I'm late to the party, I know, but Twilight reminds me of a joke I once heard about a student in a Creative Writing class who's professor tells him, "What you have submitted is both original and good. The problem is the parts that are good are not original and the parts that are original are not good."
The only parts I like about that train wreck of a movie were the parts Mayer seemed to have cribbed from the RPGs "Vampire the Masquerade" and "Werewolf, the Apocalypse". My wife tells me that the RPGs in turn cribbed these aspects from classic mythology about vampires and werewolves. There's something about stories that play off the animosity (or in some stories, genocidal warfare) between these two types of "monsters".
Vampire: "Animal!"
Werewolf: "Leech!"
Vampire: "Savage!"
Werewolf: "Abomination!"
Of course, I've seen this story done way better by other authors. You probably could have recorded the adventures mapped out during a table top RPG of a Vampire/Werewolf campaign and created a better movie.
The only parts I like about that train wreck of a movie were the parts Mayer seemed to have cribbed from the RPGs "Vampire the Masquerade" and "Werewolf, the Apocalypse". My wife tells me that the RPGs in turn cribbed these aspects from classic mythology about vampires and werewolves. There's something about stories that play off the animosity (or in some stories, genocidal warfare) between these two types of "monsters".
Vampire: "Animal!"
Werewolf: "Leech!"
Vampire: "Savage!"
Werewolf: "Abomination!"
Of course, I've seen this story done way better by other authors. You probably could have recorded the adventures mapped out during a table top RPG of a Vampire/Werewolf campaign and created a better movie.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
