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December 17.2004 * j l l S t O U t 4 5 2006 CHICAGO GAY GAMES 2006 w w w .te a m o re g o n 2 0 0 6 .org Blade: Trinity Shirtless muscular men wrestling in leather pants. Lots of talk about dicks and blow jobs and butt cheeks. The nelliest vampire slayer with six-pack ahs ever. Close-ups of treasure trails. Parker Posey snarling lines and wearing hair by Cuisinart. Wesley Snipes standing up with a monstrous hard-on after interrogation. A vampire Pomeranian. If writer/director David S. Goyer’s Blade: Trinity isn’t the gayest vampire movie ever made, it isn’t for lack of trying. Thank God for Ryan Reynolds, who saves this Showgirls with Fangs from truly suck ing. D+ for effort, A- for homo subtext — Andy Mangels oceanographer/documentarian Steve Zissou (a hilariously crabby Bill Murray) and his passengers: a long-lost adult son (Owen W il son), a prickly reporter with problems of her own (C ate B lan che«) and a wearily tolerant wife (A njelica Huston). 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