making fun of twilight

Twilight, making gay vampires sparkle since 2012 Twilight, making vampire hunter's jobs easier since 2012 Twilight, who the hell makes vampire sparkle Twilight...do I have to say anything else? Why can't Edward read Bella's thoughts? Because she doesn't have any. :)

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haha. seriously the picture doesn't completely suck the actors do. kristin stewart has one emotion.

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Um.... I don't get the whole sparkle thing, it's interesting to say the least

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@Annernanner yea @MonaAlona ikr

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Vampires are supposed to be scary and dangerous, not sparkly and gay. =___= You know I'm talking about the disco ball character. :P

No offense intended.

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To be honest it's more the writer who spoiled everything about vampires to make them sparkle in the sun. But thank god we have vampire diaries who\ bringng back the vamp rep!!!!

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The whole story line to it is gay anyway -.- I wish the dark dude smashed her with his van :(

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@MonaAlona I personally think it was Kirsten Stewert that couldn't act at all in the first one. Even new moon was kinda crap. She was such a bore

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@big_red_rose r.patt said he doesn't really like the book. its a known fact that when you don't like what you're portraying you won't give your best. k-patt should go be on an island with sucky actors such as her. I still think that'll be a fitting punishment

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LOL! I love how everyone says they don't sparkle they bite etc. THEY'RE NOT REAL, THEY'RE FANTASY, THEY CAN DO WHAT EVER THE HELL THE WRITER WANTS THEM TO!!!!!

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@princessharley hahhaa :L we had this exact dicussion in history today.... our teacher was with @alabamarules though.....

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What all the vampire lovers that hate Twilight forget is that without Twlight, vampire books would never have exploded in such a big way and you wouldn't be reading half the vampire books you love so much now. Not because the wirters wouldn't have written them, but because they wouldn't have been published because there was no public demand. Twlight reversed that because it WASN'T a typical vampire book, it had imagination. Every other book follows a set rule (fangs and burns in daylight) which gets slightly tedious after a while. They're not meant to be the type of vampires you are on about, that's the whole point. Same as the werewolves aren't werewolves. They are simply mythical creatures. I'm not a major fan of the sparkling, but since when do people have to follow rules when writing fantasy?

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@MonaAlona In Kristen Stewart's defense... Bella only has one emotion and hardly has any personality, so it's not like she's been given much to work with from the source material. It's because of that that I'm willing to give her another chance and I plan to see her in a non-Twilight movie and see how she does when she plays a character who actually HAS a personality.

@princessharley The problem with the sparkling (at least for me) is the fact that we are supposed to believe that some of the vampire in the Twilight books are scary and evil... and I really can't take someone who sparkles seriously as being someone that is even and who I should be scared of. I don't know if that's how others feel, but that's just how I feel about the sparkling. I also don't like the lack of fangs, but I can sort of understand that one.

@hopelessromantic1993 Um... I just wanted to point out that many of the vampire books that I read were published before or the same year as Twilight. so, it say that most vampire books were published because of Twilight's popularity is kind of ridiculous. Especially since vampire stories have been a large part of the romance and sci-fi/fantasy sections of the book store for a long time now' long before Twilight was published. They wouldn't have been published had their not been a market for them to begin with which, for most, was before Twilight.

I will say that I think the sudden influx of supernatural stories in the YA section is because of Twilight, but I don't think Twilight's popularity has anything to do with adult vampire books being published since the target audience is different.

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@sarabeth120 true. i guess blame goes to the author and not the actress.

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*puts on her armor before the rush of twihards that flood this thread*

I admit I enjoyed the books for the mind numbing entertainment value it offered. Hate the movies, think they're boring as heck. But man are they SO easy to rip on. Now I will never, ever be at Stephanie Meyer's level so she gets mad props for that and all the respect in the world.

But sparkling vampires? Really? And I don't think it made vampire books get published. Vampire books have been around for a lot longer than I've been alive! Bram Stroker, Interview with a Vampire (heck just about anything Anne Rice), just to name two of the most obvious ones. What it did is tone them down for a younger generation to enjoy. But any true vampire lovers are going to hate everything Twilight stands for, no matter what. Some will be a bit nicer about it but the hate will still be there. The vampires in that story were essentially neutered when put up against the greats.

And I already mentioned in another thread just how sexist the books are when you really analyze them. Here is a character that thousands of girls look up to (which they do, good or bad the books have a fan base and with said fan base comes idolizing) and she is so WHINY without Edward and strings Jacob along. I mean for the entire second book she basically goes out to hurt herself JUST because a guy left her. I'm no feminist but if I had a daughter that sure as heck is not the example I'd want of her.

