Defying all odds, apparently last Saturday's SNL with Taylor Swift was by all accounts hilarious, and no sketch more so than the Frankenstein Twilight parody above, Firelight. Great make-up, shockingly accurate to the movie, and Taylor Swift absolutely nails Kristen Stewart (acting-wise, not... you know. Sorry for the confusion). Did need more sparkles, though.
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Is it so hard to think of Frankenstein the movie monster and Frankenstein's Monster the literary character as two different things?
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@Warrick Too true. My sincerest apologies. And yes I know that there are some fans of the non-vaginal variety as well, but I'm sure the author sees anyone other than the "lonely adolescent girl" readers as extra cash to the narrow market she is catering to. A sparkling dildo to them all.
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HEY HEY WHOA SLOW DOWN THERE MATTK The only thing this unappreciated teen girl right here needs is good ol' pathetic superhero fantasies. My fellow demographic-brethren can keep their glittershit.
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@ZeroCorpse I like to think that the gross inaccuracies and the lack of any real depth of connection to literary references is, in itself, a statement of how shit stupid the Twilight series is. When you have the main character, which is of course a VERY thinly veiled avatar for the author, named "Bella Swann", you almost KNOW that she treated herself to some wine and a hot bath when she came up with that one. At her class on "literature" at "Brigham Young University", she probably heard the two lessons on "metaphor" and "allegorical references" and pretty much left right there to write her masturbatory fan fiction. Unappreciated teen girls have as much right to catered fiction as us guys with our superhero fantasies, but really, girls, do you REALLY want to spend your hard earned money on shit like this? Surely you can find better.
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Jeez. They could have at least named him Adam, in a nod to Shelly's reference to the same. And yeah, "Frankenstein" was the doctor, not the monster. Did nobody in this country actually READ "Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus"? And he wasn't fucking GREEN. He's about 8' tall, hideously ugly, with translucent yellowish skin that "barely disguised the workings of the vessels and muscles underneath", watery, glowing eyes, flowing black hair, black lips, and white teeth. Karloff's version wasn't meant to be green, either. It *was* green, but only because it needed to show up better on black & white film as something other than normal European skin tone. The green wasn't meant to be interpreted as green if seen in color. He was supposed to look greyish and dead. A little research, people. Laziness is how we end up with shit like Twilight in the first place.
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A parody of a movie one year late with a sequel already out. And like all SNL skits, it starts out funny and ends unfunny
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Sadly, NBC.com videos are still not available in Soviet Canuckistan :(
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Andy Samberg actually kinda looked like Edward...
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It was so funny, it made me want to strangle someone...by accident. Bill Hader is one of the gems of the current SNL. Who's up for crashing some Twilight event as a group of 'Franks'?
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RIP Phil Hartman
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@electronsexparty - Except that most of America refers to the monster as Frankenstein. And changing the skit to a family of "monsters" doesn't really make for clever comedy. Technically accurate? Yes. Funny? No.
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The fact that instead of there being vampires and werewolves there are now Frankenstein's monsters and mummies makes me want to see this in real life.
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SNL is pretty much unfunny 99% of the time. But this is funny. I don't care if he's the monster or the doctor. This is on-point about Terrible Twilight (and it's just plain awful, book and movie and merch) and Taylor Swift has the non-acting of Bella down pat. I love this.
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*know where not were
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@Mike: One can argue that vampires have been logically morphed into emo teens (though I don't were the sparkly bit comes from) by their popularization with teens starting in '80's with "The Lost Boys". However, Frankenstein will always be the doctor, not the monster. (And I just wanted to quote MST3k in my post.)
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I'm going to say meh. Although the whole premise of The Monster freaking around fire is pretty funny. SNL's golden years have passed, is all. On an entirely unrelated topic, it's been Sesame Street's birthday for a while now. Where's the celabratory article, Rob?
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@electronsexparty: Yes, but vampires are also evil bloodsuckers, not emo teens doused in glitter.
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Oh, no, honey. Frankenstein was the doctor not the monster.
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Isn't that frankenstein the same guy that was the stunt double in the Slave Leia post?
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That was cute, but poking fun at Twilight is like shooting fish in a barrel. Come on, the Edward Ken doll sparkles! Do I have to say anything more? The irony is that I use T. Swift's career and Twilight as examples that teen girls and a extent middle aged women have no taste! Just my two cents as a music geek and a nerd.
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"acting-wise, not...you know." No, I don't know. Why don't you explai.......OHHHHHHH! I got it now. k thks by.
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Breaking: episode not that hilarious. good parody though.
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