What's Happening? - Part 3 (July 2009).

Here is the third part of the 2009 updates. Don't forget....

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Let's have a look at more recent GWG film and TV? If you've been reading this blog rather than just reading the pretty pictures you probably realise I'm not a great fan of Hollywood output at the moment. Judging from the stills though I might have to change my opinion if the publicity photographs of Sienna Miller are to be believed. She will be playing "The Baroness" who was an implacable enemy of the USA and GI Joe in particular in the DC Comic franchise. Hopefully the film will match the kitcsh of "Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD" but will have more fetching gals than Lisa Rinna and Sandra Hess turned out to be - a few sceencaps below. In fact maybe Sienna Miller (actress/mannequin) will be outshone in all departments (acting and looks) by Rachael Nichols as good girl Scarlett. Regardless, the costumes look remarkably similar to each other and remarkable similar to Kate Beckinsdale's costume (see below) but then again I guess there is only so much you can do in the wardrobe department for these kinds of roles.

Okay, off at a tangent. If head to toe dressed in black action women are your thing then there has been no shortage of mainstream Hollywood film over the years. Unfortunately the end result has ultimately been pretty lame and the fact that GI Joe is taking so long to film doesn't bode well.  We've had 'Nick Fury', 'Barb Wire' (Pamela Anderson), 'Half Past Dead' (Nia Peebles), Ultraviolet (Milla Jovovitch), Aeon Flux (Charlize Theron).  In general none have been a success either artistically or as a GWG film - exclude Nia Peebles from that statement.  I suppose it is no conincidence that most of these films are based on comic book characters. Great source material but poor transfer to celluloid methinks.

Still discussing this type of film, could it be that foreign film does it better? My own pet fave is Kate Beckinsdale in the UK films 'Underworld'. Kate plays a leather suited vampire who is out to stop a war with the evil werewolves.  There have been three  films in the series (the first was the better one) and Kate Beckinsdale was a real revelation (in the first two installments) as the vampire assassin who enters battle both guns blazing. I can't put my finger on why but the films work much better than the others listed but they do. Another example of a film working when it shouldn't is the low budget British vampire film 'Razor Blade Smile' - Eileen Daly playing a hitwoman vampire  Japanese film has provided us with several examples, all pretty unfathomable and absurd, but films they do push up the eye cancy quotiant to such an extent I don't really care if I don't understand the plot and if it is dumber than their American counterparts. Maybe it is the fact that low budget film, have lesser stars and don't overhype themselves and therefore the dissappointment factor is at a lower threshold..

One of the best genres for finding ruthless women is the soap drana. I've covered quite a few of these in the past but they still keep appearing. My two favourite spanish language ones are "Prisionera" and "Gata Salvaje". You are unlikely to find anyone more ruthless than Lulu (Diana Quijano) in Prisionera who really is a great character. Eva Grandos (Carolina Tejera) is a little way behind but still an impresseive killer soap character. There are numerous examples of others and here are a cross selection of some of the better ones from across the Americas.

Still on soaps, I've covered Kahiin Kizzi Roz in three articles and still have come nowhere near to charting Ramola Sikands crimes. However the killer woman is far from uncommon in Indian TV. A full article would have been more than merited if the page were still going full swing. Even though the detail is missing here are a few examples of bad girls from various dramas and cop shows from India.

Okay, there is enough for one more mini-update. I have to tell you that the last part is planned to be slightly different from these updates - time will tell. It will get updated once everything is in place but who knows when that will be.