(August 26, 2014 at 12:10 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: 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.
That would be freaking awesome.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
