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I’ve been meaning to purchase and wear this t-shirt since I learned of its existence a couple of months ago, but I figured I’d better let the Twilight: New Moon](The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) hysteria die down first. It would appear, after all, that openly declaring one’s hostility toward the Twilight franchise on one’s person, even with a statement as unquestionably correct as “Vampires Don’t Sparkle,” is just asking for trouble. You do not want to mess with a gaggle of rabid Robert Pattinson fans.
I do not hate the Twilight franchise, actually, though I would like to suggest that the Twilighteers may live to regret sinking so much time and emotion into something so utterly banal. But I seem to be one of the few who occupy the middle ground. Twilight might be the most divisive love-it-or-hate-it phenomenon of the last few years. Not everyone adores Harry Potter, but most people have at least a grudging respect for it; Twilight has as many haters as fawning admirers.
You gotta admit that if you can use a movie to start an argument, it’s at least good for something. Here are seven other movies that seem to disproportionately divide the moviegoing population into adoring fans and angry detractors.
- Titanic](Titanic (2023) - Movie | Moviefone) - To get the obvious out of the way. It’s amazing to me how often people make offhand derisive mentions of Titanic, as if its awfulness were well-established and self-evident. As with Twilight, of course, the surprisingly widespread disdain of this movie is a backlash against its army of obsessive partisans (and from a similar demographic to boot) – the folks who showed up on local news shows in 1997 bragging about having seen it 16 times in the theater, etc. The fact that Titanic is a fantastic film – and not really (or at least not only) for the reasons many of its fans think – tends to get lost in the shuffle, sadly.
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