Twilight vs Tangled
I have a huge problem with Twilight, not because of the content, but because of the target audience. I’m actually more comfortable with Fifty Shades of Grey than Twilight because Fifty Shades is targeting adults who know better than to think:
- this is a healthy relationship
- this is romantic
- men with similar qualities should be sought out for a healthy life together
They understand it’s fiction and read it as such. Twilight targets young impressionable girls who won’t understand that controlling “protective” men should who stalk “protect” them are not ideal boyfriends. So, this sums up my feelings perfectly. Plus, I love the movie Tangled. Fell free to agree or disagree below.
-Eliabeth
Ermilia 
It must be time to switch my Facebook picture to Rapunzel again. brb…
haha 😀
Are you aware of Rifftrax? It’s from the guys who used to work on Mystery Science Theater 3000, and it’s basically the same thing, but for more modern and popular movies. You might enjoy their comments on the Twilight movies.
Not familiar with them, thanks for the recommendation.
Personally I couldn’t give a hoot-and-a-half for either ‘Twiglet’ or ’50 Shades o’ Keech’, but that’s just me! 😀
For a second I thought you were going to say you didn’t like Tangled and I was going to joke that we can’t be friends anymore lol. Glad it was the other two.
I must confess to not knowing ‘Tangled’…
I love tangled too! But for me it was the horse!
I did adore Max, and the chameleon whose name I suddenly cannot remember.
Pascal. Who was also a legend!
Thank you! I can’t believe I forgot that, that’s Nathanial’s last name in Blind Sight.
I agree that Tangled is awesome!!! I really hope Disney doesn’t give up on the Princess musical genre, it’s so fantastic.
As for Fifty Shades … while I agree that the target audience for Fifty Shades should ensure that readers understand this is just fiction and not something to base their lives around, I bet you that at least a quarter of the readers are teenage girls. Teenage girls love to get in on the latest hot trend, after all. I’m pretty sure book stores don’t card you when you buy erotica books. So we’ve probably got impressionable young teen girls walking around hoping they’ll get abducted by Christina Gray, and young teen boys walking around thinking that girls love being tied up and, hey, why not kidnap a girl and see how she likes it?
Okay, I’m being overly dramatic. But seriously, Fifty Shades is something young people should not be reading, and I guarantee you they are. *shudder*
1. Christina Gray, typos make me smile. 2. I agree with the rest of it and though I think 1/4 is a little high, I don’t think you’re being overly dramatic especially since I’ve heard rumors that they’re turning it into a movie. How the f’ are you going to turn that into even a rated R movie without either cutting too much or stuffing it with awkward angles that don’t really hide anything but enough to get away with the ratings department. Ugh. Faith in humanity officially lost, and yet we wonder why so few men are gentlemen anymore.
Oh dear, I totally missed that typo. Still, talk about an awesome typo. I think I’ll call him (her?) that from now on.
That’s why I had to point it out instead of just going in and changing it in your comment. It gave me a giggle fit.
Clever picture. I’d go for Tangled, though. 🙂
That’s kinda the point 🙂
I hate the Twilight movies – oddly I got given the books and ploughed through 3 and thought they were okay, even if the lead guy was creepy. Although I think that in my head I made hime more cuddly. But really the movie lost me with the sparkles and the ‘I watch you while you sleep’. *Shudder* Tangled on the other hand is fantastic! I love it! I can understand her wanting Mr Flynn, but in Twilight I would be considering a restraining order! 🙂
I’ll be totally honest–I completely agree except for the implication that Fifty Shades of Grey isn’t as bad because adults know how to think, which in my experience is not necessarily true. I’m an adult (more or less) and I learned how to think critically about what I read, but I still find myself influenced by it. Both books got “urgh” reactions from me.
Tangled, on the other hand, was great.
I can understand that. I read Fifty Shades as an interesting look into an unconventional relationship. It was a more “outsider” approach to the way I usually read books and I found I didn’t get at all invested in the characters that way, so maybe that’s why I’m more okay with it. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I read it more like a fictional case study than a novel.
To be–again–totally honest, I didn’t actually read either book all the way through, just excerpts. I’m glad to hear that people are reading it without thinking it’s a good way to have a relationship, but I’ve seen comments…comments that seem to imply that the main character is somehow…desirable, and that worries me just a little. Hopefully that’s not most people though.