I personally dislike Twilight but Stephanie Meyers was being a fucking genius when she wrote depression as blank pages with only the name of the months, and New Moon turned this part of the book into movie form in an also very genius way
Yeah, it's a very very good way of showing the absolute depths of depression. The book is real bad at the day to day with depression, but the overview is fantastic. I can't remember like 80% of the last three years or so, and it is very that, blank pages with just, days and months
In the first Twilight book she literally listens to a Linkin Park album on repeat lmao (the album isn't named by Meyer confirmed it was Linkin Park in an interview 💀)
You can hear the voice at the back of your head saying "Bestie, are you sure this is wise?, You need to be the girl boss in this situation not the boy employee"
@alexis jordan Oh my gosh looking back at this I’m so embarrassed. I totally know the difference between them 🤦♀️ I guess I just mixed up the name????? But idk how I didn’t notice the show mentioned??? And I know Dakota was on twilight, not Elle? How embarrassing lol
@janine now let's not discredit elle fanning here she's super talented and has been in a number of excellent projects like the neon demon, the great, the beguiled, etc.
@janine I don’t think maleficent gives you an accurate view of her abilities. She’s been in a lot of things before and after that which are much better.
it is now twilight canon for me that mike was in italy for the entirety of the new moon italian scenes and he was just off camera experiencing his italian tour trauma
@abby doesart could you imagine? Bella sprinting to Edward but in the background Mike is posing for a picture, sunburnt and done with the Volturri MESS
Funny that I find this comment while I'm writing my "Romeo & Juliet in Twilight: New Moon vs. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" essay for my Contemporary American Literature online course. 😆😉
That's 2020s culture💕 Just like Shakespear became High Culture when it was aimed at ye good ol' peasant, we're here getting lectures about Classical Pop Culture
Cause Mayer is a Mormon, and also a racist. And homophobic. Honestly, she is just kind of a trash person. Just like another very famous teen book author I can think of...
Omg when I was little and ignorant I was so gassed about Jacob's glow up but now that I think about it, the fact that they had a NATIVE character cut their hair to fit into the mainstream beauty standards for men and appeal more to the audience seems really gross. Like... The fetishization of indigenous people is so strong in this franchise it makes me ill. Edit: it is also illegal for anyone to go shirtless in Italy. So if the Volturi didn't get Edward then the Italian government certainly would.
I actually remember how ADULT women were absolutely foaming at the mouth over Jacob specifically like they didn't remember that the character and actor were both underaged. Like it was real predatory on god
This triggered all my PTSD (Post Twilight Stress Disorder) memories of my very own Italian Tour TM. Me and my parents went on holiday around Italy shortly after New Moon came out. I was like 15-16 and OBSESSED with it all. I managed to convince my parents to make Volterra one of the stops of our trip, the Italian hilltop town where all the Volturi stuff was set. Like I made them add it to the itinerary, pay for 2 nights in a hotel, all for the Twilight connection. Absolute clownery and I must hold my parents somewhat accountable for letting it happen 😂 Dragging my poor parents on the Twilight Tour of the city, with the poor Italian Tour guide who was clearly baffled by Twilight, and answering all of the trivia questions he asked us like the fangirl I was....truly one of my cringiest, darkest memories 😅😅😅 (I'm an only child - haha can you tell 😩 - so I wasn't even sharing this trip with like a similarly obsessed sister, just my utterly baffled middle aged parents.) To be fair, I'd still absolutely reccomended Volterra as a holiday destination, it was beautiful and had lots of interesting things and lovely food, and there's probably far fewer cringey Twilight fans around than there were in 2010 🤷♀️ But alas I can never return because I would combust out of pure cringe at my 16-year-old self.
Ok so... If vampires stop physically aging, and they're turned while they're still teens/early 20's, does that mean their prefrontal cortex never matures????? 🤔🤔🤔 This would explain so much of this damn story
The full butterfly effect theory is that 50 shades of grey exists because of 9/11. - 9/11 happens. Gerard Way is effected by this and it inspires him to create the band My Chemical Romance. - Stephanie Meyer, the author of Twilight, was inspired by My Chemical Romance to write Twilight. -50 shades of grey was a twilight fan fiction, later adapted into a film.
I feel the uncontrollable need to share this: So there was a movie made in 2002 called The Secretary, a BDSM movie about a shy submissive girl who becomes the secretary of an emotionally closed off yet domineering lawyer named MR. E. EDWARD GREY ........ his name is EDWARD GRAY........... 50 Shades of GREY was a fanfic of twilight with a love interest named EDWARD?!?!?!?!
What i wanna know is how was miss bella not embarrassed at least once throughout this entire movie. I would simply pass away than to be carried home by a shirtless man after napping in my back garden
I twisted my ankle at my dads wedding (I was a bridesmaid) and had to be carried to a cab by the best men, aka 1) the MayoR 2) objectively the most handsome man is ever seen irl. I die a little bit every time I remember it which is every time I close my eyes.
