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Michael Sheen Shuns The Lycans To Lead The Vampires In TWILIGHT: NEW MOON!
Beaks here...
Michael Sheen is already beloved by a certain segment of the geek community thanks to his portrayal of Lucian, leader of the Lycans, in all three UNDERWORLD movies, so it only makes sense that the TWILIGHT producers would recruit him to play Aro, leader of the Volturi, in NEW MOON. On one hand, you're playing to your base; on the other, you're getting a terrific actor who'll bring some much needed gravitas to the teen vampire saga.
According to the Daily Mail, you can thank NEW MOON director Chris Weitz for "aggressively" courting Sheen. Weitz, who's getting another shot at a fantasy franchise after failing to launch Philip Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS series (with THE GOLDEN COMPASS), tells the British Tabloid that Sheen is ideal for a character who is both "friendly" and "a tremendous threat". Kind of like Curly Neal.
I know nothing of Aro (aside from the fact that he's Italian), but I do know that Sheen is incredibly respectful of fantasy material. Though it sounds like he's getting a decent payday for NEW MOON, this isn't slumming for him; he'll be as committed to Aro as he was to David Frost. TWILIGHT fans should be very pleased with this bit of casting. Right?
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I don't care either way. They won't get my money.
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is so profoundly amazing
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Seriously the first movie was possibly the worst shit I have ever had to sit through ever. Horrible dialogue and terrible acting throughout.
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Great actor, shitty series.
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If they wanted Golden Compass to be successful, they should have used him more. And not cutting the end that included more scenes with him...
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That guy seriously rocks, and is fast becoming a favourite actor of mine :)
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Waiting forever!!
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Oh well, I guess he'll be set for life if he does a couple of these pieces of Mormon propaganda.
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That is a fact!!!
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...until the movie was actually released (saw no trailers/commercials)...and saw long lines of girls outside the theater and was like WTF is this?? Then afterwards I hear fans talking about how the movie sucked. So thats all I know of this.
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Any here? No? Who the fuck are you writing to, Beaks? There are no Twilight fans here. Harry is the only person around here who likes Twilight.
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No wonder Kate Beckinsale fell for the guy.
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ohh man, I was gonna give this franchise another shot after they got a new crew to make the movie, but thats kinda shitty.
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Apr 13, 2009 2:49:27 AM CDT
I know it's wrong but i really liked the last UNDERWORLD
by iammrmonkey!
The first two were okay but I'll probably never watch them again. The third one was actually really entertaining (especially the final battle between the lycans and the vampires). I'd say it definitely helped having Sheen there in a central role. Top actor, that man.TWILIGHT....well, I've not read any of the books or even seen the movie, so I can't comment on that but Sheen's appearance will probably mean I'll watch it.
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Go eat shit, Beaks. You're a hypocrite who contributed to getting a person fired. I don't spray hate and hope for the worst for anyone, no matter what they have done, but I truly hope you are able to look inside of yourself and understand exactly what you did.
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I can't escape this shit, man. All day at fucking work in the goddamn breakroom I hear the women/girls/ladies fucking yammering on about it. This one girl has read the entire series SEVEN FUCKING TIMES. Harry was so full of it when he said that this TWILIGHT crap would get girls interested in other fantasy and shit. MY FUCKING ASS. This is no different than all those lame fucking goddamn books about women who are werewolves and shit. All these chicks care about is how fucking hot Edward is and shit. They don't care that the books are terrible. They don't care that it's fucking cliched homogenized CRAP. Fucking TWILIGHT.
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Not sure if that'll get any kind of US release, but he's excellent in the flick.
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Apr 13, 2009 3:19:05 AM CDT
'playing to the base'..ie people who like their horror 'light'
by quantize
and fluffy
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...I'm totally indifferent to the Twilight franchise. On the other I have a tremendous geek-crush on Sheen. How many other actors of his calibre, who don't need the paycheck, are so comfortable switching between "serious" acting roles and genre stuff?
I predict that, just like in the underworld movies, Sheen will totally blast the twilight kids off the screen. -
Aside from a bunch of pale freaks with funky hairdos.
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Apr 13, 2009 4:24:13 AM CDT
THERE'S ONLY ONE THING I WANNA SEE SHEEN IN
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
And that's a sex tape with Kate Beckinsale where she's wearing her UNDERWORLD catsuit.
