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Can a female explain to me this twilight/Robert Pattinson thing?
Posted by Thundercatt99 • 3/31/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Actor, attraction, obsession, ovie, robert patterson, Sexy, twilight, women
What the dickens is going on, so many women lately seems to be obsessed with this guy/movie. I keep coming across it online as well ....
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It started as a book series and girls/ladies got hooked on it. It's a love story so that's a magnet. Girls and some guys gravitate toward vampire books and movies - usually b/c there is seduction and a love story back plot. That's another magnet. I do not think Rob Pattinson had the crazy girl following prior to the movie so it's the role he plays that has everyone ga ga. The movie gave him exposure and now he has a much larger fan base. Big brown moody eyes (like a puppy) is a magnet too.
That's my two cents. I am female. I love vampire stories (I think it started w/ watching Dark Shadows back in the 1960's). If the guy playing the vampire is handsome, I am forever his. RB is too young for me, so I just giggle at my daughter's friends who swoon for him. -
I haven't read the book or seen the movie...although I'd like to check the movie out one of these days. My sister is a jr. high school teacher and she says that all the jr. highers (girls and guys) are reading the book. -
The books are pretty poorly written (but imaginative and engaging) and the movie is pretty terrible. It's no Harry Potter.-
That's what I was wondering. Unlike "Harry Potter," which I enjoyed very much, I've felt resistant in trying to read these as an adult-- and I was wondering if it was actually worth doing or not. -
Harry Potter books are not just imaginative, they are also highly literate.
I read all the Twilight books but honestly, I can't say I thought they were anything but fluff. There really wasn't any substance.
Stephanie Meyers is really highly attuned to teenage emotion and drama though. I could feel my own teenage crush years come spinning back to me while I was reading it.
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I watched the first hour of the film the other day...I have come to the conclusion that anyone who likes this film must have an IQ of about 26... -
Female here - beats the crap out of me. -
I never of heard of it actually until the movie came... When I watched it, I can't seem to grasp the sense of it, but when my sister told me to read it, I tried.
I can sympathize with girls/woman who got hooked with the character of Edward Cullen (Pattinson)because he got those qualities that every girl is dreaming of (aside of course from being a vampire).
I'm no teenager but I got a huge crush on the character because of how he is described in the novel... -
I don't even have a clue what movie you're talking about.
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you're better off that way...it will insult your intelligence...
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It's Twilight (a movie based on a 4 part novel by Stephenie Meyer)
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I don't get the fascination, and I'm female as well. The books were fluff and the movie is more Vampire 90210 than a love story. I read a really interesting review (I think I Stumbled it, as well) about the Mormon religion of Ms. Meyer and its role in the relationships between the vamps and the female protagonist. I could understand teen girls being fascinated, and Rob Pattinson isn't bad to look at, but I don't understand grown women becoming obsessed with it or him. For me, there isn't enough meat to the story to sustain more than a passing interest.-
I've heard about the part that Ms Meyers Morman religion plays in the books. Bella and Edward’s whole situation should remind Mormon readers of the sexual frustration of dating while trying to maintain enough purity to qualify for a temple recommend." My wife wonders how grown women are so ga-ga over the books either!
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Never saw the movie, but I absolutely hated the book. Mediocre writing, shallow characters. It did not live up to the hype for me. But I have girlfriends who absolutely loved it. -
Haven't read the books, but did see the movie. It was okay. I must say that I think Robert Pattison looks a little weird. So not hot. Ugh. Haha. -
I have NO idea what the fascination is!! I watched it and pretty much didn't like it. I just don't get the attraction. And they picked a pretty ugly dude to play the part in an insane love story. Hmmmm-
He looked weird in the Twilight movie, but if you watch the Harry Potter movies, he plays Cedric Diggory and is pretty darn hot!
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LOL you wouldn't catch me dead watching Harry Potter either. I dunno....they coulda picked Taye Diggs and I woulda believed the madly in love thing hahahaha.
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Adolescent girls find high drama in the concept of risking everything for love, of "not caring" about all of the practical, rational considerations and being willing to give up everything familiar (and even their very lives) because it's better to take that chance than to live without the object of their affections. My daughter has actually volunteered the thought that Twilight came along at just the right time for her (she's 13) because as a child she would have thought it obvious that Bella should run, not walk, away from the vampire and she's pretty sure that in a few years, that will again become clear. But in the age group to which Twilight is targeted, there's a momentary lapse of reason in which it's desirable and romantic to suffer, risk, even die for love.-
That totally makes sense. I remember feeling that way when my mother wouldn't let me go to the Corey Hart concert LOL. I was IN LOVE!!!
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my best explanation i can give you is written in one of my most viewed posts:
letters2soulmate.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/twilight/
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