What if your teens are like mine and have zero interest in seeing it?
That article is split into SIX pages —why?
A Seaman Anoreth review of “Eclipse”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2543181/posts?page=578#578
Read this, and you’ll never have to see the movie or read the book!
So this guy doesn’t want his kids to watch the movie so his answer is to make them watch the movie...where is the logic there? So if I don’t want my kids to watch porno flicks..should I take them to go see one...this is insanity. “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” The time to start training a child is not when they hit the tweens it starts in the cradle. Thankfully we have done that with our daughter...she has no desire to watch that crap.
I saw the first two movies and plan on seeing the third. It’s a love story between Edward, an honorable vampire, and Bella, a human teenager.
No sex...
You can see it with your teens.
“The other end of the spectrum are the parents that ignore and forbid it. The danger in this approach is they misjudge the pull of the forbidden, and our human nature.”
That’s the quote the spawned the porno reference, I believe. If parents think something is completely inappropriate, they should forbid it, of course.
I personally would not forbid the Twilight movie that I saw. I saw it because my son bought it, because he saw it, and laughed throughout (making the theatre patrons mad), and then bought it and brought it home as a comedy. He thinks the acting and script are hysterically funny.
But, if a parent does believe “Twilight” should be forbidden, they should forbid it, hopefully using the occasion as a teachable moment as to what they think is appropriate, what is not, and why.
In the traditions of J.R.R. Tolken and C.S. Lewis, Stephenie Meyer has managed to weave a great deal of truth within her tale of fantasy?
No. Lewis and Toklien, especially, were authors. This Twilight girl is just trying to make some money telling a story with some kind of moral lesson included.