So... anyone wanna tell me the big deal about Twilight?

**GlassDragon** · Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 1122

So I'm sitting in the middle of a crowded theater at midnight, waiting for Harry Potter to start. We're watching the previews, and then all of a sudden some dark-skinned shirtless guy shows up on the screen and immediately all the girls in the theater were like OOOOOOOOH! YES YES TAKE ME NOW! And they continued panting and screaming for the entire minute-and-a-half or so that the preview was up.

I have never seen this type of reaction to anything else before. I find it ironic that girls usually talk of men as dogs, and yet it is the girls who always objectify male actors

. Guys don't take it to that level, I mean, take Megan Fox for example. We may mention every now and then how hot she is, but we generally don't obsess over her to the level that these girls obsess over this movie!

So... I'm going to ask. I haven't ready any of the books or seen the first movie. What is so breathtakingly godly about this movie that it so captivates teenage girls everywhere? Or are they just really horny

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**FreeXBird** · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 2485

And he's HOT.

......

But really, what he said. It's a cute guy, an "average" girl, and they build up love. What girl wouldn't love that?

**SDoner8790** · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject:

It's not just a cute guy, it's a PERFECT guy. This guy has no flaws, he is a vampire, and he is hot as hell. There really isn't much to it.

I wish girls would react like that over me.
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**GuitarGeek08** · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 3213

Ive never seen the hype. Inb4TwilightbecomeslikeHSMintermsofmarketingandoveration.
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**microgamer2vs2** · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject:

I think the setting allowed for that kind of reaction; midnight showing of Harry Potter; the people there are aware that the crowd is full of geeks and obsessed fans, thus they were able to act all crazy and geek-out because they knew they were among their own kind.

This reminds me of this one story my brother told me about how his hall in the dorms of the Air Force Academy would watch The OC every week, and when it was the preview for Season 2, everyone in the room started yelling and hooting when it teased about how Marissa and Alex would be hooking up (Alex is a girl for those that aren't familiar). So the setting (a bunch of guys training to go into the military watching The OC) allowed for that kind of reaction to take place.

Yeah, I think a lot of girls think they can relate to Twilight, but then that reaction in the theater was exaggerated by the circumstances.

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**sorasgoof** · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 2314

Please, please, PLEASE. This topic has been beaten through the ground to hell and back on this very forum.

If you don't like the books/don't see the point, fine, but asking "what's so special about it" is a little ridiculous. I've read the books, and they're nothing special, but they are fairly well written for Meyer's first attempt.

EDIT: Sorry if I came off as rude or whatever, but seriously, there was a five or six page discussion on this very topic just a few months ago.
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**jamesw** · Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 1264 Location: Canada

I have a very talkative, outgoing personality. My friends who are girls tell me sometimes sarcastically to be more mysterious like Edward Cullen. Then I mention how it is impossible to go into uncontrollable shivers while looking at a girl then run away, like Edward does in the movie, without looking like a complete creep and total weirdo.
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**Kirbah** · Joined: 30 Oct 2008 Posts: 368 Location: Minnesota

From a writing standpoint, the book(s) aren't written very well. It is just a story about "true Love" that appeals to the common teenage girl.
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**alexhaz64** · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 4512 Location: Long Beach, CA

if Bella is so "average" they shouldn't have casted Kristen Stewart.

what? she's hot... >_>
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