There’s not much more I can say about Twilight. The best part of the movie for me personally was people-watching. Twilight fandom is about as fan-wanky as you can get, and our audience clearly aimed to please.
The girl next to me in line, for example, uttered this finery right before entering the theater: “And then I made my boyfriend put on body glitter so he would be JUST. LIKE. EDWARD. EEEE!”
If that’s not terrifying, I don’t know what is. Look, if you like the books, you’ll like the movie. And if you don’t like the books or don’t care, guess what? You won’t like it, probably. I’ll just put it this way.
Twilight is the best comedy I’ve seen all year! No…seriously. It’s laugh out loud hilarious. I have not laughed that hard in a theater since I saw Team America.
Honestly!
The lady next to me got all peeved and everything! But I couldn’t help it. You know how you laugh so hard you start to shake?
That’s what I did for 75% of this movie.
(Wait for it on DVD, trust me. You’ll love it! In an awesomely bad sort of fashion.)
Fine, but you’re paying for the rental. :P
Whatever, J.D., you’ll thank me.
I SAT THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL FOR YOU, thankyouverymuch.
I think Twilight is best viewed in a theater full of fangirls. It’s HYSTERICAL.
Even though I went to a midnight showing, I think my theater was less full of fangirls than it was of snarkers. Everyone was laughing at stuff we probably weren’t meant to laugh at.
Yeah, mine was chock full of fangirls. A lot of them were teenage girls whose parents were with them.
I kept doing the shaky-laugh thing while trying to stifle my giggles. It was kind of awkward, but what does anyone expect with the “AS IF YOU COULD OUTRUN ME” bullshit?
“I AM A KILLER, BELLA!”
::sparklemotion::
Dude, I expected the Bee Gees to start playing. How can you take that shit seriously?!?! :D
SO HOW WAS HSM THEN.
:D
SO HOW WAS HSM THEN.
I would have rather stuck my head into a meat grinder, thank you very much.
Seriously, I am convinced that Zac Efron is the dullest person alive EVER.
Well, you just saw the first one. I fucking HATE his hair in the first one.
He gets fucking GORGEOUS in the sequels.
Fuck.
*floods keyboard w/ drool*
I kept doing the shaky-laugh thing while trying to stifle my giggles. It was kind of awkward, but what does anyone expect with the “AS IF YOU COULD OUTRUN ME” bullshit?
No one in your theater laughed at that?! That’s disappointing! I think most people in mine laughed at it. Seriously, the sparkles just looked like sweat.
Ok, so now I have to go see this, just for the laughs. No one here has ever even HEARD of Twilight, so there isn’t anyone to get mad at me.
(Also, HSM. Hysterically awful imho)
Ok, so now I have to go see this, just for the laughs.
Mags, it’s so worth it – it’s fantabulously awful. Just wait for the sparkles (since you haven’t read Twilight, you won’t be underwhelemed.)
Yeah, I agree. It’s really more of the experience of the movie that was fun. I wrote some ridiculously long post on this, even though it wasn’t worth it, just because it was a fun kind of an experience.
I think I liked the first book when I read it… but I was pretty much the fanbase back when it came out (14 years old and bookish). And all of my friends were the same way, so we just threw the book at other people and told them to read it.
And now? Just fodder for hilarity. Usually via Cleolinda, or else the Alien Parody floating around.
Allison, Twilight offers the best sparklarity there is! It’s a fun experience, but for you and me, not the same as some people.
My inner twelve year old enjoys Twilight like I enjoyed the Sweet Valley High and Babysitter Club books. I actually thought the first was semi-decent (badly written and in need of editing, but still decent). Once New Moon and onwards hit, I was like, “UM, NO THANK YOU, TWILIGHT”. Plus, once Breaking Dawn came out and the Edward-chewing-a-baby-out scene came into play, I was totally off-board Twilight being any sort of good.
Agreed: Creepiest Birthing Scene ever.
I think for me it ended about… end of “Eclipse.” Because “Breaking Dawn” is the longest, most boring book about vampires in the world.