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Apr 13, 2009 4:27:24 AM CDT
OH AND FUCK THE HAG WHO WRITES THESE BOOKS
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
I read that she's never even read fucking "Dracula". How the fuck can you write a series of books about vampires when you've never even read the 'bible' of that genre? I hate her and i hate her books and i hate whatever state she lives in just because they allow her to live there.If I knew where she lived, i'd organise a mob armed with flaming torches to drive her out.
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Apr 13, 2009 4:44:07 AM CDT
TallBoy66: I Told You Guys, Vin Diesel Will Be Playing Lestat
by media messiah
I am not kidding, and for some reason, all the other posters have missed this...Vin Diesel made a deal with the director of Twilight to play Lestat, the vampire, in this movie...his first film post Fast and Furious.
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Wait, what?
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!
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Can't help but think that Sheen is far too young
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You're getting your vampire stories mixed up (Lestat is Anne Rice's creation), just in case you were wondering why no one is falling for the gag.
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I can't believe this is the same guy that was in The Queen and Frost/Nixon. I never wasted my time with the Underworld movies enough to notice. He may not look at his B movie fascination as slumming, but I kind of do.
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I predict Sheen will soon start spinning round and round a la The Mask, so we have a film of Frost/Blair/Clough/vampire/werewolf.
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They are freaks who have to drink blood to survive, but they don't resemble vampires in any way. My g/f's daughter is reading this dribble and told her that they can't be killed by stakes thru the heart, the more I hear about this garbage the more it make me want to put a stake thru the heart of the author who wrote this garbage. This shit cannot go away fast enough, I hope the rest of the movies bomb. Fuck Twilight.
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v Predator v Jason v Jason Nevins.
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I understand guys who hate it, but I never read the books and the movies suck, but why do some of you say this stuff sucks. Look at the shit we watch and say is good, I mean really if you post here you have no right to say Twilight sucks.
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Because what Twilight does is unforgivable, I can deal with movies/books taking liberties with the vampire mythology, but Twilight totally and utterly dismisses vampire mythology, making these characters as far from vampires as they could possibly be. They twinkle in sunlight? WTF? Cannot be killed by stakes? I hear they even WEAR crosses. Lame, totally and utterly lame. I know some of the stuff we like may not be the greatest, but Twilight is total and utter nonsensical garbage.
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Apr 13, 2009 9:22:28 AM CDT
Well, at least the shit we watch is cool to a certain extent
by mr_incredible
Twilight is just utterly stupid, beyond retarded, stupefyingly lame and fucking awful. That bitch who wrote this fucking garbage should burn in hell for it.
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You didn't mean to write this piece for TigerBeat.com or something? Why would you guys feel that AICN'rs want to hear about a movie series that caters to tween girls? What next, a breathless review of the Hannah Montana movie?
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I don't post often unless I really feel the need to comment. Please stop posting twilight garbage on the site, no one gives a shit.
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Always happy to hear news on any form of genre film-making, especially when it involves as good an actor as Sheen.
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But STILL managed to win Best Visual FX over Transformers? WTF? Say what you will about the movie, I think the FX in Bayformers are 10 times better than The Golden Compass.
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Although I think the reason "Golden Compass" failed is how they couldn't do it close to the book because it's all just thinly-veiled Catholic bashing by an Atheist who fails to see some Christian themes in his books. (At least Douglas Adams knew that Atheism invites controversy.) However, I haven't read "New Moon" yet, but with him and Dakota Fanning being in the cast, I'm very, very intrigued.
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with Wifey. Sh#ty writing and acting, but wifey loved it anyway. Hated the way they changed the vampire legend. Vamps are supposed to die in the sunlight...and vampire baseball? Anyway, can't respect a fanchise that distorts an established legend. Trueblood is a lot better because it stays true to vampires and what they are and are about. Wifey did make the comment that if she was 13, she would love this movie.
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...but I'm over it, and I do dig Micheal. Can anybody tell me if New Moon, the book, is as estrogen-soaked as Twilight was? I made a point of reading Twilight after seeing the movie and it practically drove me MAD all the starry-eyed, smitten, girly-girl prose. And I'm pretty open minded with chick flick situations. Just tell me if I'm going to get diabetes halfway through New Moon or not.
