Twilight: A Primer For Adults
In preparation for this weekend's release of The Twilight: New Moon (OMG u guyz, is it possible 2 die from 3 much excitement?!), I decided to actually watch The Twilight yesterday, you know, see what the kids were into these days. Wow, kids these days, you are into something really terrible! Like, I figured Twilight was bad, but I did not know it was going to be THAT bad. I assumed that while I wouldn't like it, I would at least understand why kids liked it, but I don't! It's a disaster!
For one thing: it doesn't make any sense? I'm sure that if you've already read all of the books 12 times by flashlight underneath the covers because your mom said no more staying up so late since you look so tired that she's worried the teachers at your school are going to call social services on her, then maybe this movie makes sense because you already know everything that is going to happen anyway. But for people who haven't read the books it's a jumbled mess of inexplicable motivations and events. Like, for example, with almost no explanation, a game of Vampire Lightning Baseball is interrupted by the sudden CLIMAX OF THE MOVIE out of nowhere, in which a character that has literally been on the screen for 30 seconds so far is now at the crux of the movie's major dramatic arc? I will tell you what is spooky: this movie's inability to follow any rational structure of plot or character development!
Also, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are so terrible at acting! "I'm going to bite my lip repeatedly while you struggle to maintain your already terrible approximation of an American accent." This vampire movie's motto is "I want to suck...the end." Right, you guys?!
Anyway, I have provided a little cheat sheet for adults who might want to see Twilight New Moon this weekend for some reason, but who don't want to actually sit through the unbearable two hours that is Twilight Old Moon.
- Teenage vampires travel from high school to high school pretending to be incestuous siblings, because that is just a smart cover story.
- Teenage vampires always sit in a semi-circle around their cafeteria lunch table facing away from each other, it just makes it easier to give everyone "fuck me" eyes.
- Vampires know just where to find rays of sunlight in an otherwise gray forest, FACT.
- When you transfer to a new school, it will somehow be prom right away.
- Vampires of all ages love to play Vampire Lightning Baseball.
- Although vampires can hit baseballs very, very far, the outfielders must remain at a regulation distance from home plate during every at-bat, and then run fast into the woods to find the ball.
- If you're a bad vampire, wearing shirts is optional.
- It only takes two hours to drive from coastal Washington to Phoenix, Arizona.
- Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) can read everyone's mind except Bella Swan's (Kristen Stewart)--perhaps a "she is clinically brain dead" twist in future episodes?
- Werewolves used to be really awkward and goofy looking when we didn't know they were werewolves, but then werewolves put on 30 pounds of muscle and somehow that also fixed the werewolves' face?
- Vampires cannot go out in the sun because their skin sparkles and everyone will know they are vampires (or extras in a Lady Gaga video), but vampires CAN live in giant glass houses that let in as much sunlight as possible, no problem.
- Vampires never go surfing because surfing belongs to the werewolves.
- In a town of 3,000, you know that at least eight of them are going to be rapists, and they are all going to try and rape you together.
- Vampires drive their hybrid cars like Vin Diesel drives his dinner trays.
- You can throw off a Tracker Vampire by rubbing a hoodie on a tree.
- There are Tracker Vampires.
- Some vampires have psychic visions that can only be transcribed in charcoal drawings, you just never know, different vampires have different powers, sometimes, apparently.
- If you are a bad vampire who hangs out in a crew of bad vampires, and one of those bad vampires is black and has dreadlocks, watch out for him, because he will betray you for no reason, right away.
- Although in times of distress it would probably be faster for vampires to use their superspeed to get away, sometimes they just like to drive!
- Sometimes vampires have venom and sometimes they don't?
- If you are a good vampire and you are about to kill a bad vampire, you should try and restrain yourself and remember that you are a good vampire. The easiest way to do this is by letting other good vampires kill the bad vampire.
- Going back to Vampire Lightning Baseball for a second: it is important to wear a non-denominational "baseball" hat in a way that makes you look like a special needs child.
- Werewolf dads are very concerned with whether or not their human friends' daughters are dating teenage vampires, and will pay their teenage werewolves human money to try and break up these relationships that have nothing to do with them.
I'm sure there are some NUANCES that I'm not picking up on, but this is a good start for the novice. I recommend that you print it out, size it down, laminate it, and carry it around in your wallet. Just in case some kid starts SEXTING you and you don't know how to respond.
Posted by Gabe at 3:00 PM in Bonus Features
Tags: Children | New Moon | Twilight | Vampires | Werewolves
i didn't realize "twilight" and "adults" could be used in the same sentence.
Score = 13
Gabe, I'm LOLING too much at work. Please stop it. 3 much excitement for me.
Score = 21
Me, too! My boss (who is 69) keeps asking me what is so funny, and I tried to explain it, but she just looked at me...
Score = 6
Haha, thankfully no one heard me. I don't think anyone knows what a "Twilight" is at my place of business, either. Explaining it would have been like explaining Twitter, only worse.
Score = 5
3 good 3 be 6 gotten
Score = 59
So Twilight is exactly what I expected when I figured out it originated as the wet-dream fantasies of an unhappy Mormon housewife.
Thanks, Gabe!
Score = 22
You forgot the most imporant point... RPatt is the sextiest!!!
