as aintitcool.com says it, "Hollywood is finally catering to the geek!"

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Some genre films that I will be looking forward to in the next 5 years, with links:

Evangelion (fighting robots, depressed teenagers, aliens, corrupt secret government organizations, WETA Workshop... what more do you need?) link #2.

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (Sam Rockwell is Zaphod, Ford Prefect is black, and John Malcovich is in there somehow... I'm going to love this movie! Still bitter that Jim Carrey isn't Arthur, though. Click the link, push the button, watch it go BOOM!-- then do it again. again.)

Ender's Game (they better not make this PG dammit. I'll scream, I will. You Brits will hear me all the way in across the Atlantic I'll be screaming so loud.)

The Talisman (STEPHEN KING! PETER STRAUB! SQUEEE!!)

The Last Unicorn (the red bull is coming! not the drink.)

Serenity (Space pants! Captain Mal! Some people juggle geese.)

The Brothers Grimm (all your legends and all your fantasies rolled into one whacky almost-period-piece adventure film, including that fantasy about Heath Ledger and Matt Damon)

"His Dark Materials" books (I seriously ought to finish reading The Golden Compass)

Artemis Fowl (another series I have not yet read, but have heard the name...)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch, and the Wardrobe (I read this when I was young enough not to know it was disguised Christian mythology, which means that I still think a walk-in wardrobe is a pretty cool place for interdimensional travel)

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Let's just sit back and bask in the temprorary coolness of being a Science Fiction / Fantasy fan and Hollywood's new target demographic.

Mmmmmmm.... yummy.

Comments

[crossouttheeyes.livejournal.com]

I will die from teh happy if they make Ender's Game into a movie equal to the book's greatness.

I had to read that for summer reading between 8th and 9th grade. I refused to put it down until I had finished it.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I will die from teh happy if they make Ender's Game into a movie equal to the book's greatness.

Me too. From what I've read the author is heavily involved so far, which is good.

My biggest fear though is that they'll dumb it down for the PG group, when it should be rated PG-13. The book has a lot of violence connected to children (Ender's 2 brutal fights), and a lot of unsettling psychological stuff connected to children. I'm afraid they'll erase all those themes, which were so important to Ender's character, to make it just about him fighting against the buggers.

I had to read that for summer reading between 8th and 9th grade. I refused to put it down until I had finished it.

I read it the summer between 9th and 10th grade, when I was 15... I wish someone had given it to me when I was 10. I read it in a two-day period driving from the San Juan Islands in Washington back home to San Jose, California.

I was in a car and had nothing else to do. And the book grabbed me and wouldn't let me go. It was one of those "OMG I'm never going to forget this book" books. You know, the special books that leave an impression.