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But it's harmless awful tripe with a decent message, so I don't feel guilty for allowing my pre-teen daughter to watch it.Not everything must be laden with tits, gore and bullet holes, gang. Some movies just aren't made for you.
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"vampires" that SPARKLE IN THE SUNLIGHT, or so I hear... can't get much more gay than that.
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Yet it will still make $500-million thanks to idiot teenage girls and guarantee a third piece of crap.
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Parents in the US didn't want to upset Jesus so the golden compass didn't do as well here. But you can't call the film a failure when it earns 372 million. You call parents in the US the failures.
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horrible career move. and I'd hate to see a guy that good getting typecast. I'm not at all interested in twilight, but i really hope this ones good, i know it angers a lot of people that the books get so much praise for such crappy material, maybe if the second movie is any good itll cool the war between the twitards and everybody else. i doubt it, but it cant hurt to hope
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like someone said before, some movies just aren't made for you (us)... deal with it. I saw twilight last week, my daughter loves itand the books, as does my wife., I didn't hate it, but could care less for it also... no big deal....
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I don't think we got enough of those.
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Stephanie Meyer's use of the term "vampire" showed that she has no literary integrity; she used the term to define a creature that on the surface vaguely resembles the post-"Dracula" depiction of vampires but that in NO WAY fits the archetype of the legend. Vampires, in essence, represent our fear of the inevitable encroachment of death, as it was believed that the deceased would literally rise from their graves and drain the living of their life-blood. I don't care about changing the attributes of the creature, their weaknesses, their strengths or the method in which they procure blood as long as they still encapsulate the spirit of the beast, and Meyer's "vampires" were more super-powered humans that sparkled and really loved baseball than vicious, undead, bloodthirsty cannibals.
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...was a solid film about young vampire love and seduction. It's perhaps the only movie involving vampires that I'm interested in purchasing.
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was made up by one main discovered author, Bram Stoker, and plays, and American/British movies. But the idea of vampires, incubus, demons, zombies etc are (all the same thing) across history and cultures varied with different details... so it's pointless to get mad about disregarding a quite flimsy pop mythos... that would be like getting mad that the demon in The Exorcist didn't appear with fire and horns... that being said... the style treatment of vampires in Twilight is poor. But I do appreciate original and new details to the age old human based sex rival demon mythos.
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While the wonderful masses at Aintitcoolnews choose to Focus on Teenie Bopper Girl World "Twilight" Another site just leaked which Watchmen to play FREDDY! Way to go Harry...
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I am sure AICN wont do anything about posting till after 2 weeks then its new news to them..
All of you geeks know who this was...
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Who fucking cares! These books/movies aren't for anyone but girls from 12 to 20 -- in other words, a demographic that won't care if they get good actors or bad ones so as long as there are plenty of hotties to gawk at. This movie is going to totally waste the skills of Sheen and Fanning.
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I think Johnny Depp would've made a great Aro. I actually view Aro as a cross between Depp and Alan Rickman. If I read the book right, Aro, Caius, and Marcus (the trio that head the Volturi) are supposed to be as "young" as Carlisle, although they've been around so long that they have an 'ancient' quality about them, without looking 'old'.
My wife got me interested in Twilight, and I've read the entire series. I've seen the movie twice (once in theater, once at home), and while I think Kristen Stewart could've shown a bit more EMOTION, the film really wasn't all that bad.
This is the nice thing about America, don'tchaknow...everyone is ALLOWED to have their own opinion. I say...I WILL be seeing 'New Moon' when it comes out. -
I get that not all movies are made for us, and hey, I'm cool with that. Little girls need their movies too. What I don't get is why we get "news" about the Twilight movies on this site, along with multiple Hannah Monatana reviews. Have the AICN guys lost touch with their audience? It seems like it. Next up: a panting review of the in-development "My Little Pony" franchise reboot script.
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Once upon a time I remarked how being able to walk in daylight was shitty for any vampire and someone actually said that wasn't true cause that's how Stoker wrote them. Nonsense. Stoker was one interpretation just like Rice's was ONE interpretation and this Twilight stuff is yet another ONE interpretation.If you guys want some serious kick ass vampire mythos, drama, and epic action, look no further than Brian Lumley's Necroscope series. It's been a while since I've read them (2 main series plus others) but they are a different (no, not wholly original) and unique take on the vampire mythos (well, Wamphyri, anyway!). We get those into film and we might just have some absolute fucking crazy epic vampire war movies. Anyone else read em?
