But yes, like Melissa says, hope springs eternal.

As for the popularity and longevety of the series, I believe it will endure. I have been reading vampire novels long enough that I remember when Anne Rice released Queen of the Dammed. And I’m a bookseller at a major chain to boot. A day dosent pass that we don’t sell two dozen of one of Meyers books. Recently I have read many of the other teen books revolving around the paranormal and believe me, Meyers is a better writer than most. Unfortunately, they are still just teen novels and I’m getting really tired of all that angsty moody teenage crap.

And since this is a movie site, yes I will run out to see the New Moon flick. I am a fan (oh horror!) and I am looking forward to it. I don’t bother seeing the Potter films anymore because I’m too tired of being disappointed. Give me a few years, I might burn out on Twilight too.

Ah, but hope springs eternal. (sigh)

After all, Mills and Boon have just as big a following. It is not ‘high art’, but escapism pure and simple.

This is a movie site, Screen Rant… I fully support your right to have an opinion on the movie Twilight and your interest in the movie New Moon without reading the books they are based on. Movies should and do have to be able to stand alone. The first movie, as most honest Twilight fans who aren’t obsessed with Robert Pattinson would admit, didn’t do a very good job. So I would understand your incredulity at the level of our passion.

However, suggesting we read another vampire book that is a “true” vampire book doesn’t mean much to us. In all honesty, the vampire element is not why we love these stories. I could care less about Dracula or how vampires are “supposed” to be written. Meyer created her own world – She made it almost believable, in a fantasy sort of way. She came up with new reasons why vampire legends/myths exist (sunlight doesn’t hurt vampires but it exposes them as non-human – made me think of how the moonlight exposes the pirates as ghosts on the pirates of the caribean movies). She did a very cool and unique thing with the werewolves introduced in New Moon… Just the way they communicate with each other is fascinating… and then she wove it into Native American type ‘magic’ and legend…

But as interesting as all that is, that’s not why we love it. We love the characters, we love the romances, the suspense and element of danger each book holds (and we are all hopeful the next movie gets it right.) We love the family dynamics, the friendships, the sacrifices the characters make for each other… We aren’t really die hard vampire fans.

Also, don’t dismiss us so quickly. To say no one will remember Twilight in 10 years I believe to be highly inaccurate. (Maybe the first movie or the actors, sure, but not the books). Do you believe that no one will remember Harry Potter in 10 years time? I don’t mean to compare the 2 series, as I hate those arguments as well, but both books are similar in the passion they inspire in their readers.. I for one will certainly introduce my future children to Harry Potter and Twilight… and I know those stories will resonate just as much with them as they do with us. The fandom is not going anywhere.

All we can do now is hope that this movie will not lose so much in its translation to the big screen as the first one did.

You might say something like, I’m sorry you have such a negative opinion but I find it sad that you are missing out on something great… instead of calling people who express disinterest ‘haters’ and ‘ignorant.’

I don’t mean to attack you, heck I am ONE of you… I just don’t see why you are expending so much energy going on the offensive against people who aren’t interested. You are in no way going to FORCE them to be interested… And a lot of people will argue with you just for the sake of arguing… so it is a WASTE of your time.

There’s plenty of internet sites out there where you can express your love for Twilight with other fans who will whole heartedly agree with you…

I’m going to go enjoy my world of hate mongering now.
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I don’t care what you think of Twilight or me, although I see you’re trying to bait me into your world of hate mongering which I won’t do. I’m not going to respond to you further.

Forgive me for the sin of asking you to read a book!

BSL, sorry if you can’t deal with the fact that I have an opinion on a book series I’ve yet to read. I have similar opinions on the fans/followers of Islam and $cientology yet I still haven’t read Dianetics or the Koran. Do you think after reading the Koran I would get into Islam? Prob not, so you see I can base an opinion on a topic from fans behaviour and the subject matter. Your point of view is bordering on Twilight fanatical extremism. I’ve seen it before.

I guess Vic should add, “No negative comments on Twilight” to the list of terms for posting comments. I haven’t used any hate speech on this thread. Sheesh.

790 is still spouting the woes of reading Twilight when he has yet to pick it up and read it! I am at a loss as to why ppl insist on putting the series/fans/movies down from a purely ignorant point of view. I liken it to the person who feels left out at recess.

If you’ve been attacked I apologize. We’re BURIED with covering Comic-Con right now and I haven’t had the time to monitor comments as closely as I usually do. We get hundreds a day and I generally go through them all to look for anything out of order, but for the past few days I haven’t had the time.

Vic

As an actual fan of the series I have to say everyone is entitled to their opinion… I personally don’t see anything wrong with us having our little fantasy world within the Twilight books or movies or whatever we choose to love… I certainly don’t insist you all should go read the books to understand us. If you have no interest in it, that’s great.. what I don’t get is why do you keep commenting on these stories then??

I personally have NO interest in American Idol… I have never seen an episode, and that is huge and popular too… but yet somehow I manage to not click on blogs/stories that talk about it and don’t waste my time reading about it/commenting on it/and arguing with the fans of it about why it is a valid way to spend ones time or why it is not.

Bottom line, I don’t personally care if you ‘get it’ or not… But shouldn’t you be happy that a book has come a long with the power to get the younger generation READING again?? All this passion you see, this is based on a bunch of novels. How often does something like this stir the passions of the younger generation, especially these days when reading has become kind of ‘uncool.’ These stories have inspired creativity and entrepreneurship, internet sites, youtube videos,and so much more… I personally have 2 younger cousins that these are the only books they have ever actually read all the way through… So I for one am happy that the movies are generating so much enthusiasm…. Maybe more people will actually become curious enough to pick them up and see why we like it… (hint it is NOT the first movie for most of us… that was kind of embarrassing…)

But I’m not here to say ‘read the books and then you can talk to me’ I’m just hear to say… if you’re not interested, why even waste your time making the same arguments over and over?

I have high hopes for this film, as it is based off my favorite book in the series… And Chris Weitz seems like a much more talented and focused director than Twilight had the first time around…

I don’t believe the life lessons in “Twilight” are valuable or redeeming in any way. If you can prove me wrong go for it !!!