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A year ago, film critic Mark Kermode came out in defence of the Twilight movies. "The world is full of people... Who feel not just enabled but dutybound to be sniffy about Twilight without having seen the films, read the books, or attempted to understand why they mean so much to so many," he wrote."The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing."
This is how I feel. Not about Twilight, which is hokey old nonsense that sends out dubious messages about gender roles and obsessive behaviour through the medium of Robert Pattinson's hair. (I've read all the books and seen all the films, obviously.)
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