Why is twilight popular

Here in , we finally have room to get a little perspective on the whole thing. In celebration of the year anniversary of the first Twilight movie, Vox culture writers Constance Grady, Alex Abad-Santos, and Aja Romano joined forces with deputy managing editor Eleanor Barkhorn to look back at the unlife and legacy of the Twilight phenomenon. Constance: When the first Twilight movie came out in , I was 19, and I was positive that the entire franchise was a blight on the pop culture landscape.

Before the movie even came out, I made up my mind about it. He chews the baby out of her uterus! But I was also completely fascinated by the franchise. I picked up the first book to see what the fuss was all about, and even though I thought the love story was creepy and the prose was blah and absolutely nothing happened until about three-quarters of the way through the book beyond some vampire baseball vampire baseball! I was compelled.

I hate-read every Breaking Dawn review, and every review of the movie. I developed opinions on Kristen Stewart bit her lip too much and Robert Pattinson I appreciated his palpable hatred of the franchise. I spent so much emotional energy thinking about the whole Twilight thing that I was, for all intents and purposes, a fan. I was just a fan who hated it. The structure of the plot is bananas. I was wrong about Kristen Stewart, though, and the way she was penalized for sometimes seeming mildly uncomfortable with the Twilight phenomenon while Pattinson was lauded for his outright hatred of it says a lot about gender politics circa It did speak to me.

And that pissed me off. There are few pop cultural products that our society likes to shit on more than the pop culture created for teenage girls, and Twilight circa was the pinnacle of that phenomenon. This was a franchise that was built for teen girls, marketed to teen girls, and loved by teen girls, and because of that, it became accepted common knowledge that all correct-thinking people could only despise and revile it.

So when I look back 10 years later, I find it difficult to untangle my hatred of Twilight from my own internalized misogyny, and from my profound and at the time unexamined belief that anything made for teenage girls must inherently be less-than.

How did you feel about Twilight back in ? Has it changed for you since then? Eleanor: I was 24 when the first movie came out, and I think being just past teenagehood made all the difference for me. I loved the movie — fully, earnestly, without irony, without reservations. I loved the moody Pacific Northwest setting.

Team Jacob increased in volume as did people choosing to be Team Switzerland like Bella. Some fans even proudly declared themselves to be Team Bella, happy in any choice she made as long as it was one she made for herself. However, all of this fervor started over a decade ago, so why is Twilight having a cultural revival? Well, the movies just dropped on Netflix.

On Friday, July 16 all five movies in the Twilight saga were released on the streamer. People are breaking out their memorabilia, sharing fun and embarrassing fan moments, and communing over the experience of being a young adult when these movies first came out. Not to mention this is an amazing time to join in on the fun if these movies were before your time.

Yes, that includes cracking jokes about their ridiculousness and resuscitating old memes that used to be the height of hilarity in their heyday.

Who plays Ward Cameron in Outer Banks? Lucifer season 6 is not coming to Netflix in August by Bryce Olin. Next: Twilight movies in order: How to watch. Robert Pattinson has famously roasted the movies on various occasions, and other cast members have spoken about how unpleasant it was to film the movies and, in some cases, how the intense fan pressure affected them.

Twilight was undeserving of all the hate it got, even if it lacked a proper plot and its protagonists were painfully underdeveloped, but those who mocked it for years missed the point of the stories, which was, simply, to entertain a specific audience. Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant. She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans and it turned out great.

Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Many questions about this phenomenon still remain unanswered. Then again, this year has also been really weird and is getting weirder every month. Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter. Twilight is bad. So why is it trending again?