Twilight-angry and Madagascar-happy

[greenie_breizh]

Okay. So for some reason instead of jotting down the beginning of some notes for my Buffy paper I've been read these excellent (because funny) summaries of Twilight, with actual quotes! (As seen on TV

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[shiraz_wine]

Haha, I thought that Twilight would horrify you. It scares me how many women have proclaimed their love for this series though; grown women who should know better. It also terrifies me that 14 year olds think that these are the greatest books ever.

Here is a different take on Twilight though: http://helen-keeble.livejournal.com/74065.html#cutid1 . Sometimes I think we forget what it's like to be a teenager, now that we're SO OLD.

[greenie_breizh]

I've never really related to a lot of the teenager stuff, to be honest, maybe because I'm not sure I had a typical adolescence. In particular, I didn't have many independence issues (my parents let me make a lot of choices for myself or included me in choices they made).

That post brings up a lot of very good points - thanks for linking me to it! It's definitely the adults who are loving this stuff and recommending that scare me most; generally speaking, I don't care much for Twilight. It's visibly bad the way a lot of popular books are. But the dad not reacting to her daughter being assaulted? Yeah, that fucking creeped me out. >.>

[shiraz_wine]

I understand not relating to a lot of the teenager stuff too; going to Andover at the age of 13 and then returning home to NYC for holidays, where I could go pretty much wherever I wanted using public transportation meant that I didn't really feel stifled like most teenagers do. In fact, it wasn't until senior year at Andover that I started to chafe at the few restrictions I did have (sign-in, asking permission to go off-campus, etc.), only because I knew that I would have had more freedom had I stayed in NYC

[littlegothsin]

About Wall-e I had the same reaction when I realised they had felt the need to gender-ise (yeah barbarism ?) the robots.

[greenie_breizh]

In my world, genderize (possibly genderise in British English ;) is a perfectly fine word. :p Though I think you can just "gender" as a verb.

But yeah, they missed a golden opportunity there. Especially since both robots are not heavily gendered either way - Eve is slick and pretty, but also the one that relies on force; Wall-E is frail but more rough around the edges. I think both robots could easily be read either as male or female, so it really comes down to the voices.

[littlegothsin]

And the names.

[greenie_breizh]

Yeah, definitely. I think we could buy Wall-E for a female? Maybe. Eve is definitely a no-go for a dude.

Now that makes me wonder if their voices had been gender-neutral, if people would still have read it as heterosexual solely because of the names. I guess so, they'd be holding on to whatever they could find, but it'd be interesting.

[tanisafan]

I have been trying to read twilight because I don't want to diss stuff without having actually read it, but it's so freaking hard not to throw it across the room. Like, the 'perfect boyfriend' vampire Edward comes into Bella's room to watch her sleep. WTF. And when she's done waking up and freaking out, she's all, "I guess it's kind of flattering."

Um. Get a fucking restraining order, mkay? *brain breaks*

But I'm interested to hear about Madagascar in this way, I haven't seen it yet but it seems like a smarter movie ticket than the freaking vampire movie.

[greenie_breizh]

Yeah, Edward being a creepy stalker is like the first thing I read about Twilight. The whole relationship just seems unhealthy and creepastic, but then when you look close, most teenage romances probably do. ^^

Madagascar is 100 times better than Twilight to spend a movie ticket on, but in all fairness, it's a totally different project and potentially a totally different audience.

[arca_en_ciel]

Je suis un passée un peu vite sur Madagascar 2 parce que je voudrais le voir, mais je suis contente que TOUT CE GAY SUBTEXT FLAGRANT du premier film de finisse pas à la poubelle XD.

Twilight j'ai été sympa, j'en ai lu une page presque entière. Quand dès la première phrase, j'arrive à voir à quel point c'est mal écrit alors que c'est en anglais, j'insiste même pas.

[greenie_breizh]

Ca m'avait trop pas marqué dans le premier que je me souvienne, mais en y repensant, ça ne peut que être là, surtout entre Marty et Alex. En plus j'arrive pas à me souvenir, mais il y avait pas du tout de romance dans le premier, si?

Ouais, j'ai même pas le courage d'essayer perso. J'ai mieux à faire de mon temps. ;)

[arca_en_ciel]

C'est un peu loin tout ça mais de ce que je me rappelle, dans le premier le lion essaie constamment de s'empêcher de manger son meilleur pote le zèbre et euh bon, la façon dont il le regarde du coup m'avait donné des mauvaises pensées pendant tout le film XD.

Ça n'empêche pas que j'ai l'intention de télécharger illégalement voir le film rien que pour Cedric Diggory (si si c'est son vrai nom)…