i personally thought that the book was mediocre – the characters were vaguely interesting, the plot was incredibly trite and fluffy, but i guess for some it makes a good quick read – but the movie didn’t even do the book that justice! i do like robert p., but the dialogue in the movie was disturbingly HORRIBLE. and it was just humourous! i can’t tell you how many dirty looks i got from my friend who is obsessed with it because i could not take more than 30 seconds of that trash seriously.
the first thing i associate with twilight is when bella walks into the science room and the fan is dramatically blowing her hair and the camera zooms dramatically on her dramatically grey face in the dramatically dark room (obviously, if a state is rainy, classrooms don’t make use of lights, that’s preposterous!) and then there’s the (uber) dramatic pause on both bella and edward’s faces, then the awkward (but omg so dramatic) silence at the table, but only until this groundbreaking conversation that goes something like this:
edward: how do you like…the rain…?
bella: ~heh~ are you. are you asking me…about the weather? |:
edward: ~heh~ i…i guess…yes, i guess i am… |:
anyway. um. yeah. i don’t know, i read the book when it first came out, back when if you said your favourite book was about vampires, half of the female population who want to marry them now would have been like ”~spaz omg really? eww weirdooo omggg”. i wasn’t impressed then, and the hype has done absolutely nothing to make me think anything about twilight is near epic.
bela lugosi is rolling in his grave.
please note that i’m not aiming any of my disgust at the twilight phenomenon at you, i just tend to start ranting about it immediately, and it gets lengthy…(: