Monday, August 13, 2012
Why we should all be excited for the last Twilight film
I'm sure as a lot of you know the last movie in the Twilight "saga" (more like the misadventures of a dry uninteresting girl and her lust for supernatural boyfriends) is coming up soon. There's not really any point in discussing why these are terrible films. It's been discussed on the internet a billion times with people like Stephen King giving their own evaluation of these wretched pieces of trash disguising as literature and film. But after this film premieres and all of the teenyboppers and scary middleaged women drool over it for a few hours, it's all over. We're free men. No longer will we be dragged into these movies by our girlfriends and wives. No longer will Comic-Con tickets sell out in seconds by rabid teenage girls. Vampires won't be hip and cool, meaning they'll go back to the bloodsucking menaces they're supposed to be. Oh, this film will probably break the box office records of far more well made and interesting films. And sadly, yes, Twilight will probably make a permanent ugly scar on the face of pop-culture. But when this fad is over, the Hunger Games fad will take over. I will be happy to see the day when a story about a dystopian society where children fight each over to death becomes more popular than a book where one bitchy girl chooses between two uninteresting men. Sure, we'll have to suffer through the 50 shades of gray fad as well, but I don't think women will be happy about dragging their boyfriends to a movie guaranteed to be somewhere around softcore to hardcore porn. At least that'll be the case if the movie is a faithful adaption of the book. Let's all celebrate the end of Twilight by going to the film this fall with a bunch of friends to riff on it for our enjoyment... and the irritation of others!
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