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NEW MOON Trailer gets furry!
Hey folks, Harry here!!! Yup, I was out celebrating my Sister's birthday. She was so inconsiderate to be born on May 31st. Not only was that my mother's birthday - but this sister of mine demanded that we all get together to worship her at Hulu Hut tonight while THIS TRAILER WAS DEBUTING! HOW DARE SHE? She hasn't even seen TWILIGHT or read any of the books. She should just check her ovaries now, cuz she's not half the chick I am!
Click here for the Ecstasy that only a NEW MOON trailer can provide!
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Ho ho
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;) I hate this movie on principle after tonight's awards debacle.
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sorry guys... it's business, not personal. hit= more money.
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Really Harry? I like some dumb shit but dumb shit can be good. This just aint good at all.....How fucking bad are these actors too? Holy shit....and this Robert Pattinson guy? He and Hayden probably went to the same acting school. These movies are right on the quality level of Beverly Hills 90210. sad.
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seriously, if I wanted TWILIGHT news I would be reading Out Magazine (Teen Edition).
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looks more like art garfunkel than will farrell....hmph
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Just beat the wolves from The Day After Tomorrow in looking utter shit.
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I got carried away. ** makes note to self not to do that again **
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... that the fourth film will go DTV. Because even at the rate they're churning this crap out, by the time they get to the final film the fickle tween girl audience will have glommed onto something else.
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...that everything about these movies are absolute fucking dread?
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I have an overwhelming urge to blow my head off with a shotgun & use my fleeting, final nerve twitches to stamp on my own fallen brains before I collapse, dead, but free of this emo shit forever.
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Oh no.
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2009 AICN Screen Name of the Year nominee. :D
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I wonder what mythos they'll obliterate for those as well.
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...to save and store up on blow and booze. Many of us are dangerously unprepared (I'm looking at you Lost Jarv).
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Teenage angst
Teenage twingy ginnys
a dark knight in shining armor.
a total girl-fest if I ever saw one.
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Thanks for the laugh harry
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What is with this instant transformation to cuddly husky BS? The whole thing looks like sh*t!
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the film wasted on this
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That looked like a regular wolf... So, I guess that Twilight is continuing the series of destroying tried and true horror rules.
Werewolves DO NOT turn into plain old timber wolves. Werewolves CANNOT turn into wolves on cue, they are ripped violently into a horrific half man-half wolf.
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I can't believe that Twilight and its actors won soo many fucking awards tonight!! Including Best Picture!! THE DARK KNIGHT SHOULD HAVE WON!! But, no teen/tween girls and guys like this Harry dude voted for it!!
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Harry, I don't even care that you pretend to make fun of yourself for liking Twilight. It is simply unacceptable. If you are not a teenage girl screaming for some fucking hack 90210 esque actor, you should not be enjoying these movies. I got drug into Twilight in the theater and I swear to you, I wanted to blow my fucking head off. The theater seemed to be overwhelmed by giggly, awwwing teenage girls and it was simply unbearable. This new one seems to have Colossus as a WearWolf and the guy who voiced JarJar Binks, but I vow not to ever see another Twilight film.
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..generate some traffic? Damn.
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Jun 01, 2009 12:07:25 AM CDT
I'm starting to think some of you guys are being over the top to
by spectrebeeyatch
I guess most of you read the books and beat off to Patterson every night while watching the Twilight copy you never put back in the mail from Netflix. Okay guys we get it. You don't like Twilight but some of you are acting like closet fans of it. You know like gay guys who try and hide what they are "No way man I love chicks!!! I'D FUCK ONE RIGHT NOW!" I don't care how many MTV piece of shit awards this movie got MTV sucks dick. So half of you bitching to Harry about putting the trailer up but yet are watching MTV are fucking hypocrites. You're full of shit. Out loud here you claim to be bashing tween stuff but also watch MTV? Shut the fuck up. Also I get bashing fans of different series, Star Wars and Trekkies do it all the time. But my problem is this... You guys are totally cool with Transformers news and that first movie was made for five year olds and it sucked dick. But yet you hate these movies that are made for tweens and suck dick? I just don't get it.
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when did anyone start giving a shit about the MTV movie awards, anyway?
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There are so many things wrong with that sentence I can't even begin to start with them.For the record, I cannot WAIT for NEW MOON. It was my favorite book in the series, and I'm a Team Jacob member 100-percent! Looks perfect!
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Maybe Im drunk...Ok Iam drunk. But I thought AICN made fun of it. Now Harrys pulling a #3 on the trailer?
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Looks more like Sunspot, to me. Stupid adaptations never get anything right... >:(
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I mean, he's about to fucking rip someone's arms off, not cuddle up to them to get his ears scratched, am I right? Oh wait, this is fucking Twilight, who gives a shit.
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TRANSFORMERS has Megan Fox and giant robots beating the hell out of each other. TWILIGHT has Robert Patterson wearing face powder and lipstick moaning about how much it sucks to be pretty much all-powerful.There's a reason we prefer the former over the latter.
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...can it?? *shudder*
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You mother fuckers are ruthless. You guys can say whatever the hell you want about teen bullshit or how the first film raped just about anything it dealt with, but this shit is not moving for Oscars or high society film snob acclaim. This is a simple dumb shit movie and give the studio some credit for at least trying to find a new director.
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There are MANY more things wrong with that sentence.
Also, I never said anything about "real" werewolves so your statement cannot even stand. Here's a little hint when you go to quote stuff... either copy and paste, or do a ctrl-F to make sure that someone ACTUALLY said it. If you don't do this, you come off looking like a retarded kid who thinks they can debate an academic.
As I said before, there are certain ground rules set in place in EVERY werewolf story. Your little Mormon writer appears to have shat over all of them, just like she did with vampire stories. -
You have to shave them first.
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the folklore of the Quileute (they believe they were descended from wolves -- I read it on a brochure while visiting Port Angeles). They should sue her for slander.
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Your comments were that werewolves can do this or that, but not this or that. They're total fiction; they can do anything they want in the mind of the author. Werewolves do what they do in TWILIGHT, so as a result - the werewolves do those things. Oh, and btw - the werewolves in TWILIGHT are more shapeshifters than actual half-man/half-wolf people. They simply shift their forms into wolf. They're not some kind of halfway critter. And they're also hottt!
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Werewolves are very hot.
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Would be to insult hacks everywhere.
Meyer is BY FAR the worst author to come along in the last quarter century.
Sure, she sells books, but that's simply due to the extreme lack of intelligence possessed by most of what passes for society today.
I mean for christ's sake, just look at ALL the "reality" spooge on the TV these days that passes for required viewing by the droolcups that line up for dreck such as Twilight.
THESE people are why we get such shitty cinema these days.. THESE people are why the studios DON'T give a rat's ass about quality.. THESE people are why talentless lumps such as Pattison and Stephanie Meyer have jobs.
Frankly, I wouldn't let Meyer write my grocery list.
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Fucking work pcs are shit.
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Whether you like it or dislike it, whether or not you think it's gay... the Twilight juggernaut isn't about to diminish just yet. Whoever decided to fast-track the sequels was damn shrewd. They're not testing the patience of the legion of fans or even giving them a chance to catch their breath. You will never overwhelm people when you give them what they truly want.So, if Twilight hysteria and its attendant nonsense bothers you... deal with it. The *third* movie Eclipse is slated for a June 30th, 2010 release date. The phenomenon won't die down until next summer.
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No doubt.
The studios know they can lead flies to shit, so yes, they'll drop their collective pants once every 9 months or so and drop a massive load on the multiplex nearest everyone, and yes, the brain dead minions will slurp it up.
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GIANT PIG!!!
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You are a Queerhawk.
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Jun 01, 2009 4:07:54 AM CDT
"She should just check her ovaries now, cuz she's not half the c
by mr_incredible
Indeed.
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big fucking whoopee prediction
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Screwed up the reveal that Jacob is a wolf.
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Edward: "You fucking redskin! She's my bitch! Fuck off!"
Jacob: "No, she's mine, Cedric Diggory! You fuck off!"
Edward: "Let's fight! Whoever wins, gets Bella!"
Jacob: "Yeah, let's fight! Just know that I'm gonna kick your fucking ass!"
Edward: "As if. You're fucking with the wrong guy, fuckface."
Bella: "Guys, guys! Let's not fight! Let's fuck! I wanna feel both of your dicks inside me. Like, right now!"
Rinse and repeat.
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Read the books and find out that they are not werewolfs.
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Shapeshifters (they *shapeshift* into wolves)... werewolves... don't care. That CGI looks incredibly subpar. I guess the couldn't afford Rick Baker.
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what's happening to my body??
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That CGI was godawful, I can't believe they put it in the teaser trailer. Laaaaame!
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Jun 01, 2009 4:52:37 AM CDT
Harry...Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son..
by johnnadauk
You're a god damn disgrace.
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Harry posts these A. to make a crack at the whole thing (like it or not it's got a huge following) and B. Cause so many will post how much they hate it blah blah blah, insult, insult, threat, disaproval...
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The werewolves in these books are paedophiles.
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I predict some kind of coke induced seizure.
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Like OMG I totally saw the clip during the MTV Movie awards and like all the girls swooned when the In'gen took his shirt off...Yikes!
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at :20 is what I did when I saw Harry once again posted a story on stupid shit no one here cares about http://tinyurl.com/ngyq46
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and Boll's movies are at least entertaining in a MST3K kinda way, there's nothing redeeming about Meyer's shit
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Told you I did this would happen... yes?
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Acting so exited about this trailer. He does it because he knows you'll get up in arms that he doesn't damn everything that isn't the ark of the covenant of genre films (you know, with all the eye melting brilliance and such). Seeing you whine entertains him. It's why he posts the scriptgirl vids in such a tongue and cheek manner. If you stop acting like it's so important that he only acknowledge genre films that cause grown men to weep at their perfection (which, just so you know, DO NOT EXIST) maybe he'll lose interest and you won't have to endure the 'indignity' of a trailer for a film based on a book geared towards young girls on your entertainment blog of choice.
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I've ever seen. And just to keep this clear, it is the first time I watch it. HOW THE FUCK IS TWILIGHT THE BEST FUCKING MOVIE THIS YEAR?
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but I'm more excited about Harry Potter and New Moon than GI Joe and Transformers. I know, sounds ghei, but it's true.
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Jun 01, 2009 7:47:29 AM CDT
Let's forget for a moment that I have no interest in this series
by rbatty024
and judge the trailer on its own merits. It provides little excitement. It's nothing more than a couple of lackadaisical scenes from early in the film. Whoever put that together needs to rethink their career path.
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I have been stockpiling the booze in preparation to unleash hundreds of mock porn posts on this stupidity. And Coke is easy too.
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I heard the Rifftrax of Twilight is pretty funny. Glad to see the series is going the way of Underworld (a la werewolves) in order to be more sucky.
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Seriously. "Bella's hand stole gently inside her white cotton panties. She gasped as she felt the first crinkly touch of her newly sprouted pubic hair. She sighed as her fingers gently parted her nether lips. If only Edward's touch would feel so perfect" The only way I'd watch this shit is if there was a GIANT PIG in it.
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i can't ever imagine seeing twilight or this. it just doesn't have the crossover appeal that Potter got for itself. that being said, every other chick on public transport seems to be reading these books. so: might this be the very first chick-flick franchise? why not - I can't imagine the ladies get too excited about the Terminator films...
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There are hundreds of books trying to appeal to the tween demographic and Twilight connected where the others flopped. Her writing is no better or worse than the average summertime read-at-the-beach novel. The overwhelming success of the franchise is a bit puzzling, but not nearly as puzzling as why so many act so threatened by Twilight's ability to connect with tweens and moms.
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Here you have a lead actor delivering stilted dialogue Hayden Christensen bad, a love story that only the most shallow asshole could relate to if they are over 17, and the wholesale rape of BOTH the Vampire and werewolf that makes the already awful Underworld series look like Bram Stokers original vision.
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Jun 01, 2009 8:18:06 AM CDT
And Harry you CLEARLY don't love Vampires or Werewolves
by industrykiller!
Because loving something means not liking seeing it bastardized in a way that's going to affect the way they're portrayed for years. Uncle Forry would be ashamed.
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Er. that looked bloody awful, was what I was gonna say before I had some sort of keyboard spaz out.
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fuck off harry how could a grown man enjoy something like twilight? i wouldn't dream off seeing this amateur shit , from what i see twilight is some 13 year old girls wet dream off what a male should be, not interested in sex but obsessed with her, and listens to whatever mindless crap she has to say
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There is so much HUNK in this movie even cute little stoner chicks look manly!! Bestiality isn't a crime in the world of twilight, it's like anime!
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Jun 01, 2009 8:58:44 AM CDT
A sneek peek at the film that will sweep the MTV movie awards ne
by kevinmuller
You know it is going to happen. when I was watching the awards last night, I said to my friend, this is going to happen again next year. I am not a hater of the movie, but come on, people are treating it as if it is the new citizen kane. I can't wait for this to pass and have people say down the line "Twilight? Are you fucking kidding me?!"
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I clicked on this thinking it was a new MOON trailer, not the NEW MOON trailer. I need to start paying attention.
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When she saw Jacob. I guess the trailer did what it was supposed to do for its fans.
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Dude, If your wife is jizzing from trailers of lame teenage flicks,You better start laying some pipe hard man.
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Ugh. I hate CG when it looks like this.
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Jun 01, 2009 9:50:27 AM CDT
Any guy who pays to see this should really question his sexualit
by ganymede3010
Seriously
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Nice timing!
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And...well, I can't say the effect is BAD...but the movement isn't convincing. At all. That's the trouble with digital animation...the movement is TOO smooth. It's like rotoscoping. TOO real, TOO imitative of life. The classic Disney animators knew all about the dangers of too much movement onscreen. They learned what the eye actually sees and how the brain takes what is seen and translates it and guess what...it's not verbatim, it's in a sort of visual shorthand. A fast movement in animation, for instance, will actually require fewer drawings. Looks like the CGI wizards haven't figured that out yet. Really, the wolf looks fake. A well-rendered fake, but..fake. Oh well. Not like I planned on seeing the movie anyway.
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So are guys. What are you gonna do?
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Good description. That's what it looked like to me. Buddy says "I love you, happy birthday" in the exact same way he says "I can never see you again". Is he happy? Is he upset? I can't tell the difference.
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In the books it is revealed by the last one that the 'Werewolves' were shapeshifters all along, but ones that can only shapeshift into wolves. But they are supposed to be bigger, like grizzly bear big.
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-and was made with adults in mind.
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Get it?
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No one put this on here? The guys behind "Hairspray" are writing the songs, and it's for a new Mattel toy that's monster-based. Not sure what it is exactly, but we might get a hint when the fall toy fair comes up.
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I laughed out loud and then had to explain to my co-worker that I just watched the New Moon trailer..
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Here I was, holding out hope that MAYBE New Moon would redeem the series, even slightly, from the utter crapfest that was Twilight. Edward is gone for most of the movie (therefore less terrible acting), there's more action (werewolves fighting), there's less ugly/glittering/bad-acting vampires. . .so you'd EXPECT New Moon to be better. Except the FUCKING CUTE WOLF RUINS EVERYTHING. Goddamn. Why in God's name are they going for a cute dog instead of a menacing, bloodthirsty, rage-induced wolf?
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cheap. nasty. offensive. dogdy. as. all. fuck.
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It's for tween girls too, lmao u fucking silly little twink
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Sorry everyone, but I love this. If you've seen my posts before, you know that I'm a big supporter of the Twilight franchise. I think the trailer is great, and I will be first in line to see the movie in November. :-) BUT, I also realize that it's not for everyone. I get that. But I happen to love it. :-)
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Just answering your question about the wolf... you find out later in the books that they are not true werewolves, they are shape shifters. But I agree, many horror "rules" are broken in this series. That's the nice thing about writing about things that really don't exist... you don't have to follow the rules. :-)
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Just have to say... I'm a girl who gets excited about Twilight, but I ALSO was excited for Terminator. Just saying. :-)
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just to give you an idea on how bad this is... My wife is a fucking Tweenlight tragic, she has all the books and the "missing" book (told from Edwards perspective), she's got all the audiobooks and the soundtrack on her iPhone, which she also has "Supermassive Black Hole" as her ringtone (which I don't mind because MUSE makes music their bitch) she has a team Edward T-Shirt (and everytime she wears it I wear my T that says "... And then Buffy staked Edward....... The End." She paid nearly double the price for the BluRay just to get it a day early...
She is cuckoo for tweenlight.
.... and she was MASSIVELY disappointed in this trailer.I cannot thank Summit enough for putting out a substandard trailer, and hopefully a substandard movie, so there is a chance that I wont have to be dragged to the theater multiple times and upon the conclusion of it hear this 28 year old semi geek goddess of perfectly sound mind (seriously, she's as logical as they come, shes almost Vulcan, partly why I married her), to hear her say shit like "Ohh..emm.. gee.. wasn't that just the bestest movie in the history of ever??!?! Lets see it again!". Its almost like watching her die. I think my wife is a Were-Tard...... on a positive note though, I do take that positive energy she gets from Twilight and FUCK HER SENSLESS, because "All the mature kids are doing it". -
"HOT ROD IS THE MOST AWESOME MOVIE IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!!!!!"(TM)
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myspace.com/armored_mullet
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Hot Topic the movie. I wanna see all these 13 yr. olds go see a real horror movie like Drag Me to Hell.
