Movie reviewer is my dream job! Only I've noticed I'm a lot more eloquent about movies I dislike. If I like a movie, I'm more like, "It's great, go see it now."
I'm like you except sort of in reverse: If a movie (or book) is getting major hype, I tend to go into it cynical and prepared to be disappointed. Most of the time stuff doesn't live up to hype. The two notable exceptions I can think of off the top of my head were "Avatar" and the Harry Potter books (that I started reading after like the third or fourth was released).
I've never read the Twilight books. I picked the first one up in a store and skimmed the first chapter, to find the writing about as painful as the movies have been.
As a Harry Potter fan Stephanie Meyers is my natural enemy ; ) But if it's only a measurement of popularity and not quality, I'd have to grudgingly admit she's the closest we've got to a JKR.
I TRIED to watch the first Twilight without any bias. I didn't want to love it, but I wasn't determined to hate it either. Just the teen girl perspective, the comical dramatic swooning, the undiluted romance of the story -- I get why teen girls love it, I might have too when I was one. But Robert Pattinson does nothing for me, like I said, I'm Team Jasper all the way.
I prefer Harry with the adventure and the complete fantasy world, allowing me to imagine my own (gay) pairings, not have them forced down my throat ; )
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Date: 2010-04-29 05:13 pm (UTC)I'm like you except sort of in reverse: If a movie (or book) is getting major hype, I tend to go into it cynical and prepared to be disappointed. Most of the time stuff doesn't live up to hype. The two notable exceptions I can think of off the top of my head were "Avatar" and the Harry Potter books (that I started reading after like the third or fourth was released).
I've never read the Twilight books. I picked the first one up in a store and skimmed the first chapter, to find the writing about as painful as the movies have been.
As a Harry Potter fan Stephanie Meyers is my natural enemy ; ) But if it's only a measurement of popularity and not quality, I'd have to grudgingly admit she's the closest we've got to a JKR.
I TRIED to watch the first Twilight without any bias. I didn't want to love it, but I wasn't determined to hate it either. Just the teen girl perspective, the comical dramatic swooning, the undiluted romance of the story -- I get why teen girls love it, I might have too when I was one. But Robert Pattinson does nothing for me, like I said, I'm Team Jasper all the way.
I prefer Harry with the adventure and the complete fantasy world, allowing me to imagine my own (gay) pairings, not have them forced down my throat ; )