Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Twilight: The Saga Goes Stupid


What is up with movies? I can dig the recent superhero flicks because they remind me of when I was a kid and read comic books and had no responsibility. However, my daughter is crazy about these vampire movies that have become so popular that they have made about a dozen of them. "Twilight" is the story of a typical moany, groany teenage girl that is suffering with the angst of having fallen for a babyface vampire. The movies keep making money so the producers refuse to drive a stake into this load of crap and just keep showing this girl and guy staring sadly off into space and thinking that their life is soooo bad. I have a couple of ideas that I think would spice things up. I think a dose of the absurd is exactly what is needed to make this interesting. First, these kids are so whiney that you can't even make them interesting my turning them into vampires. They just become depressed vampires that sit around feeling sorry for themselves. That sucks. My first idea would be to give this plot a dose of feely-good by fusing their characters with the cast of "Grease" which is a sort of similar story in a not really sort of way. But you do have the "Bad Boy", the innocent girl, some light drama, etc... Can you imagine how cool it would be if every time the scene got all heavy and the characters are staring off into space they could break into song. Hell, it would even be better if they would sing the same songs from "Grease". Now I would watch that. Instead of sex on the beach it would be some blood sucking. I love it. Now for the end I think that it would be perfect if the characters would sing and dance their way to the lair of the all time king of vampires. Then as they open the door a shadowy figure laughs and turns slowly around only to reveal that the king of the vampires turns out to be...The Count from Sesame Street. He could turn around and start numbering them off; von, du, thrrrree, fourrr, fivvve, seeeks, sayven, bleh!