UNDERWORLD VS. TWILIGHT
POSTED BY: jameron4eva
UPDATED: Sunday, October 4, 2009 22:18
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Okay, i don't know about you, but i HATE Twilight. So i think Underworld is better, better story, better character development, better acting, and hotter chicks!!!! What do you think?
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hint: if you are not a girl, Twilight was not made for you. It's girl porn, and Patterson is good enough for them.
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At the risk of sounding like a fangirl *does not like Twilight* it's actually Pattinson :P not Patterson.
lol Jewel, you put it quite succinctly XD
Underworld is considerably better. WAY more badass 
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I find vampires tiresome in general, so I don't like either one.
Twilight is the purest teen girl romantic trash fic, however, and it also idealizes abusive relationships. So Underworld is probably better, but coming from me, that's not saying much.
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I thought the Underworld movies were mediocre bordering on very bad. Twilight was just mediocre.
That, and Twilight had one scene I had not seen before (the Vampire baseball game) which I found entertaining. Underworld doesn't have anything not cribbed from other films of the Vampire/Werewolf roleplaying games.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Yeah, but... they sparkle.
In the next installment, Edward meets Prism the Unicorn. Intense!
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Saying that Twilight is 'girl porn' is about the same as saying a brutal beating and rape video is 'guy porn.' Either statement can be quite offensive. While it might be true for certain members of the population, some of us are disgusted by the Abusive Stalker Undead boyfriend and the Simpering Colorless Vapid Codependent Underage girlfriend. Idealizes abusive relationships? And how. Also, with the complete disregard of any accepted vampire mythos, which I assume is to serve the story in some way.
When I first read the description, I thought it was a rip-off of Buffy, at least part of Buffy. When I tried to read the book, I thought my eyes were going to bleed and I put it down. I didn't think about it again until I started seeing the ruttin' movie advertised, and all the squealy hype surrounding the whole thing told me, more and more, that it lacked anything resembling Girl Power. It was about a girl hopelessly devoted to someone because he stalked her and felt 'protective' and oh, she would just curl up and die without her creepy protective stalker, or some other creepy protective beastman. She could do nothing for herself and was defined by her relationship and by her helplessness. At least Buffy killed Angel when it was necessary, and she certainly didn't need constant protection from the evils that walk the world.
It isn't 'girl porn.' It's 'totally dysfunctional unhealthy' porn. And I think it's badly written. How badly written abusive tripe becomes popular is one of the great mysteries of reality.
About Underworld I don't care too much. Yes, hotter chicks. Yes, better butt-kicking. And hey, some following of mythos. But it didn't make me care much; I found it rather empty and uninteresting. 
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And how. Also, with the complete disregard of any accepted vampire mythos,
Huh? Seemed to fit in with general vampires of the last 20 years or so just fine, in that every vampire tale pretty much takes it's own angle.
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At least Buffy killed Angel when it was necessary, and she certainly didn't need constant protection from the evils that walk the world.
Apples and Oranges, she's a flippin superhero.
I'm not even a fan of the movie, but some complaints are rather nonsensical.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Huh? Seemed to fit in with general vampires of the last 20 years or so just fine
Huh? I wasn't aware that vampires of the last 20 years or so failed to burst into flames when exposed to sunlight. Or that they decided to wile away the time in high school for their entire unnatural lives... or that staying in high school for fifty years would never arouse suspicion... or that they didn't tend to eat people. Clearly, the last twenty years have just flown right over my head. Clearly, too, the study of vampyre culture and all that other reading I like to do, not a small part of it about vampires, has all served to delude me into totally agreeing with PR on this topic.
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Apples and Oranges, she's a flippin superhero.
I think that was the 'girl power' point. Willow was not a 'flippin superhero' when she found the strength to shoot Oz with a tranq gun when he was all wolfy and coming after her. Not putting up with abuse and not being defined by needing that abuse is what Buffy does, while Twilight does not.
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but some complaints are rather nonsensical.
If you could please explain what's nonsensical about thinking that unhealthy relationships are not something that should be romanticized, or that women should be loving but able to stand on their own feet and reject abusive situations, or that vampires don't sparkle in the sunlight, or just that vapid characters are uninteresting... Yes, please explain how some of the very best principles of Joss Whedon's myriad creations are nonsensical. Please.
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