Edward Cullen mania

[clever name]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 2:07pm

Riots in San Fransisco, thousands of screaming fans asking him to bite them in Chicago.. and the movie isn't even out yet. Do you think Robert Pattinson MIGHT be having second thoughts on signing on for three of these movies?

p.s. Yes I have read these books and yes Im going to see the movie!

[Weez]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 2:10pm

If you hunt around, you can find interviews with him where he talks about how much he haaaaaaaaates Edward, or where you can tell he is phenomenally terrified of the Edward fangirls. I think it's hilarious, myself.

But I don't get it; Edward has no personality, no character development, and no redeeming features. Why aren't there more Jacob fans in the world?

Updated On: 11/13/08 at 02:10 PM

[singingwendy]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 2:32pm

Weez, have you read the pages of Midnight Sun that Stephanie Meyer put up on her website? I'm reading them now, and they add so much to my understanding of Edward. It's just too bad that more of it couldn't be included in the original book. But, as Robert Pattinson has said, the books are from Bella's point of view, so you really only get her side of things.

[jessica0414]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 2:42pm

I think it's hilarious that he is clearly like "uhm...." when it comes to the whole fangirl-ness of the Twilight series. Friends of mine think he might be trying to get himself fired :)

[Weez]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 2:43pm

To my lasting shame, I've read every word Stephenie Meyer has put out there. Just because she has *now* decided to enlighten us as to this character doesn't really make up for four books of horrible chauvinism and boring sparkly vampires. Even having read 'Midnight Sun' (such as it is), I still find nothing realistic or interesting about Bella and Edward's relationship, and as the series is *about* Bella and Edward's relationship, that's a terrible state of affairs. :/ Edward loves Bella because she smells good and he doesn't know what she's thinking? Bella loves Edward because he's pretty and mysterious? PLEASE. XP

Updated On: 11/13/08 at 02:43 PM

[clever name]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 3:09pm

He does look like he's having a little more fun with it than Kristen Stewart. She looks down right angry all the time. Did she call Twilight fans retarded? I think I read that. Im not sure.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 3:43pm

I don't blame Kristen Stewart or Robert Pattinson.

They just need to wait until the fangirls move on to another series or maybe grow up.

[NGD2225]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 4:20pm

I don't get what is so great about these books. They seem so uninteresting & the movie trailers really don't help me consider otherwise.

"Say it."
"Vampire"
"Are you scared?"
"No."

WTF is that!?!?!

[Atrias]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 4:29pm

I think my favorite Pattinson interview is the recent one where he basically said that Stephenie Meyer was convinced she was Bella and Edward is Meyer's sexual fantasy put down on paper.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 5:19pm

Oh god... I read all four of the books to my dyslexic younger sister, who just eats them up like the pages are laced with crack. (Mixed metaphor there...) I think Edward is a really disturbing, disgusting person, and if he weren't 'angelically beautiful' or whatever, all of the other teenyboppers would think he was horribly unpleasant.

And Jacob Black is a pretty nasty character as well-- though at least Jacob is interesting, and I'm always interested to see what he's going to do next. Plus, he's rather sexy, and he and Bella have actual chemistry, but his personality is just horribly unappealing. And Bella is not someone I'd ever want to meet, either. Or pretty much anyone from those books, with the possible exception of Emmett, who just doesn't seem to belong in that series at all. Everyone is just so melodramatic, all the time! And they all take themselves ridiculously seriously!

I have friends who say, "Yeah, I don't care about the sappy romance or the horrible writing, I just read them for the characters." I'm like... why would you want to do a thing like that?

I still have yet to meet anyone else my own age who doesn't LOVE Eddie C. (Well, except for SOME of the boys...)

Updated On: 11/13/08 at 05:19 PM

[Weez]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 5:23pm

I think they're just trying to find the least-worst bit to latch onto. At least the werewolves add some snark, and you are quite right to point out that - as sparkly vampires go - Emmett's pretty cool. Compare that with the awful "romance" and the "plot? What plot?" plot, and the characters are really all that's left. XP

Jake was better before he started the whole shape-shifting malarkey. He just got bratty after that. Still miles better than Edward "Sparkle Motion" Cullen though!

Sometimes I feel left out in hating Alice. She's just too ridiculously "perfect best friend OMG!". Boring! Gimme more Rosalie being a biotch, pls!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 5:28pm

Oh, I don't really like Emmett, he's just the only inoffensive character. He never does anything but make vague laid-back comments and beat people up. I don't like him, but he doesn't bother me.