We have an awkward antisocial teen written by some white woman to blame for the literary atrocity that is Wattpad stories ?? ..damn...the more you know 👁️👄👁️
i just finished writing my bachelor’s thesis about how the volturi are an authoritarian regime and anti-indigenous racism in twilight i am so overdosed on twilight yet still watching this (i think this is a compliment)
This comment is really beautiful to me because I often think about the layers of context we would need to get to somewhere in life. This has way too many layers of context needed and I adore it.
I literally am personally offended by Alice's wardrobe in this entire film. The book explicitly states that she is extremely into fashion and I point-blank REFUSE to believe that a bad bitch like her would turn up to what is potentially her own death at the hands of vampire royalty in FUCKING FLATS? The gloves I love because they're a complete power move when you think that Aro needs skin contact for his powers to work but why give her the most hideous gloves in the history of colour television? The wardrobe department and costume designers need to be ashamed of themselves. I purposefully have not looked up their name(s) purely because I know my petty bitch ass will declare them my enemy.
When we went to see Twilight in the cinema, one of my best friends in high school started crying when they played the 'turn off your phone, the movie is about to start' ad because "oh my god it's happening, we actually get to see the movie." Top ten iconic moments of my young life, I distinctly remember the ad was sponsored by Malteasers because that's what I still think of to this day every time I see a pack. Bestie if you happen to see this comment you know who you are 😂💕
I love the fact that in several parts of the series they forget to put in the special effect where Edward glows like diamonds. (Like in the fourth movie) 😂
The way that Edward later on said that none of the mess would happen if he didn't fall in love with Bella LIKE I would unlikve myself because imagine the man you love saying u aint worth the struggle BYE
I’ve spent my whole life not realizing Jacob called her loca. Why did he call her thatttt 😂😂😭😭 he’s supposed be indigenous not Spanish likeeeeee whaaaatt lmfaoooo
HAHAHHA STOP. I’ve only seen these movies in Spanish, I never thought that “Bella, where the hell have you been loca” was ACTUALLY in the movie, I really thought people made a meme 😭
I watched this movie with my swim friends. It was the first social thing I did with them and if this movie had been better it would not have been the last.
I watched this one night, for the hell of it, at university. And I'm not ashamed to say that I think Michael Sheen and Graham Greene actually improved every scene they were in.
"I have not seen a single umbrella this movie" Yeah you wont see a lot of those in the pnw lol. Nobody having an umbrella is the most realistic part of this movie
@Claire Magnuson Yeah you just accept you'll get damp. Everyone else does too so it's no big deal. The rain is pretty constant over late fall and winter but usually light. If you're spending a lot of time outdoors, raincoats and other waterproof gear are better than umbrellas. Umbrellas are really only when you have nice clothes you absolutely don't want getting wet.
Mr. Mic you are so right in saying "get a degree. get several degrees. get a PhD." to Eddie Cullen. You know who is a superior vampire that preceded Dracula and is a lesbian? Carmilla Karnstein.
I low-key high key hate that at one point in my teenage existence I thought the twilight books were good… miss author Stephanie was really out here glorifying the MOST toxic of relationships and we all just ate it up like the 14 year old girlbosses that we were… I can’t
That scene where the seasons change is one of the most memorable movie scenes in my brain and I'm not mad about it. Also I remember listening to the entire soundtrack when I was like 13 on my MP3 (yes my MP3) and every track is a solid choice 10/10
Okay. But my film school production design teacher was the production designer for this movie and you KNOW he spent an entire class talking about the chair spinning scene and how he made that happen. He knew he deserved an Oscar for that.
last halloween my friends wanted to have a horror movie night but i am not a Horror Movie Girlie so i convinced them to just watch twilight instead and we ended up watching the entire franchise in a matter of days LMAO
"Jane is like, The Weeknd of vampires" so you could say she is, Vampire Weekend? Who were also in the soundtrack for Twilight Saga: Eclipse? If this isn't mentioned on your next Twilight video this is all rigged.
Fun fact: I live near Forks, WA. No one uses an umbrella actually we all just have good rain coats. I’m pro-umbrella, but it’s a weird regional pride thing plus the wind makes umbrellas useless most of the time
Im in love with these longer videos, it doesn't have to be a well researched video essay but just you talking about something random for 20 minutes is the content we need
After twilight came out, the new moon book was completely sold out everywhere and obsessed teenage me made my mum travel to hell and back to find it so that I could obsess over it during my summer holidays. Lovely times. Also we demand part 3, 4 and 5.
the blue filter is what makes the first movie so good. that’s legitimately the only reason why, but it’s still effective. when they started using normal colors the entire story was ruined 🙄
Mike, idk how you do it but every single video you just keep getting better and better. The editing, the humour, all of it HITS. Like, you really DID👏 THAT👏 BESTIE👏
I went through my first breakup whilst reading new moon at 15 years old and when I tell you I could not have produced more tears during that depression montage....