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Is this really what passes for entertainment right now?? Seriously? These books are the most poorly written piles of shit yet they are lapped up by a bunch of retarded schoolgirls...and Harry.
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Im a 23 year old guy who did a book trade with a girlfriend to get her to read the Harry potter series. I cant say I liked the Twilight series much but it was actually better than I expected, despite the fact that nothing happens in all 4 books. But if you would just get over the fact that Edward Cullen is hotter than all of us combined and gave New Moon a chance it actually has a pretty cool story of the Quileutes transformations. And NO they are not werewolves. They are shape shifters who are stuck turning into wolves because it was the form that their first tribe leader took. And anyone bitching about the werewolf cg is just bitching to bitch. CG still isnt perfect, and if you really think this films cg wolf looks bad, just go back and watch Prisoner of Azkaban and compare. New Moon is the one film that is going to be somewhat decent because it actually focuses on Jacob, the only interesting character, and boring ass Edward is gone for 3/4ths of the story.
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We're such a girl. Can we get your sister to run the site for not on? Geez, Harry. Please go watch some porn or read your Blade 2 review again.As for the MTV Movie Awards, I remember when I liked them. Now...my God. Forgetting that Twilight cleaned house, Zac Efron won Best Actor!! Are you fucking kidding me!!!
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She's by no means an addict. I asked her, point blank, when was better: Twilight or The Dark Knight. She said that Twilight succeeded at what it was trying to do, but there's no way it's better than TDK.
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...is if one of the bad guy cannibals from Twilight had been a Best Villain nominee, Heath Ledger wouldn't have stood a chance.
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You said, "As long as this shit makes $$, we suffer". How are you suffering? You don't have to watch it. You don't have to read the books. You can ignore it. Why are you letting a book and movie franchise bother you SO much?
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Fair enough. I do have the choice to ignore it, but what I meant by "we suffer" is that there is a chance smaller projects are either overlooked by studios or by the media. If MTV chooses to mention Twilight or New Moon every second story...thats fine, but when my local newspapers post 12 new pics or set visits everyday, or trailer info...as NEWS, that's when I get pissed off. It's complete oversaturation right now. In a week I'll be fine.
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Ummmm...Yeah. Ok. Whatever.
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I just saw the Moon trailer last week before Terminator Salvation, saw this article and thought "There's ANOTHER Moon trailer already?". Then I realized I have nothing to say about this teen angst (should be) direct-to-dvd sequel to Twilight. After they are both on dvd, I am going to watch them back to back out of morbid curiosity. I fear I won't make it through both films.
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Seeing as how you're a fan of the material, and you happen to be on a geek site for geek stuff, I feel compelled to ask you this: were you actually satisfied with the Twilight movie?
I happened to read all 4 of the Twilight books (including the Midnight Sun partial draft), and though I don't consider myself a fan, I do consider myself knowledgeable enough about the series to make justified rants/complaints about it.
And the main complaint I have about Twilight (the movie; the books have issues all their own) is that it was awful, in every sense of the word. The acting was stilted, there were long scenes of poorly delivered exposition to advance the plot, the chemistry between Stewart and Pattinson was nonexistent, the casting was terrible. . .my God. Everything about the movie was either poorly executed, unfaithful to the novel, or just plain stupid.
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I have no question whatsoever. Jacob may be jailbait, but he's sooooooooo hot. And werewolves? They're hot too. I will be seeing this first day, and I'm a guy. NEW MOON is also my favorite book in the series. Relax, people. It's fun ! Don't knock it a performa!
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If you took the same letters & re-assembled them, you could have a name which better suits your strange interest in werewolf boys. For example..
Spunk makes Typhus
Shake spunk Stumpy
Shaky Unkempt Puss
Shaky Septums Punk
Khans Pesky Sputum
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LOL - great stuff, that. As for what a Spymunk is, I'll clue you in with my website: www.spymunk.blogspot.com
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Jun 01, 2009 9:56:35 PM CDT
(Repost) ..."The wolf looks fake!..." "...Too cute and fluffy!..
by fleet
Um... how real do you WANT the leaping boy changing into a wolf to look? It's hardly going to look realistic, is it... I mean, seriously... As for all you whingers crying "Too cute!" and "Too fluffy" about it's appearance... it's on screen for 1 second, and it's snarling - Unless you're freeze framing the transformation and looking for flowers and rainbows, I don't get how you're interpreting the 1 second flash of lupine as cute and fluffy... it's a wolf... it's angry... its snarling... Can one of you define how you're seeing cute and fluffy?
