Thread: Twilight

Love is a fine primary plot point. See: Romeo and Julliete, or anything Shakespeare. That's all ABOUT love.

It's the focal point, interspersed with actual interesting things. Not, oh, we're in a forest. Oh, we're in another forest. Oh, we're in a meadow. Oh, you're glaring at me. Oh, I'm glaring back. Oh, we're in ANOTHER FOREST. Oh, we're in a restaurant, looking at each other. Oh, we're in love. Oh, we're playing baseball.

That's not a plot. It's a series of weak vignettes tied together by uninteresting characters.

And I find it very interesting as you pegged Bella as a girl to fall in love with a vampire, when in the book - - AND MOVIE - - she has no indication in any case about any particular brand of person. In fact, she has such heavy ugly duckling syndrome that she is shocked she made friends AND that all the boys are in love with her AND FOR SOME FUCKING REASON that Edward initially doesn't want to talk to her, despite the fact that she's supposedly the last cool, clumsiest person around that no one wants to be friends with.

It's poor character development.

I can't debate merits of film with you. It would tire me out how you consistently overlook faults of a movie because it just HAS to be fucking AWESOME all the time and even if it's not FUCKING AWESOME it's still PRETTY FUCKING GOOD or something. Logistically, your brain confuses me, as this movie was, on no level, even acceptable, and yet... here we are.

Of course, this is just my opinion.

EDIT: Hell yes, MPR. Naturally, it was sad for me on some level when I burst out laughing in an audience of fan girls when Eddie C goes into the sunlight and sparkles, and these rabid, rabid fucking creatures use my laugh as a starters pistol to start mocking the movie and guffawing along with me. Hell, if the FANS can't even respect the movie, why should I?

Oh, but there were so many desperate chicks there. Just like the Breaking Dawn book release. SO MANY.

Mal you really need to get an avatar or something.

Originally Posted by MalReynolds

Love is a fine primary plot point. See: Romeo and Julliete, or anything Shakespeare. That's all ABOUT love.

All your posts about Twilight have made me laugh in some way but I can't ignore this. Most of Shakespeare's stuff wasn't really about love at all. Romeo & Juliet obviously was, as were lot's of others but you can't really say "or anything Shakespeare. That's all ABOUT love." Poor man will be spinning in his grave like a Dyson.

I will say this though. You're getting far too worked up about some dickhead with poor taste. If Jagang wants to believe that shitty vampire books with shitty film versions which feature incessantly shitty acting and overtly shitty plot/character development then, please, just let him. He's the one who loses out in this situation, not any of us grounded non-retards who are resistant to such uncultured faggotry.