Everybody rails against the Twilight series without really knowing why they hate it; most people haven't actually watched the films and when they have it's with a predisposed desire to find the whole thing ridiculous. As can be expected from a young adult franchise with very attractive leads, Twilight garnered a large, vocal and highly obsessive fan-base. Their strength was only rivalled by another subgroup of the audience; the Twilight haters. Unable to comprehend how pre-teen girls could adore something that held high appeal for pre-teen girls but not teenage boys or middle-aged men, a massive anti-Twilight wave swept the internet, which only served to make the fans more vocal, in turn increasing the haters strength and so on. When it became apparent that the mainstream appeal was negligible the films stopped trying to win people over, being made purely for the easy-to impress converts. And as you can expect that only made things worse, but so much of the hate/adoration of either camps wasn't based off the films themselves, but the strength of the other fanbase. Not only was the reputation of the first Twilight film, which was a convincing attempt at making a good screen version of the questionable book, totally ruined, but the strong hate meant that subsequent entries in the series got worse. That sucks.
