Twilight Rant: They've Got It All Wrong

This article is spot on, I'd say. Very true about the fans. They devour this silly romance thing.

I, personally, can't stand most romance movies. Action for me please. And if it has vampires, please do not make them sparkly. Please please please?

This article is dead on. And Kate is mistaken in thinking it doesn't matter if they are trying to appeal to men. That's the mistake they made with the aforementioned 'Beauty and the Beast'. They ruined our show because they were looking to make it appeal to men - it was never gonna happen. They took away our romance and gave us violence instead. It sucked, out loud, big time!
Regarding Ron Perlman, he can't play a part that doesn't make me want to get into his pants. If the writer is looking for casting choices like that one, he must not be aware that Hollywood is run by bean counters who don't know beans about anything, and especially not about what audiences want to see.

What a great article. I laughed through the whole thing. You are right on, these books are emotion porn. I read through them so fast and had so much fun doing it and I did drink wine some of the time. You so called it. I am wearing a "Mrs. Cullen" t-shirt to the movie along with glow in the dark fangs. Stephanie Meyer has created the perfect man and he is nothing like Fabio. If just reading a book can give you such a fun mini vacation....I am all for it. THe best part for me has been passing it on. I'm bringing 7 ladies to the movie with me on Friday, from all ages and all walks of life, they have all read the book and really enjoyed it. Margaritas first and fangs second. I can't wait.

First and foremost, I can see why Summit decided to advertise Twilight as an action movie, they're trying to get a bang for their buck. Of course they want all types of people to see the movie. A point was made that "fan-girls" will go to the movie had it been advertised or not. As a matter of fact, I've known about this movie for about a year or so now. I've had plans to see it since first word came out. I read these books two years ago.

However, the hype from the girls who just started reading the books is highly irritating, I suppose I can deal with it for a few more weeks until it dies down, and if I can deal with it in a highschool full of them, I'm sure you can too. Correct?
Call me "a crazy fan-girl", call me whatever you'd like, but I know what I am in this for, I'm in this to see how closely the movie and book is related. I have my ticket to see it tomorrow night in hand. Let's see how the movie turns out, shall we?
I'll be back sometime, to tell you my opinion of this chick flick.

guys that want to be a super hero don't actually think they will become one....but still hope that some freak accident will grant them powers. Any way guys have a clear sense of reality when it comes to super heroes and well they can still be heroes just not super.
girls that want those fairly tale romances are well in fairy land. being a hero as in joining the military or becoming a firefighter is way more realistic then the romances in movies.

I'm a nonfan of the books who saw a screening of it, and I did not like it. It was okay, but I've pretty much forgotten most of it already. Almost all of the people I saw it with were hardcore fans.. some were even in their 40s and were completely obsessed with the series. They did not seem disappointed with it, but any book-turned-movie is bound to disappoint even a little, and that was evident. I would probably see it again just for the scenery, but not until I can netflix it.

PS - emotion porn

Wow.


Julia Rosa. You are passionate.

Josh, she just ate your lunch, buddy.

The fangirls and fan-moms will already be going to see the movie, whether its advertised on TV or not. Summit did the right thing, in my opinion, by trying to appeal to the male audience in the TV spots because that's (obviously) the demographic that are most unlikely to see the movie.

i think the charaters that you choose for the movie wernt good at all. i was a big fan of the book but the movie seems stupid to me. i dont even wnt to waste my money seeing it

I'm a fan, have been waiting for this movie for awhile now, and you are dead right about one thing - the advertising is all wrong. For months, we've been asking, why is this being marketed as a horror/action flick? It's not. We realize Summit was trying to get to the male audiences out there, but they'd have more of a shot of appealing to massive amounts of women who will then drag their male counterparts to the movies. Hasn't that worked with every other movie created?

