What if Harry Potter was never created..
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We’ll have nothing to compare Twilight with; we may actually be convinced that it is a good movie.
Update: ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2‘ is rad. Though still about Bella-Edward relationship, several elements of a great story interplay that made it impressive. They saved the best for last.
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HAHA! True!
Very profound. Harry Potter has become the measuring rod of so much fantasy fiction and film. (I remember when I sat in my school library and saw a prepublication announcement for the first book. I thought it looked interesting, and thought I might like to get it for the library. If only I could have predicted what would be…)
I’d like to add my 2 cents about a great fantasy novel: The Secret of Platform by Eva Ibbotson. Not a series, but I tell my students I think it’s as good as Harry Potter. And I agree about Twilight: even the books didn’t interest me.
An addition to my above comment: I did a terrible thing. The title of Ibbotson’s wonderful novel is The Secret of Platform 13. I stand humbled.
Thanks, that’s worth checking out. Yeah, I tried reading Twilight but I can’t keep up. Maybe it’s just me but the pacing is too slow and it got too boring. Keep on promoting reading to your students! 😀
*rofl!* no, no, sorry… Twilight will always have been a good book in my mind (though I still cannot define WHY for sure), but never a good movie, no matter what you compare it to. (Ok ok, I’m sure I could think of some movies that would make Twilight look good…. Punch Drunk Love maybe…)
Haha. I doubt it though. Terrible, terrible adaption. At least Taylor Lautner is gorgeous and shirtless.
I read the Twilight books because a friend convinced me they might be good, and once I start a series I must finish it (I’m no quiter! Though reading Twilight made me wish I was). But I must say the books are the worst peice of literature (if you dare call them that) ever written. But people I know who watched the last movie continue to say it was good so…I guess maybe the film makers are a tad bit more intelligent than Stephanie, and good for them. But I refuse to waste anymore of my life on that crap.