scarlett210
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Post by scarlett210 on Nov 19, 2011 17:59:32 GMT -4
I just don't get how many people go see these movies knowing how bad they are. Even if it's just for the "lulz," they can't be that funny. I'd wait for DVD/cable, personally.
But the people who actually take this shit seriously, especially the deeply disturbed middle aged ladies? That's a psychology course, right there.
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Post by kostgard on Nov 19, 2011 18:00:54 GMT -4
One of t he routes I take when I walk my dog takes me past a movie theater - when I went by last night there was an ambulance sitting in the parking lot at the ready. I cracked up imagining it was for the swooning twi-hards.
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Post by BoroKat on Nov 19, 2011 19:51:20 GMT -4
I actually kinda liked the first movie, I think that Catherine Hardwicke did a good job working the material into a half-decent movie. I am not going to see Breaking Dawn though, I despised the book. The whole pregnancy from first sexy times/vamp baby/imprinting fuckery is not something that I can witness on the big screen, even for the LULZ.
I do feel sorry for RPattz because he seems to be bewildered by the whole thing. At least at the beginning, now he seems almost hostile.
I have often thought with the Twilight series that Stephenie Meyer created an interesting world with some intriguing ideas. How I wish that she had just been a better writer. Plus, to be honest, I felt a lot of second-hand embarrassment when I read the Twilight series, like I was reading her own personal intimate fantasies and that Edward was her "dream guy". Yargh.
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Post by proper stranger on Nov 19, 2011 21:23:59 GMT -4
It was pretty hilarious. Some friends and I got drunk last night in order to make it through (it was the only way). We were laughing throughout, but I was sad that most of the audience in our theatre seemed to be serious (!) about this crap. My favorite part was when the crappy CGI werewolves started having a telephathic argument, complete with voiceovers from Taylor, etc. It was funny because (a) I don't think the movies ever showed them communicating this way before and (b) it was just terrible. Someone posted the gif of Jacob imprinting on the baby. Needless to say, I laughed til I cried, composed myself, looked at it again, and nearly pissed myself laughing til I cried again. This? This is what tweens, teens, and emotionally disturbed adult women are losing their shit over? Good lord! It was even worse in the movie. After Jacob looks at the baby, we zoom into her eye and see a montage of a teenage Renesmee (I hate that stupid name) frolicking in the Twilight Meadow of Creepy Sparkly Romance. To give credit where it's due, I think Bill Condon did the best he could to downplay the WTFuckery of the birth scene. He showed it from Bella's not-quite-conscious perspective, so it kind of flickered in and out during the vampire C-section. One of my friends was unspoiled going in, and she didn't get from the action on the screen that Edward cut the baby out with his damn teeth. She was even more grossed out when I explained this to her.
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ennui
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Post by ennui on Nov 19, 2011 22:23:19 GMT -4
I have a stupid question, but I don't know where to ask.
I've only seen the first movie. One of Edward's traits is that he's ice-cold (being undead, I guess). Does he warm up at some point? Or do they just forget that part? Because any physical contact seems ... unpleasant.
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Post by BoroKat on Nov 19, 2011 22:57:38 GMT -4
Nope ennui, they never explain that. They also never explain why someone who has been dead for a hundred years still has working SPERM.
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Post by angelaudie on Nov 20, 2011 1:34:45 GMT -4
Oh man. This movie is going to so awful. My friends and I should have a riot watching it!
Actually Jacob imprinting on the baby even disturbed many of the diehard fans. Stephanie Meyer got pretty defensive because even the crazies were writing her, "Ummm, you do realize this borders/is pedophilia right?" comments. I wish I could find the interview where she insisted Jacob imprinting on the baby was romantic and sweet damnit!
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CAgirl
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Post by CAgirl on Nov 20, 2011 5:28:34 GMT -4
I watched this with my husband last night because he wanted to watch it! I am not a fan. He was thinking it was going to have fighting like the second movie, but he was way wrong! After about an hour, he apologized for making me watch it and I told him I get to choose the next 5 movies we watch! It was awful! We also did lots of laughing, especially the cgi werewolves part. That was stupid. It was boring and slow. The only action was in the last 10 minutes. And I had no idea Edward did a csection with his teeth! I even asked my husband why his mouth was all bloody. This was definitely a rental or wait till it's on showtime!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2011 6:44:11 GMT -4
I just don't get how many people go see these movies knowing how bad they are. Even if it's just for the "lulz," they can't be that funny. I'd wait for DVD/cable, personally. But the people who actually take this shit seriously, especially the deeply disturbed middle aged ladies? That's a psychology course, right there. Well, I like the movies. Not love, love them and I'd never argue that they were good, exactly, but I find them watchable and entertaining in the way certain TV movies are. I think it helps that I like things that are kind of corny and lame. But mostly, I go to see the Twilight movies when they're out because I enjoy the feeling of camaraderie you get with the other people who are there. I haven't come across anybody too crazy; it's usually teen girls who scream every time Taylor takes his shirt off and gay guys who shout out snarky comments and both make me laugh. And everybody gets super-quiet during an important moment from the books, so you know that they all read them, despite themselves and sort of do want to see it unfold on the screen. I always have a good time when I go to see a Twilight movie, so even though I really didn't like Breaking Dawn the book, and expect not to like the movie, I've still made a date with some friends to see this Monday.
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Post by Coffeecakes on Nov 20, 2011 20:11:47 GMT -4
I have a stupid question, but I don't know where to ask. I've only seen the first movie. One of Edward's traits is that he's ice-cold (being undead, I guess). Does he warm up at some point? Or do they just forget that part? Because any physical contact seems ... unpleasant. No they never explain that. If anything it's mentioned constantly throughout the books how ice-cold he is, and how he feels like marble. Yet Bella cannot wait to bang him senseless. Yet they never explain how Bella is this super special snowflake either, so Stephenie just plain sucks.
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