I just don't get it. This is getting way out of hand. FAN GIRLS and FAN BOYS alike - EVERYWHERE! I am not saying that such a so-called "phenomenon" has no right to gain such popularity. No, not at all. It's just that the movie Twilight has gained more popularity than it should have, more credit than it actually deserves.
For sure the book has created some sort of a "surreal undead dream guy person" whom girls (and guys) fantasize about. However, the movie just about TAKES THE CAKE.
I just don't understand how something can be so big so fast. It became too big, too fast. It even beat James Bond in the Box Office Charts. I mean, who beats James Bond? The Bond franchise has been there for decades, whereas this "undead guy" comes out of nowhere beating Bond senseless. Oh, and I'm not a fan of James Bond.
This basically shows the power of the bandwagon effect. Readers and non-readers, (a.k.a. posers) alike are blindly swayed by this undeniable trend. In general, people are foolish. Their actions are merely based on SOCIAL NORMS rather than PERSONAL CONVICTION. They're just as bad as those undecided voters during the U.S. Elections.
Oh, people can really get superficial. Put in an unknown "hot guy" and suddenly he's bigger than Brad Pitt and Hugh Grant combined. Such a fad is inevitably short-lived, just as Daniel Radcliffe's time was.
5 years ago
2 comments:
November 28, 2008 at 9:34 PM
i concur. i read the book and i hate the movie.
November 29, 2008 at 9:13 PM
The movie sucked. But Edward Cullen is still oh-so-sizzling HOT!!! (yea,yea I know... He's not all that. But he's still the hottest fictional character alive-or dead) And I haven't finished reading the book but I know it was really good. Very well-written. :)
It's bigger than Titanic the movie. Hahahaha.
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