True Blood & Twilight

[sandiegosurfer]

Everyone loves vampire movies now!!  why do you think all of this hype all of a sudden?

[ktheodos]

not really into it....

[luvh8tragedy87]

I'm a little sick of all the vampire craze. True Blood really isn't that bad. I've watched some episodes. But Twilight, it's a bunch of long pauses and Kristen Stewart biting her lip, sighing and eye twitching.

[articx]

First, there was Harry Potter, and now there is Twilight. In a few years, there will probably be something else many people will go crazy over.

[rrechy225]

I've always liked vampire stuff so it's kind of a good situation bad situation thing for me.  Good because there is more vampire stuff coming out but bad because most of it stinks.  I thought the twilight books were ok but the movies seriously stink.  Take into account that they are for teenagers and preteens, the hype makes sense tho.  This is the group that spends the most money so it makes sense that they would be targeted for all it's worth.

JMHO   

[hwilliams591]

I've always liked vampire stuff so it's kind of a good situation bad situation thing for me.  Good because there is more vampire stuff coming out but bad because most of it stinks.  I thought the twilight books were ok but the movies seriously stink.  Take into account that they are for teenagers and preteens, the hype makes sense tho.  This is the group that spends the most money so it makes sense that they would be targeted for all it's worth.

JMHO   

You are pretty sadly mistaken to think they are for teenagers and preteens. My wife and all of her friends have both series of books and DVD's.

It all start with the books. Vampire love stories have been in before twilight.

[lvstephanie]

I agree that there seems to have been a re-emergence in the vampire genre. I think it started with Ann Rice. She seemed to start putting the vampire genre in a more modern setting, and looking at vampires from their own perspective. She introduced the idea of them having to deal with the curse and made the reader start rooting for the monster rather than just their victims. See her interview about the modern vampire (no pun intended -- as in her novel Interview with a Vampire): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JuRY-dpM88 Laura Hamilton continued with her Anita Blake vampire hunter series... I started seeing many of those on the shelves of Barnes and Nobels (in the Sci/Fi section, which I never really understood...) She started looking at the societal impact of having vampires come out of the closet coffin. Then Charlaine Harris continued along that vein (no pun intended) with her Sookie Stackhouse series (which was picked up by HBO for True Blood) where (similar to Hamilton) the vampires had developed synthetic blood allowing the vampires to expose themselves and live in modern society as themselves. While Hamilton took her series down the path of vampires being seductive monsters, Harris chose to look at them in a more human light by having the heroine truly fall in love for their kind instead of being seduced. Stephanie Meyers (Twilight) also went down that path like Harris by having the heroine fall in love with the monsters instead of being seduced by them. I think that by making Bella immune to the vampire's powers further emphasizes that the love she has for the vampire is more than just the seductive powers that vampires exert on mortals.

For me, I like Ann Rice and Charlaine Harris the best. Hamilton started making the sex a little too overbearing as the series went along, and although I think I understand what Meyers is trying to do, it seems like Bella's love is too over-the-top. Being near clinically depressed after breaking up with a boy in high school just seems too unrealistic for me.  

[Kaylen89]

the Hype is that everything goes in cycles the next one will probably be monsters like Frankenstein!!!

[lisakin]

I agree with you about Hamilton's Anita Blake series. I liked in the beginning, but in the later books, I began to feel like I was reading a pornographic novel. I finally gave up on them. I was a fan of Charlaine Harris well before the current craze and read the Twilight books long before the movies, so it seems kind of weird that people are so into them now. But I am thrilled for the authors, they are excellent writers and deserve the success they have gotten.
Sort of off the subject of vampires (although there are vampires in these books), an excellent urban fantasy series is The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I absolutely LOVE his books! They are sort of a cross between something like the old Rockford Files tv series and a grown up Harry Potter.

[articx]

the Hype is that everything goes in cycles the next one will probably be monsters like Frankenstein!!!

That monster was never given a name. Frankenstein was the name of the scientist who created it.

[GoGoKokiGo]

Omg Anna Paquin's fake accent in True Blood makes me want to 

I wonder what the next movie fad will be? We should probably bet on this. I'm betting immortal teen mermaid high school students who fall in love with, as it will be called in the book/movie "land walkers"...omg...be right back I have a book to write and cash in on! Lol be on the look out for the movie "Tails of a Mermaid", it may just make me millions.

[lisakin]

Her accent drove me crazy at first too. But I love the show so much, I guess I kind of got used to it.

[angelchef80]

I love both, have read both the series. but like true blood more then twilight, a little more racey= better show

[home_teachin]

I guess I just don't get it. What could be romantic about a vampire?

[SimonneJ]

I'm a little sick of all the vampire craze. True Blood really isn't that bad. I've watched some episodes. But Twilight, it's a bunch of long pauses and Kristen Stewart biting her lip, sighing and eye twitching.

Lol I agree I think twilight would be wayyyy better without her