Heroine Content's Summer Film Preview
Grace reviewed Pirates 3 and then went out of town, and I'm sitting around waiting for Rise: Blood Hunter to open in Austin. So, I thought I'd gather our list of the other summer films we're excited about.
(crickets)
Just kidding, there are a couple of possibilities:
- As mentioned, Rise: Blood Hunter, starring Lucy Liu as a vampire vampire-killer. I don't predict great things, based on the reviews from the Tribeca film festival, which mostly rejoice in the amount of nudity and lingerie. Could it surprise me?
- I cannot see Fantastic Four 2. I still have nightmares from the first one. Maybe on DVD, so it's small and not as threatening.
- Transformers opens July 4th. It does have a woman in the cast (Megan Fox), but I doubt she'll have an action role. I'll let you know.
- The Invasion, starring Nicole Kidman, is supposed to be released August 17th, but I don't think it's an action role either.
- Then it's pretty quiet until Resident Evil: Extinction on September 21st. (Hopefully the baby I'm expecting will wait until the due date of September 28 so I can actually see this one in the theater!)
You have to look pretty far ahead for anything else. Some of these are probably just me wishing they would have heroine content.
In 2007, we can look for The Sarah Connor Chronicles television series on Fox. Here's hoping it doesn't make us sad.
There's also Doomsday. As written up on IMDB:
Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.
In 2008, we'll see Christina Ricci in Speed Racer (2008), though my guess is that this will be an action movie but she won't have an action role.
Angelina Jolie in Wanted offers more possibilities. Jolie's character is supposed to be an assassin, though apparently on the evil side. From a summary posted on IMDB:
A young man (McAvoy) finds out his long lost father is an assassin. And when his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (Freeman) to follow in his dad's footsteps.
The official site for The Mutant Chronicles has a promo photo that has two women out of ten characters featured, so that sucks. I was going to say "at least there are two women" but honestly, it just sucks even though Devon Aoki is one of them and I'm looking forward to seeing her. If only the writeup about her on the site didn't spend as much time discussing her modeling career as her acting...
In 2009, there's The Mummy 3, now that Michelle Yeoh has signed on as a wizard. Sigourney Weaver's role in Avatar (2009), a science fiction movie, probably won't be an action role. And perhaps Wonder Woman will ever get made.
All in all, there is a little hope, but I don't think Netflix should expect me or Grace to drop them anytime soon!
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What was your problem with the Fantastic Four movie? I thought it would be a good campy movie to watch with my girlfriend, but she is rather sensitive to weirdness/horror, and I was wondering if I missed something.
I just thought it was really, really, really bad. Like, so bad that I'm still not really allowed (by me) to pick movies when my husband and I go on dates because it was my idea to go see it.
But hey, I'm picky, so what do I know?
Hey, I just thought I'd add another summer film that I think sounds pretty cool (and definitely a good example of women kicking-ass). It's called Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. The website is www.flyingconfessions.com. The films about what it is to be a modern woman and it includes interviews with women from 17 countries around the woman. I thought it looked really interesting and I would encourage everyone to check it out. Definitely a good, inspiring, summer film.
About the Mummy 3, I don't know how I'm going to like it. Rachel Weisz won't be in it. And she was the best part of the movie in The Mummy Returns. You should review those two, or at least the second. I mean, you make it sound like all you care about is having Michelle Yehon in it. But Evey was cool. But Maria Bello is playing her now. (Sighs).