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Off Topic => Off Topic => Topic started by: crisis on November 18, 2012, 01:33:38 PM
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and at the climax, all I could think of was "i wish a Belmont would come in & start hauling ass on everyone"
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Well, at least it wasn't Hotel Transylvania.
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i just watched Twilight
Please turn in your "Man Card," as you have forfeited the right to carry it.
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Sometimes guys have to do stuff that their girlfriends wanna do, ya know~
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The solution then is to make the stipulation that you'll agree to watch Twilight only if it is immediately followed by a real vampire movie, like "Interview with a Vampire" or "100 days of night." One must learn to compromise in relationships!
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The only acceptable way to watch Twilight is the Rifftrax version.
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For me the only respectable way would be to watch it with the TV turned off.
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The only acceptable way to watch Twilight is the Rifftrax version.
I watched one last night on toonamiaftermath.com last night.
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I wouldn't waste my time with it anyways. It's bad enough that the author's so-called vampires sparkle, but her book was also very badly written lending her to be mediocre at her worst, and I can't even begin to see how it got published in the first place, let alone be allowed to spawn sequels and a TV series. And now they have a movie of it... Did IQ's just drop sharply off the globe somewhere?
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I hereby declare your man-ness be removed, you are now a woman.
We shall dub thee Crisisess (like Princess).
You'll never catch me watching such filth, female with me or not.
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I'd go to Twilight with a girl, but only if she let me spend the whole movie between her legs. I wouldn't have to watch the crap and she'd probably be in need of some attention down there anyway from what I've heard about the series.
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To Twilight's credit, I hate it a lot less than Stuart Townsend in Queen of the Damned. Talk about shit performance from a shit movie (though the soundtrack is good).
I can understand some of the hate toward Twilight (I'm definitely not a fan) but I think the unbridled and unexpectingly almost bigoted hatred on here leaves me pause for concern. Have any of the individuals with such negative feelings actually watched or read anything from the Twilight saga to develop their own opinions of the matter instead of regurgitating what they read on the internet/heard from friends?
I've never read the novels, nor do I plan to, but that also means I have no valid opinion or critique of them to contribute to conversations. I've watched the movies (with the exceptions of the two Breaking Dawn movies, wife kind of got bored of them) and can evaluate the characters and cinematography and can contribute to a conversation with my own conclusions. Can't we have a little peace and civility around here?
Also those picking on poor Crisis for watching with his girl, please turn in your gentlemen cards. Seriously, is it that alien of a concept to treat a lady nicely and do things she likes?
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I'll just wait for the Rifftrax of the movie, I hear it's the funniest one yet.
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I have no intention to pick on anyone who's seen Twilight. Crisis made a sacrifice to appease his girlfriend and when it comes to relationships we all have to make a sacrifice of some kind or another. That's what relationships are about: compromising. Crisis was being a true man by sucking it up and sitting through the flick. No-doubt if I ever end up in a relationship of my own then I'll need to make some compromising just so I don't make my girlfriend feel that anything of her's; likes, thoughts or otherwise is unimportant.
Crisis I hereby recognize the brave and selfless sacrifice of your eyes and ears, and will honor their memory in Flanders Fields. May they finally know true piece.
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Also those picking on poor Crisis for watching with his girl, please turn in your gentlemen cards. Seriously, is it that alien of a concept to treat a lady nicely and do things she likes?
People still have those? :o No wonder so many dudes get cheated on so much. :P
As for twilight movies, sorry but that is what my girl has girlfriends for. Just like I have my boys for those things she isn't into too (though she luckily likes just about everything I do..... astonishingly). 8)
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Have any of the individuals with such negative feelings actually watched or read anything from the Twilight saga to develop their own opinions of the matter instead of regurgitating what they read on the internet/heard from friends?
I have read all of the books, including the unreleased Midnight Sun, in order to be able to argue that the series sucks, and suck it does. To be more specific on why: the characters are unlikeable save for one or two (and I swear they wandered in from a better book), Meyer has pretty much rendered her vampires nigh invincible unless the plot called for it (Meyer actually admitted that killing characters makes her cry), any attempts at symbolism are smacked to the readers' faces with a sledgehammer, the "story" only happens the way it does because the characters are idiots, it's filled with backwards values and double standards (as well as several implications that actually made me feel uncomfortable reading it) and has far too much evidence that Meyer fell asleep in school compounded by an obvious lack of research (rich banker in the Great Depression keeping his job for example).
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Hell when I wrote my first book I didn't want some of my characters to die but I killed them anyways. Chances are if I had written them to the point that I was attached to them then obviously I must have done something right. Whenever my damned 5 months are up I'll submit to more publishers until I get it published.
Anyways though self-schilling aside any writer who is afraid to kill his or her characters is going to run into the Scooby syndrome where you have a ubiquitous gang of characters that survives everything and sucks the tension right out. This doesn't mean every single character has to go out in a Steinbeckian blaze of defeat but when you KNOW the cast of characters survives everything with just minor scratches you no longer have any vested interest in their survival.
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The inability to kill characters seems to be a pet-peeve of yours, doesn't it?
Meyer only kills villains, or anyone who doesn't kiss the ground the Cullens walk on if you want to be more objective.