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mrsdracomalfoy
11/22/08

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Am I the only one on here that actually read the books, enjoyed them, and saw the midnight showing of the movie and loved it?

Honestly, people criticize Twilight but how many of you like Anchorman, or Tropic Thunder, or anything? A movie doesn't have to be Hotel Rwanda to be worth seeing.

/end hurt puppy rant. I am in love with Twilight so I tend to take it all a little too personally.
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Red-headed bookworm
11/22/08

@mrsdracomalfoy: Oh, I like some pretty stupid, not deep movies. I love Grandma's Boy. I just don't think I will watch this movie. It's just kind of "eh" to me. Maybe when it's on Netflix... Odd that it doesn't jump out at me. I love vampire stuff.

The only movie I stood in line for to see on the first day was one of the new Star Wars movies...
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/21/08

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The statistics are so whack. Do they mean 81% of the people planning to see this film are women?
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Lawyerette will perform legal services for food
11/21/08

@Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: aHA! I think you've got it there. And the other 19% are taking their girlfriends.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/21/08

@Lawyerette, FTW!: Or their daughters?
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MakeFetch
11/21/08

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They must mean 80% of white women with maybe a few sprinkles of POC here and there.
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clevernamehere
11/22/08

@MakeFetch: WTF?
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
11/21/08

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i'm in that 80% THANK YOU....

and i've seen my ex-boyfriend CRY while watching freaking ROCKY so don't get me started....
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Gundam_Halo
11/21/08

@BeccaThePromoMami: Hey now, Rocky was inspirational.

Twilight looks like a romance novel where they switched Fabio off the cover for a abercrombie model.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
11/21/08

@Gundam_Halo: all I'm saying is... no one does think pieces about the HUNKS who line up with their man-panties all in a bunch to see some roided up freak punch a side of beef....
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serenepanic
11/21/08

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Okay. Really. I can't believe it's coming to this - but I feel like I have to defend the legions of 14 year old NERDY girls who love Twilight because they can pretend like they are Bella Swan ... about to be kissed by a cute guy (who yes, is a vampire). Seriously. I was this same girl 10 year ago. Awkward, unsure and really darn hopeful that some day my prince would come. I was at the midnight showing last night - and I'm pretty sure that most of the girls there sit at the Heavy Metal table in the lunch room. A girl can dare to dream, right? Isn't that what it's all about? They'll get their braces off in a few years and go to college and read Jezebel for fun. Why make fun of them now?
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Gundam_Halo
11/21/08

@serenepanic: Hahaha, secret to success -- make something that involves a girl getting kissed by cute guy. It'll make girls swoon and they'll project themselves into it. I can make millions!

Funny thing is, I figured as much. I should have been the sappy romance novel industry a long time ago.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
11/21/08

@Gundam_Halo: These girls could have been me 25 years ago when Duran Duran came to town. I wanted to kill myself whe Simon Le Bon got engaged.
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disco2000
11/21/08

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Uggh, it made me sick when he called this the successor the the Harry Potter series. Harry Potter is literature. Just because these books feature fictional beings such as vampires do not mean they have anything in common with Harry Potter, other than one actor. I know Cedric's dead, and he had to look for a new gig, and this job paid. But please, I don't want the memory of Cedric tainted by seeing his face in Twilight. There's no way this woman is spending money on this crap.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
11/21/08

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Yes, Fox News, lets have all the girls go see this and learn to subjugate themselves, their very lives, for a man! Huzzah!
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Gundam_Halo
11/21/08

@BrutallyHonestBabes: Your mocking of Fox News can't hide the onslaught of tween girls going apeshit for this movie though.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
11/21/08

@Gundam_Halo: Twue, twue - but I feel their made up statistic of 80% is a peer-pressuring way to get more of the wimmens to go and see the movie!

Plus, I know they are sending me messages about our alien overlords through Bill O'Reilly. I KNOW IT!
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Gundam_Halo
11/21/08

@BrutallyHonestBabes: I got a feeling that O'Reilly secretly really wants to watch this movie too.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
11/21/08

@Gundam_Halo: He has a teddy bear he named Edward. Edward likes to cuddle.
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emilyanne
11/21/08

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Ah Fox even now the election is over you still pull your stats out of your arse. That's what makes you the channel you are.
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UnSeelie...I am baaack!
11/21/08

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I've read all the books and I am not interested in watching the Movie, I'll wait till they show it on HBO.
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RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
11/21/08

@UnSeelie...: Am already mentally debating if it'd be worth a Netflix slot.
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UnSeelie...I am baaack!
11/21/08

@rose.of.many.thorns.colette: wait till it comes out on tbs.
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LadyFabulous
11/21/08

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Instead I plan to watch an entire season of Buffy. Maybe season 4.
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PilgrimSoul
11/21/08

@LadyFabulous: I prefer Season 2 for individual high points and Season 3 for overal consistent goodness. Season 4, they struggled with the college thing.

Or you could just watch my all time favourite episode besides the musical, Fool for Love, 5x09 or 5x10 I believe.

(I haven't watching Buffy in a few years but was hardcore at a difficult time in my life.)
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disco2000
11/21/08

@LadyFabulous: I just started watching Buffy maybe a month or two ago. I just finished season 4 and season 1 of Angel. I'm also trying to catch up on Mad Men, so it may take me a few more months to get through the series. But I was surprised how much I liked Buffy and Angel - I had zero interest in them when I was in high school, when it was new, but it's an incredibly smart show. I don't get the craziness over Twilight, though.
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
11/21/08

@PilgrimSoul: Me too! Season 2 & 3, and season 1 of Angel (and the one from season 6 where Buffy finally boffs Spike/saves a developer the demolishment fee)
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LadyFabulous
11/21/08

@PilgrimSoul: Yeah true, I just picked season 4 at random. I'm going to watch the musical episode on repeat.
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PilgrimSoul
11/21/08

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Also every time I see coverage of this movie, this song starts playing in my head, and it's way better than the movie I'm sure, so, 20 percent, represent, via Dawn Landes...

+ Watch video

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CrossWord
11/21/08

@PilgrimSoul: Oh I like this!
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TheUptightMidwesterner
11/21/08

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I first heard of the book on October 31st...thanks to a rapturous babysitter. I curse that freaking day to HELL!
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TheUptightMidwesterner
11/21/08

@TheUptightMidwesterner: I also admit that I rant more than others, because I am so frustrated by the books. The idea and the premise is an excellent idea (albeit riipped off by Buffy,) but they are so poorly written.
However..I may add I work 2 jobs and Meyers is rolling demurely dressed in her piles of cash- so I know nothing .
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Penny
11/21/08

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It's Friday and I no longer have the energy to analyze cultural trends.

Just....give me a drink, please.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
11/21/08

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Okay, I don't know how I missed all of this, but I seriously thought "Twilight" was an upcoming HBO series and I had no idea it was based on a book. However, I feel like I am better off in my own little world of consuming real news and reading intellectual property law theory....
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Mkp-hearts-NYC
11/21/08

@Beets.Go.On: You're probably confusing it with True Blood.... but either way you're better off.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
11/21/08

@Mkp-hearts-nyc: yeah that must have been it. I was completely in the dark until like an hour ago. Turns out my fiance was under the same assumption that Twilight was a tv show, not a pop culture moment of Harry Potter proportions.
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stoprobbers
11/21/08

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BUFFY!! Now that is quality vampire awesomeness. Well, until Season 5.
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