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... talking here. Darkness Geeks LIVE for all things DARK. That is to say, they need everything to be Monstrous, Awesome and Evil(e) ... aka MAE. Everything has to have lasers, or fangs, or both! It needs to have chrome skulls all over it, explode on contact, be covered with naked women who want the Darkness Geek ... but most of all, everything needs to be SINISTER AND EVIL AND SNARLING AND ANGRY, because the aggression they feel toward the world needs to be justified by the media they eat - they can't have anything that does not fit their negative worldview that everything is EVIL AND DARK! Rrrrr! The fact that the werewolf didn't scream like a banshee, bite off the vampire's head, crap down its throat and screw Bela in one second while cutting her head off in the middle of the act with a Klingon longsword means it's too cute and fluffy.
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They show the most mundane sci-fi scenes and act like we should be shitting our pants. Oh wow, boy can jump at tress with girl on his back, and now it's wow again, another boy turns into a husky (oh, sorry, wolf). Couple that with the horseshit production values of the first movie--I swear it looked and felt all over like bad WB/CW TV pilot. At least this CG wolf looks like bad movie effects instead of bad TV effects, but it still seems to have the heart of a TV hack job.
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Lol... It's funny coz it's true...
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that absolutely nobody gives a flying tampon on AICN about Twilight or anything associated thereof, but I've decided all of the Twilight coverage is an extended episode of Punk'd, c/o Harry. Nice one, Harry. You had me going there for a minute...
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I'd debate "nobody gives a flying tampon..." with you - Because the hundreds of comments on this very talkback would suggest otherwise... Clearly people give a sh|t or they wouldn't be complaining so much... the mere fact you clicked the story and felt the need to comment shows exactly why it's posted - Whether people like it or not... you all clicked... and you all commented... And whilst you're all crying how much you DON'T care and how LAME it is... if you truly thought that, you wouldn't even be here in the first place. Sheep.
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Actually yes, I enjoyed the movie. Don't hate me! I agree that it had it's issues. The special effects left a lot to be desired. Kristin's acting was laughable. What I was looking for in the movie was to get the same feeling that I got reading the book, which I did. I wanted the characters to be the way I pictured them, which they were, for the most part. The scenes that I wanted to see were there. For me, it was about seeing the characters that I had grown to love brought to life. It wasn't perfect, but I found it to be completely enjoyable anyway. I actually thought the casting was great. The Cullens were well cast. Charlie was perfect. The human kids were funny. I saw plenty of chemistry between Pattinson and Stewart. I'm really not sure why you said it wasn't true to the book, because I thought it was pretty darn close. At the same time, I know plenty of fans who hated to movie. Me... I saw it 11 times in the theater. Sorry, but I love it. I really do. As far as films in general go, it wasn't that good. I get that. But I just love this story. There's something about it that i can relate with. Maybe I AM one of those moronic, brain dead, blind fangirls that everyone is talking about. The thing is, I read the books a couple years ago, before they ever got huge. I had stumbled across Twilight in the store, having never heard of it, and I absolutely loved it. All of my friends thought I was nuts, but now it's big, which is kind of gratifying. It's nice to see something that I loved so much do so well. Does that make sense?
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Not really.
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Everything you said makes perfect sense EXCEPT for the fact that you're posting it here, on AICN. While I obviously sympathize and enjoy TWILIGHT's story, these people here won't give you a chance. *hug*
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Yeah, I get that. And actually, for the most part, with the exception of a few complete dicks, most people have been pretty nice to me about it. Probably because I also like all of the other things on AICN, which is why I was here in the first place! Besides, he asked, so I posted!
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... can we agree Jacob is nurm?
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Fear not, Potch. My anger/disgust towards Twilight fans is really only triggered by squealing, giggling, obsessive behavior--and since you don't seem to be exhibiting any of this, I find rational discussion perfectly reasonable.
