So, I had this dream last night.
No, really, I did.
I swear it feels like director Zack Snyder took images from inside my head and crafted something that either is going to be supremely awesome or collossally stupid but somehow I don't seem to care. Fire breathing dragons, samurai monsters, and women with swords and guns and sometimes both.
If you take a look at the second trailer you'll discover that this is more or less a prison break story. Discovering what is real and inside her head will be part of the fun. We already know that this is, at least, going to look very pretty with all the eye candy. My hope for this film is that it sticks to its own logic and doesn't break its own rules whatever those end up being. My suspension of disbelief can be pretty high but it does have limits.
My blockbuster summer comes early in 2011.
On another sort of related note. For an action heroine that doesn't need to rely on swords or superpowers, check out "True Grit." Haylee Stienfeld has a breakout role this year in a very convincing protrayal of a frontier girl in over her head as she hires a marshall to track down her father's killer. This is a very good adaptation of the original novel and doesn't step on the toes of the John Wayne version from 1969.
If you're looking for another story like this, I'd like to point out "Ride the River" by Louis La'mour. It was the last novel written in his "Sackett" series. It stands alone like the others and chronciles the adventures of "Echo Sackett" who must claim an inheritance but then outwit some outlaws as she tries to make it home.
