Vampires gone to the dogs

A years time


Lets not waste talking time, we need to turn this flight around;
I will make a bond with you to meet in a years time,
Let this be our last night, tomorrow we are both out of sight,
You go your way, I'll go mine, but through blood and fire,
We are pledged to change, and meet in a years time..

'I'm so glad we came together; and lets part best friends,
A spiritual loving bond, always; to meet in a years time,
When the dice don't roll and winter cuts at my bones;
Ill remember your beauty and this night so sublime,
Lets pledge our wounded souls, and meet in a years time

Praha 2006

I thought there was a sequence in the movie that was REALLY weird. Some people might say gay. Other than that it was better than Catherine Hardwick's twilight.

I love to laugh at the words of critics who could find something wrong with a movie and strain to make mountains out of mole hills because being complementary about anything is considered so boring. Your critique is like Michael Moore telling Stephen Spielberg how to make a successful movie. While you are telling everyone what is wrong with the plot and characters, the movie is blowing the doors off from all other movies in history. Now tell me, who got it right -- Stephanie Meyers or you?

"There are far too many ways that I disagree with the above to even start enumerating. I love the Twilight Saga, books, movie, soundtracks, actors, etc. and think their are a lot more people who agree with me than there are who agree with James Walling."

I did not see this movie so can't comment on its critique.
However the mankind's preoccupation with supernatural and even fascination with it is well acknowledged even in biblical times as this little excerpt from Byron's poem about Cain's daughters love affair with the Angels shows:

Eternity is in thy years,
Unborn,undying beauty in thine eyes;
With me you canst not symphatize;
Except in love,and there thou must
Acknowledge that more loving dust
Ne'er wept beneath the skies.
Thou walkest thy many worlds thou seest
The face of him who made thee great,
As he hath made of me the least
Of those cast out from Eden's gate;

Yet,Seraph dear!
Oh hear!

For thou hast loved me,and I would not die
Until I know what I must die knowing,
That thou forgettest in thine eternity
Her whose heart death could not keep from o'erflowing
Fot thee,immortal essence as thou art,
Great is their love who love in sin and fear;
And such,I feel,are waging in my heart
A war unworthy:to an Adamite
Forgive,my Seraph!that such thought appear.
For sorrow is our element...

The hour is near
Which tells me we are not abandoned quite.
Appear!Appear!
Seraph!
My own Azaziel!be but here,
And leave the stars to their own light.

Aholibama:I call thee,I await thee and I love thee.

Though I be formed of clay,
And thou of beams.

I absolutely agree with this. I was laughing aswell.

There are far too many ways that I disagree with the above to even start enumerating. I love the Twilight Saga, books, movie, soundtracks, actors, etc. and think their are a lot more people who agree with me than there are who agree with James Walling.

In your article, you make the following statement:

"More troubling is the way Meyers champions her protagonist's pathological obsession with her possessive, mercurial, controlling, condescending and sexist vampire boyfriend. What sort of message is she trying to send to young women? To equate domineering, patriarchal, violent behavior with devotion and love is as dated a concept as it is an insidious one.

"For an author who has repeatedly stated that her favorite reading material is contained in the Book of Mormon, such sentiments are hardly surprising."


What is ostensibly a simple movie review becomes your personal platform for religious bigotry. What is your statement supposed to imply about me and every other individual who values the Book of Mormon? I am no fan of Meyer's writing style or her admittedly silly depiction of teen relationships, let alone their translation to film, but what does this possibly have to do with the Book of Mormon? Have you ever even read it? Do you really just believe everything you hear?

The knowing message to your readers ("such sentiments are hardly surprising") is that you are completely familiar with the Book of Mormon, that its contents are fully in line with your description of Meyer's portrayal of relationships (i.e. "[equating] domineering, patriarchal, violent behavior with devotion and love"), and that every devoted reader of said book will unquestionably hold such beliefs as a major component of their personal value system.

I challenge you to provide a single example in the entire book (see http://scriptures.lds.org/en/bm/contents) that would directly teach, subtly imply, or even lead the reader to believe that such behavior would even be appropriate, much less actually "[equated]... with devotion and love."

It is unfortunate and disappointing that in the 21st century, an individual like yourself whose very job is supposedly to provide clear, well-researched, and accurate content to your readers would resort to such a juvenile reliance on tired stereotypes and "dated" prejudices. It is unclear why you would choose to subject your readers to intolerant language that is no longer acceptable in the workplace, not to mention in society as a whole.

Your movie review is great, but it would be better if you left the religious commentary to someone more committed to honest reporting.