Gothic.net Community

Gothic.net Community (https://www.gothic.net/boards/index.php)
-   Whining (https://www.gothic.net/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=12)
-   -   Facepalms and Nausea (https://www.gothic.net/boards/showthread.php?t=16898)

Ophelia's Snorkel 11-04-2009 08:12 PM

Facepalms and Nausea
 
I thought about posting this link in Spooky News, but it's not so much news as it is like getting poked with a sharp stick by an annoying, snot-faced child.

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...17/story.jhtml

The day anything gives this movie series goth cred is the day I just give it all up and start hopelessly vomiting in the toilet.

Saya 11-04-2009 08:16 PM

Quote:

Hiring a goth pioneer from the '80s could indicate his eagerness to embrace an older audience and a darker, more violent, possibly more male-friendly tone.
The franchise has a female friendly tone?

DepthsofSpace 11-05-2009 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saya (Post 578005)
The franchise has a female friendly tone?

If your goal is to be a emotionally abused, doting housewife, I guess so...

>.> I want to break things, and people, right now..

Razeal18 11-05-2009 09:51 AM

vampires do not sparkle, not even the bastard child of peter murphy, trent rezner and marlyin mansion bathed in grave dirt and wolfsbane with a pint of blood and nightshade on the side could make that helo kitty bullshit in any way associate with goth. twilight is what happens when butters decides he is going to enlist the help of goth kid and ward and june cleaver to write a fucking series, it is an abomination and i am boycotting this movie
who's with me?
it has teeny bopper female appeal

korinna5555 11-05-2009 12:49 PM

I'm going to go sob quietly in a corner now..

DepthsofSpace 11-05-2009 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by korinna5555 (Post 578146)
I'm going to go sob quietly in a corner now..

You are welcome to join me... v.v

korinna5555 11-05-2009 01:17 PM

Okay....... D':

Lady_Alyce 11-05-2009 03:14 PM

Twilight is just another one of those young teen cheesy romances. The thought that they want to "score a goth cred" makes me want to vomit. Kirsten Stewart also makes me nauseous. I'll pass when this movie comes out.

Still Jack 11-06-2009 01:39 AM

Kill it with fire.

Ophelia's Snorkel 11-06-2009 06:01 AM

I have decided to console myself with the belief that Peter Murphy is suffering from a form of early-onset senile dementia and doesn't know what he's done. Otherwise...oh, the betrayal!

Razeal18 11-06-2009 06:12 AM

it is an emense possibility ophelia, we can only hope

mmonew0012 11-30-2009 05:20 PM

Munich
 
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...824647_dem.jpgProsecutors say that, as a camp guard at Sobibor, he pushed thousands of Jewish men, women and children to their death in the gas chambers. Mr Demjanjuk was born in Ukraine and captured by the Nazis while fighting in the Soviet army. He denies even being at Sobibor. Over 60 years later, this may be Germany's last big war crimes trial. But as the first to focus on a low-ranking foreigner rather than a senior Nazi commander, it breaks new legal ground. [url=http://www.powerlevelaion.com/AION-Kinah-EU.html]powerleveling aion[/urlAs Mr Demjanjuk is 89 and in poor health, doctors have asked that hearings should be limited to two 90-minute sessions per day. There are no living witnesses in this case, but over 30 people listed as joint plaintiffs are expected to testify about what happened at Sobibor, described by investigators as hell on earth. Two are camp survivors, others lost relatives or their entire families among the 250,000 people murdered there. ]power leveling aion This is the second time John Demjanjuk appears in court. Two decades ago, he was sentenced to death in Israel, convicted of being Ivan the Terrible, a notoriously sadistic guard at the Treblinka death camp. But that ruling was overturned after new evidence showed that another Ukrainian was probably responsible.

D0PPLEGANGER 11-30-2009 06:21 PM

I just wish Goths would quit blabbing on about how terrible Twilight was. It was aimed at 13 yr olds for fuck sake. I understand that it hurts you deeply that the vamps weren't fashion obsessed and didn't wear fishnets but get over it already.

the-nihilist 11-30-2009 06:28 PM

Who gives a shit?

Anndrea 11-30-2009 07:12 PM

does this mean mall goths will know who peter murphy is now?

Stormtrooper of Death 12-01-2009 06:19 AM

Twilight has pissed me off since the books came out. The fact that it took an interesting subject like vampires and watered it down to mindless love story drivel is mind blowing.

I love Bauhaus, and I now vow not to listen to them until Peter Murphy apologizes to every one of us.

I will joing Korinna and Depths in the corner, then off to kill it.

Not Tha Duckman 12-01-2009 06:24 AM

What's so interesting about vampires? It's so fucking played out at this point that every modern movie with them in it is a piece of horse shit. Modern vampire flicks are to horror what Matthew McConaughey is to romantic comedy.

Solumina 12-01-2009 12:22 PM

Why does everyone keep saying that Twilight is responsible for "watering down" vampires? There have been crappy romance novels about them for quite some time as well as crappy B-list movies, this is nothing new.

What bothers me about Twilight is that it is written so poorly and yet so many people consider it to be a good book, it makes me sad for society.

Tam Li Hua 12-01-2009 12:34 PM

I tend to agree with Solumina on this one.

I'm fine with it being crap. I'm -not- fine with crap being popular, when there are so many, much better, more deserving authors and books out there that the mainstream doesn't even glance at. :/

Can you imagine a world where Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is as popular as Twilight or Harry Potter? Because I can, and it's a much better world.

Equivalence 12-01-2009 12:49 PM

I agree that Wheel of Time is a better series. However, I think it's harder for most people to relate to Wheel of Time's complex characters, than to relate to Twilight's rather simple cast. I believe it's the same reason why so many people prefer Evanescence, over a group like Lacuna Coil. Again, and this is personal preference, while I think Lacuna Coil is infinitely better than Evanescence, they are much harder to relate too than Evanescence.

It's sad, but Twilight's popularity isn't without reason.

Ophelia's Snorkel 12-01-2009 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solumina (Post 585766)
Why does everyone keep saying that Twilight is responsible for "watering down" vampires? There have been crappy romance novels about them for quite some time as well as crappy B-list movies, this is nothing new.

What bothers me about Twilight is that it is written so poorly and yet so many people consider it to be a good book, it makes me sad for society.

Twilight's just the latest and worst in a long process of watering things down for mass consumption. Just like a lot of things (cuisine into fast food, bespoke fashions into racks of WalMart sweats, etc), the vampire mythos has finally reached the required point of blandness that makes it lucrative, easy, and ultimately without the effort of any real thought. This is, disgustingly enough, true of music too.

Not Tha Duckman 12-01-2009 03:48 PM

I have the best movie ideas ever. Someone should hire me.

Stormtrooper of Death 12-02-2009 07:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tam Li Hua (Post 585769)
I tend to agree with Solumina on this one.

I'm fine with it being crap. I'm -not- fine with crap being popular, when there are so many, much better, more deserving authors and books out there that the mainstream doesn't even glance at. :/

Can you imagine a world where Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is as popular as Twilight or Harry Potter? Because I can, and it's a much better world.

Wheel Of Time is an excellent series, haven't gottten farther than the 4th book yet though, my sister is on number 10 or something.

Beneath the Shadows 12-02-2009 08:03 AM

Didn't you all get the memo? Shitty books and movies are "in."

Tam Li Hua 12-02-2009 08:08 AM

Heh heh. This amuses me greatly. XD

As much as I love his music, I've always wondered if Peter Murphy wasn't something of an attention-whore. ;}


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 08:25 AM.