The Twilight bug

Started by Bagel September 22nd, 2009 8:03 PM
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Bagel

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Some people are going to read the title and be like "Agh! Twilight god i hate it!" others will spaz out and go "OMG OMG twilight!"
If your A person who would do either of these, stop, read this, and then post an answer, not just some totally spazzed out "Omg twilight rocks!" post or a, "THese movies/books were terrible!" post. PLeases and thank-yous~

But, anyway to my questionay, Has your school/friends been bitten by the Twilght bug? Were all they talk about is twilight or were you cant go a day without hearing about twilight? My school/friends have. I personally love the books, and enjoy hearing about them and the movies... to some point. Ive got girls in my class that all they do is talk about Taylor Lautner and how hot he is, and how muscular he is (I dont disagree at all) But they just obbesses over it.
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Let's see... Some girls at my workplace (interestingly enough, some of which are lesbians) like the series... And I believe so does one guy.

Otherwise, like myself, my friends detest the book. I haven't had time to read it, but I have read a bit of the beginning of Twilight, so I would be able to properly criticize it, but even then it is still a pain-staking read...

The movie had probably like 1 good scene, and it wasn't an important one at all (it was the scene where Bella met back up with her friends after Edward saved her).

Now usually, when there are mistakes in a movie, I never catch them until after I read them up on imdb, however sometimes there are the odd occurrences wherein I'll catch a movie mistake (a previous film I can recall as such, was in the Fifth Element, when the woman, in the glass enclosure goes to punch the glass. Just as she is about to do it, you can see a circular portion of the glass, had already been broken). Now with the Twilight scene, the only one I noticed, was the scene at the very end. Her oxygen tubes changed places 4 times, in the various shots they had of her... So, when I looked up Twilight on IMDB, I came across so many mistakes (of which I had not seen), and was surprised. Even some bigger ones like the fact that Edward didn't twinkle (shudder) at times in the sunlight, when he should have...

Basically, the Director of Photography, the screen writer, the editor and the director, all collectively did a bad job... And no this isn't a sexist remark >.>

Needless to say, when I read about various critcisms about the [all] books. I was totally surprised by some of the more harsher criticisms (like that of Bella's daughter...), but unsurprised about the whole, submissive, "need a man" attitude that is usually present in a romance novel... Feminists (unsurprisngly) were all over these novels in its various criticisms on attiude toward women...

Also, let's not forget to mention the whole withdraw from vampire canon, or indeed mythology...

So in conclusion (wat?) only read/watch it, if you indeed enjoy a submissive lifestyle, and think real [fictional] vampires suck, because they have too many weaknesses.

Also, I remember seeing Taylor Lautner in Shark Boy and Lava Girl... Quite a departure if I may say so...

Also, cause it is in your location: HARRY POTTER FTW!

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Twilight...

Actually when I was still working at that damn tube place, a co-worker and my shift supervisor's daughter were bitten by the Twilight bug. But unlike some Twilight fans they didn't go crazy for it.

Other than that, I don't know anybody else who has been bitten by it.
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I thought that my University Literature class was untouched by the bug...until we were talking about how books are generally changed a lot when made into films, and suddenly all of the girls in my class are talking about Twilight. I could have cried. Especially when they were saying how well-written it is. =.=

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Omg...last year...October-Febuary, every day you would hear TWILIGHT, BREAKING DAWN, EDWARD IS SO HAWT! NO JACOB IS!
All the boys were into it, all the girls were into it. EVEN THE TEACHERS!

...even I was ;;

with the release of New Moon, it will all start again...oh no...
it got annoying after a while >.<

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...T.T Why must you bring up these memories?

Let me say this right now, I hate the book. Now, put someone who hates the book in a school where about... 200 people go gaga over the book to such an extreme, that I am afraid to voice my opinion. I'm afraid that I would get ganged up on for saying that I didn't like it.

I was shaking in English class when I had to do a project on it, because I knew of 3 crazy Twilight fans. It was a horrifying experience overall.

There are some sane fans, but there are more who are... kind of insane, actually. And it's going to get even worse when New Moon comes out.

T.T I'm scared.
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Twilight. *shivers* Just the name chills me. It has hooked a lot of girls and the movies especially hooked a lot of girls here and their behavior towards it is just scary. I stand 5 feet away from twilight fans just so I won't get battered by their 600 page hardcover books for just calling it bland and nothing special. Not to mention I'm a big Mythology and Lore freak so pointing out to them that vampires don't sparkle and are supposed to be feared of makes em go crazier. Twilight has bitten too many people and in all the wrong ways. Vampires shouldn't be sexy unless its in that dark mysterious I'm going to get you one day way.

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I was shaking in English class when I had to do a project on it, because I knew of 3 crazy Twilight fans. It was a horrifying experience overall.
You had to do a project on it? :O

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You had to do a presentation on it? :O
IMO, any teacher who asks for a reading assignment to do with Twilight, should be shot...

That and interestingly enough, my school offers a course (for 4th years, and is available every few years anyway), explicitly on J. K. Rowling and her works...

Also, I remember a website had made a list of all the conflicts that have erupted from crazy Twilight fans. Namely to what extent they'd go to, to harm someone, who "hurts" their book.

Off the top of my head, a broken leg comes to mind, ummm what else, loosing friendship, stalking... yeah...

Funny thing is, I don't remember this happening to Harry Potter, even amid all the religious (and indeed homosexual) controversy.
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Every single last one of my friends are sucked into the fad. That and "Hannah Montana." I'm just like, where is our generation going?

