Comments on: Screen Rant Focus: Twilight http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/ TV and Movie News, Reviews & Trailers Sat, 26 May 2012 13:07:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: lottie http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-182310 lottie Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:42:59 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-182310 well said Bella is selfish and whiney like cathy really unlikeable and not the best person to have re-telling the story from her prospective, i was relieved for the interlude in BD to read from Jacobs point of view I dont understand how stephanie meyer managed to make the basis of the whole series of books so lacking in anything remotely likeable or redeeming in personality.<br>As well as the unlikable lead there is also the problem of the language in the books all of those uncalled for ways to describe anything i read the words russet and alabaster about 50 times in the course of the series we get it the vamps are pale the shapeshifters are darker skinned it gets a tad condescending after a bit well said Bella is selfish and whiney like cathy really unlikeable and not the best person to have re-telling the story from her prospective, i was relieved for the interlude in BD to read from Jacobs point of view I dont understand how stephanie meyer managed to make the basis of the whole series of books so lacking in anything remotely likeable or redeeming in personality.
As well as the unlikable lead there is also the problem of the language in the books all of those uncalled for ways to describe anything i read the words russet and alabaster about 50 times in the course of the series we get it the vamps are pale the shapeshifters are darker skinned it gets a tad condescending after a bit

]]> By: lottie http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-170617 lottie Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:42:59 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-170617 well said Bella is selfish and whiney like cathy really unlikeable and not the best person to have re-telling the story from her prospective, i was relieved for the interlude in BD to read from Jacobs point of view I dont understand how stephanie meyer managed to make the basis of the whole series of books so lacking in anything remotely likeable or redeeming in personality.<br>As well as the unlikable lead there is also the problem of the language in the books all of those uncalled for ways to describe anything i read the words russet and alabaster about 50 times in the course of the series we get it the vamps are pale the shapeshifters are darker skinned it gets a tad condescending after a bit well said Bella is selfish and whiney like cathy really unlikeable and not the best person to have re-telling the story from her prospective, i was relieved for the interlude in BD to read from Jacobs point of view I dont understand how stephanie meyer managed to make the basis of the whole series of books so lacking in anything remotely likeable or redeeming in personality.
As well as the unlikable lead there is also the problem of the language in the books all of those uncalled for ways to describe anything i read the words russet and alabaster about 50 times in the course of the series we get it the vamps are pale the shapeshifters are darker skinned it gets a tad condescending after a bit

]]> By: Supertotallyawesomepeople!!!!!!! http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-57708 Supertotallyawesomepeople!!!!!!! Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:49:05 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-57708 Serena- i just think that overall The Twilight saga is addictive and awesome! but thats just my opinion and u ppl r entitled 2 ur own but then again mama alwayz said 'if u dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all' but i think Tamara and Kofi are at least considerately reasonable. p.s. Robert Pattinsons hair is gorgeous (sniff sniff is that jealousy i smell?)! oh and by the way how any one can read twilight and not instantly fall in love with it is a mystery to me. Lexy- I believe that Twilight the series and the movie are "da bomb". I think that some guys who critisizes twilight are just jealous of Robert Pattinson (some), they probably check there wifes purse to make sure theres no edward souvenier. And of course some women would love to play Bella. Anyway...MTR & LN love ur comments and hope u keep posten. Serena- i just think that overall The Twilight saga is addictive and awesome! but thats just my opinion and u ppl r entitled 2 ur own but then again mama alwayz said ‘if u dont have anything nice to say dont say anything at all’ but i think Tamara and Kofi are at least considerately reasonable. p.s. Robert Pattinsons hair is gorgeous (sniff sniff is that jealousy i smell?)! oh and by the way how any one can read twilight and not instantly fall in love with it is a mystery to me.

Lexy- I believe that Twilight the series and the movie are “da bomb”. I think that some guys who critisizes twilight are just jealous of Robert Pattinson (some), they probably check there wifes purse to make sure theres no edward souvenier. And of course some women would love to play Bella. Anyway…MTR & LN love ur comments and hope u keep posten.