When I said "Twilight departed from the book," the main issue that I had in mind was Bella's relationship with her dad. In the book, Bella's basically the perfect daughter--cooking for him, caring for him--she's basically her dad's best friend (besides the Blacks). For some reason, the movie portrayed their relationship in a rather tense, uncomfortable light. Which, to me, is a poor decision, because Bella is supposed to be the ultimate charismatic, but unassuming girl. From her behavior with her dad, she loses a lot of her adorable charisma, and becomes just another surly teen.
Basically, the few things that Twilight did right was portraying the high school peers Bella had as complete jerks (the film REALLY succeeded in this, as I wanted to punch every high schooler I saw in that movie in the face), and Alice. Alice was perfectly portrayed as she was in the novel--an effusive, bubbling, girly-girly sister to Bella. And also Charlie's gruff, but silent disapproval of Edward courting his daughter. Especially the shotgun bit; I loved that.
But these things are all minor details. The movie really hinged on one thing, which was the acting of Stewart and Pattinson, and the chemistry they had as a result of their acting. And you know what? They completely dropped the ball on that. Stewart's acting was mediocre, but acceptable--and I'm pretty sure that I'm being lenient because I think she's hot. Pattinson's acting was straight-up terrible--the lines that he delivered were so wooden and unbelievable, that it's (ironically) EXACTLY the way an animated corpse would deliver it. Except I'm sure that's not what the director had in mind.
I'm not expecting Oscar-caliber performance here, but I do expect the relationship between the two to be believable. But every time Edward looked into Bella's eyes and uttered some trite romantic phrase, I had a hard time not groaning from the poor delivery.
And from there--at least for me--the movie began to fall apart like a row of dominoes. Because Pattinson's acting was bad, I couldn't muster the will to care about him. And because I couldn't care about him, I couldn't care about his relationship with Bella. And because I couldn't care about his relationship with Bella, I started to lose interest whenever either was on screen--which led me to focus on other things. Like the poor casting. Or the terrible vampire effects. Or the numerous other things that I would mention, but I probably shouldn't, because I'm beginning to rant now. >_>
But that's what my view of Twilight was after I saw it. I came out of that movie disappointed, and distraught, because the movie got the biggest part (the romance) wrong, when it got so many minor details right. -
Well... I won't lie. I have definately had my bouts of the obsessive squealing and/or giggling when it comes to Twilight. Sorry, but it's true. Usually it's when I'm with a group of other giggling, squealing Twilighters. I get excited. I was literally the first in line to get Breaking Dawn, first in line to see the movie opening night, first in line for the DVD. So yeah, I AM one of those girls, sorry to say. But, I can also contain myself and discuss it rationally. But I get that way about a lot of stuff that I love. I was that way with Star Trek too! (Which I've seen four times by the way) Anyway, as for the romance in the movie, I got something completely different out of it. I actually thought Pattinson's had the whole "brooding, I hate myself" thing down. Although, I will say that the first biology scene is compeltely ridiculous. The whole thing where he's holding his nose makes me laugh every time. It's so over the top. But the romance... I thought it was there. The bedroom kiss scene was great. The prom scene was *sigh* worthy. Maybe it's because I'm a girl. LOL.
I also am going to disagree about the Bella/Charlie relationship. I agree that they should have had her take care of him more, like she did in the book, but I thought the awkwardness in the beginning of the movie was very fitting. She hadn't seen him in years. It actually made sense to me that they would be that way. By the end, they had grown closer. And In the book, she did talk about how weird and awkward it was to be back with him when she first moved back.
I do agree about Alice though! She was fantastic. I'm looking forward to seeing more of her in New Moon. I actually liked all of the Cullens. Rosalie was perfectly bitchy. Emmett was just big and goofy and lovable. Carlisle and Esme were kind and gentle. And Jasper looked so uncomfortable the whole time, which he was supposed to.
And I also agree about the vampire effects. They were really pretty bad. In their defense, they were working with a pretty slim budget. The sparkles... oh god the sparkles. I will admit, that I think having the vampires sparkle is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Even though I'm a fan, I can realize the bad parts of this franchise. Anyway, let's take the dumbest idea ever, and make it even worse by using this crappy CGI. It looked so incredibly bad. I can admit that.
But in the end, despite it's issues, I still love it. Haven't you ever loved something that you KNEW wasn't any good, but you still really liked it? Guess Twilight is my guilty pleasure. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96hu-xprfE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS_oXEjqETA
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Ok, I actually liked both of those... very funny!
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