I think it’s coming close.
that sucks 
, but what I know is that Breaking Dawn won’t be able to reach Harry Potter 8 or Toy Story 3 final gross, twilight is the most frontloaded franchise in movie history
This new movie actually made me laugh out loud. I feel terrible cause my friend’s like it…but oh, God, it was bad.
At least it will all be over next year.
Thank the good Lord. I’ll probably see it at midnight, since my friends’ll drag me there, and it’s actually gonna be really interesting seeing people’s reactions. All the loonies 
Nah, most are normal, but there’s always that entertaining few
Thier will proberly be partys of people celerbrating because their will be no more Twilight films.
I might be one of those people. It’s entertaining though. I’ll kind of miss not being able to bash them
Half of them will be dressed as Harry Potter characters.
So I asked my best friend if she wanted to see The Muppets with me and my other friends. And she said no, she’d rather see…Twilight!
I think that sucks, knowing that the muppets seems to be a better and quality film
Haha, that’s a good one, she was probably joking. 
I’ve only read the first book, though I’ve seen the first and third movies. (I saw the third one because I was in America volunteering at the time, and one of the volunteers was a fan so…)
I actually found some of the back stories interesting in the third movie, and the acting was certainly better. Though Edward is still a horrific misogynistic stalker who I could never like. Bella is just this kid I just would otherwise laugh in my head at if I met her IRL, because she’s just not as mature as she thinks she is.
To be honest I despised the book and first movie, but the third movie had some interesting things- like that one girl dressing up in a bride dress and killing the men (including her fiance) who raped her. Or that one guy who fought in a war setting as a vampire. And the idea of a secret organisation of vampires trying to keep vamps underwraps or whatever is not a bad one, even if it’s been done before (but then what hasn’t?).Twilight does have a few interesting things in it- yet we have larger focus on the two worst characters and has horrific purple prose in the books. Sometimes protagonists aren’t meant to be liked, or be nice people, but they should at least be interesting (unlike Edward or Bella) and the author should acknowledge their awfulness in the text in some form.
Reinventing vampires has been done before anyway, and the things we commonly associate with vampires aren’t exactly ‘pure’ to the very very original source material anyway. Though of course sparkling is ridiculous.
Granted I guess it means people will write their own in some cases. In my own works vampires aren’t the main focus at all, but they exist. However they rarely if ever actually live that much longer than incredibly healthy/lucky humans would, and even then that’s a rarity- the average I’ve got is 10 years between becoming a vampire and being destroyed. If you do it for the immortality, you’re going to get disappointed. It’s mainly kind of a hazard in of it self being a vampire, especially if you keep their weaknesses and the fact people wouldn’t be too cool with someone drinking their blood- with some of those people being rather handy with a weapon no matter how fast you might think you are. Some incredibly CAREFUL vampires managed to reach the triple digits in my world, but that’s very rare, and not something to bet on.
I think what also bothers me about Twilight is that there seems to be little downside to being a vampire, if you ignore Eddie’s ridiculous angst (though if I had to live with him forever or be like him I really would hate being immortal). I mean glittering would make me feel ridiculous and all that, but what about some of the other disadvantages of being immortal? There’s more problems than just severely outliving your loved ones which are still mortal- though that’s still pretty bad. But Bella doesn’t seem to have THAT much anguish over leaving her mother and father etc IMO. Vampire are interesting in the sense that its a source of temptation for a human to become a vampire, since some can have a fear of death or at least hate the idea of aging- but if they do go through with it there is a high cost or at least distinct disadvantages to it if you do make that leap. Twilight really doesn’t have much of this. Thus removing a lot of the interest. I don’t mind vampires being ‘good’ as it were, but it has to seem like a difficult way to go all the same!
(How about the rest of you, any vampires in your stories, or just because, any recommendations for good vampire stories out there in the published world?)
If I agree with something you said, is that the back stories of the secondary characters are always more interesting than the protagonists.
It’s a pity they don’t even make any difference to the story.
No, that’s the sad part. She wasn’t.
Your serious arn’t you.
I don’t like Twilight, but it’s because they just aren’t my kind of movies. I’m not a good judge of whether they’re good or not. I’ve seen a little bit of the first one with my mom. She likes them.
I might have to watch the first 3 over christmas… 
Heh!!
I’m surprised to see this thread is still here!!
You know a person put up an image that stated something like this:
“Disney showed a better love story in _ minutes than Stephanie Meyer did in four books.”
The picture was a scene from Up with Ellie and Carl by the mailbox painting it.
(the underscore in the quote was not in the image. I frankly do not remember the number that was on the image.)
I thought it both funny and true as, to be honest, Up actually had a better love story between Carl and Ellie Fredrickson than M(r?)s Meyer had for the entirety of Twilight and whatever the heck was In the other three books (I’ve never read any of them and only saw the movie version of Twilight [Blech!!!] against my will).
In all honesty, love stories to me (being a guy) are like seeing vomit.
This more is what we see with romance novels. A book of vomit.
However (and I say this with all honesty), a gradual romantic thing amongst everything else (action, adventure, sci-fi, et cetera) is fine and can be something we can mostly handle.
Harry Potter is a good example of this type of romance.
Even in my stories that I write this happens (frankly, as the last two-three years have proved for me, it is an unavoidable fact of life.
As I go through my journey in that aspect of life, I feel more depressed because of what I assume is a form of yearning or want. Not sure if that be it though). Why? Because some characters in my stories get married. Some even breed more characters apart of the adventure.