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rly?
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I don't know if there's much point me stating this, but............ here go's, I liked the film, really enjoyed it, enough to actually start reading the books and am glad I have, well anyways back to you guys now.
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LOL, that made me laugh, good job (My Little Pony).... as for AICN losing sight... AS much as I like this site, when was the last time you saw Harry give a bad review??? .. i hate to say this, REALLY, but Harry and some of these guys pretty well just suck the dick of all these movie people nowadays..... watch "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" and you can maybe see why it's done now...... do I give a fuck about Twilight? NO, do I give two shits for Hannah Montana, or even some of the other shit that's posted on this site, time to time, NO......... but the site isn't just for me , so, I deal with it......... just my two cents!!!
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What is wrong with that? It only means more confidence from studios about vampire movies. And what is this... second grade? since when can chicks not have their own version of vampires that they like? Guys get topless vampire chicks and chicks get... topless shiny vampire pretty boys. Sounds fair to me.
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Just kidding this shit suuucks!
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I was curious. They are written for teenage to mid-twenty year old girls. The main focus of the books are romance not vampires or werewolves. They have a adventure side to them too but not as strong as the romance side. I felt like the first 3 books were solid enough for what they were doing. The author lost it in the four book though (in my opinion) and the story begins to wander.
These aren't vampire stories so stop cutting it down for that. These are books for girls who are insecure with themselves and want to have a romance with the "perfect" person. I am not the demographic that these books were written for in any way but I see why people like them. Sheen and Fanning's charaters have very small parts in the second and fourth books. The books for what they are were entertaining but forgetable. -
Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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Obviously you all don't read enough too realize New Moon friggin romps on Twilight and is a supior story- y'all Twilight haters wouldn't know romantic thrillers if you got up off your couch potato asses & were bit in said asses by a vampire- oh wait, I forgot- you're too cool for it. Sorry- I'm just so friggin tired of being faced with these douche bag talk backers who think they own fan rights & diss some franchises that blow your Matrix shit out of the water. Twilight is cool- live with it.
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and BOTH sequels any time over the dribble that is Twilight. Say what you want about the Matrix sequels, but anyone on these talkbacks would rather watch either sequel before watching teenybopper fake vampire bullshit. Twilight may have an audience, but it sure as shit is not here. Hell, Twilight is cool....if you are a female under the age of 13 or a bored housewife over the age of 40, because that is the scope of Twilight's appeal.
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know the source material before bitching and moaning online...Christ people. If you know the story from the books, rather than the shitty movies so far then you'd know that the "vampires" depicted are actually just some chics interpretation...which is actually quite good if you give it a chance. Hey I bet half the jerk offs that are bitchin would love it if it was a graphic novel...
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and have personally sold about elevntybillion copies of these books to the various unwashed. every so often i mention ann rice, and all i get is a blank stare.
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But, I heard somewhere that New Moon is like totally supior so y'all haters won't dissin it no mo. Aight?
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Five years from now when the last movie comes out will be the last time anyone talks about these books. And ten years from now you're going to regret that "Edward Sparklez 4ever" tattoo you talked your mom into letting you get.
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the worst, most inept fanfiction ever written. Forget "Vampire mythology" for a second and you will still have an excrutiatingly bad novel. The main character is a whiny, mopey Mary Sue who's entire character is based on her attachment to the two dimensional sparkle boy stalker who is supposed in "in love" with her. Why are they "Destined to be together"? Who the hell knows? Because the writer said so? This is the worst kind of author wish fulfillment fantasy BULLSHIT I have ever read. No girl/woman with half a brain would fall for this crap.
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... we were quite happy growing up with, for example the Lost Boys. True to legend, yet we got our chick fix with good looking - yet believable actors. No chick with a brain wants this Twilight shit -- and yes, before you say anything I've given it a chance -- its shit. This whole franchise is just a lame attempt to suck even more money from the teeny bopper generation where wimpy guys wear black eyeliner and stupid girls think that means they are cool and menacing. FAIL.
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A friendly yet tremendous threat, indeed! Go Go Dribble Master!
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please...thanks
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