Twillight made me do it...

[secondlina]

For those who don't know:
Meyer = Twillight / Hamilton = Anita Blake Vampire Hunter / Wedon = Buffy the vampire slayer / Rice = Interview with a vampire / Stoker = Dracula.

Look! I managed to combine vampire jokes, back to the future jokes and a much delayed "wow, americans finally woke up and elected someone decent how the hell did that happen?" joke (no offence to americans, it's just Bush made your country look terrible. Don't feel too bad, we still have our "Bush" here in Canada, aka Harper art killer, worse prime misniter for arts ever.)

I'm on fire.

As far as Twillight goes, my opinion is thus; I was hoping the movie would be better then the book. I did not enjoy the book, though I understand why some would (angst, vampires, true love, heck, that's easily best seller material if you insert the right words in between) and I was hoping the director would have enough artistic inspiration to make it better. But honestly, I think I preffered suffering thru the book rather then the movie (bad, bad acting. Pretty graphics though.) The movie felt like a fanfic re-telling of the original story or something. So yeah, if you're a twillight fan, don't expect too much from the movie and stick to your book. If you hate twillight, don't spend money to go see the movie. If you really want to laugh at it, rent it. In the privacy of you own home, you can make a drinking game out of it.

Oh and for those who wonder, I don't like Ann Rice either. Vampire angst is not my thing. I prefer how Wedon potrays them; savage beasts with one or two smarter alpha males. Cuz really, they are under, savage killing machines and Louis is a weepy annoyance.

I'm also addicted to the new Disney film Wall-e. I watched the thing twice, got the soundtrack and even asked a friend of mine (aka Diane, my Disneyworld park-working minion) to fetch me some wall-e and Eve plushies. Wall-e is incredible in so many ways, and it's the cutest love story i've seen in ages. Yay, Pixar robotic love.

Just a reminder you kids: Comic book shoppe, sunday november 30th... There's a comic book Gala featuring yours truly among some super artists. Be there or be square (if you are physically in the area)!

-Isa

Comments

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

*laughs* gullwhacker main issue with Twilight is that the vampires sparkle. "They're suppose to burn up in the sun not SPARKLE!" Sometime, I'll have to show you Terry Pratchett's version of vampires sometime. Stu tells me it's one of the best versions of vampires he's read.

I'm getting Wall-e for Christmas. Can't wait. Robotic love forever! XD

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Robotic love = true love's first spark

Yeah, i'm also disturbed by the not burning in daylight thing. I mean, if Vampires are basically predators who hunt on humans and have all those super powers/super strenght people give them, we'd be so screwed. The fact that they can't prowl at night, can't cross running water (knowledge that comes mighty handy when pursued by a vamp near a river) and can't enter your home uninvited protects us. Now, if they can walk during the day and enter your home to spy at you at night (STALKER!) we would be screwed completly. So I do get the whole daywalker appeal when it comes to a love story I guess but at the same time...

Also, why would a 107 year old vampire attend high school if he's afraid of biting everyone?

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

He must really be big on the teen angst thing, especially if he's been suffering from it for nearly 100 years. I really do not want to read the book. I might stab out my eyes.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

No, wait you have to read the book! Apparently, she's a real mormon role model; teen angst vamp is abstinance prone. It's parent safe! No sex at all!

......And apparently parent's don't worry about suddent death wishes and the fact that their daughters might ditch everything for dark broody potentialvamps? Yeah.

*sarcastic snorts*

Seriously, this chick and the guys I bumped into in montréal? Not the best representatives of your faith, I tell ya.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Apparently, she's a real mormon role mode

..why do you think it shames me so much every time I even hear that book/movie name? SHAMED!! I'm all for fantasy and such, but Twilight seems to represent everything I hate about vampires/goth culture/teenage culture in general. And it's written by an LDS person.

I think my brain just broke. At least people like C.S. Lewis could find ways to get across their beliefs and such in such a way that the stories themselves were good, but also carried a good message. I'm sorry, but I'll take a girl's joy in finding a benevolent lion over a girl angsting about some stupid vampire.

(My older and younger sister have both read/are reading the books. My younger sister didn't like the movie, apparently, but she thought the book was okay. Then again, my sister doesn't read much in to things. If something's not spelled out on the pages, in her mind, it never happened. Still waiting to hear what the older sister thinks.)

[gullwhacker.livejournal.com]

*coughs*

Well, yeah. Pratchett kind of started with the Stoker variant, and then began to mock. Relentlessly.

But I /like/ the Black Ribboners. They're vampires out and about in human society - and who get along by virtue of not drinking human blood. Black ribbon to signify the pledge and all. It's like a vampire's Alcoholics Anonymous.

And they still have the vulnerabilities. There was one vampire who kept complaining that his employers were trying to kill him! The fencepost manufacturers, the holy water suppliers, the garlic stocking at the local grocer...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

LOL. Much.