Twilight
With a blockbuster film adapted from a popular book series, hot young cast and devoted fans, the dystopian epic that is The Hunger Games was always going to be compared to that other huge franchise, Twilight.
The books might sell the same theme: Teens vs the world. But they’re different where it counts.
After having to swallow Twilight’s mellow and passive lead heroine Bella, her Hunger Games counterpart Katniss comes as a breath of fresh ass-kicking air. Finally, there’s a popular teen heroine who can kick butt without a dude by her side.
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I have long resisted writing about Twilight.
As children and adults across the world scrambled to hoard Robert Pattinson posters and glow-in-the-dark vampire soaps, I averted my eyes – lest I became a motionless pillar of salt.
Every time you mention Twilight, a puppy kills a fairy and then runs into oncoming traffic. It’s akin to uttering the word “Sandilands”, which I am told is either a kind of small crustacean found in less than two per cent of the world’s oceans – or a range of designer doorbell tones.
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Saray says:
The Top Five Girliest Vampire Movies: heh. Some of those are my very frovaite movies of all time. Read more »
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Axl says:
What's even wdreier is that the "Don't Want You No More" song here and in the Twilight Princess track list is not there. When I download the song, I get this file called 'dl.php', which, when opened in notepad, says the file does not exist/not on the server. I think… Read more »
Saturation marketing might have alerted you to the fact the new Sex and the City movie is nearly on our shores, and I bet there’s a whole load of teenage girls either begging their mothers to take them to see it or planning on going with their friends anyway.
You might think they’d be better off skipping the sexually-charged antics of Samantha and co and instead heading to the latest installment in the chaste Twilight saga.
After all, Twilight is all about saving yourself for marriage, getting off on holding hands, and personal sacrifice. But as role models for young women go, I’d pick Carrie and her friends over Bella any day.
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Cate says:
My Husband and I are of an older generation and believe this is one of the most fascinationg and well put together series we have seen come from the USA/Canadian area since “Northern Exposure”. We would love to see it continue as a series for a very long time. We… Read more »
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pablo88 says:
He is also in serious therapy…... Read more »
Watership Down – remember it? It was a cartoon about bunnies on a common in England.
Fiver has a weird dream; Hazel gets killed by the brown rabbits; and Art Garfunkel sang Bright Eyes while we wept buckets.
The Harry Potters – you must have seen them? Did you see the last one where Hermoine finally got control of her hair? No? In the beginning there were books and we all used our imagination to live the vision of a good writer who took us on a magical journey exercising our imaginations.
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Lucys says:
This story didn’t seem to be about the movie adaptation - just an observation… I have to say however, i saw New Moon last night and have come to the conclusion that Chris Weiss is the anti-director. What Catherine Hardwick did with Twilight was stunning, and was definitely an improvement… Read more »
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Jimbo Jones says:
‘But movies are about the effects, not the morals’... uh huh… I hear rock’n'roll will corrupt youth (it is just noise after all). Books vs films is a bit ‘early 20th century’ isn’t it (bluebloods vs ‘us’ film mongrels etc). Plenty of books are better than or equal to their… Read more »
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