"'If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.'- Kathryn Bigelow, director of Near Dark"
Heavenly Sword
While stunning, the picture doesn't do the game justice: go to www.heavenlysword.com
I agree, Natassia Malthe has the look and intensity to definitely pull it off...It'll be great if the story of the game was to become a TV series: kinda like Xena but darker.
The female starring genre shows lately, (since Buffy and Xena ended) just haven't been able to draw me (or other audiences) in. I mean, Painkiller Jane and New Bionic Woman just didn't work.
The more mainstream, and less silly stuff, like Bones, is pretty good, but lacks that sense of supernatural fun I think we want. Medium and Ghosty Whisperer, too, are fairly dramatic rather than fun.
Ah, I miss Buffy.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I think the problem is sometimes in the writing. Some writers who are not big on SF & F mistake "fantasy" for "plain silliness", so they don't even bother with good, creative material for shows like these. Or maybe some shows just couldn't afford good writers (shrug).
In any case, I thought Witchblade, the TV series wasn't too shabby:

I heard rumors that they're going to make a live action TV series of Pirates of the Carribean when Jack Sparrow was a teenager: if this becomes true let's just hope the writing for it will be decent, if not superb.






hey this looks pretty neat
http://www.heavenlysword.com/
Beowulf has the same graphics.
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