Stars in Rewind: Should Vamps be Staked, or Loved?
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Twilight day is almost upon us, which means we're getting inundated with every little morsel that can be cooked up. For example, did you know that Robert Pattinson is a bad kisser with bad dandruff? I guess he was telling the truth in that Unscripted about always telling everyone everything.
But this isn't about Pattinson's real-life woes. I wanted to discuss teen girls, love, and vampires. I must admit, it goes together. I read just about every vampire romance I found when I was a teen. But at the same time, girls were staking the vamps back then. Or at least Buffy was, long before she went soft for the hottie known as Angel.
Above is the classic Paul Reubens death scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Now he's no Edward Cullen, so I imagine it's a lot easier to stake the vamp when he's not sexy. If only the ultimate force that created vamps knew -- the way to really make them invincible is to make them tall, dark, and handsome.
Will you run out to bask in the Twilight this week, or go for something more old-school, like Buffy or THE vamp, Dracula?
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11-19-2008 @ 4:54PM
ML said...
Stake 'em or love 'em, I'll go either way as long as the script's good. I'm afraid the Twilight phenomenon has passed me by, though, it sounded a little too romance novel-y to me (plus, I was suffering a little from vampire fatigue) so I never tried it.
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11-19-2008 @ 8:58PM
Eugenia said...
Dear god, everyone seems to be in love with Twilight. It's the most horrendous things I've ever read in my entire list. It's full of anti-feminist messages and tells girls that all you need is to be married by 18 (two weeks out of high school), refrain from sex before marriage, and have a nice little cottage in the woods with your boyfriend-to-be-husband who is possessive, controlling, and "perfect." Oh, and how is he perfect? By being hot and having "rainbow sparkles". *rolls eyes* Oh yeah. Instead of bursting into flames in the sun, he SPARKLES. Literally. I think I laughed my a** off reading that.
I find the messages that this book send to be pathetic, and there's really no plot until about... what? 80% into the first book. How sad. The majority of it is filled with sickening "I love you." "No, I love you more." "No, I love YOU more!" "I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove you!" after about what? A month of their first meeting and the first week after they get to know one another. God, so much is copied from Buffy and True Blood that it isn't even funny. I'd like very much to see Buffy come on screen and stake Edward and all of the Cullens. BTVS was a show that was full of so many good themes and promoted FEMINISM. All this stupid Twilight franchise does is bring back feminism about 300 years. Thanks a ton, Meyer. Thank you for giving little girls unrealistic expectations about men.
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