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I liked the books, they were no great work of art but they were enjoyable to read. I think the best thing about them was they got SO many teenagers reading who never read before! I used to look aorund class and half the pupils would be sitting there with twlight on their laps. And I have NEVER seen that before or since. I just don't think sparkling is a big issue, there are WAY mroe important flaws in the book, like bella's character, and sort of encouraging teenage pregnancy and marriage and thinking that your life revolves around one guy when it doesn't. The only reason she made them sparkles was because she wanted there to be some reason for the "myth" that vamps couldn't go out in the daylight, but she didn't wna tot do the cliche "burn and die" thing. It was different. Why do people have to judge that? I think she liked the whole diamond analogies, cold, hard, beautiful.. and sparkling. So what, it's liek the least important issue in the book.

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@hopelessromantic1993 You are right that the sparkling was the least important problem with the book... the writing, Bella's character and the horrible messages that the books send out to the young girls reading them are more important than that, but the sparkling bothers people (me included). Like I said in my other post, it bothered me because we were supposed to believe that some of these vampires were scary, evil killers/monsters and I just can't take someone that sparkles as being scary or evil. I think she could have come up with some other reason they could walk in the daylight that wasn't so laughable. LJ Smith (The Vampire Diaries) was able to do that... her vampires had special rings that protected them from the sun. I would have liked for Meyer to have done something like that. Of course this is just my opinion.

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@sarabeth120 bella sent out the message that its (in my opinion)

1. okay to lead two guys on 2. be solely dependant on a guy

this isn't a point but i want to say this. WHO IN THEIR FREAKING MIND (HUMAN) SAYS THEY WANNA BE A VAMPIRE. LIKE C'MON! i never got that. from the time edward said vampire i'd be like jose and speed off to mexico. hell nuh

i personally thinks it sends an awful message to young girls. i absolutely abhor the concept of it

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@MonaAlona Besides those... it also teaches young girls that:

1. It's completely okay to not have any goals or any aspirations in life, just get yourself a man an he'll take care of you.

2. It's okay to like someone based only on physical characteristics.

3. It's okay if, before you know him, the guy you love sneaks into your bedroom and watches you sleep at night. It's just so romantic... there is absolutely nothing creepy about that.

4.It is perfectly okay to become completely obsessed with your boyfriend and depend on him for everything. It also teaches that not only is it okay to change yourself for a guy, but it's also okay to give up EVERYTHING for him as well.

5. Going along with number 4... if your boyfriend dumps you, just go off and cry for MONTHS. Don't get over him and move on at all...

6. If your boyfriend takes apart your car so you can't see a friend of yours, he's just being protective; his is, in no way being a controlling jerk who's taking away your choice to go see said friend.

7. Getting married at 18 is completely okay.

I think I can probably come up with more, but I think I've come up with enough.

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@sarabeth120 Mother of insults... I think I'm in love.

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@sarabeth120 you forgot to add number 8...

8. it's completely okay to jump off a cliff if you want to have an adreniline induced hillucination of the boyfriend who dumped you MONTHS AGO!!!

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Getting married at 18 is okay, that's why it's legal...

9. Referring to werewolves. Domestic violence is completely fine and you should stay with said abuser and try making him feel better about it.

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@sarabeth120 agreed.

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@WintersWitch Hahaha... yea, that one too. I was actually going to include that, but I didn't because I thought I had gone far enough. :)

@princessharley Just because it's legal, doesn't ' mean it's okay. I mean, you can legally smoke at the age of 18 too, but that doesn't mean it's okay to do so. That is such a young age and girls should at least enjoy being single for a few years before they get married. Of course, this is just my opinion.

Honestly, a girl should not be marrying right out of high school like Bella... especially when she has no aspirations other than being Edward's wife. I guess it wouldn't be as bad if Bella wanted to get married and then go to college, but she doesn't. That aspect to me is what is not okay about it. Meyer is basically telling young girls that not only is it okay to marry straight out of high school, but it's also okay to have only one aspiration in life: to be some guy's wife. That, to me, is what's wrong about the marrying situation. I don't agree with allowing eighteen year olds to marry anyway since I don't think they're fully mature enough to handle it or understand what they're getting themselves into. I know several people who married young (between 18 and 22) ... and they ALL ended in divorce.

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@sarabeth120 Well yeah. Anything legal is okay it's just personal choice if you want to do it or not. Marriage is what you make it whatever age you are.

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