The Reel Rejects - VAMPIRES SUCK (2010) MOVIE REVIEW – THIS TWILIGHT PARODY SURPRISINGLY KEPT US LAUGHING!

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Starting point is 00:02:30 We're going to give it a go, and we're excited about it. We just hope that it gives us some juice. It's the way to end off the day, our vampire journey, by going through the first three. You ready, Tara? I like your shirt. It says horror horse. Yeah, this is a new one.

Starting point is 00:02:46 Go snag it. RejectnitNap.com. Please don't leave it in the comments for me to do a bunch of parody movies. You guys, please. Just like help me out. That could have been a lot worse. Oh, yeah. This was not, okay, listen, I had to go through all the scary movies.

Starting point is 00:03:04 You guys know who I've felt about those. It was not my top. It wasn't, you, Sapa, see, Sapa, I got through it. This one was better to me than scary movie. It was, uh, I mean, it's better than some of the scary movies to me. I like the first scary movie a lot. I had to block them all out of my memory, I think.

Starting point is 00:03:25 Maybe I liked the first one, but I had to watch six of them, Gregory. Back to fucking back. Five. Get it correct. Five. Six ones coming out. But this one was, this one wasn't that bad. It was what actually had some pretty funny moments.

Starting point is 00:03:39 It did. It did. I absolutely agree with you. I think this one was fun. And like, I like that we actually watch. them. We watched this fairly recently to ending all of the movies. We could get like

Starting point is 00:03:51 think about the the 360 shot where they're bypassing time. I thought was cute. Like there's a bunch of moments in here that I'm thinking oh, if you saw this and you didn't recently see all the other movies, you wouldn't get everything. But I'm glad that we did. Because like they added it, there was some good stuff

Starting point is 00:04:08 in here. Yeah, there was. There was some good stuff. Yeah. I actually had some genuine laughs. I was really worried that this was just going to be a frustrating experience. Yeah. I never quite, like I think in the last,

Starting point is 00:04:21 it has, these movies are the minimum requirement of reaching a certain runtime so they can qualify to be a feature film. Oh. You know? Yeah. And you could feel that they were like doing that.

Starting point is 00:04:33 Because really this is probably great. This is probably just right at like a 55 minutes, 60 minutes, you know? Right. Like it's a long SNL sketch parody. And I like SNL. So to me, There's plenty of flaps.

Starting point is 00:04:47 It was still pretty funny. Is it a little too long? I mean for an 80-minute movie? Yeah, it's a little too long. For sure. A little stretch is that a little too much. But I got to say, I want to look up because I've never heard of this person before. I've never seen her before.

Starting point is 00:05:01 Maybe I haven't. I just don't know. Who played Becca? Because she was so good. Let's see. I thought she was really, really good. Jen Praskey. Jen Proskey.

Starting point is 00:05:14 Who are you? We don't know. Let's see if she's still working. She was in law and order. Okay, her last thing was in 2022. Wow, she didn't work for a long time, though. Oh, wow. From 2014, and then she did some TV.

Starting point is 00:05:34 And then from 2014 to 2022, she didn't work at all until. She's just on a lot of, like, yeah. She had a reoccurring or a series regular show called Graceland. I don't know who she is, but she, was so good. She was great. Her comedic timing was on. Yeah, her mannerisms were great. Her comedic timing was on par. I felt like she was actually playing. That's my favorite thing with the, with the spoof movies where I think you can get it right, where they still know that they have to sort of actually play a character and not just do an impersonation. Right. And I think she had

Starting point is 00:06:08 like a good line that she wrote to playing like an actual, kind of like Sydney in the scary movies. Like, that's still a character. Yeah. Or Cindy in the scary movies. It's still a character. And I think character so she have to still be a little bit of a character. Yeah. Whereas like, the guy I played Edward is like, he's fine. He's funny. But I felt like he was like going for the jokes. Yeah. And he was still good. But I really felt like she had, she brought like an A game level to this type of genre. And I am kind of disappointed to see. It's probably because of this movie of West Ham worked that much. But I'm like, actually in this

Starting point is 00:06:40 movie to me, she's like the best part of this entire movie. Yeah. It's interesting that like maybe she just didn't want to work out. after 2014, she got like some episodes here and there where it's like I'm a little bit in that phase now too where I'm like, I'm not really audition anymore, but if someone offers me roles, or sometimes they still do, I'll take it. But there may be, and that may be what happened to her,

Starting point is 00:07:03 because I believe the movie that I saw ambulance that she did in 2022, I think I saw that movie and it's not a comedy. It's very serious and was very, very good. I remember really liking it. randomly was watching it at home. So I'm glad that she's like was able to maybe at this point pick and choose and that if she needed to take a break because sometimes this whole world and business can be really tough that maybe she needed it to and she's married with two children. So