]]> By: pink ribbon http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-33379 pink ribbon Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:36:25 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-33379 LN, you wrote: "ppl who don't get sucked into the story IS just TO dumb to understand it." Bad usage aside, don't you think you're being a bit rude and presumptive? It's as if you said, "anybody who doesn't like these books is stupid." Erm. . . how about matters of personal taste? Also, since Meyer has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, I think most people who read the books "get it." Just because they "get it" doesn't mean they like it. I have read too many excellent books by too many excellent authors to have anything nice to say about Meyer's clunky prose, her sloppy pacing (especially in the first book), her overdone detail, her melodramatic dialogue, and her shallow characterizations. By the end of Eclipse, her pacing has improved somewhat. But, IMO, her pacing is the only thing that has improved. Yes, in spite of Meyer's fingernails-on-a-chalkboard prose style, I've read the first three novels. I did get sucked in by the story, particularly by the backstory of the Cullens, and by story of the werewolf boys of the nearby Native American tribe. I just wish the story had been in the hands of a more capable writer. Kofi, you make an excellent point about the forbidden love angle, as well as about the sexual metaphor. Adult women I've talked with about the books have said they identified with Bella, that they were taken right back to being seventeen again. Speaking of forbidden love, New Moon references Romeo and Juliet throughout the book. Eclipse references Wuthering Heights (it fits--Bella is as annoying a character as Cathy is--I found them both whiny and selfish). Books like these are snacks--Twinkies, fluffy with creme filling and easy to swallow. Nothing wrong with having a Twinkie once in awhile. Just don't try to pass it off as tarte tropezienne. Respectfully, pr LN, you wrote: “ppl who don’t get sucked into the story IS just TO dumb to understand it.” Bad usage aside, don’t you think you’re being a bit rude and presumptive? It’s as if you said, “anybody who doesn’t like these books is stupid.” Erm. . . how about matters of personal taste? Also, since Meyer has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, I think most people who read the books “get it.” Just because they “get it” doesn’t mean they like it.

I have read too many excellent books by too many excellent authors to have anything nice to say about Meyer’s clunky prose, her sloppy pacing (especially in the first book), her overdone detail, her melodramatic dialogue, and her shallow characterizations. By the end of Eclipse, her pacing has improved somewhat. But, IMO, her pacing is the only thing that has improved.

Yes, in spite of Meyer’s fingernails-on-a-chalkboard prose style, I’ve read the first three novels. I did get sucked in by the story, particularly by the backstory of the Cullens, and by story of the werewolf boys of the nearby Native American tribe.

I just wish the story had been in the hands of a more capable writer. Kofi, you make an excellent point about the forbidden love angle, as well as about the sexual metaphor. Adult women I’ve talked with about the books have said they identified with Bella, that they were taken right back to being seventeen again.

Speaking of forbidden love, New Moon references Romeo and Juliet throughout the book. Eclipse references Wuthering Heights (it fits–Bella is as annoying a character as Cathy is–I found them both whiny and selfish).

Books like these are snacks–Twinkies, fluffy with creme filling and easy to swallow. Nothing wrong with having a Twinkie once in awhile. Just don’t try to pass it off as tarte tropezienne.

Respectfully,
pr

]]> By: Kofi Outlaw http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-33072 Kofi Outlaw Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:26:09 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-33072 @ Tamara: I concede. Truth be told, the story of a young girl falling for a young lad, with vampirism, thrown in as an innovative metaphor for sex and sexual desire, is an intriguing concept that can--no should-- appeal to readers either young or adult, or any one else able to find delight in reading such a story. There are millions of examples to corroborate that claim. A housewife by no means has to be "stifled" (what does that even mean???) in order to appreciate the deep resonence--on a human level--of Bella and Edwards' forbidden love. I formally apologize. @ Tamara:

I concede. Truth be told, the story of a young girl falling for a young lad, with vampirism, thrown in as an innovative metaphor for sex and sexual desire, is an intriguing concept that can–no should– appeal to readers either young or adult, or any one else able to find delight in reading such a story. There are millions of examples to corroborate that claim. A housewife by no means has to be “stifled” (what does that even mean???) in order to appreciate the deep resonence–on a human level–of Bella and Edwards’ forbidden love.

I formally apologize.

]]> By: Vic Holtreman http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-33017 Vic Holtreman Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:40:25 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-33017 Ah, ok. I didn't notice this was a two-page post. Well this is an opinion site and that was my writer's opinion (although I probably wouldn't have said that, myself). BTW, I corrected the spelling on Anne Rice. Vic Ah, ok. I didn’t notice this was a two-page post.

Well this is an opinion site and that was my writer’s opinion (although I probably wouldn’t have said that, myself).

