Twilight 3:Eclipse

[Cosmic Muse]

Even a marriage proposal?

::pumps fist:: If there's one thing I can expect from a woman, it's the earth-shattering emotional outburst and tremblings of being proposed to.  But i know you're referring to like a hobby.  But this is a (very hormonal) teen here.  Actually, that's pretty redundant to say.  I was watching "Knocked Up" last night, and Paul Rudd had this great line:  "I wish I loved anything as much as my kids love bubbles."  I think that speaks volumes.  Besides, any Comic-Con attendant can relate to her situation.  Don't go to Comic-Con if you don't want to see thousands of boys and girls like her.

Since I've never been proposed to I can't gauge how I'd react. I guess it would be silent bafflement and terror. MOst likely I'd start crying because it's just not something I'd expect. I don't know how to handle these sort of life changing things when they are thrust upon me. You're talking (typing?) to the girl who didn't want to go to her High School Graduation because everybody was making a huge deal about it. I felt embarrassed and pressured because I hate making a big deal about things. People Graduate/Get Married/ etc. etc. every day. Why is it something I have to jump around about like I'm on uppers? I've never been the hyperactive puppy piddling on the floor type of a person about much of anything. I'm not robotic and unresponsive. I act happy but in a reserved way, I just don't leap around like a kangaroo on speed. I like quiet serenity more than anything else. People making loud noises and jumping around bothers me and make me jump out of my skin. I get very nervous around those sorts of people. Unlike, say, my younger sister, I'm just way more mellow and calm. I've even had a former co-worker whom my sister (This girl nearly fainted at a New Kids concert in the 90's.) worked with at a local subshop awhile ago say I'm more laid back.

I tend to avoid Comicons too. Some of the behavior I've seen from stalkerish fangirls to the guests is just plain rude and/or disturbing.

[Tyrant]

Even a marriage proposal?

::pumps fist:: If there's one thing I can expect from a woman, it's the earth-shattering emotional outburst and tremblings of being proposed to.  But i know you're referring to like a hobby.  But this is a (very hormonal) teen here.  Actually, that's pretty redundant to say.  I was watching "Knocked Up" last night, and Paul Rudd had this great line:  "I wish I loved anything as much as my kids love bubbles."  I think that speaks volumes.  Besides, any Comic-Con attendant can relate to her situation.  Don't go to Comic-Con if you don't want to see thousands of boys and girls like her.

I didn't jump around with excitement when I was proposed to. Doesn't mean I wasn't happy or anything, just means it's not something I typically do (and never have) since I'm not quite the bubbly, cheery sort to start with. We're not all over-emotional drama queens. Many of us in the Gen-X/MTV generation are quite blase' about most things, even if we are experiencing something other than apathy and/or paranoia at that moment.

Tween and teenage girls tend to be easily excited (Beatles mania, anyone?) so this whole Twilight thing isn't really that unusual. I predict that very few of these girls will still be into Twilight past the nostalgia bit in about ten years (or less). Those of us who aren't into Twilight and are desperately trying to ignore it  just have to weather through it and hope Meyer doesn't rip off write anything else to keep fueling the fire.

[anais.jude]

Deep down, a part of me likes it. Not because the acting is good, in fact, i probably like it from a rifftrax point of view and a "I have realistically felt the emotions that inspired such over the top intrepidness"

[stansimpson]

Even a marriage proposal?

::pumps fist:: If there's one thing I can expect from a woman, it's the earth-shattering emotional outburst and tremblings of being proposed to.  But i know you're referring to like a hobby.  But this is a (very hormonal) teen here.  Actually, that's pretty redundant to say.  I was watching "Knocked Up" last night, and Paul Rudd had this great line:  "I wish I loved anything as much as my kids love bubbles."  I think that speaks volumes.  Besides, any Comic-Con attendant can relate to her situation.  Don't go to Comic-Con if you don't want to see thousands of boys and girls like her.

I didn't jump around with excitement when I was proposed to. Doesn't mean I wasn't happy or anything, just means it's not something I typically do (and never have) since I'm not quite the bubbly, cheery sort to start with. We're not all over-emotional drama queens. Many of us in the Gen-X/MTV generation are quite blase' about most things, even if we are experiencing something other than apathy and/or paranoia at that moment.

Didn't mean to stereotype, but I've seen my fair share of friends (along with real life videos) getting proposed to and have never seen anything less than, well, screaming-type exuberance.  Which, much to my gladness, I'm happy to hear that there are girls who react differently.

[Darth Geek]

Even a marriage proposal?

