Friday, April 24, 2009

why twilight dosn't suck...

Ok i've thought about this for a while... yea i know your thinking, Dave your a sci-fi nut how can you say that! Well here's the skinny; twilight is not a vampire story ... sorry it's just not; it is a love story plain and simple. It stars supernatural beings (vampires, daemons werewolves etc...). All of that is just a back drop to a romance novel. First and foremost as hard as it is to admit; there's a thing called poetic license. That means without any room for argument that the author has every right to make changes to genera, past art, etc... This means even if it pisses you off because you are a die hard Ann Rice fan; or a Bram Stoker fan... you have to completely ignore past art when making a judgment (at least objectively). As in you can't judge the film or the book based on other vampire movies/books because it is not a vampire movie/book... its a romance movie/book about vampires. Taken that in to consideration, and judging the book/movie based on just that it is a romance story makes it much easier to look at as a whole ... and that's why i think it doesn't suck.