Score = 11
And Mormons know how to NOT have fun.
Score = 3
That picture never fails to make me laugh.
Score = 11
Totally agreed.
Score = 1
If they don't need to zip them up or even cover their shoulders, why are the vampire and his girlfriend even wearing such big coats?
That is only the tip of the doesn't-make-sense iceberg (floating in the please-go-away ocean), it would seem.
Score = 9
Savage review, Gabe. Savage.
http://i28.tinypic.com/2v8s6c5.gif
Savage and awesome.
Score = -9
Savage review, Gabe. Savage.
Savage and awesome.
Score = 22
Incest is always a smart cover story for vampires. "Oh, you mean she's not your sister? You're vampires? Meh."
Score = 12
Thanks for taking one for the team, Gabe. Now I feel like I've experienced the ridiculousness that is Twilight without having to see the movie.
Score = 8
Also, if you go to the screenings for this flick at the right time, you can totally scam on high school girls.
Score = 10
Or at least bag a TMILF, am I right?
Note: I am not right. There are no TMILFs.
Score = 1
"Vampires drive their hybrid cars like Vin Diesel drives his dinner trays."
I have absolutely no idea what this means, but that didn't stop it from being the funniest thing I've read/heard today.
Score = 15
http://www.spike.com/video/xxx-rail-slide/2450161
Never forget.
Score = 5
This movie sounds tits!
Score = 8
I can't believe how much she bites her bottom lip, and that she does it the same way every timeā¦ Also, it started to turn me on? Now I DO want to see New Moon? Thanksgiving weekend just got a little more (less?) bottom lip...
Score = 11
Why wasn't this an official Hunt contender? I'm pretty sure no more hunting is needed after this. Well maybe till the sequel comes out anyway.
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No one suggested it because it would totally end the hunt, and then where's the fun? Plus, we all assumed Gabe had gone to see it right away at the midnight opening.
Score = 12
not to be a downer here, (but i will) as is explained every 3rd Hunt post or so, in order to be considered for The Hunt a movie has to actually be relatively widely accepted as good. by people over the mental age of 14.
Score = 3
And I used to think thunder was caused by quiet old drunk dutchmen playing nine-pins in the Catskills. Vampires playing baseball in a lightning storm makes for a much better pourquoi.
Score = 4
Look, you can link as many youtube videos of Kristen Stewart doing her weird lip-bite-then-stick-her-tongue-out thing as you want, but that's not going to make me be in love with her any less.
Score = 11
kristen stewart modeled her performance on catherine hardwicke's real life personality.
Score = 2
Tracker vampires, werewolf reverse pimp dad, and baseball re-tooled specifically for vampires made me Netflix this movie. Sry.
Score = 2
"The Twilight"
I LOLed so hard, my host mum asked me what was so funny. It was really hard to explain in Spanish.
Score = 7
My favorite comment about the baseball scene on youtube"
"super-nice song and my favorite scene!!! Accidentally favorite alsoļ»æ my film are. this way nice! "
Twighlight knows their audience
Score = 11
Is Vampire Lighting Baseball as complicated as Cricket?
Score = 10
Yes. But less complicated than Vampire Tornado Badminton.
Score = 14
Say what you will about how horribly bad Twilight is (and it is), but down a bottle of wine first and it suddenly becomes just hilarious. Until you realize that you just drank a bottle of wine alone watching a movie reserved for 14-year-olds, and then it's just sad.
Score = 19
I did all of the above (except I had a buddy - strength in numbers, etc.), and it was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen! A laugh riot! One of the best comedies in years!
The totally unimpressive sparkling is my favorite ('Omg you sparkle as if you've just applied everyday bronzer! It's SHOCKING ME!'), followed closely be the unimpressive circa 1989 CGI tree-jumping effects.
Score = 5
Wine + "you're my personal brand of heroin" = me laughing myself right off the couch.
Score = 0
A couple friends and I went as Vampire Lightning Baseball players for Halloween, but unfortunately, there were only ADULTS at the party. Wish you would have published this cheat sheet three weeks ago...
Score = 5
YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Score = 9
soooo, what's the deal with the sorting hat?
Score = 7
please please review S. Darko. I can't nominate it for the Hunt for obvious reasons, but it is truly a magnificent entry in the Horrible/Hilarious Film Art Museum.
here is a preview:
and that one dude is in Twilight, so this comment is kind of related to this post!
Score = 5
"I want to suck...the end."
-Stephanie Meyer's tombstone.
Score = 8
THANK YOU.
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I'm betting that it will turn out that R-Pat can't read K-Stews B-waves (thoughtsicles?) because she'll go back in time sometime in the future and have sex with her grandpa making her her own Grandma! Which would mean, of course, that she doesn't have the delta brainwave! Which makes her thoughts unreadable! and she will save the world from the...uhh..brainspawn...
no! you are the nerd who tells dumb stories that arenāt topical or funny! screw you guys...
....you donāt know nuffin
Score = 2
But... Twilight Moms.
The more you know! Terror!
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Score = 5
this post has had the opposite effect on me. i now MUST see this movie - it is absolutely unbelievable. vampire baseball? people that sparkle? fake incest? i can't wait.
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"Vampire Lightning Baseball" sounds like a Mario Brothers sports game for the Wii.
Score = 1