Twilight's a chick flick, there's no doubt about it. Summit should have been marketing it as romantic all along, but from what I've heard about the movie (some reviews have come out, regardless) the actual romance in the movie itself is...rushed and kind of forgotten for that big bad ballet scene.

It's unfortunate, considering when I read the book, like a lot of others, I don't even bother with the climatic ending. My favorite parts are the lovey dovey gooey ooey parts featuring Edward and Bella's infatuation. I probably couldn't tell you how the whole ballet scene goes, even though I've read the book 100 times.


It's like Summit didn't realize that.

Which just SHOCKS the hell out of me.

I think come Monday, a lot of websites are going to wonder why this film didn't perform at the box office. Despite what's being shoveled down our throats, the interest level just isn't that high. Those hoping for a Harry Potter-sized take are going to be sadly, sadly disappointed. It probably won't bomb, but its certainly not going to set the BO of fire...not in any way.

Its too bad, as the young-goth-girl demographic hasn't been catered to much recently. But like High School Musical 3, heads will role and lots of Monday Morning Quarterbacking will wonder how such a brilliant (if misguided) marketing campaign could have misled them so badly. Mark my words.

They’re the women who believe men are secretly, well, women… and are dead wrong. Many of these women are teens, whom Summit has done a good job of courting, but most of them are just lonely, besotted, and blighted by society’s unrealistic view of romance

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--> really? how's about guys who want to be Hero or superman, want to save the world....

Dear Josh,
I'm fan of Twilight. You can see it coming can't you? All the crazy girls crying and yelling about the fact you hated - because it's obvious you did - the film that they've been waiting for months or even years to see. Heavy sarcasm, if you can't feel it.
I think it's rather stupid the way you talk about the fangirls and you're being really misogynist. Because, as soon as you talk about women like that you are proving the point that we only have to trust on a fictional character to have some hope that men aren't like you.
By saying that all the women who watch this are lonely, wine-drinking and depressed about their lives you assume that all the men are stupid guys with sleeveless shirts, small brains and only care about movies with naked women having sex in fast cars and holding guns.
And I'm sure you are not one of them, since you think yourself so well to be able to assume so much with so little information. Or at least I hope you're not, but maybe is just the silly hope of a crazy fangirl in me that doesn't have a boyfriend and drinks all night long crying because Patrick Dempsey is an actor and I can't really see the difference between reality and fiction. Hevay sarcasm, again.

Also, I think that Summit got it wrong with the marketing for the film. Women may drag men to watch, as men drag women to watch the latest Fast and Furious version. If men aren't going to be fooled, then there's nothing to worry about, right? The movie will hit people who know what's about and who care about the books. Hopefully, it will make more people read it, because God knows that people need to read more books.

(if you see any problem with my grammar, don't use it as an excuse or an argument, I'm from Brazil, so, English is not my mother language).

Having said that, I really hope you change your attitude towards women, because otherwise I think you'll end up drinking wine while watching Pretty Women and thinking why the hell are you alone (and if you're not alone, then I'm happy for you. (There're all kinds of women with all kinds of tastes) See? I'm a civilized crazy fangirl. And now I'll go, to watch Grey's Anatomy.

laineygossip is staying that nonfan, insider folks she knew were at the premiere and say that the chemistry of the leads turn this into this year's notebook. I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. I always thought the advertisting for this movie was wrong. There was no way the male demographic would ever accept this as an action, and I could ahve told them that. They needed to focus more on what this movie is--the movie comes from a book that is not epic in nature(although the ads try to illustrate that notion) and it's not action oriented. It's a character driven story that's very personal and small scoped really, about two outsiders finding one another. I think the attempt to make it something it's not is a problem too honestly as a fan.

I totally agree with you, Summit went the wrong direction in advertising this as an action film. No one is fooled, they should of targeted women. Women will drag the men to go with them. Pretty simple. I'm sure no guy is fooled into thinking this is a action film, though it may have a few "stunts.", More than that, the stunts are probably the weakest point of the film judging by those trailers.