I usually try not to talk about Twilight, but:

[scary_lullabies]

No matter how many of you geese keep insisting to me that this Twilight [movie] is feminist, I will not believe you.

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[caithream]

Keep on keepin' on.

[scary_lullabies]

Cool review. Sadly, like Sex in the City*, there are also plenty of reviews out there that hate on these movies simply as an extension of the reviewer's existing misogyny - i.e. "It's bad because it's girly," rather than "It's bad because it's BAAAAAAAAAAD."

*I comb through bad reviews for phenomena that I don't get. They comfort me in the stuffy, dark solitude of my Twilight-and-Carrie-hating world.

[xtinethepirate]

WHAT? WHO? HOW COULD ANYONE POSSIBLY---?

*head. desk*

[scary_lullabies]

IDEK XTINE!!

Several people have insisted this to me. And they do so with a tone that suggests that all the problems are solved and I will totally be into this series now since that was obviously my only problem with it. (p.s. IT ISN'T.)

[xtinethepirate]

IJS, no one movie, especially not one based on those books, will be enough to fix all the problems with Twilight. Like how the characters aren't characters, but empty, role-filling character types. Or the whole emotional/mental/physical/sexual abuse of Bella by Edward bit. Or how Bella is manipulative of her friends and family but doesn't exist outside of Edward.

THERE IS A LOT OF SHIT WRONG HERE, OK. I don't even KNOW how people are telling you that. THE MIND. IT BOGGLES.

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[modillian]

[scary_lullabies]

WOMAN DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THE DADDY STUFF. WE WILL BE HERE ALL. NIGHT.