Funny thing is, I don't remember this happening to Harry Potter, even amid all the religious (and indeed homosexual) controversy.
Me neither. The Twilight fans I've seen online are crazy, they don't know how to defend their tastes rationally. Harry Potter was just good, and I hate when people compare it to Twilight. JK Rowling is a mastermind of storytelling and character developing, whilst Meyer is the complete opposite.

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Mm, I'm not even a Harry Potter fan and I will stick up for it and its fans whenever somebody tries to compare them to Twilight and its...er...fen. It really is a sad day for literature - that as long as a book has a cold, emotionally-dead ~sparkly~ faux-"vampire" (pssht, Nosferatu would totally kick his arse) chasing after a glorified Mary-Sue, it can be considered a masterpiece. :||

Also, yes, I remember that site. It scared my pants off. There was also mention of a girl splashing acid in another girl's face, but I don't think the claim was ever verified. Also, Robert Pattison (or however you spell his name) was so afraid of his fans that he ran out in front of a taxi rather than confront them -.- I mean, wtf? That's got to give the fen some kind of signal. And wasn't there a convention where people went so crazy that they ended up hurting one another or something? Ack.

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Lol, I'd never make a video on it, but I enjoy some of the commentaries and parodies of Twilight, on youtube (for the most part). But so far, Stephen King takes the cake, in calling Twilight, badly written.

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I've only read three-four pages from my sister's book, and I can't get into it.
I don't think I've met one who was obsessed with the book, but last year all the girls in my school were talking about it and it got annoying after a few weeks of it.

What I'm worried though is the damage caused by the more obsessed fans. D: Like I said I don't think I have met one but I read about some of them and they really don't respect opinions. Makes me afraid to say anything remotely bad about it. :/

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I love how people say they hate it, but didn't even give the book a chance [/sarcasm]. I had friends who liked it and friends who hated it "because of the fans."

Gave the books a chance and read all of them. yes, admittedly a few parts are hard to read and digest because bella is so...frustrating, but the rest makes up for it. sure it doesn't follow some of the vampire lore, but honestly who would really know about what or what not a vampire can and can't do.

and still, TEAM JACOB

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I love how people say they hate it, but didn't even give the book a chance [/sarcasm]. I had friends who liked it and friends who hated it "because of the fans."

Gave the books a chance and read all of them. yes, admittedly a few parts are hard to read and digest because bella is so...frustrating, but the rest makes up for it. sure it doesn't follow some of the vampire lore, but honestly who would really know about what or what not a vampire can and can't do.

and still, TEAM JACOB
I think more credit can be given to those who know about vampires (in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some fans decided to research vampires as a result of the books). Also, I believe that Romances (in general) are a more obvious ummm what is the word, like that the reader either identifies or wants to be the hero, than say with other genres...

Thus one of the reasons why a lot of girls like it. It doesn't take a well written book for someone to have a vivid imagination... So that is why the book ends up being a hit to many...

There are two undeniable facts about Twilight.

1) The series is overrated.
2) Taylor Lautner isn't.

/thread
That's just a bit creepy :P XD

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IMO, any teacher who asks for a reading assignment to do with Twilight, should be shot...

ogod. I'd tell the teacher straight up. "Please, give me the zero and let me sleep in peace, or give me an alternate assignment. No exceptions."

(I hate Twilight, I hate the entire series. I blame the stupid fans for it. Meeting or hearing of bad fan(s) will turn me off of ANYTHING! Don't waste your breath convincing me otherwise, it's all your fault. xD)

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ogod. I'd tell the teacher straight up. "Please, give me the zero and let me sleep in peace, or give me an alternate assignment. No exceptions."
Lol XD

Of course, all I had in the past was obscure books (some of which were Canadian) that I never heard about. Though this was a few years back, thus before all these newer books.

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Some people are going to read the title and be like, "Agh! Twilight god I hate it!" Others will spazz-out and go, "OMG OMG Twilight!"
If you're a person who would do either of these, stop, read this, and then post an answer. Not just some totally spazzed out, "Omg Twilight rocks!" or "These movies/books are terrible!" post. Please and thank you~

But anyway, to get back to my question, have your friends been 'bitten' by the 'Twilight Bug'? Was everything they talked about Twilight where you can't go a day without hearing about Twilight? My friends have. I personally love the books, while I enjoy hearing about them and the movies, to an extent. I've got girls in my class that only talk about Taylor Lautner and how hot and muscular he is, I don't disagree though. However, they are obsessed with him.
Opinions? Experiences? Comments?
Proper English, the way to live.

Anyways, I am not obsessed with Twilight, nor have I read the books or watched the movies. However, there is a girl in my Physics class who loves it. She does not talk about it though.

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Clain

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Wasn't Taylor Launter Sharkboy?
Indeed he was... >.>

Actually now that I think of it, those random scenes he popped into were *okay*, it seemed rather forced though. (talking about the movie) Oo

Appearently shark boy lava girl, came out 2005, which would make him 12-13 when that film was being made, and probably about 16 when Twilight was made, which makes it even more awkward, considering the followers he has...



Anyways, I am not obsessed with Twilight, nor have I read the books or watched the movies. However, there is a girl in my Physics class who loves it. She does not talk about it though.
That's a good sign she hasn't found anyone else to talk to, about it. And that's also why she probably isn't even defending it (by herself), because she was met with an onslaught of proper naysayers *only hoping* XD