. Why would I possibly like Twilight?

...Because you want to give your brain an hour and a half off instead?

Terry wrote: »

You leave Buffy alone.
Angel sucked, but don't ever dare criticise Buffy. She was awesome.

Absolutely - I was referring to Twilight as the previous mentioned.

As for Buffy - Sarah and and her cast are personal friends.

Angle wasn't as good but they are good friends too.

Chuchoter · 19-07-2010 10:35PM

Summary of the Twilight Books:

BUUUHHHHHHH OMG Edward ur soooooooo hot BUHHHHHHHHH OMG whiny face whiny face whiny face.

Why?

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