::pumps fist:: If there's one thing I can expect from a woman, it's the earth-shattering emotional outburst and tremblings of being proposed to.  But i know you're referring to like a hobby.  But this is a (very hormonal) teen here.  Actually, that's pretty redundant to say.  I was watching "Knocked Up" last night, and Paul Rudd had this great line:  "I wish I loved anything as much as my kids love bubbles."  I think that speaks volumes.  Besides, any Comic-Con attendant can relate to her situation.  Don't go to Comic-Con if you don't want to see thousands of boys and girls like her.

I didn't jump around with excitement when I was proposed to. Doesn't mean I wasn't happy or anything, just means it's not something I typically do (and never have) since I'm not quite the bubbly, cheery sort to start with. We're not all over-emotional drama queens. Many of us in the Gen-X/MTV generation are quite blase' about most things, even if we are experiencing something other than apathy and/or paranoia at that moment.

Didn't mean to stereotype, but I've seen my fair share of friends (along with real life videos) getting proposed to and have never seen anything less than, well, screaming-type exuberance.  Which, much to my gladness, I'm happy to hear that there are girls who react differently.

Well, that reaction would be if they are thrilled to be marrying the guy. Not all marriage proposals get accepted.
I knew a girl I used to work with that told me she had been proposed to by her boyfriend and she laughed at him because she thought it was a joke. She really did like him (enough to marry him I'm not sure), but their relationship went downhill fast after that.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Tween and teenage girls tend to be easily excited (Beatles mania, anyone?)....

Sinatra and the Bobby-Soxers (a/k/a Frankie Fontaine and the girls at Connie's wedding in The Godfather)?

[Cosmic Muse]

Anyone else find it interesting that a guy who has stated he dislikes Twilight directed this movie?

I didn't jump around with excitement when I was proposed to. Doesn't mean I wasn't happy or anything, just means it's not something I typically do (and never have) since I'm not quite the bubbly, cheery sort to start with. We're not all over-emotional drama queens. Many of us in the Gen-X/MTV generation are quite blase' about most things, even if we are experiencing something other than apathy and/or paranoia at that moment.

Tween and teenage girls tend to be easily excited (Beatles mania, anyone?) so this whole Twilight thing isn't really that unusual. I predict that very few of these girls will still be into Twilight past the nostalgia bit in about ten years (or less). Those of us who aren't into Twilight and are desperately trying to ignore it  just have to weather through it and hope Meyer doesn't rip off write anything else to keep fueling the fire.

I was browsing through the Twilight section at Wal-mart and I'm curious to see how bad the books really are. All I've seen so far makes me think it'll be a good read of the Bad Fanfiction sort.

[Darth Geek]

Anyone else find it interesting that a guy who has stated he dislikes Twilight directed this movie?

Why? A guy who stated he dislikes Twilight stars in the movies.

[Cosmic Muse]

Anyone else find it interesting that a guy who has stated he dislikes Twilight directed this movie?

Why? A guy who stated he dislikes Twilight stars in the movies.

Actually Robert Pattinson has been stating that he likes the books now.

[Tyrant]

I'd like to think that if I were paid millions to be in a Twilight movie and doing so made me a profitable (even if typecasted) reputation in Hollywood with hundreds of thousands of tweens and teens gushing at my every public appearance and hanging posters of me on their walls and seeing Barbies made up to look (vaguely) like me in every toystore*, I'd start liking the books too.

*All the more hilarious if I actually looked like my avatar.

[Relaxing Dragon]

I'd like to think that if I were paid millions to be in a Twilight movie and doing so made me a profitable (even if typecasted) reputation in Hollywood with hundreds of thousands of tweens and teens gushing at my every public appearance and hanging posters of me on their walls and seeing Barbies made up to look (vaguely) like me in every toystore*, I'd start liking the books too.

*All the more hilarious if I actually looked like my avatar.

Yeah, but when fans bumrush him at every opportunity, including on the sets of other movies and almost get him hit by a car as a result, I think some of the like starts to fade.

[Doctor Who?]

Here is something that bugs me about Twilight.  The main guy drinks the blood of animals instead of people but I always thought vampires needed HUMAN blood to stay alive.  That may bug me more then anything else.  You take away the need for human blood and they are not really vampires are they?

[Sideswipe]

that bothers you more that the fucking gay sparkling

[Doctor Who?]

that bothers you more that the fucking gay sparkling

Well let's say as much as.

Also it bugs me that there seems to me an army of girls and woman out there who are turned on by the idea of having sex with a corps,talk about creepy.

[Darth Geek]

that bothers you more that the fucking gay sparkling

Well let's say as much as.

Also it bugs me that there seems to me an army of girls and woman out there who are turned on by the idea of having sex with a corps,talk about creepy.

An admitted cold and clammy one, at that.

There may have been vampire lore that had them able to drink the blood of animals. I think it's mostly just blood as a substance, though. Animal blood isn't different than human blood, I don't think.