Starting point is 00:07:33 maybe she took the time to do that too. That's what happens. You have kids. Ruins your career. Tell me about it. And yeah, she, even though LA Times said she's the film's strongest suit, I thought she was really, really great in this movie. Yeah. That was a place. pleasant surprise. And yeah, I've seen some of the movies from these guys before, and I haven't seen them in well over a decade. So I can't honestly tell, I all remembers my experience was sometimes being, like, kind of annoyed when I watched their work. And I never found myself quite annoyed. There are times I was a little bit bored towards the end. Yeah. But in the first half of this movie, I thought the first half of this movie was really fun. Yeah, they were moving it. Yeah, they were moving

Starting point is 00:08:10 it. The bits are really, uh, it's, it's kind of weird when sometimes like Twilight itself is an inherently kind of funny. It is. So sometimes they were doing things like, well, that's, that's the movie. It's Twilight itself is funny. Exactly. So sometimes it was like, you're just adding on to a moment that was already funny. Yes. But other times, I thought they did a really, like, great enhancement of it. I like the self-aware jokes, the meta jokes that what time they're like calling it out, the more subtle stuff of like, hey, you're really boring and frigid and like they're super into her. Yeah. And everyone loves you. But like, yeah, totally. That was funny. Or after she has like her sex suit on and then she falls through the ceiling.

Starting point is 00:08:47 And it's like this one long shot. And then he goes, we have to take it slow. Things like that. We're really funny. This movie was surprisingly funnier than I expected it to be. Like I have never had any interest in watching this movie. And I was surprised by how this was actually a good time.

Starting point is 00:09:07 This was a rather good time. The last 10 minutes, I was a little bored. But for us 80 minute movie, a solid 70 minutes of it. reasonably to very entertaining. Yeah, I think the best thing they did was the kissing part when, because I laughed at that in the movies. And you guys, oh, I love the Twilight movies.

Starting point is 00:09:24 But I was like, he literally looks like he's going in his pants when he kissed her for the first time. And they highlighted that and then they highlighted it again. Yeah. When he goes to bite her, that they're like looking like they're juicing it. And I just really liked how much they highlighted it. Like, that's what sketch comedy is.

Starting point is 00:09:40 You just, you play the game and you make it go bigger and bigger and bigger. And they did that. And so I had a good time. I thought it was good. You want to read some just simple, yeah, this is a way to enter Twilight Journey. Question asks. Yeah, I'm going to read the first one. Let me start with something honest.

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Starting point is 00:10:59 $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. Price Picks, it's good to be right. Awesome Joe movie reviews. Most parody movies are really bad. This one does not have a lot of ridiculous jokes that aren't really that funny, but also there are some good jokes that made me chuckle as well. Did you see this as successful enough to want a sequel of this franchise, other films, oh, to sequel of this franchise's other films, since this one only involved the first two films. I see, no, I don't think I'd be like, wait, we've got to do a parody of bringing down now, unless they were like, we'll give you 35 minutes of it, because then I think it would be like you'd get it boom boom boom boom boom boom and it would move really quick you'd be like

Starting point is 00:11:42 that's pretty good but i feel like with what gregg was saying they have to stretch it out to make a feature film mark um so i even though i totally agree with you so i'm not like ridiculously like thinking that it was ridiculously funny but there are and were some very very good jokes um but no i'm not i'm not needing to see more yeah i feel like the the gag that i don't like anymore with a lot of these like spoof movies is like just have people get hit and they fall down. Yeah. And this movie is not as indulgent in that as I thought it might be. And so to me, a lot of the funnier jokes actually came in the form of when it's just

Starting point is 00:12:20 kind of dialogue driven. Yes. Or something that is physical, but not just, they get hit and fall over, you know. And I think, I feel like breaking Dawn would lend itself to that because it's just like weird intimacy stuff. Yeah. And the big fight. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:38 Yeah, they can make fun of the baby too. Right. But they would have to do something that like really leans into it and not just be like, hey, you're a CGI baby. Like just calling it out doesn't make it funny. Like you have to actually make a joke out of it in some way. But I actually thought they, because they made such a weird fucking ending here with the dance and the prom

Starting point is 00:12:56 and then getting crowned and then she turns into a vampire, I felt like they ended the movie. I felt like they ended in a way where there doesn't need to be more story for vampires. Because what happened in the finale, was not the Twilight movie at all. Like this whole movie's the Twilight movies until the very ending we're like, what is this weird fucking prompter?

Starting point is 00:13:16 Yeah, and then they get... So once they did that, they just completely did their own thing and deviated from Twilight to the point where it's like, okay, you just ended this to where you don't need to have sequels now. Yeah, and they killed Edward.

