CMCC you read the article wrong. It says 364 days to go.

He's only watching it for the P*$$y.

I'm with you. You forgot no FANGS!! How does a vampire have no fangs? Count Chocula is more a vampire than these Twilight creatures. Heck, even the Count from Sesame Street has one....two...Two fangs.

Hey Aimee and Lax....

Sorry to break it to you guys, but vampires aren't real. There is no "special way" that they are "supposed" to be. I know, hard to believe. But its true. They're not real.

What that means is I can write a book about vampires being pink and fuzzy and that wouldn't matter, because it still doesn't make them real. Its an artistic choice. And thats that. Get over it.

Hey Mandy,

Sorry your all butt hurt over someone calling out your precious little Sparkling faries, but hate to tell you this as well. How is Bella pregnant hmm? Edward is DEAD and dead things can't have babies.. Next thing you TWIHARDS are gonna say is that Bella is the embodiment of the immaculate conception.

The Vampire Genre that was written over 100 years ago made the stamp of what constitutes a Vampire, Sparkling and having some wierd Alien child isn't in the code. If an Author is going to write about vampires they need to learn to stick to the code that was established. Bram Stoker wrote the guide and this author broke it. People who are intellegent can see it. I'm sorry you HARDIES are soo blind to it.

If I were to write a book trying to stake a claim in the Vampire Genre I sure as heck would adhere to what came before me. It's called Respect for the orginal trailblazers of the craft, you don't screw with it.

Again sorry your so hurt cause one person has spoken out. :)

CARING, LOVING, SPARKLES IN THE SUN, THAT'S NOT A VAMPIRE THAT'S A FAIRY!

I'm sorry Aimee that you are butt hurt over a little something called freedom or speech. I mean you do know that it includes artistic expression as a form of speech right? Every author in history has written something different about vampires. And, for your information, Bram Stoker's Dracula was not the setting stone for vampire lore. Stories of vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania are among the first stories of vampires, not including the ones from prehistoric times. Vampires have been featured as elegant hunters, bodiless demons hopping along the ground searching for blood, ghouls, and succubus. You really need to know your history before you start spouting facts. Oh and by the way, John Polidori's "The Vampire" was the beginning influence for vampire works. Your beloved "Dracula" was influenced by Polidori's work. Actually, I kinda think Bram Stoker plagiarized a little bit. Ok, I'm done with this, except for one last thing. If you're not a fan of Twilight, why the hell are you reading this article and posting on this message board? Are you so bored you have to be a nuisance to those that are Twilight fans. I do believe you yourself may just be a closet Twihard. It's ok to come out of the closet honey. You won't be judged.

Ok, so you have to "adhere to what came before you". .... Sure glad doctors don't stick to that, we would all be walking around with holes in our head and leaches all over us from the bleeding therapy.... No need to find anything else, it works we're done. I guess modern medicine is disrespectful to the doctors of the past since we don't do it exactly like they did....
Thank goodness we live in a society that allowes people to change things as they see fit not just do it like everyone else has for hundreds of years, I for one like indoor plumbing, but maybe you don't...

Hey Mandy,

Sorry your all butt hurt over someone calling out your precious little Sparkling faries, but hate to tell you this as well. How is Bella pregnant hmm? Edward is DEAD and dead things can't have babies.. Next thing you TWIHARDS are gonna say is that Bella is the embodiment of the immaculate conception.

Wow, just because I point out a simple fact to you, you attack me assuming I am obsessed with Twilight.

Thats cute, but I don't like Twilight and I don't really give a crap how he gets Bella Pregnant. You can use the same logic for "real vampires" (as you call them) because dead things don't/can't eat. So why do they suck blood? They don't have a working stomach do they? The entire idea of vampires is made up, so if someone chooses to make it up another way, you can just choose not to read it rather than bitch about it.

The Vampire Genre that was written over 100 years ago made the stamp of what constitutes a Vampire, Sparkling and having some wierd Alien child isn't in the code. If an Author is going to write about vampires they need to learn to stick to the code that was established. Bram Stoker wrote the guide and this author broke it. People who are intellegent can see it. I'm sorry you HARDIES are soo blind to it.

Actually you're wrong. Now I love Dracula as much as the next person, but vampires have been around a heck of a lot longer than 100 years. The term vampire came around in the 1700's. There have been stories about vampires, sans the term, for hundreds of years.

And the FIRST vampire novel was written in 1819 by John Polidori. Brom Stoker's version may be the base for "Modern" vampires. But it is by no means the end all beat all of what vampires have ever been. I mean really, if you are going to make arguments about how much you know about vampires, you should actually try to research.

If I were to write a book trying to stake a claim in the Vampire Genre I sure as heck would adhere to what came before me. It's called Respect for the orginal trailblazers of the craft, you don't screw with it.

