Wolfzilla wrote:Uh....what? Could you point me to the movie were the vampire kicks the werewolf's a**? Werewolves are always stronger than vampires in modern fiction, the only way vampires and werewolves are ever equal is if the vampire is a elder, and even then the werewolf always winds up winning, even if the werewolf has never shifted before and has been in his wolf form for like....ten minutes, and the vampire is a five thousand plus year old super vamp who rips apart tanks with his mind.
Typically Hollywood prefers vampires because, from a prosthetic mindset, they're just humans with fangs and bad makeup. That's why vampires usually take center stage, and in turn why they get more kills in.
The worst offender in terms of the "vampire over werewolves" cliche was
Underworld. I can't speak for the sequel, but in the original, the only werewolf to ever kill a vampire
in were form was Raze. First he got somebody in the subway in the opening sequence, then it was hinted that he nailed that black guy with the British accent. . .
And that was it! But all through the rest of the movie it was blazing guns and dieing werewolves. And the worst was definitely when Viktor killed Raze. He didn't even fight; he just lifted him up by the throat like he was a blow-up doll. A skinny, pasty old man throwing around a seven-odd ft. hulking monster -- that aint' right.
RedEye wrote:Unless you happened to BE one, that is. Then (if they existed) they'd be right up front demanding more standard Werewolf stuff; more gore, more angst, more of what Hollywood excels at. Then every flick that comes out makes hiding in plain sight that much easier, since they don't fit the mold. Think about it: Lupans would love this stuff, since it steers people away from them and toward a fantastic unreal creature that nobody would really believe in, anyhow.
The Cliche Werewolf would be a shield for the real Werewolves, if they really existed and needed to hide from people. Call it what it is: Classic Mis-Direction...every stage magician uses it to some degree.
Actually, it can go both ways. If something becomes too cliche, it becomes "truth," and truths are hard to dispel. Werewolves might not be bloodthirsty monsters, but a lot of people out there, thanks to Hollywood, can't think of werewolves as being anything other than bloodthirsty monsters. That might make it easier for a werewolf to go undetected, but in the unfortunate event that someone does discover someone is a werewolf, they will more often than not make assumptions about the real life werewolf based on what they saw in the movies and assume him to be a bloodthirsty monster. So there's a pro and a con to Hollywood misdirection.
Back to the list. We've mentioned the girl just standing there screaming, but I don't think anyone's mentioned what usually comes before that:
Werewolf: "It's a beautiful night, isn't it? The moon is. . . You have to leave. Now."
Now I know there's a full moon once every other night in your typical werewolf movie, but that's still a set cycle. Shouldn't a werewolf
know when the next full moon is? Shouldn't he have made plans that
don't involve being out in the woods or the park with his girlfriend in the middle of the night? Apparently amnesia is a common side effect of lycanthropy, cuz' more often than not these dunderheads forget they are werewolves until the full moon is staring right at them. What's wrong Romeo? Did you think that was the last one you'd ever see again?
