The Twilight Cornfield

Thirded. I think Twilight is horrible and has a negative effect on teenage girls and sends all the wrong messages, but when I hear about people who go to the movie just to be loud and obnoxious, or lord their superior tastes over someone else, it makes me cringe. Though I question the taste of the fangirls involved, I'm way too much of an enthusiastic fan to criticize anyone else's enthusiasm.

Seriously, hating Twilight doesn't make you a better person. It just means you hate Twilight. Welcome to the club.

Pretty much this. My reaction is that they're just really, really bad books a la Dan Brown - to the point where if you don't keep the author's agenda in mind, and that you shouldn't do anything written in those books though I kind of still want to go on a high-speed car chase through the streets of Gay Paree in a freaking Smart Car or take anything they say as applicable to real life whatsoever, they could be bad influences. (Twilight is slightly more susceptible, as its target audience is teenage girls as opposed to Brown's target audience of men who have not developed past their teenage years.)

Thankfully, the History Channel isn't producing two-hour-long specials about the history of the Quileute tribe or whether a vampire would beat a shapeshiwerewolf in a fight or not, so it's not nearly as pernicious as DaVinci/Angels & Demons.

(Oddly enough, the Vatican came out against "New Moon." My thoughts upon hearing that news was...surprise that it took them this long to come out against it because pretty much every other cultural establishment had panned it.)