Comments on: Review: Twilight

By: All the Damn Vampires

All the Damn Vampires — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:14:32 +0000

[...] we have euro-trash metrosexuals AT BEST… and sparkly emo angst-wussies at the bottom of the genre barrel. And they are being sold as the thing we all aspire to. Now, [...]

By: All the Damn Vampires

All the Damn Vampires — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:14:32 +0000

[...] we have euro-trash metrosexuals AT BEST… and sparkly emo angst-wussies at the bottom of the genre barrel. And they are being sold as the thing we all aspire to. Now, [...]

By: verbotenpfeffernusse

verbotenpfeffernusse — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:20:10 +0000

Gan – You had me at “Charles Nelson Reilly” – Verbo

By: Tholan

Tholan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:58:33 +0000

Cool… Look at those time stamps! You caught the problem hours before it happened.

By: Ganelon

Ganelon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:43:39 +0000

Good catch. I fixed it.

By: Tholan

Tholan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:57:51 +0000

Gan, Verbo’s comment reminds me… in last reboot something happened to the world clock. It is not 5:31 am. She wrote that comment at 5:31 pm EST.

By: Ganelon

Ganelon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:56:44 +0000

Verbo,

“I believe there is a correlation between Twilight and Baywatch. They both sell the same thing but to two very different audiences.”

You have reached me on the Primal Plane of Rational Thought. I bow before your Rhetorical Kung Fu.

Regards,
Gan

By: verbotenpfeffernusse

verbotenpfeffernusse — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:31:31 +0000

I agree with everything you said, however, I have to fess up and admit that I enjoyed the movie. No, not on a Star Trek level – that was fantastic. More on a “don’t bother to pause it when I get a snack, I can still hear it from the kitchen” way. That being said, let me s’plain….no, no time to to s’plain, let me sum up… I believe there is a correlation between Twilight and Baywatch. They both sell the same thing but to two very different audiences. Of course, they have to sell it differently. Men jogging in tight swim suits does nothing for anyone. A modern day Vamp-Romeo-mance, we’ll that’s spot on. So, tell me the truth, ever watch Baywatch? And even more importantly, enjoyed it?

By: Landro Sarkazo

Landro Sarkazo — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:51:07 +0000

I must say Gan, I thought at first you were going to say, “Surprisingly I liked this movie.” I was ready to hunt you down and beat you with a rubber mallet.

This movie, the books, and the Twilight genre itself, are garbage. I suffered through reading them so that I would have the right to voice my opinion.

My primary disgust comes from the pussification of a fabled, long lived, fantastic, though fictional, creature. I am a person who is serious about being true to the lore, at least the foundation of the lore of any story. So to take this fabled creature of fiction and turn it into a sparkling in the sun, pathetic whimp, well, just sickened me.

My other irritation is the fact that it’s a re-write of a MUCH better series, that keeps true to the basics of vampires, The Southern Vampire Mysteries. These are the series of books that the show True Blood is based upon on HBO. Excellent series, good books. In Twilight, the Frankenstein looking Edward can read all minds but his hideous girlfriends. True Blood, Sookie can read everyone’s mind except her “boyfriend” vampire’s. Now The Southern Vampire Mysteries series was first published in 2001. Meaning it had been written, most likely a year or more earlier. The Twilight author admits that the idea for Twilight came in a dream in 2003….Dream, sure, as she fell asleep reading the above mentioned series.

So if you want a book, or TV Series that is very well done and looks at the effects on Vampires as they struggle with being what they are, and their humanity, then watch True Blood, read The Southern Vampire Mysteries. Otherwise, stick with this Twilight garbage, just don’t tell me it’s a great vampire story, or movie.. Or you may have to dodge the puke that expells from my mouth in disgust.

By: Jerith_loa

Jerith_loa — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:10:50 +0000

I liked your reviews better when they were brutally honest.

Stop pulling punches, we can take it!