Fuck Twilight!!

[Anarasha]

Originally Posted by goth_96

IDK, guess I was bored

Do you HAVE to revive this every time it's about to die?

[goth_96]

i guess not

[alchemie]

Wow. No matter what message board I'm on, there are Twilight haters.

[Ben Lahnger]

And too many people who don't realize this is old news. This thread is dead. Nobody cares anymore.

Let it die a peaceful death. Stop posting here.

[Catch]

I've never really watched Twilight. My aunt dropped off the DVD so it's on in the background as a type.

[Catch]

OMG Vampires Sparkle! That is the best part of the whole movie. Sexiness makes them d-a-n-g-e-r-o-u-s....

[Anarasha]

Catch, can't you just let it die in peace?

[ape descendant]

Team Alucard FTW!!

[Catch]

The Jacob character hot. I see nothing wrong with the movie. All these shows are exagerations of what was once considered to be a medical condition. It's as good as any other show. However, the DVD doesn't have a video game. That's rude.

[Ben Lahnger]

Originally Posted by Catch

It's as good as any other show.

If you truly believe that it demonstrates that you have no taste. You are stating that all shows are equal in value. If you can make no more discerning a judgment than that, you have in that one simple sentence made the case that there is no further reason for anyone to listen to your opinion about anything.

You might want to rethink that statement.

[Solumina]

...you're talking to Catch, are you really going to try using logic?

[Ben Lahnger]

Eh ... catch as Catch can?

[Beneath the Shadows]

Originally Posted by Catch

Sexiness makes them d-a-n-g-e-r-o-u-s....

I suppose that that would explain why everyone in that movie is a pussy, then.

[MacabreHellgrave]

I commend Meyer- she's proving how easy it is to sell millions of books and get a movie deal or two out of it.

Granted, the writing is bad and the characters are OMMFG terrible, but hey what would you rather be- an author whose writing is utter crap but it pays your bills and keeps you fed or be an underdog with a better story but the publishers won't take it into consideration because they know the book market well and have decided your work is too pretentious and difficult to get into?

"Selling out" is something only the bitter and hungry would say.

[Alan]

Shakespeare was considered mediocre while he was alive.
Saying selling out is just for the bitter is stupid.

[MacabreHellgrave]

When artists die, their works increase in power, or at least this is how I always thought.

My background isn't in Shakespeare and his contemporaries; care to enlighten me on who was considered to be 'better'?

[Alan]

Wait, you're saying that Shakespeare's substance somehow improved solely by the fact that he died?

[MacabreHellgrave]

You said that he was a mediocre playwright, or at least when compared to contemporaries in life. Do you think that say, Macbeth or R+J would be taught as curriculum for high school English students if he was immortal, or at least been born in our period?

I'd say probably not, because if the plays of Shakespeare were considered mediocre when he was alive in his time, surely the audiences of today would receive "To be or not to be...." roughly the same damn way as they did in previous eras. I mean, you could adapt the plays however you want to- a post-apocalyptic production of Julius Caesar, a rendition of Richard III set in the 1940s...... it's all possible, however when one takes your statement of how Shakespeare, and his works in the raw were only received as mediocre, then one can draw the conclusion that I have. Simply put, dying makes an artist's work more powerful.

Post-mortem, we're all rockstars to the ones left behind, and to anyone with an appreciation for the theatre, we can lionize Shakespeare for his work now because we do not understand the period he was living in totality because we were not born in his times. If we were his contemporaries, as you said Alan, we might hold a different opinion.

[JCC]

Shakespeare was not considered mediocre during his life by any stretch of the imagination. He did not have the status he had now simply because there are centuries of analysis and interpretation strengthening his work, but a playwright whose company has King James as a patron, is the leading contemporary theatre company in London and performs in the Royal Court several times is by no means considered mediocre, that is a total misinterpretation of history.

[gothicusmaximus]

Originally Posted by JCC

Shakespeare was not considered mediocre during his life by any stretch of the imagination. He did not have the status he had now simply because there are centuries of analysis and interpretation strengthening his work, but a playwright whose company has King James as a patron, is the leading contemporary theatre company in London and performs in the Royal Court several times is by no means considered mediocre, that is a total misinterpretation of history.

Fucking thank you. Now I can devote the few minutes I would have otherwise spent flipping a shit to studying for my exams.

[Ben Lahnger]

Amen! JCC ++++1,000,000

[KontanKarite]

I remember scolding my mother for liking this series.

When someone tells me they love Twilight I immediately lose interest in them to an astounding degree. It's as if I have ZERO patience for that kind of taste. Oh well, Twilight IS horrible. I couldn't even stomach getting through the first page.

[Wyvern]

Twilight: The story of a girl choosing between necrophelia and beastiality :/


Personally, this movie killed the concept of vampires. Vampires, they are supposed to be undead stalkers of the night preying on pitiful humans with no emotion, just killing for fun and survival, not some twinkling nancyboy who does nothing interesting with his immortal life except go to school and try to hook up with insecure chicks.

In all honestly, this guy was more badass than Edward

http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...n_countlol.jpg

[HavelockV]

Originally Posted by Wyvern

In all honestly, this guy was more badass than Edward

http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/u...n_countlol.jpg

Especially in German!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUOxGC8quSw

[Angelic Dissonance]

Sorry if anyone metioned this before, I was getting the feeling of huffing Cheez Whiz while reading through this... I got to page 4, at least.

"His Dark Materials" is a quote from Paradise Lost.

God, I hate Twilight because everyone else likes it--not just that it DOES make yourself stupider to fall for the opiate of the people, but because it reminds me of the social and metal condition of our country and the world as a whole. It plays on deep needs we all found in the '90s. Us kids of late teens and early twenties are badly, badly affected by it. It's like Dark Shadows---it actually sucked, what made people like it was that they were searching for a cure to their disease, and people with their own 'diseases' could identify. It gave them this weird, subtle gratification that they were not alone in the world, and there was hope. I just.....I--I can't even call it sad, I'm physically sickened when I think of Mass Psychology. Are all artist/sensitive types like this? Or is it just me?!?!?!