This spoof trailer of vampire love story Twilight replaces human love interest Bella Swan with a cheeseburger while keeping most (if not all) of the movie's original dialogue. Result: it still works. Kind of. But now it's funnier! Watch the video after the jump.
Whoa, can be a total party killer and point out that replacing a woman with a hunk of meat – and having the trailer still sorta work – suggests something unsavory about the original material?
@KarynMC: Wellll I'm not a Twilight fanatic (although I did see the movie..because my mom likes it!), but to me the vampire is all like, "Uh, you smell and you taste really good because we're like soul mates, and I basically want to suck all your blood, but then that would kill you and I love you so I'll try not to do that. (But now you can live in fear that one day I won't be able to control myself. And then I will eat you.)"
You could replace the cheeseburger with a cupcake and I think it would still work. But cheeseburgers are funnier!
I'll admit, I read and very much enjoyed the books...though I'm also very much aware of how cheesy they are. The movie was only cheesier, but what can I say? Sometimes I'm in the mood for something cheesy!
And now I want a cheeseburger...that will be my bit o' cheesiness for the day, I think.
Haha, well I confess that reading the *summary* of the 4th book in the series horrified the feminist in me, and watching the movie did not make me much happier. And vampires are my favorite monsters - it takes a lot to make me dislike a corny vampire story!
I did think the video was funny, don't get me wrong. But I think the cupcake would have read a little differently, because women's bodies aren't commonly objectified in cupcake-terms, where meat is often highly sexualized (real men eat meat, women are pieces of meat, annoying commercials, etc).
So video=funny, Twilight=suck (in more ways than one).
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AMAZING.
veggieout at 1:04PM on 04/28/09
Whoa, can be a total party killer and point out that replacing a woman with a hunk of meat – and having the trailer still sorta work – suggests something unsavory about the original material?
Also, wooo! Vampire cheeseburgers!
KarynMC at 1:58PM on 04/28/09
@KarynMC: Wellll I'm not a Twilight fanatic (although I did see the movie..because my mom likes it!), but to me the vampire is all like, "Uh, you smell and you taste really good because we're like soul mates, and I basically want to suck all your blood, but then that would kill you and I love you so I'll try not to do that. (But now you can live in fear that one day I won't be able to control myself. And then I will eat you.)"
You could replace the cheeseburger with a cupcake and I think it would still work. But cheeseburgers are funnier!
Robyn Lee at 2:12PM on 04/28/09
@KarynMC: Yeah, that was my thought. But I had to laugh at this.
esmesbell at 3:24PM on 04/28/09
This was hilarious!!!
I'll admit, I read and very much enjoyed the books...though I'm also very much aware of how cheesy they are. The movie was only cheesier, but what can I say? Sometimes I'm in the mood for something cheesy!
And now I want a cheeseburger...that will be my bit o' cheesiness for the day, I think.
hayleythecaker at 4:04PM on 04/28/09
this totally made my day!!
redzerostar at 4:07PM on 04/28/09
I just saw the movie about a month ago so it makes it even funnier. Funny shit
Lvn4life at 4:52PM on 04/28/09
Haha, well I confess that reading the *summary* of the 4th book in the series horrified the feminist in me, and watching the movie did not make me much happier. And vampires are my favorite monsters - it takes a lot to make me dislike a corny vampire story!
I did think the video was funny, don't get me wrong. But I think the cupcake would have read a little differently, because women's bodies aren't commonly objectified in cupcake-terms, where meat is often highly sexualized (real men eat meat, women are pieces of meat, annoying commercials, etc).
So video=funny, Twilight=suck (in more ways than one).
KarynMC at 4:52PM on 04/28/09
holy CATS! yeah, i'd probably pay to see this.
marchpane at 8:10PM on 04/28/09
LOL!!! its Serious Eats, but we shouldn't take this so seriously. this was funny!
_greenbean at 8:47PM on 04/28/09
This video>the movie>the book.
Beans at 12:11PM on 04/29/09