1. These teenage twi-tards don't count. They have no lives. They are sheep. This record is null and void.

Posted at 11:19AM on Nov 21st 2009 by TOm Strong

2. tom your the one with no life looking up something that you dont like so you can make some stupid comment and feel special but dont worry you are special (special ed)dont hate because every girl in the world would rather date a vampire or werewolf then you

Posted at 11:39AM on Nov 21st 2009 by meme

3. I don't appreciate your sheep comparison. I may be a teen (18), but I am not a mindless follower of all things Twilight. No, it is not the greatest movie/book of all time, but it is fun for me - a 4.0 AP class student who works her ass off 24/7 - to have a night of fun and go out with my friends. I have a life and I work extremely hard to be a well-rounded, cultured and knowledgable person. Just because I like to enjoy a little fluffy romance and have one silly thing in my life does not make me a sheep, who bows down to Taylor Lautner and Summit Entertainment.

Posted at 1:14PM on Nov 21st 2009 by flute_genevive

4. *pukes*


I don't know why people are trying to spin this as a victory for female moviegoers. The entire point of the series is that women are defined by who they're dating and if they don't have a boyfriend their life is meaningless. It would be like PETA members turning out for a cooking show and not realizing that the chicken salad has an animal in it. It's more of a testament to their inability to think past Jacward's dreaminess than anything else.

Posted at 11:39AM on Nov 21st 2009 by Cyhort

5. "I don't know why people are trying to spin this as a victory for female moviegoers. The entire point of the series is that women are defined by who they're dating and if they don't have a boyfriend their life is meaningless. "

Thats why I have mixed feelings on the success of Twilight. It does give the studio's reason to make more movies for women but its depiction of female characters is outdated.

Posted at 1:08PM on Nov 21st 2009 by anonymous

6. Ah, glorious schadenfreude. I find it absolutely hysterical that the manly geek population has been thrown into a collective sulk because teenage girls brought bank.

This is a win for the young female audience because this is one of the few film series we've seen aimed squarely at them. And frankly they've been neglected by Hollywood for far too long. While I have no interest in the films themselves, I hope this will pave the way for better material aimed at the same audience.

Posted at 1:51PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Jen

7. Unfortunately, it teaches young girls to devote themselves entirely to a man and have no lives of their own. The Bella character is an utterly terrible heroine: entirely helpless without men around, defined entirely by the male characters around her. If this franchise sprang from the mind of a man it would be deemed misogynist. It's a truly despicable conceit in this day and age.

Posted at 3:24PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Rodney

8. I don't disagree with you. But looking at it strictly from the money and demographics standpoint, this is a clear win for the female audience. Which means we'll get more content - hopefully *better* content.

Posted at 3:33PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Jen

9. I think some worthwhile films can already be found out there, I'm just saddened that the demographic will most likely not be flocking to see 'An Education'. Instead 'Sex and The City 2' or 'Twilight 3' will generate more excitement, not the ones with more genuine substance.

Then again, on the flipside of that coin, I'm disappointed that 'Moon' struggled to get a release while 'Transformers 2' was obliterating eardrums and braincells.

It's a lose/lose either way, in my embittered opinion.

Posted at 3:57PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Rodney

10. Oops. Forgot to give you props on a post well done...

Posted at 6:05PM on Nov 21st 2009 by BloodwerK

11. Twillight made $385 millions worldwide.

I predict that new, crappy Twillight movie will make less.

Posted at 2:01PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Anna

12. cyhort says

"The entire point of the series is that women are defined by who they're dating and if they don't have a boyfriend their life is meaningless."

"t's more of a testament to their inability to think past Jacward's dreaminess than anything else."