Now Jake-- I know exactly how you feel. Because I did like him, a lot, and then all of a sudden, it was, "Whoa... he hasn't done a single likeable thing for two and a half books. What's up with that?" But he seems like the only... human character in the books. He's the only one whose emotions and reactions to things are ever ANYWHERE near normal, and he's always ridiculously over-the-top. It's like Stephenie Meyer *is* a vampire and has never met a real person before.

A guy I know wrote a paper for psychiatry class trying to analyze everything wrong with Bella Swann.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 5:42pm

Twilight is 'that new Elliott chick on SNL' mediocre. All this hype over a somewhat okay book. Maybe RP knows this and is playing it cool.

[Weez]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 5:52pm

A guy I know wrote a paper for psychiatry class trying to analyze everything wrong with Bella Swann.

See, I've always been taught that if you get to choose your own subject for an essay, you need to keep your subject matter quite specific. Because if you're writing about a small, specific thing, it's shockingly easy to reach your word limit, whereas if you're writing about something incredibly broad, it's impossible to know where to start, continue, or finish.

With that in mind, I wouldn't even THINK of writing about the mental issues of ANY of the characters in the book. XD

[clever name]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 6:28pm

I liked these books. They were hard to put down and it was a fun read. And Im looking forward to the movie.
But the frenzy and the maniacal fans..Have you seen the footage at these appearances? It's CRAAAAAZZYYYY. Was Robert Pattinson warned about this following before he accepted the part? Im just wondering if he knew what he was getting into.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 8:00pm

I also love the books... they are like crack.
But they are pretty ridiculous.
I like Rob Pattinson, I guess I like that he at least tried to have a personality and a point of view.... unlike Kristen Stewart who is like the walking dead.

[Craww]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 8:12pm

I can't wait for this movie, it's going to be epically bad. Like the books were, but with the added benefit of RPattz.

"When you read the book," says Pattinson, looking appropriately pallid and interesting even without makeup, "it's like, 'Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.' I mean, every line is like that. He's the most ridiculous person who's so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn't do that. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that's how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he's a 108-year-old virgin so he's obviously got some issues there." - Robert Pattinson, Empire Magazine

AND, my new favorite:

"I was convinced... that Stephenie was convinced... that she was Bella... and it was like a book that wasn't supposed to be published. And you're reading like, her sort of sexual fantasy. [...] I was like, This woman is mad. She's completely mad, and she's in love with her own fictional creation. And sometimes you'd like feel uncomfortable reading this thing. [...] It's kind of...like a sick pleasure."

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 8:16pm

Oh my gosh... I've never been very fond of Rob Pattinson before-- I always kind of saw him as just a very pretty face and a nice accent and wrote him off-- but with quotes like these, I have to say, I've developed all sorts of new love and respect for the guy.

By the time Pattinson's mother told him she'd read online that her only son was wretched and ugly and had the face of a gargoyle, the author found herself awash in guilt. 'I apologized to Rob,' says Meyer, 'for ruining his life.'


I hear he's playing Salvador Dali in a new film. That should be interesting, to say the least.

Updated On: 11/13/08 at 08:16 PM

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 11:10pm

My friend sent that to me and it cracked me up.

God, I love Rob Pattinson... great quotes.

twilight funny-ness

[Craww]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 11:32pm

Hah, I hovered over that link and as soon as I saw the LJ name my brain quoted "NO ONE UNDERSTANDS MEEE HE WOULD SEETHE AS HE PRESSED HIS WILDFLOWERS" back to me.

Good times.

[Atrias]

Posted: 11/13/08 at 11:36pm

I LOVE GROWING UP CULLEN. It has made my life interesting during computer science this semester.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 1:41am

Heh. Pattinson is kind of awesome. Thanks for the quotes, Craww...I was just about to ask if someone had a link to the interviews in question.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 6:33am

Hey, has anyone here seen this?

http://xlormp.livejournal.com

All I'll say is that it's quite a wonderful parody of Twilight. Except instead of a hot vampire... there's a slimy green alien.

[nygrl232]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 8:01am

Just saw the movie trailer on hulu and WOW! The movie looks la-hay-hame.

[clever name]

Posted: 11/14/08 at 9:45am

Here are some pic of him as Salvador Dali

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104083/mediaindex