Many popular fantasy stories do not adhere to what came before them. Thats why they are popular. Look at the Inheritance series. No other author has written about mental bonding of dragons and humans, and yet people love that series. Why do you think Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings are so popular?

They also walk around during the day. Who cares? The fact that she gave a different twist on vampires was one of the things I liked about it. We know it's not Brahm Stoker.

Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."

And you wonder why kids get entrapped by predators in chat rooms................

Parents!!!! educate your kids and stop letting them watch this drivel.

Oh Good Golly....talk about over reacting.. if this is the type of movie that makes your child "entrapped by predators", then you have a lot more to worry about then your kids watching this movie..Try worrying about your lack of parenting skills...Spazz much?

That's actually funny!

I agree Bella is not a role model for teenage girls, but unfortunately girls can still be influenced by such nonsense. If there is noone around to see what she's reading and talk about it, Bella can very much become a role model (a very bad one) to a young girl. To say that isn't the case would be like saying that that girls' body images aren't influenced by the unrealistic juniors clothing sizes and other items advertised to them all the time.

If I had a teenage daughter I might only let her read these books to understand how NOT to behave about boys among many other things.

No it's not fun - it's poorly written drivel - and the author didn't even bother to research a damn thing about vampire lore before she started (poorly) writing the books.

As the poster above said, vamps do not 'sparkle in the sun', they burn to char! They have fangs. And if they're 140 years old and they go after a teenybopper, they need to be STAKED!

This series is so bad it's not even MST3K fodder - it's just so plain boring that I cannot express in words.

That and both of the two main male leads are fugly. Lautner is ripped but his nose is about a foot and a half wide. That's not hunky, he looks like a Neanderthal. He needs a nose job if he's going to keep acting. Plastic surgery is rarely the answer, but in this guy's case it's desperately needed.

The Brit wanker is completely homely looking - not attractive at all. The fact that some women think these guys are good looking makes me laugh so hard.

Might I point out that these books were written for CHILDREN. Jeez, if I could insert eye roll I would. Also considering in the bookstore and library it is in the Teen Horror/Fantasy section I believe it is known to be one big fairy tale. Now as for your saying the male leads in the movie are ugly. I'll give you that on Pattinson. He's just ordinary looking with no real striking qualities, but with Lautner? I mean come on you must be blind. I'm going to guess you don't think Vin Diesal or Dwayne Johnson have nice bodies either. To quote my teenage daughter "A fat 13 year old boy must have written that comment"

"Might I point out that these books were written for CHILDREN."

Children must be rather stupid these days if this is all they can get into their head. I was reading adult novels by 2nd grade and even at that age, I could tell good writing from crap writing. There was no 'teen' novels phase for me. I went right from Judy Blume and the Boxcar Children sort of crap to Stephen King, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Conan Doyle, classics, etc - and I never looked back.

In order to enjoy this sort of poorly written drivel, your daughter must not be all that bright. Any adult that would actually like this crap has my sympathy.

"I mean come on you must be blind. I'm going to guess you don't think Vin Diesal or Dwayne Johnson have nice bodies either."

Blind? Nope, nice try though. Look at that troll nose he has. The fact that he has ripped abs cannot make up for the fact that his schnoz is utterly alien in appearance. You can't be a good looking person in general but have a giant ugly schnoz and not look like a mutant... Sarah Jessica Parker anybody?

"To quote my teenage daughter "A fat 13 year old boy must have written that comment""

Hardly... more like a well built (that means quite muscular but not 6-pack - i.e. in much better shape than you or your daughter are or ever have been) late 30s hunk.

I'm not some ugly freak commenting on how the celebrities are ugly as sin, I'm somebody far more attractive than they are laughing at how the media is trying to push two completely ugly looking people on us as 'handsome'.

Pattinson is very inbred looking - extremely ugly - and either Lautner broke his nose really badly during martial arts (and got a terrible nose job after) - or he had that gigantic monster schnoz naturally... either way he's not good looking - he looks like a good looking guy with a GIANT CLOWN NOSE - which gives as a net result a mutant freak. Look at the nose - that's not human... it's what belongs on a clown. If fits his character as a werewolf quite well, but does NOT mean they can call him good looking, as that is a lie.

i find it funny that you consider yourself a hunk.. that gave me a chuckle.. lmfao..

if the Twilight Saga isn't your thing that is fine, to each their own, but then the question is why go into an article clearly written about it and then diss it. Seems like a waste a time for someone who thinks it is lame.

you obviously have nothing better to do.. way to go you late 30s hunk..

"i find it funny that you consider yourself a hunk"

hey if the shoe fits... besides you for some odd reason tried to say I was fat because I stated the fact that these two leads are fugly (your logic does not compute) - so don't bitch when I explain the reality is far different.

