Twilight
No offense to anyone who might read this and is a fan, but WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with Twi-hards??? I'm not talking about people who like the books and movies on a normal to slightly more than normal level. I'm talking about the people who let it affect their daily lives to the point where they need psychiatric help.
This post comes on the heels of reading this article:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-twilight-fans-vampire-addiction-affecting-relationships.html
It discusses the affect that Twilight is having on people's relationships. Forgive me, but Twilight should not affect anyone's relationships. It is a poorly written series of books and movies orchestrated by someone who had no clue what they were doing, in which next to nothing happens. For FOUR books. Why in the crikey fuck they're making the fourth book into two movies (other than to try in vain to compete with Harry Potter) I will never know, because in that one perhaps more than any of the other books, nothing happens. There is so much useless, awful narrative they could cut from that and the movie would still be of the same quality, and we would only be forced to suffer one of them.
Maybe I'm just a bitter realist. I saw through the "romance" of it in the first book. What's portrayed in the Twilight Saga is NOT love. Or it shouldn't be. It does, in fact, represent most of the worst aspects of love. Things I would never want my niece or my potential future children to believe love should be. But these people are going nuts over it. I once had a 67-year-old woman come into the bookstore and ask to see all the Twilight material because, as she put it, "Edward Cullen is my soulmate. I'm not so sure about this Robert Pattinson guy, but Edward is the perfect man and he's perfect for me". WTF??? I mean sure, there have been fictional characters that have made me go, "If only they were real, I would love them, or they could be perfect for me". (Tony Stark springs to mind as the most recent) Usually a few minutes thought puts the notion to rest. But I have never once deluded myself into thinking that fictional or not, a character is my soulmate. To clarify, she said it as if she believed it with all of her being and as if he were real and out there somewhere if she could just find him. That scared me. Then I read this article and find out that it's busting up marriages because both women AND men are obsessed. That terrifies me. (By the way, if you are a woman whose husband has a "Team Edward sparkly shirt" you may want to re-evaluate your choice in life-mate, because even if you're a fan, you should be slightly ashamed to be seen with him. Yes, I'm judging him for his Team Edward shirt.)
There's no reason for this.
This post comes on the heels of reading this article:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-twilight-fans-vampire-addiction-affecting-relationships.html
It discusses the affect that Twilight is having on people's relationships. Forgive me, but Twilight should not affect anyone's relationships. It is a poorly written series of books and movies orchestrated by someone who had no clue what they were doing, in which next to nothing happens. For FOUR books. Why in the crikey fuck they're making the fourth book into two movies (other than to try in vain to compete with Harry Potter) I will never know, because in that one perhaps more than any of the other books, nothing happens. There is so much useless, awful narrative they could cut from that and the movie would still be of the same quality, and we would only be forced to suffer one of them.
Maybe I'm just a bitter realist. I saw through the "romance" of it in the first book. What's portrayed in the Twilight Saga is NOT love. Or it shouldn't be. It does, in fact, represent most of the worst aspects of love. Things I would never want my niece or my potential future children to believe love should be. But these people are going nuts over it. I once had a 67-year-old woman come into the bookstore and ask to see all the Twilight material because, as she put it, "Edward Cullen is my soulmate. I'm not so sure about this Robert Pattinson guy, but Edward is the perfect man and he's perfect for me". WTF??? I mean sure, there have been fictional characters that have made me go, "If only they were real, I would love them, or they could be perfect for me". (Tony Stark springs to mind as the most recent) Usually a few minutes thought puts the notion to rest. But I have never once deluded myself into thinking that fictional or not, a character is my soulmate. To clarify, she said it as if she believed it with all of her being and as if he were real and out there somewhere if she could just find him. That scared me. Then I read this article and find out that it's busting up marriages because both women AND men are obsessed. That terrifies me. (By the way, if you are a woman whose husband has a "Team Edward sparkly shirt" you may want to re-evaluate your choice in life-mate, because even if you're a fan, you should be slightly ashamed to be seen with him. Yes, I'm judging him for his Team Edward shirt.)
There's no reason for this.