Lightbulb Goes On

[sadlikeknives]

I have had an epiphany. Others may have had this epiphany before me, but I haven't seen it discussed.

Twilight is not the next Harry Potter. It's the next Titanic.

I'm not saying it's going to win Oscars or break box office records (God I hope not), and it's certainly not going to be a stunning piece of special effects or cinematography, but, this phenomenon, girls and women eating up this bad love story with a spoon and the hysteria feeding on itself and feeding on itself and building and building--it's the same damn thing. I didn't see it sooner because with Titanic, it just sort of hit and then it was happening and the next thing we knew girls were writing in to Seventeen to one-up each other, "Oh yeah, well, I've seen it thirty-six times!" With Twilight the books have been out long enough for a lot of people to realize this is a bad love story, long enough for this sort of slow build to the frenzy we saw at Comic Con, that we're seeing on the mall tour.

And ten years from now, same as with Titanic, these girls are going to look back on this episode in their lives and go, "Oh, God, what was I thinking, that story was horrible!" And then at least one of them will have to get an apple tattoo lasered off her neck.

In other news, I saw Quantum of Solace, and Daniel Craig is still hot like burning, so two thumbs way up. Apparently a lot of people are having trouble following what happened. I didn't have that problem. I did have a problem with motion sickness during some of the chase sequences, though. And 'there are chase sequences' is not a spoiler, in advance.

Comments

[raq.livejournal.com]

Dude, I could not tell what was going on just for the chase sequences. The cuts were so fast and choppy that I was just like, all right... there's still a chase going on...

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, while the actual chasing was going on I generally barely knew which way was up.

[darklightluna.livejournal.com]

I think for James Bond "There is no chase sequence" is more of a spoiler. ;)

Also? My dad saw it and his comment was "I had to think. It's James Bond, I shouldn't have to think. No thinking in my James Bond!"

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

'There is no chase sequence' is like 'there is no girl' or 'no one has a ridiculous name.'

I like having to think. I guess I'm not very old school. :) Also, I think my understanding might have something to do with there being no poker, so already the whole movie made way more sense to me.

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Mostly I just want to know what the fuck a quantum of solace *is*.

[vampychick.livejournal.com]

Well, they turned it into the bad guys call their organization Quantum, no clue where solace comes into that, but in the original short story, Bond's listening to this guy tell a story about a man and his wife breaking up, and how the quantum of solace is the tiniest amount of concern two people can have for each other that allows there to still be love, and Bond realizes no one has a quantum of solace for him and has manpain. It's a departure from Fleming's usual adventuring non-introspective Bond, but actually pretty apt for Craig's Bond.

[innle.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I like your Twitanic theory. It fits.