No but literally. I remember being a child and being casually like oh I like the songs in this movie and my brother read the credits and downloaded the bands for me and I spent the next decade listening to paramore
We were talking about what colour we'd be at acting camp and someone said "a cloudy sky but with that blue filter from twilight over it" the timing of this video
Actually Jane could only make people feel pain not anything she wanted. Her brother had similar power but less powerful as ppl would feel pain if he surrounded them with fog
Bella is literally like nobody like she contributes nothing to any friendship or relationship she has in any of the movies and everyone is so obsessed with her and will just like put their lives at risk for her and stuff it’s wild
Taylor + co. really needed to PLUCK that hairline and leave some baby hairs that shit was screaming “girl who just spent her whole summer job’s wages on her first expensive lace front only to neglect to pluck it because she’s too scared to ruin it oh welp” *cuts lace* *slaps it over unsecured wig cap* The whole look was LOCA
The best part of New Moon is the fact that Edward *didn't* leave Bella in the middle of the woods - they were right behind her house! She could look back and be like "dead boyfriend is gone, Imma go cry in my bedroom forever now" but NO. Girl deliberately chose to try and follow her superfast ex-boyfriend into the woods only to trip on some shit and lay there. Love that dumb shit.
The soundtrack is deliciously cyclical, and I absolutely love it. I remember teaching myself how to play their romance motif on the piano. Also that one spinning scene where the seasons change, makes me dizzy, like downright motion sickness
fun fact: my dad’s 51st birthday was yesterday, and over the past 2 days we watched the entire saga as a family. It was…. a strange experience. My dad had never seen any of the movies and he was very into them
My introduction to Twilight was the first ten pages of the first book (I got bored and stopped reading after that) and the second movie. I figured that I could skip out on the frustrating part of the slow-burn and skip to the vampire shenanigans if I went straight to New Moon, and I had more patience to sit through the movie than the book. I did not realize it was going to be this kind of melodramatic break-up flick, but now that I’m older, I can appreciate it for that. I never quite vibed with the Twilight craze but I don’t regret giving it an honest shot. I will thank it for the boom in YA monster romances. For better and worse, it has had a huge influence on my taste in fictional boyfriends and girlfriends.
This is how my fanfic version of Twilight happened from New moon and onwards: Bella spends her days suffering through #Depression #ScreamQueenSleepingBeauty phase until she slowly starts to Hate Edward for leaving her and being with Jacobs starts to heal her a bit. Her life starts getting back to normal UNTIL! Jacob invites her to go cliff jumping, and because of Jakes wolfie blindspot Alice thinks Bella commited "Sewer Slide" and go to Forks to confirm to which Bella sees her again and the scars of her emotional healing is just ripped open again and Bella is just not having it and want nothing to do with the Cullens. Of course Alice tries to be calm and talk some sense into Bella and during that a call comes on the phone Jacobs answers, of course its Edward, and Jacob being the petty Bestie he is tells Edward Bella is unalive and Alice tells them Edwards gonna Romeo himself and Bella just doesnt care because she wants him to feel the pain she was in when he dipped. But of course Alice convinces Bella to go with her to save Edward-begrudgingly- and they get thete, Edwards about to striptease the nation until Bella stops him. And when Edward tries to hug her, greatful that his one true love is alive, Bella stops him because she aint having it and that when the Volturi guards pull up and escort all of them into the great hall to meet the Slay leaders and their wigs of supremacy. And shit goes down. Instead of trying to protect Edward and like a crazy crackhead, Bella bargains with the Volturi after they witness her gift in action; she tells Aro she will let him turn her into a Vampire in exchange for Edward and Alices freedom *gasp! * And Aro is like yasss please! And accepts, but Edwards trifling ass tries to intervene, gets his skinny ass kicked by Tall Boi Felix and Bella hits him with some facts that she really isnt doing it for him, she's simply doing it not only because she wants to slay for all eternity BUT she wants to punish Edward for all eternity for breaking her heart and it will be his job to tell her dad he is the reason she "unalived herself" and the Volturi be in the corner silently cheering because girlboss Bella is kinda dark. And Edwards spendd the remainder for the fanfic trying to get Bella back while she living her best Vampire life😅 That is my AO3 version of this movie!
I love how in Twilight, vampires (in the Twilight universe) apparently love to swim, but in The Vampire Diaries, Damon Salvatore states that vampires (in the TVD universe) hate swimming. 😂😂😂
The politics of the Vulturi are very interesting, it reminds me of Vampire The Mascarade. If the movies were more heavily focused on those aspects I would absolutely be a fan
Pls do the other twilight movies, these videos are sooo good. I low-key just need Mike to experience the insane baby-face CGI they pulled for the last one.
