Why does it sound like many of the people involved don't really like the material but just can't stay away. Why can't more people be honest that their appeal really was the paycheck? You can't statistically like everything you do - look at people with normal jobs. It may be a PR nightmare, but it is the truth.

The problem is if you get people involved on a project that arent' passionate, that dont love the original material or respect it that the final product is horrible. To be honest Im not sure whether to believe him or not in his appology. Time will tell if he starts messing up the story or twisting the lore around like by giving the Twilight vampire's fangs.

I'm not a fan of Twilight, haven't read the book or seen the movie. No interest. But why the hell is a guy that blasted the first movie in the franchise hired to direct the 3rd move in that franchise? And why would he want too? For him, obviously, it's the money and exposure, but why the producers? Just makes no sense... It's not likely he'll make a good movie if he hates the material. He may claim otherwise but I doubt his sincerity.

Honestly, while I love the books and am completely addicted to them, the first movie was no better than the 1970s B horror flicks that were shown on Saturday afternoon network t.v.

It's okay to express an opinion and it absolutely doesn't diminish the power of the original material. I'm looking forward to seeing how New Moon and Eclipse are translated on screen. There's no place to go but up. I hope.

I'm not a big fan of twilight, but I can't wait to see what Chris Weitz does with the next film, he makes such great movies.

30 Days of Night is a better vampire movie.

I know there are zillions that loved the first film but I'm in agreement with the poster above that it was no better than a grade B horror flick from years ago.

I think the problem is this: it's a love story and some were looking for a vampire movie when they got...a love story. I'm not sure the powers-that-be were looking for the movie to do double-duty.

I loved the first book. I can't say that, really, about the rest of them. But, Edward--as depicted in the book--well, Rob wouldn't have been the first actor to come to mind. He's cute but he's not possessed of the looks or the charm that the author depicted him with.

So there are a lot of 13 to 17 year olds who dig this movie, im sorry 13 to 17 year old girls. Well I for one and im tired of Vampire movies, and also tired of all this talk of twilight.
But for the time its stuck in the media and we got to deal with it. All I can hope for is if they make another vampire movie that isnt a bunch of romantic douchebags, it'll be creative nd actually make them look cool. 30 Dys of night my not have been the best but I prefer that over Twilight. John Carpenters Vampires may not have been the best but James Woods description of a vampire is perfect. I loved Blade, Blade 2 was the best thanks to del toro, and blade sucked (no pun intended) thanks to Goyer, but I still watch that over Twilight.
So heres hoping that someday something new and twisted will come into theatres and make the rest of the twilight movies direct to dvd....

Horrible series, writing, and movie[s]. It's trash, pure and simple. I sat through this travesty with my fangirl cousins. It was so bad it was funny.

Glitter vampire? ROFLOL wow .... just wow

Twilight is NOT a vampire movie and ppl should stop perceiving it like one. It's not about killing off vampires with some macho dude aka Blade or such. (All other mentioned movies are about action, killing, blood, and ofc vampires...to make boys all over the world happy). Twilight is not about that. The Twilight saga is all about romance. But ofc a romance with vampires in leading roles. And that's it.

And btw online pool's show that the Twilight loving population are mostly 20-40 aged women, while the 13 to 17 year olds are just the loudest ones. :)
Sure Twilight is cheesy at some parts...but that's Stephenie Meyers "fault" since her target population were teen girls.

And the vampires in Twilight... I find them more logical then any other. Mostly thank God they don't burst up in flames in the sun, hate garlic and crosses and sleep in coffins and other nonsense. I like science and such things just make me laugh. Ok I'd "buy" an occasional sun burn or light sensitivity (but that would make them vulnerable to even some sort of artificial light) but what other authors and filmmakers do just makes me laugh out loud. I'm not a fan of Meyer's writing...but she created the first kind of vampires that make sense to me (and no i don't find glitter vampires funny :P). And the scenery in the Twilight movie is just breathtaking and wonderful. The movie is not the best in the world... I for one hate the cheesy dialogue, but as i said Meyer's fault. :P

It's amazing what a few million dollars can do for a persons opinion.

I saw the film and read the first book recently under pressure from my sister whose attitude was, 'don't knock it till you tried it'. I didn't particularly like either but when I showed them to my wife she was horrified, she's a youth worker and thought the book was damning advocation of an emotionally abusive relationship. The exact sort of attitudes she teaches her young mums (girls 13 to 18 with babies) group to avoid.

'And the vampires in Twilight... I find them more logical then any other. Mostly thank God they don't burst up in flames in the sun, hate garlic and crosses and sleep in coffins and other nonsense. I like science and such things just make me laugh'

Ayiana Aeryn Sun, you honestly think glittering and never needing sleep has basis in science fact?! Honey! Honey! What science is this? There's more scientific basis as to why a vampire would avoid the sun than why he would glitter!

