DISQUS

Film School Rejects: The Twilight Addiction Gets Out of Hand – Riot Style

  • Ash · 1 year ago
    The disgrace that was this moment, and merely over Pattinson no less!
    I couldn't believe when i read what had happened at this signing. While it's a given that teenage girls have always been a little bonkers, (note music history: Beatles, New Kids, Backstreet Boys, etc.) I would have thought Twilight fans would be a little more controlled. I mean, this isn't a music act after all...it was an actor who was signing shirts from movie based on a book that hasn't even come out yet. It's fans who cause moments like these that give the rest of us, in the said shared fandom, a bad name.

    While, at the same time it must be said, given the worldwide fan reception, (note: Mexico, Rome,) you would think that Summit (or whoever is running this show) would know enough to hire more security. Or at least have warned the Hot Topics and Malls involved to hire security. I mean, did they really only expect only 200-500 people to show up to this thing?

    And i must state, again, when it comes to Twilight fans, the majority of us look shamefully upon this incident. Honestly, watching this thing unfold, while slightly funny... but considering people were actually hurt because of other people's utter stupidity over the moment... was total secondhand embarrassment.

    P.S.
    It's about time, however, the world realizes that girls, (let alone teenage girls) are a force all our own.
  • Meli · 1 year ago
    Disgusting display of behavior. Yes, the mall/Hot Topic could have been better prepared with people to babysit the kids, but as Cole said this is not a music act...the signing was for an actor. Reality check these girls and their idiot parents. Yes, the parents are also to blame because were planety of them there looking on or acting just as juvenile. At this point its hard to claim to be a fan because I don't want to be lumped in with the loonies. If found my daugther behaving in that manner she'd be restricted from the books and movie, period.
  • Nish · 1 year ago
    I think the Hot-Topic-wearing-teenage girl obsession with Twilight is pretty amazing. I mean its just a book. It may be a good book, (I've never read it and don't really plan to, or see the movie), but its still a book.
  • Meepo · 1 year ago
    Actually the event was not canceled, Robert showed up after all, which I think is BS the police lied and some of the people who had flown there from Hawaii ended up being tricked and left.
  • David G · 1 year ago
    Not even a year from now will those girls remember this book. That's the shame of it all. Such a big fuss over nothing. Absolutely nothing.
  • JERI · 10 months ago
    I wish that there waS SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN eNGLAND (NO, NOT THE BROKEN NOSE BIT BUT JUST SOPMETHING TH OTHER THAN WATCHING THE PICTURE THEN LEAVING)!