Starting point is 00:13:28 So I like, we're done. Yeah, we're done. We're done. Jaden Rhodes. I could just ask you all questions about how bad this movie is, but my question will be, what are some of y'all's favorite

Starting point is 00:13:37 on these favorite parody movies. The best of me is probably Airplane or not another team movie. The worst is probably this movie or Scary Movie 5. Scary Movie 5 is pretty bad. Some favorite parody movie. Oh, there's this one with Val Kilmer. I liked a lot growing up called Top Secret.

Starting point is 00:13:55 But my favorite one of all time would have to be the movie Walk Hard with John C. Riley. That is undoubtedly my favorite spoof movie. Have you seen it? No. Walk hard. Oh, God, it's so fucking good. I love it.

Starting point is 00:14:06 I watch it like every couple years. That's based of Walk the Line. It's in Spice. It's, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's mainly makes fun of music biopics, but it's, but it's like a good spoof. Like, okay. They create a character.

Starting point is 00:14:19 They create a whole story. It's not just, like, do scenes from this movie. Sometimes they do, but most of it is just, like, it's really doing it's, um, it's like, um, it's doing this job. Like, like, they create songs for the movie. Oh, that's cool. Are they're good? Yeah, they're surprisingly.

Starting point is 00:14:33 They're funny, but they're actually, like, good. like, they're well, they're well, they're well, they're well, produced and the John C. Riley's a professional singer. So yeah, that was actually, that's my favorite one of them all. I'm going to tell you right now, Jaden, parody movies not really up my alley. It's not a thing that I, that I like.

Starting point is 00:14:49 I couldn't even tell you. Scary movie 5, I'm with you. That probably was a worst one. Like, I think when I was watching scary movies, I would always say that the first one was like better than the rest to me and I did watch those like a while ago. I can't think of any parody.

Starting point is 00:15:07 Like, I am not the person that sits down at home and goes, let's watch a parody movie. I'm like, nope, no thanks. I'm good. So I don't know that I could, I don't think I could give you one, to be honest. That's fair. Maybe it would be this one. Airplane's a good one. Airplane's funny.

Starting point is 00:15:24 I saw that like a long, long, long time ago. I also think the Naked Gun reboot is a good one. My God. My God. I saw, like, see, I saw like, I think Airplane and like naked gun. I do remember, like, seeing those on my TV, like, at a party or with friends or something, and being like, yeah, ha-ha. But there's a reason I'm doing this job.

Starting point is 00:15:49 I grew up in the movies, right? I love the movies. What I want from a movie is for me to go into a movie theater. And the reason I went into $5,000 of debt when I was 19 years old going to the arc light when I was in college is because I wanted it. take me out of my life and into another world. And a parody doesn't do that because we're making fun of the world. I want to be taken out of it. I want to be locked in so hard on the characters and the story.

Starting point is 00:16:17 And a parody doesn't do that. I did sketch comedy and comedy for a very long time. So maybe I'm also just like, uh-huh. Like tired of it? I don't know. But I want the movie to take me somewhere. And the parodies don't do that. So that's why I don't have a good answer for you, Jaden.

Starting point is 00:16:32 That's fair. And then, uh, Jay Rushden question. This movie was bad take, guess on Rotten Tomato Score. Oh, I'm going to say 9%. Oh, God, that's low.

Starting point is 00:16:43 I'm going to say, I won't look. I'm going to say 23%. Let's see. I'm going to say 49% audience, 9% critics. Oh, okay. I'm going to say critics, 23%

Starting point is 00:16:55 audience 31. You're really close to the audience. I got so close to the audience. I'm really good to Rottenam score sometimes. Wow. 4%. That's bad.

Starting point is 00:17:09 That's really bad. But you know what? Did critics really go see it? Because like if I was a critic and like I've been invited to film stuff like sometimes we do, I wouldn't go. So how many grades are the, it's only 89 versus 50,000 of the audience. So that score doesn't really even out to me. I mean, it's still pretty bad. But I think it's still horrible.

Starting point is 00:17:33 It's still real. Obviously this movie is not. great. You're not going to be like, you got, you got to see this one. Yeah. It's sort of like, yeah, played on in the background. If you want to make fun of Twilight, done deal, you know. But no, there was enough laughs in it where I wouldn't give it. I would give this movie like a 45%. I don't, I think I would go with what I said. Like, yeah, 31.

Starting point is 00:17:58 Oh, but damn, Melania has 11%. We should watch Melania. Oh, God. Anyway, guys, we're done here now. Thanks so much for being here. We are. We'll see you for the next round of whatever we do. Bye.

The Reel Rejects - VAMPIRES SUCK (2010) MOVIE REVIEW – THIS TWILIGHT PARODY SURPRISINGLY KEPT US LAUGHING!

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