Why You Might Not Care About Twilight
If you're a 14-year-old girl (and Videogum readers are primarily 14-year-old girls), then you already know that a new Twilight trailer was put on-line last night and you've already watched it 12 times and called all five of your T-Mobile Faves on your Bling Ringed phone to talk about how hot Edward looks when he's so pale and strong. If you're not a 14-year-old girl, then here is the new Twilight trailer.
Fair enough. But if you're like me, then when you watch this trailer the first thing you think is "Um, no, everything will not change on November 21. On November 21, everything will be crazy the same." And if you're like me, you don't entirely understand the Twilight phenomenon. In fact, you might not care about it at all. Here are a few reasons why.
- You are an adult.
I think that's mostly it. Although that reason breaks down into some more specific sub-reasons.
- As an adult, you recognize that vampires do not exist. At all. Not like 'they probably don't exist, but I'm still keeping garlic in my locker because I'm going to be a junior next year.'
- As an adult, you are interested in adult relationships between human beings that have meaning and resonance in your own life and are not based on mythical creatures that can stop mini-vans with their bare hands and make you stand up in some tree after barely escaping the ragball game with your life.
- As an adult, you understand the realities of sexual intercourse, and as such you find metaphors about the power and tension and adultness of sexual intercourse to have very little to do with the actual act and sometimes those metaphors make you embarrassed for the things you used to think and feel when you thought about sex but didn't really know what you were thinking about.
- As an adult, you are unaware of Twilight because Twilight is a book for children, and maybe you finally caved in on the whole Harry Potter thing but at this point it's getting ridiculous and maybe it's time for adults to start reading books written for adults again, like, hey, Bob Woodward and Thomas Friedman both have new books out about the inner workings of our government and the ecological ramifications of our global economy that are way scarier than some pubescent vampire who's waited 400 years to kiss some mousy girl up in some tree after barely escaping the ragball game with their lives (and unlives).
Probably. Those are just guesses as to why you might not care about Twilight.
Posted by Gabe at 11:45 AM in Backlashes, Everyone's A Critic, Trailer
Tags: Kristen Stewart | Robert Pattinson | Stephanie Meyer | Twilight | Vampires
I've never read twilight and don't feel psyched about it or anything, but everywhere I'm reading all this hate on 14 yr old girls and how vampires are a less threatening metaphor for sexuality because they just can't deal and why are they so lame.... but come one! They're 14! Should we be pushing the hard core stuff? Why not let them use vampires to get comfortable THEN bring up the anal leakage and nipple clamps. Also-who cares?
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"Let me just try one thing." I'm using that on my next date.
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Now I have to read it- I will not be outdone by a 14 year old.
Being an adult is often times overrated.
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I was going to see this movie, but then in the trailer you can clearly see Edward's reflection in a mirror. Um, hello, how about a little realism? FORGET IT, TWILIGHT.
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I'm guessing you don't watch True Blood, cause vamps can see their reflection & have pictures taken.
Every vamp series takes things differently.
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Someone needs to drive a stake through Tom Friedman's heart.
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As an adult, you probably shouldn't be caring about anything except for this economic downfall. Especially if it involves vampires, because their lame.
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i know i'm 21 and all and that liking this makes me a bad person... but i love the twilight books and i'm jazzed about this movie, even though it looks really low budget and terrible.
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um hello? i do have the mental capacity of a 14 year old and i can tell you why this is going to be awesome. one, we like harry potter. we also like vampires, yeah. but THEN YOU HAVE HOTTIE CEDRIC DIGGORY FROM HARRY POTTER PLAYING A VAMPIRE. every 14 year old girls head just explodes. that's why i (and every 14 year old) am seeing this movie.
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I'll be seeing The Road that weekend. Ugh, I'll have to deal with this garbage.
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If The Road didn't have Viggo Mortensen in it, I'd say that Twilight and The Road would probably be equal on the spectrum of suckiness.
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Okay, so I felt the same way about Twilight up until about 3 weeks ago. A challenge was issued in my Reading Education class, and so I took it on. I wanted to know what my students were reading, and why it was such a big deal. Now, I'm hooked. I understand and empathize with the whole realistic look at the fantasies that this book creates. Honestly though, we were all there at one point in time - a teenager, not a teen girl, but a teenager. It reflects the immediacy and drama that we all felt as teenagers. The need to be accepted and loved and the overwhelming confusion those feelings had.
While I don't think it is a "realistic" reach in literacy, it has students reading. That should be the most important thing in everyone's minds. Besides, this book is WAY better than some of those grocery store, check-out line romance novels. Seriously, the economy is a huge issue, but so is the fall of our students. When parents should be sending students outside for activity and exercise in their imaginations, and handing them a book - Adults, instead, are handing them remotes and video game controllers. Anything that has students expanding their vocabulary, and promoting literacy, is great by me.
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You sure devoted a lot of space to something you don't care about, as an adult, Gabe.
Twilight may or may not suck, but I, as an adult, still like the Buffy and Angel series.
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Ok - I'll admit it, the curiosity got the best of me. I picked this book up. Probably cause I'm a huge Buffy fan, but that's not the point. Anyway - I could hardly get through this piece of trite garbage. And before those fans get all in a hissy and are all "eh, don't take it seriously it's a YA book!", I'll say this: No 14 year old girl should have such a whiny, lazy, dependent, stupid girl as a role model. I was angry and disappointed at the crappy writing as well as the barely there characters.
So yeah - I'll pass on the movie, I've wasted enough of my life on Stephanie Meyer.
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Obviously you have absolutely no imagination. If having no imagination is what being an adult is about, then I'd rather be childish. I'm 23, and I enjoyed Twilight and Harry Potter, because I have an imagination. If you want to be doomed to be a stuffy ass hole the rest of your life, be my guest.
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um, i'm a fourteen year old girl. i didn't see that trailer until just now and the whole twilight craze is getting hella old. i read harry potter love it. but, twilight? it sounds sappy and stupid.
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um, i'm a fourteen year old girl. i didn't see that trailer until just now and the whole twilight craze is getting hella old. i read harry potter and i love it. but, twilight? it sounds sappy and stupid.
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I'm equally disgusted at the series. In all honesty, fictional vampire books maybe aren't all that bad, maybe not even this one, but when teenage girls and less than mature adults are breaking obsession with such a repulsive saga...the line must be drawn. It's kind of unfortunate that teenagers take such a liking to these fictional characters and take absolutely no liking to (or even recognize, for that matter) Nietzsche.
As a fifteen year old female, I feel very isolated in a world where my once rational peers are now delusional, for like of a better word, vampire freaks.
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