Also as to the Twilight hate, Vampires don't sparkle just saying...
OK, here's the thing. I don't like Twilight, I think the plot is clichéd and uninteresting and it has fucked up aspects like the "stalking is love" thing and the whatever the fuck with the werewolf's true love being a newborn child. And the fact I even know that is worrying in itself.
All that being said, I'm tired of the whole "Real vampires don't sparkle!" deal. There's no such thing as real vampires. Pretty much every fictional universe's version of vampires is different from every other's. Bram Stoker's Dracula didn't burn up in the sun, had a dozen different weaknesses with different kinds of plants (garlic being the only one that made it into mainstream vampire lore), wasn't killed by a wooden stake but by cutting off his throat and stabbing him with a knife through the heart. Plenty of vampire stories decide to drop the "ask for permission before entering a house" thing, or the "can be distracted by dropping lots of tiny objects" thing, or the weakness to religious icons, or change the way turning works, and so on and so forth. Twilight is not exceptional in this regard. Twilight vampires are undead humans that sustain themselves through drinking blood and can turn other humans into vampire; that's more or less the basic core of vampirism. Is sparkling silly? Yeah. So is not being able to cross running water.
Please carry on hating or not hating Bieber and Twilight.
Concerning the "sparkly vampire" thing, I agree. Heck, long ago, vampires were what we today would call "zombies" (and zombies were simply living people under some weird spell that made them mindless slaves) rather than the oft-sexy bloodsucking humanoid demon race we all know & love.
What we are saying, everyone, is not that you can't express distaste at something or say it's silly or stupid. The point is that folks tend to blow it out of proportion. There's a big difference between:
I personally don't really care for Bieber or his music & I think his recent behavior is out of line.
I HATE BIEBER & HIS FANS AND THEY ALL SHOULD DIE CUZ THEY'RE FAAAAGS WHO EAT BABIES & FART MAGGOTS OR SOMETHING! KILL THEM!I really don't get the Celine Dion hate. I've heard the
Titanic theme & I thought it was a lovely song. Maybe it's the "overplayed schmaltz" factor, I dunno. Likewise, I feel Michael Bolton & Kenny G are "overplayed schmaltz" but I'm not going to actively hate them or put their music in the same category as Karen Black & her "Friday" song. Heck, I wouldn't even hate on Karen Black. She's not a professional musician, just an average kid who went to a rather questionable organization to crank out a crappy tune THEY wrote.
There's a hatedom for Sinbad. What's wrong with Sinbad? People talk about him like he's Gallagher or something (Gallagher deserves all the hatedom he gets). I've watched Sinbad's stand-up specials and he's hilarious! Sure, he's old news but one should watch his early specials, you'll have the time of your life!
There's a lot of issues with Twilight but "sparkly vampires" is not one of them. I'd have more an issue with the helpless, emotional wreck leading lady, the "romantic stalking", hunky sexually-harassing yet somehow heroic werewolves & the whole "baby per-ordained to be a werewolf bride". So, we're supposed to just accept weak women with no backbone, stalking, sex harassment, arranged marriage & perhaps child brides as something good. I don't mind the basic premise of the series (human-vampire/werewolf romance) or the sparkly vampires, it's the above issues that are worrying.
That said, people take their distaste & dose it with steroids. It's annoying. Why is it considered cool to be a jerk? If it's a reaction to the darker aspects of this world & humanity, wouldn't being kind be the antidote to that? If everything sucks, why add to it? It's like fighting darkness by turning off the light.
That leads me to another topic. Hyper-cynical, miserable, tragic movies/TV/music is popular when times are dark while happy/positive/non-tragic stuff is big when times are good. It makes no sense to me. If the world's in the toilet, why have that fact drilled in your head for entertainment? If I'm miserable, I wanna escapism, dammitt!