James Franco Bashes ‘Twilight’: It’s All About Sex

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Am I the only one that doesn’t see or get James Franco‘s much-admired and so-called acting “brilliance?”

I mean, I even called the disaster that the 2011 Oscarswould be the second I heard he would be a co-host of the event.

So, it doesn’t surprise me one bit that this actor does not get what we TwiHards get and totally trashed the Twilight franchise in a column for The Paris Review
Sure, trash Twilight for all the right reasons (Bella’s constant lip biting, vegetarian vampires, unrealistic story lines, etc). But, the Oscar-nominated actor instead says these movies which only have one or two sex scene between a married couple in five movies rely heavily on nearly-underage sex. Specifically, he wrote:

The protagonists finally marry, having waited until the wise old age of eighteen, and since the book and the film dutifully show them being wed, they are then allowed to f-ck each others’ brains out. For a film that claims to be sexually responsible, the Twilight movies are awfully dependent on teenage sex to attract viewers.

The actors prance about like pieces of meat, their disturbingly developed bodies on full display; Taylor Lautner’s rippling teenage chest is just a little better than the child beauty-pageant stars at the end of Little Miss Sunshine.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion I guess. But when someone who played a male gigolo in a movie (2002’s Sonny) and who admittedly watched live man on man sex to “research” for the role says another successful franchise places too much emphasis on sex, I have to take a moment, and…. laugh! By the way, Sonny, Franco’s sexy film, made a mere $17,600 in its opening weekend. That may explain Franco’s ire a bit here with Twilight.

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