"but then the question is why go into an article clearly written about it and then diss it."

read my prior posts - that was QUITE clearly explained.

"you obviously have nothing better to do"

I can type fast. I can spare a few moments to inject some reality in what otherwise would be a thread of people gushing over these really really bad books/movies

honestly in all of your posts all I see is you complaining on who thinks whoever is cute/hot.

clearly you are just jealous and you are trying to make yourself feel good. Is it working for you?

and thank you for all of your posts, I needed that does of reality.... my life has truly changed because of them......... I am sure whenever I pick up my next book I going to wonder what you would say... yeaaa NOPE.

"honestly in all of your posts all I see is you complaining on who thinks whoever is cute/hot."

I'm laughing at the media who is trying to tell people that these ugly guys are hot - BIG difference. You don't have an awful lot of critical thinking skills yourself it is quite apparent. The kid didn't fall too far from the tree.

If you really think that monster schnoz on Lautner doesn't make him look like a troll it's you who has the vision issues (as you had tried to claim I had previously).

"clearly you are just jealous and you are trying to make yourself feel good."

Erm, not one bit. I'm not vain but I easily beat either of these guys in looks. Feel free to try and deny that all you'd like but it won't change the truth one bit, will it?

You're the one who tried to ignorantly call me fat - so I simply set the record straight. It's not like I would normally ever mention that in a forum here - but you tried to flame me and I had to remind you how utterly wrong you were. Deal with it.

I have no jealousy towards either of these guys - and the fact that you cannot simply understand the simple fact really shows some severe cognition issues for you. You assume that I'm jealous? Clearly shows what your motivation would be. Rather telling actually.

The simple fact is that the books are bad to the point where mocking them just increases awareness of them (something they don't deserve), the movies of them have been worse, and more than anything I protest the fact that the media is trying to tell people to think that these fugly guys are hot.

This article is trying to drum up some interest in the new film, so I'm just making sure that people not familiar with the series understand that it's all hype and no meat. They try to say the lead actors are hot - when they're both very odd looking guys. Yet you'd jump to a conclusion SO FAR out in lala land that it's rather apparent that you really have serious issues. I'm having a good laugh at how bad these stories are and you go into a series of personal attacks. Putz.

Hey 'Putz' maybe you should re-read MY posts, I wasn't the one to call you fat.

You're right that was somebody else's post who had stated that, and I was mistaken, but you ARE a putz for 'lmfao' when I was simply reminding them how very wrong they were. Somebody talks out their butt, you remind them they're wrong. I didn't even realize that some other person without a clue jumped right in tag team style for them ranting in the same style.

As for your assumptions about what my motivations would have been - well they clearly show you have serious issues. I came to laugh at a poorly done franchise and the everpresent media tie-ins and you @!$%#ing fanboys go on the warpath. Wow. Find a good series to obsess over why don't ya?

Because for every person gushing about how good it is there needs to be a voice of reality - acknowledging the fact that it's really really bad. It's poorly written, and the films are just plain bad. They plod along at a snail's pace with absolutely nothing going on.

Were it of the caliber of 'The Remains of the Day' that may be forgivable, but no... much of it is two people staring at each other for minutes at a time. That's crap, especially considering how completely like a gutter bum Pattinson appears.

Your right, Jeanne. Bram Stoker and Nosferatu are Classic ICONS of the genre, they are to be respected not slapped in the face with some crazy whacked out idea that Vampires can Sparkle, have babies. Thier stuff is DEAD there is not scientific way a Vampire can have a child since thier genetic code is dead and can not be passed on to another to procreate. The only way they can go on is by way of Sireing a person, through blood exchange.

Maybe if the Twilight things didn't Sparkle and took out the idea of some hoodoo voodoo childbirth, I might have been able to find this closer to what Bram wrote about. But it's not it's a slap in the face of the orginators of the art.

Aimee, There is not a scientific way that vampires can EXIST. So your arguments about science are completely ridiculous.

Its a fantasy. Fan-TA-cy. Its fake. Its not real. You can't use logic or science to describe something NOT REAL.

Why are you so obsessed with Bram Stoker? This wasn't written like Bram Stoker, because OMG some artists like to create their OWN work rather than COPY someone else's.

Mandy I agree with you! I was just about to post that some authors like to do their own thing instead of doing exactly what was done before.

To the rest of you.... I just don't get why you want to make such a big deal about The Twilight Saga. If you don't like it that is fine, not everyone is going to like it. But some people write and read books so they can escape into other 'worlds' and to use their imagination.

Clearly you don't have an imagination anymore.

Let others like what they want to and you go on and like what you want to.

I am not a Harry Potter fan but you don't see me dissing every being of it. Unless you think all of that has logic and is possible, which you probably do.

It is called respect, and sadly not a lot of people have respect these days.