- oh really?! so you really think that those who love this kind of movies has the same kind of mentality, personality, philosophy and belief that that this particular movie characters has? you know what? are you associating the character of a person depending on what kind of movies they watch as if that is the way their brain works? do you really think that we believe and act just the same as those characters in those movies does? oh my g-o-d your i-n-s-a-n-e! common we girls know the diff. between whats real and whats not. between reality and fantasy. between was just a movie versus real life philosophy. like some guys are pigs and there are more important things in life than being desperate to have a guy in your life and were not gonna die if we have no love life! c'mon its just a f****** movie that we just happen to enjoy and find entertaining helloooooo....... you are so n-u-t-s !!! maybe if you happen to love harry potter series ( which i also happen to love also. i love deathly hallows and the characters there esp. ron) you would go try to fly with your own broomstick at home wondering if some naughty witch has cast a spell in it! or maybe you're have a criminal tendencies or a psycho because you love watching violent movies like saw series or whatever guy films out there thats full of drugs, violence, lust, greed, bombs blowing every where type of movies. i feel pity for you... you just cant separate the diff. between a movie goer vs. a movie character or story. i also love watching violent movies my self but i know its got nothing to do with me or with my character because its just a movie. does'nt mean i'd enjoyed watching how the main character in the story rip the heads off of those too evil to be human villains in the movie that i believe his actions were right, if we apply it in real life. i dont now about you. but base on your own words and statement it seems like you would love to welcome a world war 3 just to see those blowing buildings and plane in real life. because you cant live without bombs just like how you think that girls cant live without boyfriends because of the kind of movies we watch. you know what i dont think you will find megatron not because he is dead but because he dont exist okey?! so stop searching! youre believing it too much its just a movie!!! idiot!!!

Posted at 2:11PM on Nov 21st 2009 by gutsydevil

13. Lol I totally agree with gutsydevil!! ^.^ And mike...shut the **** up!!!

Posted at 7:20PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Me

14. Preach it sis!
Men can indulge themselves on stupid violent movies, beer and porn and nothing happens but if get a kick out of watching a romance movie and spending our hard earning money on that we have no lives and are stupid...Yeah that is feminist thinking at 100%.

Posted at 10:55PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Ana

15. Man, fuck life.

A year in which Revenge of the Fallen makes over $800 million worldwide, and now this.

You can argue until you lose your voice about how it could just be a difference in taste that explains why people show up in droves for this stuff, but their breath has to straight-up stink if they're eating up this certified crap!

It makes me so sad to see something so mundane as Twilight become so successful... but honestly, who's going to give a damn what I say?

Posted at 2:56PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Xaeinovis

16. I give a damn!! It's official humanity is OVER!! Transformers last year and now TWEENLIGHT!!! I'll give us another 10 years before ASS: THE MOVIE SWEEPS THE ACADEMY AWARDS!!! It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't a direct marketing ploy to get little girls( and girls with little minds) and the over 40 to plop down and oh, here i comes ooooh here it comes!! HE TOOK HIS SHIRT OFF!!! AHHHHHHH!! Now it's the GREATEST. MOVIE. EVER.!!! Plus i bet over half of the people that go and see this will be the only time they step foot in a theater ALL YEAR!!

Posted at 3:45PM on Nov 21st 2009 by warbringerdoom

17. you know what i love the part 1of that transformer movie. and i think t is really great. but the revenge of the fallen? wel its a big big c-r-a-p!!!

now...It makes me so sad to see something so junk as the revenge of a fallen become so successful. making $800 million dollar worldwide too. you now what? you have a point crap should't earn that much like the revenge and that saw series but anyways. i dont give a damn its their money anyway. i dont know why you care so much as if you were so affected by the other people like a sulky little vampire

Posted at 3:11PM on Nov 21st 2009 by gutsy devil

18. for the record, both transformers movies sucks ass; the second much more so than the first.

The main problem that male audiences and critical movie goers have with this film is that it is just a bad movie in general. The CG is terrible, the acting is wooden, and the story and execution are just plain bad.

People new that this film was going to be bad when early reviews started coming in mid week. When i am looking forward to a movie that gets utterly terrible reviews, i have enough common sense not to go see it.

So the problem that at least I have with this movie is that young girls are so dumb and numb to the fact that the movie isn't good that they spent millions of dollars seeing it anyway. And that is not a win for female audiences, it just gives reason to stupidity.

Posted at 3:59PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Mike

19. The problem will come with this movie or the the 4th one. The amount of money it will have made will almost automatically make it an Oscar contender ala Titanic.

And just like Titanic, it will win awards it doesn't deserve.

Posted at 4:05PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Rich

20. You cannot compare this crap to Titanic.

Posted at 6:13PM on Nov 21st 2009 by Bill