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Hey, Rebecca. Lisa told me the same-- in fact, thr...

2009-06-12T12:14:58.041-07:00

Hey, Rebecca. Lisa told me the same-- in fact, through her I've gleaned a pretty decent understanding of the entire storyline.

I did consider posting some sort of further explanation or even a concession, then I realized that even if the transformation were instantaneous, in "real life" there's no way it would look anything like it does in this trailer. It would still resemble a human boy becoming a wolf-- his body would stretch and sprout fur. This is an awful CGI morph-- like I said above, inferior even to the special effects used 18 years ago in T2. Not to mention that his clothes burst off and disappear in a thoroughly unrealistic manner, almost as if they were water droplets.

Maybe it shouldn't look like the famous transformations from werewolf horror movies-- but it sure as hell shouldn't look like THAT.

Grumble, grumble, fangirl. :)

Grumble grumble old man. In the books, the werewo...

2009-06-11T00:49:43.673-07:00

Grumble grumble old man. In the books, the werewolves do not go through an agonizing painfully long transformation. In fact, they can barely hold on to their human form because they are so easily and uncontrollably able to "pop" into a werewolf form. Like it or not, it makes them unpredictable, dangerous and hazardous to be around since such a quick transformation can easily rip someone apart who is standing too close. This because a major issue in the series. In no way can you compare to the (awesome) transformations you've seen the past ala American Werewolf.

Twilight DOES suck. But why did I stay up 72 hour...

2009-06-08T23:50:42.400-07:00

Twilight DOES suck. But why did I stay up 72 hours straight and read the whole series? Oh why????
And I won't take anyone's opinion about it who hasn't read it, or at least read a little bit about it. The movies are what Hugh is focusing on, and pretty much to me, are "moving pictures" to the books.
There really isn't much taken from "Buffy" unless you go for the young girl going out with a vampire, but that's also in Tru Blood and probably other vampire stuff. There seems to be a recurring vampire and werewolf thing going on here. But these stories are from research on folklore, not necessarily Buffy.
Too bad about the CGI'd werewolf... you'd think their budget allowed more for a cool transformation scene. But who knows, it could look real... but I doubt it.

I'm with you, Hugh. TWILIGHT SUCKS.Period. And fro...

2009-06-01T11:56:37.238-07:00

I'm with you, Hugh.
TWILIGHT SUCKS.Period. And from what I saw (and I didn't see much of it)There is some stuff taken from "Buffy". It makes me mad.