The Ultimate Game of Horrify the Twilight Noob

[cleolinda]

... in which I am schooled by my mother:

She was home at lunch talking about how she'd seen something on the news that morning about Catherine Hardwicke being fired, and she was all proud that she knew what was going on because she'd already heard it from me, and the conversation drifted towards Twilight stuff in general and how Pattinson-as-

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[cleolinda]

And they FILMED IT! That's what kills me!

[cleolinda]

http://pics.livejournal.com/cleolinda/gallery/000061e1

[plazmah]

*SHAKES FIST*

[allthelivesofme]

*uses appropriate icon*

Also, yeah. That Twilight is immediately getting sequels but this won't? Rrrrrrrrrrr.

[cleolinda]

It was in the early trailers!

http://pics.livejournal.com/cleolinda/gallery/000061e1

[sun_star_n_moon]

and suddenly I hate them even more.

[sabra_n]

And then apparently they were like, "A happy ending is better for a sequel" or something and have they never watched the original Star Wars trilogy ever? Oy. If we can end a movie with Han Solo being frozen and Luke's hand being chopped off we can end a movie with Roger being killed. But that was emblematic of the whole project for me - they always went for mediocrity where they could have gone for something that was at least ballsy.

[tabbyclaw]

In their defense (she said, unable to believe those words were coming from her keyboard), the situation there is very different. With "Empire" -- and with "Dead Man's Chest, come to that" -- there was already the precedent of one successful and beloved movie, so there was pretty much a guarantee that anyone who'd come back for the second one would come back for the third, as well.

[sabra_n]

Fair enough. But without the darkness and the horror and the anti-intellectual/anti-sex themes, this just became another Generic Fantasy Epic, this time with talking animals. The things that made His Dark Materials special were stripped in favor of keeping all the surface elements.

[diddakoi]

I KNOW. I took my friend, saying the whole time, "this movie will blow your mind, it'll be amazing," and then THEY FLEW OFF HAPPILY IN A BALLOON. There was much what-the-fuck-ing.