Twilight: Eclipse is now out on DVD and you know what THAT means...

[Cain]

Time to subject myself to another piece of movie magic based on Stephanie Meyer's totally awesome novels!

[LMNO]

It has been said that this is one of the rare cases where the movie actually is better than the book.  However, I find myself in the unfortunate position of being completely unable to forget that I did, in fact, read the books.

[Cramulus]

I cannot tell you how close I was to going to a twilight convention this weekend.

The girlfriend and I are celebrating our third year together, and wanted an excuse to go get a hotel somewhere. And this is what she chose. LUCKILY I couldn't get today off from work, otherwise I'd be scoping out twihards up close and personal.

Apparently, at this convention, they couldn't book any of the actual celebrities, but they did get the hand model whose hands are on the book cover. WOO HOO!

[Cramulus]

oh oh - also, I watched the first movie with the Riff Trax, and it was fucking. hysterical.

Recommended.

[Cain]

It has been said that this is one of the rare cases where the movie actually is better than the book.  However, I find myself in the unfortunate position of being completely unable to forget that I did, in fact, read the books.

That is the case for all the films, in addition to being a rather low standard in the first place.  As I recall, Eclipse was actually the least horrible book of the four.

I cannot tell you how close I was to going to a twilight convention this weekend.

The girlfriend and I are celebrating our third year together, and wanted an excuse to go get a hotel somewhere. And this is what she chose. LUCKILY I couldn't get today off from work, otherwise I'd be scoping out twihards up close and personal.

Apparently, at this convention, they couldn't book any of the actual celebrities, but they did get the hand model whose hands are on the book cover. WOO HOO!

Twihards are incredibly easy to troll in real life.  I had to work with four of them, all apparently sane, functioning and intelligent adults, over the summer.  A convention would turn into chaos in about three hours, with two dedicated individuals doing their best to stir it up.

[Cramulus]

  how would you go about it?

We thought of going dressed as vampire hunters with crosses and stakes, or over-the-top vampires with big capes and widows peaks and shit, but figured that gag would get old fast.

[Cain]

Embroiling Team Jacob and Team Edward into fights is relatively easy.  For example, you can point out to the butthurt Team Jacob fans that Stephanie Myers only made him do the horrible things he did in the third book to increase sympathy for her Marty Stu vampire stalker ie because Jacob was too popular until she derailed his character entirely.  And for Team Edward...well just point out that Jacob is in fact a creepy quasi-paedophile almost-rapist and apparently his fans are down with that.

[LMNO]

A while back, I had he idea of getting one of those novelty 3-second digital recorders, and putting the "skin sparkles" sound on it, and using it in conjunction with a flashlight.

[Suu]

That was a really fast release to DVD.

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*downloads*

[Placid Dingo]

I read the first two books and it felt like I was watching feminism being beaten to death.

[Cain]

It was like common sense being beaten to death.

[Cramulus]

it's like five hundred years of literature being beaten to death.


I heard that Twilight was Stephanie Meyer's first writing attempt. Prior to twilight she hadn't even written a short story. She must have been in tight with a publisher.

[Cain]

This is her publishing company  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little,_Brown_and_Company

The firm initially specialized in legal treatises and imported titles.

[President Television]

it's like five hundred years of literature being beaten to death.


I heard that Twilight was Stephanie Meyer's first writing attempt. Prior to twilight she hadn't even written a short story. She must have been in tight with a publisher.

I'm not surprised in the least.

[Cain]

Download has finished.  Off to the Co-op to pick up supplies, then I shall return and heroically watch the film.