Twilight mums: Why are middle-aged women falling for a big-screen vampire?

Daily Mail ^ | July 1, 2010 | Linda Papadopoulos

[C19fan]

My friend Sarah looked me in the eye with an intensity I have rarely seen in the many years I have known her.

Then she confessed: 'I have a secret. I am in love with a 17-year-old vampire called Edward Cullen. I think about him . . . dream about him. I have his photo on my desk, and his picture is my computer screensaver.'

Worryingly, not only did I immediately know who she was talking about, but I heard myself declaring (several octaves higher than my normal speaking voice): 'I know! How amazing was it when he growled at the werewolf and protected Bella from the red-eyed vampire?'

[badpacifist]

In the first movie they mentioned the two counties I spent all of my 25 and under life in. I loved the music from the first two since I play piano and guitar. My grand daughter, her mom and my wife all love the Twilight series and the third book with battle in it was my early favorite. Ok I will admit it...they won’t be just dragging me to this one. I am looking forward to this movie, sappy love stuff and all.

[TSgt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekKsuoYjrqY

[Tax-chick]

This is an interesting social phenomenon. Grown women’s going bonkers over celebrities is not new ... Franz Liszt, for example ... but having it be a fictional character is slightly novel. (I’m so funny ;-).

For the record, I don’t think either of the young men is at all attractive. If I were going to sigh over a movie character, it would be Lucius Malfoy, with that gorgeous silver hair.

[TSgt]

That’s just wrong.

[RandallFlagg]

Jack Crow: You ever seen a vampire?
Father Adam Guiteau: No I haven't.
Jack Crow: No... Well first of all, they're not romatic.
Its not like they're a bunch of f**kin' fags hoppin' around in
rented formal wear and seducing everybody in sight with cheesy
Euro-trash accents, all right? Forget whatever you've seen in the movies:
they don't turn into bats, crosses don't work. Garlic? You wanna try garlic?
You could stand there with garlic around your neck and one of these buggers
will bend you f**king over and take a walk up your strada-chocolata
WHILE he's suckin' the blood outta your neck, all right? And they don't
sleep in coffins lined in taffata. You wanna kill one, you drive a wooden
stake right through his f**kin' heart.
Sunlight turns 'em into crispy critters.

[central_va]

Guilty

[absolootezer0]

[stylecouncilor]

Even more wrong:

[domenad]

Yeah but he never takes you to breakfast the next day.

[Rummyfan]

Eighteen to eighty, blind, crippled or crazy. Although sometimes I think they’re all crazy.

[Vaduz]

crazy is the nice part they don’t take you to the cleaners.

[mdmathis6]

Well not only “twilight” moms would have complained about the line ‘crowding’ though calling the police seems extreme. I just buy tickets for everyone so that not everyone has to wait in line, the others can browse or sit inside the Lobby until the tickets are paid for; then we go in together.

[org.whodat]

Simple answer, not all nuts come from trees.

[OldMissileer]

Why are middle-aged women falling for a big-screen vampire?

Because they have been steeped in feminist crap for their entire lives so they couldn't get a man their age even using handcuffs and leg irons?

[VRWCmember]

Heard a hilarious comment on sports radio station The Fan in Dallas last night. They were discussing the whole “vampire attraction” phenomenon with women and taking calls and texts on the subject. One listener texted in —

“Twilight” is like soccer: you have all these people running around for two hours, nobody scores, and the billion fans try to tell you that you just don’t understand its greatness.

LOL!

[Rummyfan]

It's role reversal. A young guy sucking the life blood out of an older woman. To see the reverse, just go to any courtroom where a divorce trial is going on.

LOL!

[dfwgator]

I like soccer, but that’s a funny quote.

[waxer1]

Because they cant get laid? Geez. I saw the second one with a friend. Not impressed. Edward even looks dead. yuk.

I’ll keep my boyfriend thank you. He’s 61, very good shape, works out 4 hours a day. Real flesh and blood.

[GonzoGOP]

The only known predator of the vampire, The Werecougar.

[greatplains]

Oh, good grief. Even my teenage daughters are over it at this point. They read all the books, saw the first movie, but now are just “whatever” about it.