BTW, I corrected the spelling on Anne Rice.

Vic

]]> By: E http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-32902 E Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:04:08 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-32902 To Vic Open your eyes dude, look at the top of the page and you shall see clearly "stifled housewives, still age eighteen in their heads". Also it's AnnE Rice with an E! E. To Vic

Open your eyes dude, look at the top of the page and you shall see clearly “stifled housewives, still age eighteen in their heads”.

Also it’s AnnE Rice with an E!

E.

]]> By: Vic Holtreman http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-32700 Vic Holtreman Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:23:43 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-32700 @Tamara I searched this entire page and nowhere do I see a comment or in the post itself a reference to "stifled housewives, still age eighteen in their heads." Vic @Tamara

I searched this entire page and nowhere do I see a comment or in the post itself a reference to “stifled housewives, still age eighteen in their heads.”

Vic

]]> By: Tamara http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-32695 Tamara Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:43:53 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-32695 I agree, Ms. Meyer isn't a perfect writer, but she has obviously managed to create a fictional world that attracted millions of readers. We have to give her some credit for that. How many writers can generate such sustained interest and sales figures? Not too many, if you ask me. I also don't think that her aspirations include a Nobel prize in literature, so we can just give her a break. For a mass-market book, it's still pretty okay. I have no problems with you criticizing Ms. Meyer and her literary shortcomings, but I found your comment about "stifled housewives, still age eighteen in their heads" incredibly arrogant and judgmental. I can easily accept the fact that you don't like the Twilight series, but I don't like your condescending attitude toward people who do. Reading and enjoying Twilight doesn't automatically make them imbeciles. I agree, Ms. Meyer isn’t a perfect writer, but she has obviously managed to create a fictional world that attracted millions of readers. We have to give her some credit for that. How many writers can generate such sustained interest and sales figures? Not too many, if you ask me. I also don’t think that her aspirations include a Nobel prize in literature, so we can just give her a break. For a mass-market book, it’s still pretty okay.

I have no problems with you criticizing Ms. Meyer and her literary shortcomings, but I found your comment about “stifled housewives, still age eighteen in their heads” incredibly arrogant and judgmental. I can easily accept the fact that you don’t like the Twilight series, but I don’t like your condescending attitude toward people who do. Reading and enjoying Twilight doesn’t automatically make them imbeciles.

]]> By: LN http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-25563 LN Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:47:39 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-25563 oh and haha BELLA GETS PREGNANT!!!!! with a VAMPIRE/MORTAL BABY!!! SHE ALSO BECOMES A VAMPIRE. ALICE AND JASPER LEAVES>>>FOR A WHILE... SPOILER haha oh and haha

BELLA GETS PREGNANT!!!!!
with a VAMPIRE/MORTAL BABY!!!
SHE ALSO BECOMES A VAMPIRE.
ALICE AND JASPER LEAVES>>>FOR A WHILE…
SPOILER haha

]]> By: LN http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-25562 LN Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:43:54 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-25562 The book is incredible u just cant judge it before you even finish it. jeez ppl.... It's an AMAZING book ppl who don't get sucked into the story is just to dumb to understand it. and what's up with the rival abotu HARRY POTTER and twilight fans going against eachother that's stupid...it's just a book DONT start a WAR over something like moving the movie DATE!!! The book is incredible u just cant judge it before you even finish it. jeez ppl…. It’s an AMAZING book

ppl who don’t get sucked into the story is just to dumb to understand it.

and what’s up with the rival abotu HARRY POTTER and twilight fans going against eachother that’s stupid…it’s just a book
DONT start a WAR over something like moving the movie DATE!!!

]]> By: Brand New Twilight Movie Images - Screen Rant http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-25320 Brand New Twilight Movie Images - Screen Rant Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:33:48 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-25320 [...] by Catherine Hardwicke. Check out the pics below, and be sure to check out Screen Rant’s Twilight crib sheet if you’re over the age of seventeen and have no idea what all this hoopla is [...] [...] by Catherine Hardwicke. Check out the pics below, and be sure to check out Screen Rant’s Twilight crib sheet if you’re over the age of seventeen and have no idea what all this hoopla is [...]

