The final installment of the Twilight movies comes out this weekend — or at least I’m hoping it’s the final installment. It seems Stephenie Meyer wants to keep this franchise alive longer than Edward Cullen himself.
After watching Robert Pattinson tear open a placenta with his teeth in Breaking Dawn Part 1, you’re probably already eagerly anticipating the saga’s sequel. But if you need a little convincing, here are five reasons why you should see Breaking Dawn Part 2.
1. You’re not alone in hoping Bella dies already.
We all thought that Edward’s monster sperm would be the end of the girl once voted Forks High School’s most-bland student. For a while there, it seemed like some combination of malnutrition, emotional turmoil and demon gestation would finally be Bella’s undoing, but we weren’t so lucky. However, you’re not the only one who wants to see Bella bite it. In fact, an entire army of vampires wants to do just that. If nothing else, Breaking Dawn Part 2 will provide you with a brief sense of community. It’s nice to know there are others out there who are sick of all that Edward/Jacob angst — even if one of them is Dakota Fanning.
2. Taylor Lautner falls in love with a baby.
A shirtless Jacob is depressed because the girl of his dreams (he set the bar rather low) chose Cedric Diggory Edward Cullen over him, but when he sees Bella’s newborn child, something magical — and illegal — happens. He falls in love with the baby. The baby. The baby that ate its way through Bella’s womb, ages at an unnatural pace and was saddled with the worst name in modern literature. I repeat: He’s in love with THE BABY. I would buy a movie ticket just for this.
3. Kristen Stewart adopts a raw diet.
Bella awakens as a new vampire — glittering and starving — and runs into the woods looking for a meal. This will undoubtedly be one of the best parts of the movie because you’ll see Kristen Stewart kill a freaking mountain lion with her bare hands and drink blood from its jugular. It’s going to be nothing short of amazing. Summit, you better not have cut this scene.
4. There will undoubtedly be epic CGI fails.
Why would you want to watch a battle where two groups of supernatural creatures basically have a staring contest in a meadow? Because the special effects are going to be an absolute nightmare as Summit attempts to create the following: an Amazon woman vampire who conjures elaborate illusions, an Egyptian vampire who controls the Earth’s elements, and a vampire who shoots electricity out of her skin. I would have trouble taking this seriously even if they all weren’t glittering in the process.
5. There will be screaming. So much screaming.
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I don’t know about you, but drinking enough coffee to sit through the midnight screening of a Twilight movie on opening night is worth it just for the teenagers’ intense emotional displays. (I envy the people who get to watch the movie with this girl.) Add to that the squeals of the middle-aged women who claim they’re only there because their 12-year-old daughters needed a ride, and you’ve got some serious entertainment. (There’s a reason women keep going to see these movies, and I can assure you it’s not the riveting plot or the award-winning acting.)
