When I first heard about the Cullens, the attraction to them was almost instantaneous. Besides being a family of blood thirsty creatures who had taken to living amongst humans, leaving behind their natural abode and other inherent tendencies, there was much to them that would make many like the wannabe myth fanatic inside me eager to know more about them. So a lazy night with nothing to do, a random visit to the nearby DVD library and a short 10 line description behind the DVD box, made me pick up this movie called Twilight.
Thereafter, I spent the next 2 hours looking at a love tale being weaved between the guy who played Cedric Diggory and a girl, who I had never heard of before. I would be lying if I said that I enjoyed the movie; I actually thoroughly enjoyed it and was glad not to have spent those 2 hours like every other nite, on the phone wasting all my witty flirts on a girl who'd eventually end up telling me about her latest boy friend… sigh! Anyways, I did find it very entertaining and thus according to the post-movie ritual, next came the movie's IMDB and wiki page. Besides the hundred other irrelevant insights I got from those pages, the realization also dawned that Twilight was a movie adaptation of a series of best seller books, and was just part 1 of the upcoming 3 more.
I felt naively ignorant at first; it was soon replaced by inquisitiveness and like a dog who'll try to sniff out even a new sound that reaches his ears, I sniffed my way to the nearest bookstore to swipe a wee part of my month's pay check for Book 1 of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga.
It's been pretty long since this happened. I've been through the first 2 books as well as the movies since then. The series' sudden and massive fan wave that engulfed the country in the past few months, has and with no surprises been pre-dominantly inhabited by the opposite sex and I had the fortune of being a part of it.
When I and a few others of my kin look at Twilight and its other instalments, we consider it as just another means to an end that'll satisfy our fanboy'ism lust. Many others unfortunately have wavelengths which are different than ours. Quite a few guys, actually a lot of them in fact think of it as a story about a girl who has been given a character with an empty shell; one which almost any girl can fit into and about a guy who is immortal and can run and jump may be as fast as superman and is devoid obviously of the external underpants, and shines like a diamond. Why wouldn't any girl and/or woman fall in love with such a guy; aren't diamonds supposed to be a woman's best friend? Anyways, while I don't blame my male counterparts for considering the series nonsensical and dismiss it as being 'chick flicks', I do have some other thoughts, to suggest the other wise.
Definition of a Chick Flick:
Thereafter, I spent the next 2 hours looking at a love tale being weaved between the guy who played Cedric Diggory and a girl, who I had never heard of before. I would be lying if I said that I enjoyed the movie; I actually thoroughly enjoyed it and was glad not to have spent those 2 hours like every other nite, on the phone wasting all my witty flirts on a girl who'd eventually end up telling me about her latest boy friend… sigh! Anyways, I did find it very entertaining and thus according to the post-movie ritual, next came the movie's IMDB and wiki page. Besides the hundred other irrelevant insights I got from those pages, the realization also dawned that Twilight was a movie adaptation of a series of best seller books, and was just part 1 of the upcoming 3 more.
I felt naively ignorant at first; it was soon replaced by inquisitiveness and like a dog who'll try to sniff out even a new sound that reaches his ears, I sniffed my way to the nearest bookstore to swipe a wee part of my month's pay check for Book 1 of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga.
It's been pretty long since this happened. I've been through the first 2 books as well as the movies since then. The series' sudden and massive fan wave that engulfed the country in the past few months, has and with no surprises been pre-dominantly inhabited by the opposite sex and I had the fortune of being a part of it.
When I and a few others of my kin look at Twilight and its other instalments, we consider it as just another means to an end that'll satisfy our fanboy'ism lust. Many others unfortunately have wavelengths which are different than ours. Quite a few guys, actually a lot of them in fact think of it as a story about a girl who has been given a character with an empty shell; one which almost any girl can fit into and about a guy who is immortal and can run and jump may be as fast as superman and is devoid obviously of the external underpants, and shines like a diamond. Why wouldn't any girl and/or woman fall in love with such a guy; aren't diamonds supposed to be a woman's best friend? Anyways, while I don't blame my male counterparts for considering the series nonsensical and dismiss it as being 'chick flicks', I do have some other thoughts, to suggest the other wise.
