And in America, last i checked we were permitted to have bad taste. Again, literature vs. entertainment. If one wants to feel smug that he/she won’t stoop to reading anything less than literature, he/she can go ahead and feel superior and most people won’t be bothered by it. It says more about the one feeling the need to feel superior than anyone else, IMO. I am saying that there is room for dreck, always has been and always will be. if this book/movie series had pretensions claiming to be literature or cinema, i’d say it was open to criticism. It doesn’t. it is what it is, and IT IS, if nothing else, financially SUCCESSFUL.
Who said we weren’t? I’m not claiming ‘there oughta be a law’ I’m claiming that educated people should know better than to espouse the ‘everyone’s opinion is equal’ canard. And actually, the Twlight films do have pretensions to seriousness. That’s certainly how their audience takes them.