Twilight - Made Awesome
I have not read the book Twilight. Nor had I, until last night, seen the movie.

Since I am not a thirteen-year-old girl, I wasn't all that excited to see it. My wife and oldest daughter read the book and didn't like it. I've been a little overwhelmed on my reading list to add it to the queue. (But the idea of glittery vampires was just too hysterical for me to leave alone...)

I still have no reason to read it. But - when I saw Rifftrax had done one of their MST-3K style commentaries for it, I figured it was time. I'd finally know what people were raving about.

While nothing has quite compared to their awesome riffing of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, this one came close. They DO make riffs of good movies, too (Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, etc), so the fact that this riffing exists shouldn't be considered a necessarily scathing indictment of the film.

That being said, the film offered Mike Nelson and friends a WEALTH of opportunities to tear it to shreds. When they started humming "Yakety Sax" (popularized by the Benny Hill show) while Edward goes running up the hill with Bella on his back, I just about fell out of my chair from laughing. We had a good group together to watch it (the best way to watch MST-3K or Rifftrax videos), and it had us in stiches.

Labels: Geek Life

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