]]> By: 790 http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23527 790 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:47:40 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23527 Isn't this just a "Lost Boys" inspired Buffy the Vampire Slayer revision more or less based on a book yeah ok. Uuhmm Turning off "Notify me of followup comments. ;-) Isn’t this just a “Lost Boys” inspired Buffy the Vampire Slayer revision more or less based on a book yeah ok. Uuhmm

Turning off “Notify me of followup comments. ;-)

]]> By: Screen Rant Focus: Twilight | Twilight News http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23488 Screen Rant Focus: Twilight | Twilight News Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:01:05 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23488 [...] is an article at Screen Rant about the huge success of Twilight and the upcoming movie and book. Click here to read it! Thanks [...] [...] is an article at Screen Rant about the huge success of Twilight and the upcoming movie and book. Click here to read it! Thanks [...]

]]> By: Kofi http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23477 Kofi Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:00:10 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23477 to MTR MTR, first, let me apologize for the name mistake. I really pushed this article so that it could go up today. Second, I read half of Twilight, as I try to stay on top of all the latest trends in pop literature. I don't think Mrs. Meyer is a TERRIBLE writer, just that she, like Rowling did, could stand to improve her craft. Her success speaks for itself, and should put the opinion of myself and others who echo it in the minority perspective we clearly hold. Enjoy Breaking Dawn, and the film. to MTR

MTR, first, let me apologize for the name mistake. I really pushed this article so that it could go up today. Second, I read half of Twilight, as I try to stay on top of all the latest trends in pop literature. I don’t think Mrs. Meyer is a TERRIBLE writer, just that she, like Rowling did, could stand to improve her craft. Her success speaks for itself, and should put the opinion of myself and others who echo it in the minority perspective we clearly hold. Enjoy Breaking Dawn, and the film.

]]> By: greenknight333 http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23471 greenknight333 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:47:28 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23471 and before the fangirls and "boys" start...I find her writing to be overly wordy in that she over uses adjectives and adverbs to make her dialogue seem more deep that it actually is...Poor Ed the tragic hero caught in the existential and "timeless" struggle that is basically a metaphor for teen angst and teen sexual fustration. Will he make her "Vampire" or won't he...Cripers even the quote Meyer uses at the beginning of the book is from Genesis and represents how "choice" should be individualistic...WOW that's real deep...Over simplified teeny-bopper romantic stuff... Now that's a screen rant ;) and before the fangirls and “boys” start…I find her writing to be overly wordy in that she over uses adjectives and adverbs to make her dialogue seem more deep that it actually is…Poor Ed the tragic hero caught in the existential and “timeless” struggle that is basically a metaphor for teen angst and teen sexual fustration. Will he make her “Vampire” or won’t he…Cripers even the quote Meyer uses at the beginning of the book is from Genesis and represents how “choice” should be individualistic…WOW that’s real deep…Over simplified teeny-bopper romantic stuff… Now that’s a screen rant ;)

]]> By: Vic Holtreman http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23470 Vic Holtreman Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:44:09 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23470 MTR, thanks, the article has been corrected. Vic MTR, thanks, the article has been corrected.

Vic

]]> By: greenknight333 http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23466 greenknight333 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:28:46 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23466 @ MTR Total romanticized crapola of the worst kind..Like I said before I tried to read one of the books twice...and I HATE to start a book that I don't finish....but I had to toss it aside as it was unmitigated garbage!! IMO :) @ MTR

Total romanticized crapola of the worst kind..Like I said before I tried to read one of the books twice…and I HATE to start a book that I don’t finish….but I had to toss it aside as it was unmitigated garbage!! IMO :)

]]> By: MTR http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23464 MTR Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:21:20 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23464 First off...It's Stephenie Meyer (minus the "S"). Secondly, don't diss it unless you read it. You too WILL get sucked into her incredible writing. MTR First off…It’s Stephenie Meyer (minus the “S”).

Secondly, don’t diss it unless you read it. You too WILL get sucked into her incredible writing.

MTR

]]> By: The Big Dentist http://screenrant.com/screen-focus-twilight-kofi-3238/comment-page-1/#comment-23463 The Big Dentist Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:13:11 +0000 http://screenrant.com/?p=3238#comment-23463 It certainly ain't good. And "opening pageS"?? What is it, in 20-point type or something? What a gyp. And what the HELL is going on with Robert Pattinson's hair?? Let the onslaught begin... It certainly ain’t good. And “opening pageS”?? What is it, in 20-point type or something? What a gyp.

And what the HELL is going on with Robert Pattinson’s hair??

Let the onslaught begin…

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