Hi ya.

I feel strangely, incredibly offended by this article. I am a regular reader at /film. I am 22 year old single mother with a lot of free time on her hands so I have been indulging in my favourite hobbies as of late, one of which is movies.

I love movies, all different kinds and styles. One of the things I love most about movies is that everyone has a different opinion on them. Some movies I love, most people hate. Some movies I hate others love. It's just the way the medium is since we all have different tastes.

Another one of my hobbies is reading. I read a lot. I also read all different kinds of fiction. You'll find everything from Leonard Cohen and Charles Dickens to Eragon and Frank Herbert on my bookshelf. Although I have not read Twilight, I have asked several of my friends who have read it and the general consensus was that it was a very fun love story but not a giant literary success. In fact they told me it was incredible how poorly written it was in comparison to other books of the same genre. It's kind of like the difference between Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings, you know? Harry Potter is amazing fun to read, but it doesn't even come close to reaching the literary genius that the Lord of the Rings is.

I feel I must defend the readers of /film. You're right, the majority of them have not read Twilight and do not plan on reading it any time soon. That doesn't mean they're evil, it just means that they aren't into that particular genre. That's fine. That also means that when they see the teaser trailer for Twilight the movie, they're basing their opinion souly on that trailer. They have no preconceived ideas or expectations due to reading the book.

I have watched the trailer myself several times now. Why? Because, to be honest I felt confused. Why was I confused? I couldn't figure out what it was trying to tell me. Is it a movie about super human vampires? Is it a love story? Is he a creepy stalker? Why are they so pale looking? Why did he hump a deer? Lots and lots of questions. Perhaps that was what they were going for? Who knows. What I do know is that the trailer did not impress me. I can't tell what kind of movie it's going to be, I guess. I mean, is it going more towards the supernatural angle or will it be pure love story? Who are they trying to target with the trailer?

When a trailer leaves me feeling like that it usually means it's not going to be a good movie. Why? Because at the end of the day it just doesn't make me want to see it. I have read that the trailer makes more sense if you've allready read the book. Well, that's fine except I'm not going to read the book. Can't I enjoy the movie anyways? Or is the movie not going to make sense to anyone who hasn't allready read the book?

/film is not the only movie blog/forum where people are not impressed by what they see. Why are you targeting it out? Why are you purposely writing articles practically telling your readers to go flame it? There is such an elitist attitude in your articles. Aren't we allowed to have our opinion on it? So what if we think it's going to be a turd? We obviously aren't the people being targeted for the audience, so of course we're not going to get it.

When I first came to this site I admit it was because I had wanted to see what it was after the original Twilight post at /film. I have checked back here every once in a while because of your promise to cover more independent movies in detail, which I thought was a wonderful concept. So ummm... why aren't there any articles like that here? All I see is Twilight, mainstream movies, and regurgitated movie news. Why isn't there anything on here about Four Minutes? How about Baghead or the Wackness? Because I would love to learn more about these movies. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to start going somewhere else for that.

To the person that commented above, where do you get off on saying that?
I mean no disrespect, but is it really that bad that they indulge us Twilight fans?
First amendment gives everyone the right to say what they thinks. If people want to bash Twilight, so be it.
I dont care.
As long as the people that truly care are happy, who cares?

Thanks for all of the Twilight support we get here at tMF!!
We love you guys for it!! :]