February 2nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm | Posted by Mary
Ohmahgah, is this for real?!
It’s true, HillyFans! We’ve finally picked the winners for our second contest! We had some really great entries – and a bunch, too! You all had some really fun thoughts and honest ones, along with some funny ones. But let’s just get right down to it.
The Winner for Best Review:
lenimentus
*read her review of NEW MOON PARODY below*
Our Two Winners Chosen at Random Are:
Aimee
Meliss596.leigh
As previously stated, many of you were great with the reviews on NEW MOON PARODY, but this particular one caught our attentions. We hope you all love it just as much as we did!
My first reaction was: “What the ^%@*!^(~?! I didn’t see that coming!”
Nevertheless, when I had seen the whole video, I had to think it through – this is nothing like what they’ve done before.
The first thing that comes to mind is that, in this video in comparison to TWILIGHT PARODY, Hilly and Hannah have dared to take more steps away from the original films. That’s a huge risk but they pulled it off – and I don’t understand how they did it! From the tramp stamp to the boxing fight, from Bella’s clothing and make-up to Bella’s attitude, and more – that could have gone really bad but, genius as the sisters are, the music brought it all together in a really professional way.
The acting, on everyone’s part, is brilliant. I love the new faces, especially the Volturi cast; they were all very look-alikeish! I want to give homage to Kyle’s expression at the end! Brilliant! That’s really how [the character of] Jacob must have felt inside though he didn’t show it. Haha! I think Jacob has improved a lot since TWILIGHT PARODY and he’s giving Edward much more feeling than Robert Pattinson did in the original film. And Hilly brought the attitude to the screen, which Kristen Stewart was incapable of doing. Thank God for that.
For me, my favorite part in the video was how well Hillywood imitated the Volterra scene. The lighting, the extras (I spotted Mary & Sara!), the acting, the set – that’s incredible. Well done! Other parts I really enjoyed were the TWILIGHT apple reference, the chainsaw sequence (which was taken from P!nk’s video), the Volturi dance, and the sequences from Forks. Beautiful! Also loved the show where Hilly leaned against the truck!
Now… For the things I had a little bit of a problem with… As a Swede and a “not listening to the lyrics even if they’re in my own language” kind of person, I found it hard to connect the text to the video. I’m going to have to watch this several times to get the message, I guess. The other thing is that the video is messy [with] all the fragments just thrown together. It’s hard to follow a certain storyline. But maybe that’s the point? Everything was in chaos like Bella’s feelings?
The birthday sequence felt unnecessary, but I did like that there was suddenly a rock band, not for the story, but in visual terms – that was good.
I had no expectations for this video, except some beautiful shots and editing. Were my only expectations fulfilled? Certainly! Though, all of this doesn’t make NEW MOON PARODY my favorite one. DARK KNIGHT PARODY still gets that honor!
Congratulations to the winners!
If the three of you could please e-mail your name and mailing address to mary@hillyfans.com, your heart-shaped prizes will be sent out! Oh! You’ll even get them before Valentine’s Day! That’s love.
