"Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.”
— Stephen King
Well said Stephen King. I've deemed it appropriate to address this issue for the sake of every persons sanity who has allowed them self to start to believe that twilight isn't so bad- and because of the recent release of the final Harry Potter movie.
I would venture to say that most people haven't actually put their brain to comparing Harry Potter to Twilight because lets be honest it's like comparing creme brule to fish or a salad to horse feed. So lets go over this whole thing from a literary view as well as the cinematic.
Literary: I first read Harry Potter when I was about seven or eight (yeah, it came out in the UK in 1997) and it was an instant favorite. I can honestly credit any love of books I have to Harry Potter. I've read the entire series multiple times and it's still entertaining. I'm amazed that the trend, if you can call it that, has lasted an entire 13 years with time to go.
On the flip side- Twilight was recommended to me when I was in high school by a girl who had blue hair, only wore black and had enough hardware on her body to set of a metal detector just by standing by it. It raised an eyebrow. I did read it though and throughout the series there were so many contradicting themes (small as they were) that it seemed really unprofessional from a writers standpoint as well as being poorly edited. You could also take into account the weird ideas that Ms. Meyer plants in her (teen) readers heads such as the idea that you can marry a vampire...So many weird ideas about how life is that are totally skewed.
In the Cinema: Harry Potter is without a doubt the stronger franchise making $6,369,345,142 (the highest grossing film series ever) with another movie and DVD to be released in addition to having leading roles played by stars such as Richard Harris (Dumbledore #1), Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Kenneth Branagh (Professor Lockheart), Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), Ralph Fiennes (VOLDEMORT), Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney), Helena Bonham Carter (Belatrix LeStrange)-- the list goes on.
I guess we could mention that Robert Pattinson played a minor role in the fifth movie as Cedric Digory but he was a no namer like the rest of the kids in the movie at that point in his career.
Twilight: Ebert and Roeper gave the first two of these films two thumbs down (neither of them liked it) and the third got one thumb up and one down. I think the thumbs down can be credited to the poor acting and weird special effects.
Grossing $367,160,734 (films alone) is almost unfathomable but due to the moms and teenage girls who saw the movie multiple times in theaters when they had a couple hours to kill.
I have to give one actor from these movies some credit. Taylor Lautner. In the beginning he had above par talent (compared with others cast in the movie) and his character has grown to be more prominent and likable and I credit it to his acting ability not the written personality of Jacob Black.
So in conclusion I have to say that Edward should have stayed dead after Voldemort killed him and we'd all live in a much happier world free of crazy teenage girls who wouldn't know quality if it stupified them in the face.
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