Saturday, July 24, 2010
Twilight is starting to = Twiannoying
11:45 PM
*This post is one dating back from December 1st 2008, but I liked it so decided to add it here*
Twilight has forever changed the face of literature, after its violent beating and rape of the English language, it left the corpse to rot in a sticky puddle of its own blood and bitter tears. All subtlety is lost as it rips out the organs of plot, characterization, and basic grammar, leaving behind a hollow shell of a vapid romance that is both void of true emotions and common sense. Where Anne Rice left off with the mere neutering of Vampires as monsters, Meyers has gone and done a full gender reassignment.
In New Zealand the movie Twilight wont be out until Boxing Day, so I still have about 3 and a half weeks of this stupidity to endure. I have on average around 3 customers a shift either calling or coming in to ask if they can hire a copy of Twilight, and when they find out that it's not even out in the cinema's yet they want to know when it will be released to DVD and if they can hire it.
We don't get told what's coming out until two months before (if we're lucky), so we have no clue, and even then release dates can change. So at least 3 times a shift I explain this to Twilight's most annoying die hard fans in the nicest way possible *smile smile dies inside smile*, and almost every time I either get told im clearly useless and don't know how to do my job, they want to know how I cannot be obsessively following the DVD release date of ZOMGTHEBESTMOVIEEVERRRR, or once in a New Moon I get cussed out over it.
Im really getting sick of this crap, by the time the movie has actually come out in New Zealand it's all too possible that i will have gone crazy.
Another suck which is coming up more and more is people who want to discuss...... at great length I might add, why they love/ hate the books, at first it was ok because i really like the books so i know enough about them to not sound totally stupid when asked my opinion, but some aspects of the books are a little silly....... Sparkling Vampires for instance. But for a lot of these fangirls (and a couple of emo boys, oddly enough) you cannot I repeat CANNOT say anything bad about the books for fear of death, or worse, them trying for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes to convince you that ZOMGYOUARESOWRONGGG. I think im going to have to put these books on the "things of which we do not speak" list right under politics and religion.
Twilight has forever changed the face of literature, after its violent beating and rape of the English language, it left the corpse to rot in a sticky puddle of its own blood and bitter tears. All subtlety is lost as it rips out the organs of plot, characterization, and basic grammar, leaving behind a hollow shell of a vapid romance that is both void of true emotions and common sense. Where Anne Rice left off with the mere neutering of Vampires as monsters, Meyers has gone and done a full gender reassignment.
In New Zealand the movie Twilight wont be out until Boxing Day, so I still have about 3 and a half weeks of this stupidity to endure. I have on average around 3 customers a shift either calling or coming in to ask if they can hire a copy of Twilight, and when they find out that it's not even out in the cinema's yet they want to know when it will be released to DVD and if they can hire it.
We don't get told what's coming out until two months before (if we're lucky), so we have no clue, and even then release dates can change. So at least 3 times a shift I explain this to Twilight's most annoying die hard fans in the nicest way possible *smile smile dies inside smile*, and almost every time I either get told im clearly useless and don't know how to do my job, they want to know how I cannot be obsessively following the DVD release date of ZOMGTHEBESTMOVIEEVERRRR, or once in a New Moon I get cussed out over it.
Im really getting sick of this crap, by the time the movie has actually come out in New Zealand it's all too possible that i will have gone crazy.
Another suck which is coming up more and more is people who want to discuss...... at great length I might add, why they love/ hate the books, at first it was ok because i really like the books so i know enough about them to not sound totally stupid when asked my opinion, but some aspects of the books are a little silly....... Sparkling Vampires for instance. But for a lot of these fangirls (and a couple of emo boys, oddly enough) you cannot I repeat CANNOT say anything bad about the books for fear of death, or worse, them trying for anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes to convince you that ZOMGYOUARESOWRONGGG. I think im going to have to put these books on the "things of which we do not speak" list right under politics and religion.
Labels:
Bitching and Moaning,
General Stupidity,
Renting,
Stupid Customers,
Teen flicks,
Twilight,
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- Grace C
- I love movies, and for over 5 years I worked at a video store somewhere in the depths of Auckland so I could be close to my precious movies & rent those bitches for free! However, I have since moved on. But even after moving on from the store I still have a load of video store stories of crazy customers and random happenings to talk about!!
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