Lionsgate’s Ron Schwarts, exec VP and general manager of home entertainment, said in a statement: “Consumer demand for ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2″ reflects strength in all segments of the home entertainment marketplace – packaged media, digital and on demand. This is further proof that author Stephenie Meyer has created a timeless classic that moviegoers want to enjoy over and over in a wide variety of formats.”…
“Timeless classic” my . . . Ahem. I’ll just say I’m not a fan of Twilight. And that’s me being generous. So stop reading here if you’re a fan. We’ll just agree to disagree. Keep reading at your own risk, Team Edward or Team whoever. Because the truth is, I DESPISE Twilight and everything it stands for. Stephenie Meyer watered down the lore and legacy of vampirism and whitewashed the sinister image of the undead, repackaging it as nothing more than a puddle-deep exploration of some teenage girl’s repressed libido and infantile romanticism, turning the bloodsucker of nightmare into a sparkling feeb prettier than the high school student he obsesses over.
Yes, Lestat was pretty, too, and Louis did his fair share of emo navel-gazing. But they still had at least some degree of the menace a vampire is supposed to have. Yes, even Dracula has sometimes been portrayed sympathetically, as a romantic interest. But he still had his aura of inhumanity, his innate darkness about him. Meyer has stripped the vampire of every ounce of fear, shorn and gelded the werewolf, turned the potent Horror genre into a sketchy version of something about as frightening as Sesame Street. Who’s with me?Wayne
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