User blog comment:Shido-san/I bet you just hate the Razzies now, don't you?/@comment-5605813-20130113220406

Interesting point. Sparkling vampires somehow equate with raging homosexuality. Personally that never occurred to me but I think the idea is a rather desperate stretch to justify unqualified hatred. Good examples of that are Justin Beiber and, I think, Taylor Swift, who think has gotten beyond that now. A whole bunch of people get irritated by a phenomenon they didn't see coming and they hate being outside of the buzz..

Cinematographically, the scene with Edward running up the mountain with Bella piggybacking was a brave attempt by the director, Catherine Hardwicke, to capture an impossible visual effect. It didn't work. The tree jumping scenes didn't work well either. But, I enjoyed them despite their silliness. The sparkling was another problem, though really less of an issue due to Northwestern coast weather. Bill Condon's work on the jumping came across much more natural and believable.

Sparkling was a brave departure from traditional forms of vampirism, the most common being that sunlight would ignite vampires into flame and ash. Maybe some were disappointed by this alterate version. I look at every piece of literature as its own universe, so it did not affect me.