Definition of a Chick Flick:
- Movies generally based on a girl or a group of girls, subtly to be termed as desperate, out to get something and/or someone
- Scripts written specifically to attract the fairer sex to the silver screens, many of whom will pull their male partners for it
- Movies with adult content ranging from parental guidance to adversely 18+ at times
- And finally those which do not probe your IQ level and make sure you leave the theatre either with a smile or at least a good nap amidst comfortable sleeping conditions
Mel Gibson's doctor in What Women Want told him that if men are from Mars and women are from Venus and if he could speak Venucian, then he holds the key to solving the ultimate question, what is it that women want? Now considering the probability of one of us guys falling in our bathrooms and getting an electric shock at the exact voltage that gives us the super-human power of listening to what women think, I don't really like how the odds are stacked against us.
So instead of waiting for a miracle to happen, I'd rather take the easier way out, go for one of these so termed chick flicks and at least try and get closer to the 'her' in my life; if any. And anyways, if that doesn't happen, there is always the adult content to look forward to. These movies thus, do have a lot to offer to the male population and I can't help but wonder why and who coined them as 'chick flicks'.
On asking 10 of the very few female friends that I have; 9 of them turned out to be ardent followers of the Twilight saga, 6 of who have already read all the 4 books. So the options are to either be a chauvinist and give myself a not-so required ego massage and ridicule the series… or give the series a try, watch the movies, may be even read the books, and have 9 times more chances to go with one of those 9 friends for any forth coming similar movies and have more topics to talk about with those Twilight fans of the fairer sex. With the risk of sounding like a guy desperate to talk to women, who I'm not… at least not completely, I don't really see why any guy would find it difficult to choose the later option.
If one of us still continues to despise the Twilight series and others alike, good for you. I sincerely hope your secret fascination and curiosity for the vampire clan is not revealed and this false hatred and ridicule goes a long successful way in finding you a female companion for yourself.
The Twilight series is based on the legendary mythical battle raging between vampires and werewolves. The movies thus have a lot of action, many of which are performed by a bunch stunning women. Other than the slight drawback of now having to face and compete with every girl's expectations of her guy coming into her room in one leap through the window or just by shining like a 24 carat stone, I can't really see why a guy would have to pretend to like the series.
With the 3rd instalment of the Twilight saga, Eclipse hitting the theatres in less than a month, I can safely predict a lot of girls coaxing and cajoling their male partners into taking them for the first day, first show. For those who do manage to do this, I'm glad that you're found yourself a good guy; for others who don't, just remind him of the time he took you for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
So instead of waiting for a miracle to happen, I'd rather take the easier way out, go for one of these so termed chick flicks and at least try and get closer to the 'her' in my life; if any. And anyways, if that doesn't happen, there is always the adult content to look forward to. These movies thus, do have a lot to offer to the male population and I can't help but wonder why and who coined them as 'chick flicks'.
On asking 10 of the very few female friends that I have; 9 of them turned out to be ardent followers of the Twilight saga, 6 of who have already read all the 4 books. So the options are to either be a chauvinist and give myself a not-so required ego massage and ridicule the series… or give the series a try, watch the movies, may be even read the books, and have 9 times more chances to go with one of those 9 friends for any forth coming similar movies and have more topics to talk about with those Twilight fans of the fairer sex. With the risk of sounding like a guy desperate to talk to women, who I'm not… at least not completely, I don't really see why any guy would find it difficult to choose the later option.
If one of us still continues to despise the Twilight series and others alike, good for you. I sincerely hope your secret fascination and curiosity for the vampire clan is not revealed and this false hatred and ridicule goes a long successful way in finding you a female companion for yourself.
The Twilight series is based on the legendary mythical battle raging between vampires and werewolves. The movies thus have a lot of action, many of which are performed by a bunch stunning women. Other than the slight drawback of now having to face and compete with every girl's expectations of her guy coming into her room in one leap through the window or just by shining like a 24 carat stone, I can't really see why a guy would have to pretend to like the series.
With the 3rd instalment of the Twilight saga, Eclipse hitting the theatres in less than a month, I can safely predict a lot of girls coaxing and cajoling their male partners into taking them for the first day, first show. For those who do manage to do this, I'm glad that you're found yourself a good guy; for others who don't, just remind him of the time he took you for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
