Monthly Archive for July, 2009

As with any other successful franchise, you get those who love it and those who hate it. It’s always been the case and it’s doubtful this will ever change as long as people are allowed to have their own opinion. Personally I have not read the Twilight books, but I have seen the movie a couple times and didn’t hate it.

I say didn’t hate it because it didn’t make me want to go out and immediately buy all the books and read them 30 times in a week. You might have.

Twilight puts itself in a position to be ripped apart endlessly. It won big at the MTV movie awards earlier this year beating fellow nominees The Dark Knight, Slumdog Millionaire and Iron Man to name a few. I won’t be the first person to say some of these were shockers, but the MTV movie awards are decided by fans, MTV generation fans and Twilight has plenty of those. It’s seen as a soppy love story with no real purpose and a very basic story line. This description loosely applies to any movie that you don’t like though and is mostly given by critics of the series.

Stephen King came out and said that he thinks Stephenie Meyer can’t write.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people… The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good

Again, the opinion of a critic which can be countered by many opinions of fans who have read the books numerous times and found subtle hints across the 4 books about what will happen and what has happened previously. Danielle tells me she finds something new every time she reads it and is only able to do so because she has read it so many times. This fuels the argument toward the fan’s side and how she is in fact a good writer.

I am writing this as a neutral, not a manic fan and not a ravenous critic. As a neutral I am given the unique ability to pick the convenient side of an argument. I can side with the critics if I believe them to be true or visa-versa. I am going to assume most of you guys on this site are completely obsessed, judging by comments over the past couple of months I am willing to say this is a safe assumption to make.

This is where the fun part comes in, as a neutral I can say that the following images and articles are funny and completely ridiculous in some cases. I want to hear from you guys, the devout Twihards what you think of these kinds of things. Does it irritate you that people who don’t like it spend so much time working on how bad they think it is instead of just moving on. Or do you think any publicity is good publicity?

The articles tend to be more fleshy. More people can write than draw a cartoon, so this is how more people vent. Cracked.com have an entire section dedicated to Twilight where they look at it from their slanted view on just about everything. They’ve also taken it upon themselves to rewrite the script. I think these have more power than the images above to stir emotion in a dedicated fan. A website even exists specifically to talk about how Twilight sucks, although most of the site just 404′s their forum seems quite active.

South Park has even parodied Twilight. But then again, what haven’t they taken on? Most people would go so far as to say being featured on South Park in either a good or bad way is a sign of success. I watched this episode a while back and didn’t even notice that it was taking a stab at the series, I only put the connection together when I came across the article.

Another sensitive topic to Twilight fans is Buffy. It would appear there is some sort of correlation between the fan bases of the two. Enter Buffy vs. Edward

I’ve been forced through the entire collection of Buffy (Yes, all 7 seasons, all 154 episodes, all 6160 minutes) and had a chuckle at this video. Like the images, this kind of thing is harmless in my opinion.

What do you as a fan think about the negative ranting? And if you’ve seen this happen with other movies you loved and others didn’t, please share with us!