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To give Stephanie Meyer no credit, she pretty much made up everything about Werewolves and Vampires from nothing. "Hmm, I can make them sparkle in the sun light and have this and that.. Why don't make the main character fall in love with her stalker..." I'm sure she really cares tho that her books are horribly written and her movies suck ass. Due to all the teenage girls and women who have gone to see the films and read all the books.

Entertainment is subjective something everyone here should have some basic understanding of.

You can't just devalue it because you don't like the entertainment obviously she's done very well peddling her style of entertainment to the masses.

I wish I were so lucky.

--Infy

Infinite wrote:Really?

Craig you didn't offer the context of all myth and lore gets updated with the social anxieties of the time?

I don't recall mentioning them though they are my favorite of all creatures of the night... I've even come to have a recent fondness of werewolves given the hunky wolf-pack from Twighlight But then the new "Wolfman" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N2lZwOQdMI) film (heavy star studded remake) looks quite awesome, holding rather close to the original Lon Chaney format and appearance.

The "morph" around all these critters seems to center around events in the 1980s with things like "American Werewolf in London" and, believe it or not, the "Thriller" music video. Toss in a bit of Ann Rice and the previously mentioned "Lost Boys" (which I think was quite fun, btw... especially grandpa's closing line) and voila! A new formula for it all that Tv producers soon exploited starting with the cult-classic "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and its spin-offs as well as "Charmed"

The sensual/romantic side of Vampires is a constant as far back as Stoker's novel and even certain legends that connect the Vampire to the classic Incubus/Succubus demons of biblical fame. Frank Langella's version being one of the last great depictions of the Valentino type Dracula, giving the screen a love scene that seemed to melt the cold heart of many.

While the first film tied to the Ann Rice novels was decent and held reasonably well to the novel (I still Antonio Banderas was miscast, that character (Armond) was supposed to be in his early/mid-teens when made) the subsequent films were pure garbage and held no congruency; they were worse than any classic B-Rate flick.

Then again, we saw a flood of low budget Vamps crop up in the 90s and even into the present decade, complete with heavy special effects and CGI add-ons. Van Helsing was decent enough (but then I loved the Stempunk edge around it). Sadly, I only just recently got into the Underworld series, which I do enjoy.

When it comes to the current Romeo & Juliet styled Vampire & Werewolf flicks... well, they were designed to do one thing MAKE MONEY off the swooning hearts of teen-age girls, their cougar mothers and a handful of old queens ( )

Mandrake wrote:the apparently endless supply of trembling Virgins with irresistible jugulars (I think that's the right word), Maddie Smith, Jutta Stensgard, Ingrid Pitt and all the rest as the 'converted'!!

Sad to see that Ingrid Pitt died earlier this week.