So bad its good? Or just bad?

So lets get one thing clear. I have no shame about my love for the Twilight books. Yes, everything that has been said about how they are trash (true) and anti-feminist (I mean, the heroine spends 90% of the time being carried) and creepy (the hero is totally a stalker) is completely correct. But they also managed to capture that obsessive feeling of the first time you are in love. That oh-my-god-no-one-has-ever-felt-as-deeply-as-I-do teenage narcissism. Edward is totally the man that every one 16-year-old girl wishes she dated in high school (and every older woman recognizes as being dangerously unhinged but still there is that residual longing for someone to possess you.) Its all very regressive but also archetypal. No one will remember these books in ten years, I mean, they’re crap. But really engaging crap.
So why am I so disgusted by the poster for the movie?


They took everything that is weird and unappealing (yet easily ignorable) about Twilights vampires: the fact that they glitter, feel like stone, and their eyes are golden; and were like “ah yes, this must be what is making all those girls swoon” when it is not that at all! That stuff is all weird! And a desperate attempt to differentiate these books from the rest of the vampire cannon! What makes girls swoon is the fact that Edward is HOT! And this…. This is gross.