We’ve watched the first half of New Moon with Rifftrax. It’s worse than Twilight was. Second half tonight; if I never post again, you know the pain was too much to bear.
Really, I think it depends on how you spend your free time. For example, I kill THREE grizzlies every morning before breakfast, using only my right thumb (my left is FAR too powerful), simply as something to do to kill time while the coffee brews.
I take it you are one of those folks who watch the morning news instead. sigh
Actually, Angel has killed LOTS of people, even when Buffy takes place. He got the nickname apparently because he’s just too pretty, not because he was like, nice or angelic or anything. The whole not-killing thing is mostly during the times when he has a soul (he’s lost it again on a couple of occasions)
To answer the OP, a friend of mine in the Air Force likes Twilight. He’s a jet mechanic who greatly enjoyed the two years he spent stationed outside of Las Vegas. He claims that he enjoys the movies because the girls are hot, but it’s also possible that he just enjoys them because they’re bad, judging by his DVD collection.
I don’t, because I’m not gay. Or Mormon.
You don’t say! :eek:
In fairness, my best friend is a 26-year old virgin living with his grandparents. He’s just incredibly lame.
Let me guess: he also has floppy, dreamy hair, and owns multiple pairs of skinny jeans, the crotches of which are constantly worn 3-4 inches below where they were meant to be worn. Amirite?
Don’t know about the vampires. But the werewolf? Totally gay. Contact Taylor Lautner - Address, Agent, Manager & Publicist (RECOMMENDED)
One of my main problems with Twilight is that Edward has lived for over 100 years, and presumably had a myriad of experiences and met innumerable people, but he’s interested in an insipid, mopey, insufferable sixteen year old? Come on.
Not to be unkind, truly, but if you can’t see it just by looking at him, I don’t think you’re ever going to be able to see it.
Seconding the love for The Devil Wears Prada, and adding Project Runway into the mix. Those entertainments represent the cool kind of gay. Twilight, of course, not so much.
The book is actually even worse. While I was watching the movie with my friend there were several points where we said “They managed to make that slightly less dumb than the book”, such as the scene where Bella goes shopping with her friends and is menaced by a group of young men. In the movie, Bella leaves her friends to go to the bookstore that she’s already looked up online. She gets to the bookstore with no problems, buys the book she wanted, and on her way back encounters the group of stereotypical frat boys she’d seen earlier. In the book, she leaves her friends to go to a bookstore one of them told her about, but when she finds it she doesn’t even go inside. She looks in the window and decides to go find a better bookstore even though she doesn’t know where anything in this town is. She then wanders into the warehouse district for no apparent reason and keeps wandering around until she encounters a random street gang who herd her into a trap.
Neither the movie or book scenario is especially brilliant, they’re really just excuses for Bella to be threatened with rape and for Edward to roll up and save the day, but I give the screenwriters credit for making the situation somewhat more plausible and not forcing Bella to behave like she’s brain damaged.
*I don’t think I’ve ever screamed “OH GOD NO!” while watching an actual horror film, but I did when Edward suddenly materialized in Bella’s bedroom – and then confessed that he did this on a regular basis because he enjoyed watching her sleep. (I wasn’t expecting this because I didn’t make it that far in the book.) Back in my day that sort of thing was considered bad manners.
Oh, agreed. Breaking Dawn may be the only Twilight movie I consider watching. Yeah, but I probably still won’t.
It’s an interest in the unknown. He cannot read her mind.
BTW, you guys are aware of the metaphor, right? Edward is the celibate male who can understand all his male friends, but he suddenly meets this girl who he cannot understand. He’s been taught that sex is wrong, yet he so violently wants it.