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I just saw a trailer for RIPD, a movie coming out this summer. I don't think I can explain it very well, but there is a TG like scene.
Watch it for yourself.\!
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/176279-the-first-...
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Grover
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ha ha ha
so Jeff Bridges cover id is Marisa Miller, thats cute.
R.I.P.D. sounds like a fusion
of Men In Black and X-Files. Will be fun to watch. :)
May Your Light Forever Shine
Frighteners
Actually I was thinking more like MIB and that old Micheal J Fox movie, Frighteners. Besides like MIB it began as a comic book too. Still it does appear interesting if not good from the trailer.
Grover
Frightening...
...the movie was directed by Peter Jackson who, as we know, went on to direct LotR and the Hobbit movies.
Love, Andrea Lena
Hmm...
Men In Black meets Chrono Crusade?
Unique...
At least it seems to be being spun positively for once. Not REALLLY TG though, because the character doesn't actually experience anything in the "look-like" form. It's more a glamor. Still cute.
It seems like a fun and unique way to try to get guys (guys love action flicks, and this is an action flick if I've ever seen one) to have less animosity towards the concept of guys being girls.
Abigail Drew.
Jeff Bridges
Yeah I about the TG thing which is why I said TG-like. Jeff is such a good character actor that he just has fun hamming it up as the old west lawman. Could be he's channeling some of the 'Dude' too. :)
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Grover
true
Its not flynn nor is it stain in any way. Should be interesting actually.
intresting
Looks interesting.
Might be good might be bad.
Not TG but I suppose every bit of casual representation of something cross gender helps cut down the freak out reflex, as long as it is not something derisive. Call it desensitization.
I always liked these undead & super natural agents type stories, Although I think this fascination with undead weres is kind of over dominating some of the other genres, it is geting hard to find ScFi Fantasy & Romance etc. mainstream fiction text and other wise that isn't undead related. I do still like stuff with out undead in it.
I have to wonder
how far this fascination with the undead is going to go. Vampires, the bloodsucking predators that rips out throats for their next meal, turned sparkly, and even zombie's has taken a turn as romantic lead. strangely I rather liked the Zombie effort and couldn't even finish the first chapter of that morbid depressing teenager book.
RIPD does have some light gender bending, but nothing too serious. As you say desensitization, but maybe that's not a bad thing. To rub down some of the knee jerk reactions some have to any kind of gender issues has to start somewhere.
Still for a feature length film to have it and not have as negative is a step in the right direction. Of course if a BC writer had their shot at this, that fairy glamour would not be just an image. :)
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Grover
I don't remember the name of
I don't remember the name of the movie, but there was one of those 'teen' magic/zombie movies a number of years back (I saw it in the 80's). The lead was a member of a group of kids that cast a spell that ended up raising the dead - some violent, some just people, etc. The main character had a romantic female interest that showed up and helped cast the counterspell to put the zombies down. He later found the jacket that he loaned the girl on a tombstone in the same cemetery.
The implication there was that not all undead were scary, or bad. Their 'type' varied like anyone else. (I remember one 'couple' that simply went dancing, rather than brain hunting)
That pre-dated 'sparkly' by quite a ways. (Probably the movie was based partially on the old story of Resurrection Mary)
BW
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Its just that....
Like I said I do like some of these, and I do at time like stories(shows) with the goodie goodie vampires etc, as long as we also keep the nasty ones that's too I guess that's OK.
But what bothers me is that most of the time when I see reviews and recommendations(books and other media) it seems like half to three quarters of the items listed as SciFi, Fantasy, Romance Also a significant portion of other genres turn out to be undead tales of some sort as well. Its worse in books then in other media but very prevalent in SciFi and Fantasy tho not as much in other categories in other media.
I just want to know "Where is the other stuff"?
Largely...
Not getting the attention it deserves. It's out there, but like all fads, this current one is drowning them all out and making the goodies hard to find. I specialize in wandering off the beaten paths of libraries though... LOL.
Can't say I have any recommendations of late though, not been having the reading time I used to. And what's left mostly goes to this site.
Abigail Drew.
Recommendations
I've been following the Magic Rises series by Ilona Andrews. Really it's one of those Fantasy Romances, but is lot more grounded than most since the author is actually a husband/wife writing team. She's Ilona and he's Andrew, Ilona Andrews, get it? I like how they mix magic and technology.
They also have an ongoing free serial at their website that's very interesting. "Clean Sweep, The Inn Keeper Chronicles."
http://demo.ilona-andrews.com/category/clean-sweep/
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Grover
scenes
They filmed some scenes up here in Boston. My Grandmother was in them as an extra as she is part of the screen actors guild. The movie is supposed to be good.