The vampire's blood would be very unique. It would cause such things as virally induced cancer to be self limiting and transient events in the life of the organism. The blood itself would seem immortal if you ignore the protect of it being exposed to the ultra violet light of the sun, the extreme heat of a flame, or potential fatal accident such as the decapitation of the being the blood flows within.

Similar to the vampire's of Whitley Strieber's The Hunger, there would probably be a peculiar quality of the structural detail of a seventh leukocyte. There might be a complex tripartite nuclei. The structure within the blood might appear to have the ability to change according to the type of cell being consumed and reproduced. They would birth living versions of the other type as quickly as the originals die. The blood likely would even endure temperatures to the like of fifteen degrees celsius outside of the host organsm, that would be the vampire.

The blood cells in a vampire's viens would actually be a symbiotic organism. It's like a fungus. It sustains itself through the vampire-person. The vampire is technically dead. The organism in the vampire's viens retains his or her awareness and gifts them with certain heightened senses in order to ease the vampire in the hunt for what the orgasm in the vampire's blood craves to sustain it's own strength. The vampire is a host organism for another entity. The blood has it's own low level of consciousness, but just enough to desire survival and to use the vampire and the vampire's instincts to do so and to procreate itself by spreading itself into other host organisms, creating other vampires.

When a vampire drinks blood, their body burns and uses every aspect of the digested blood and that is why a vampire's bowels and bladder are pretty much atrophied. They have no real use to the vampire. That is also why the reproductive organs probably would not function because that is not how the organism in the vampire's veins spreads itself and procreates. And it is not necessary for it's survival for the vampire to have a reproductive drive other than the company of other vampires in the creation of them much like the vampires of Anne Rice's novels. The vampiric blood exchange concept was first thought of by Bram Stoker.

When a vampire drinks the blood the red blood cells carry the nutrients the vampire's body uses as fuel. The white blood cells for healing. The platelets for the necessity of clotting and plasma for hydration. All creatures require hydration.

The instinct to hunt and kill is a byproduct of the symbiotic organism and it's instinct to sustain itself through the obtaining of more blood. Without a new infusion of blood for it to latch on to and birth out newer versions of itself, the host organism (the vampire) theoretically would fall into a hybernative (going underground as Anne Rice called it in her Vampire Lestat) state until properly fed or roused into feeding.
The blood in a vampire's veins is highly combustible and photosensitive because the organism's awareness has limited the awareness of the host for the necessity of the hunt, which when the prey is humans, is night time. Humans, for the most part, are not usually nocturnal so it's the perfect time for the predator that is a vampire. It's practicality that has them function at night. Since the day light is not a necessity that produces the vulnerability however the blood provides an instinct for self-preservation so that the vampire will unconsciously attempt to kill any that might disturbs his or her sleep. A vampire's blood has certain frailties. For example, a vampire's blood burns iron far faster than a human's blood would (as portrayed in Morbius: The Living Vampire of Marvel comics).

There is a perfectly valid reason why vampires would be repulsed by garlic. Garlic has a pungent odor. It would deter any creature with heightened senses, not to mention vampirism can be viewed as a blood disease and raw garlic builds the blood and prevents blood disease to a certain degree. Again, it makes more sense than glitter.

Symbols of faith are representations of hope and light. Not just crosses but pentangles, stars of David, ect... Vampires are physical and spiritual beings and could react to a psychological conditioning of associating such things with 'light.' (Forever Knight and Being Human).

There are REAL medical conditions that make sunlight fatal to REAL people but you think glitter is more scientifically believable?! Honestly!

And yes, to the above poster, Edward Cullin does promote abusive relationships. He bullies her verbally, prevents her from leaving by damaging her transportation, has her kidnapped, he breaks her collar bone and hurts her during intimacy and she's afraid of telling him that he hurt her. These are classic acts of abuse, not loving relationships of any kind.

I would never prevent a child from reading Twilight but I would try to encourage them to read better fantasy / horror and romance geared toward younger readers such as Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost (the hero was fifteen, female and in love), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (the author was seventeen and female), The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (the hero is twenty or so and protective of those he loves as opposed to violent toward them). These books are also better written and contain depth that Twilight lacks.

And to add to my last comment...

What really bothered me about this person's comment about vampires and sunlight was that they claimed sunlight being fetal was scientifically illogical when there are very real diseases out there that make sunlight fatal to people. Disney World once opened it's park at night specifically for children with such a disease. They can handle artificial light but sunlight can be fatal to them and this person was claiming that sort of thing is scientifically impossible but they felt the glitter was logical! I think that was very offensive considering there are people in the world suffering from very real disorders of that type. Vampires- perhaps not, but real people with very serious conditions.

id rather be shot than watch twilight too he should not have to apologize for saying what a lot of other people say