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Snow White and the Huntsman: Grade and Discuss, Sequel, DVD, ect.

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I just noticed there wasn't a review thread for this yet.
Plot Description from Metacritic:
Snow White and the Huntsman is a new take on the classic fairy tale which features an expanded role for the Huntsman. In the fairy tale, he is ordered to take Snow White into the woods and kill her, but instead lets her go. In the new take, the Huntsman is not a love interest but acts more as a mentor, teaching Snow White to fight and survive. (Universal Pictures)
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I haven't seen this yet, but it's been one of my most anticipated movies this summer. I'll hopefully be seeing it sometime in the next week or two.
 
Cinema Snob midnight screening review of the movie-

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I'll likely go see it next week. That or Prometheus, but the reviews I've seen of SW have generally been good or positive and it does look interesting.
 
"C-" And only that high as visually it was good and the Dwarves were ok for the most part.

Otherwise it wasnt a very good movie.

Kirsten Stewart is a terrible terrible actress. The scene where she is supposed to be giving a "rousing" speach is a particular vivid example of this.

That said, she was not the only bad actor in this, many seemed to be from the school of thought that if you shout various words in a speach it equates to acting.

In short, no where near as good as Alice in Wonderland.
 
Some friends are reviewing this for their podcast, so I went with them to see it last night.

I nearly fell asleep several different times and was checking my phone for the time constantly. It was painfully dull and felt so much longer than its 2 hours and 9 minutes. There were some impressive visuals, but that's not nearly enough to hold a movie together. The acting was either ridiculously over-the-top (Charlize Theron made sure in every second that she was on screen you knew she was EEEVIIILLL), or just downright bad (Kristen Stewart).

MNM's comparison to Burton's Alice in Wonderland isn't one that I would have thought of myself, but now I'd have to agree - even that film was better than this one, and I have no tolerance for Burton films.
 
I give it a C- for the melee warfare scenes and for Charlize Theron in the milkbath.

And yes, the greatest injustice ever perpetrated on humanity at large was the moment when someone told Kristen Stewart she could act. This is the third movie I've seen her in and the only time I've ever seen her face show an emotion other than dull disinterest was in Panic Room.

And yet, what was truly disheartening was her fake english accent was better than Charlize's fake english accent.

Meanwhile, it seemed like Ravenna and Finn had one of them illegal brother-sister relationships. When she was berating him over letting Snow White escape the first time I kept thinking "Get a room."

And at the end, I was wondering what the Huntsman was even doing there. They should have just let Chris Hemsworth start working on Thor 2 like a good MCU monkey and not wasted all our time including him here.
 
Admiral2 said:
And yes, the greatest injustice ever perpetrated on humanity at large was the moment when someone told Kristen Stewart she could act. This is the third movie I've seen her in and the only time I've ever seen her face show an emotion other than dull disinterest was in Panic Room.
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I thought she was decent in Adventureland but she does seem to play pretty much the same character in every movie.
 
I'm one hour into it, i don't know if I can handle another hour of this, even though I'm also reading comics and webbrowsing... it's just awful.

In what imaginary world is Charlize less attractive than Kristin?

This kingdom must be full of uggos if the fairest hottie in the land has been rotting in a jail cell for ten years.

She should look like Nell.

The speech to rally her troops?

"Who will be my brother?"

Fuck that.

I'm still on the back end of an orgasm form last weeks "There are brave men on the other side of that wall. Lets go out there and kill them."

in comparison, suddenly Mirror Mirror seems so good now.
 
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I'm glad I wasn't sitting around you in the theater.

Did you miss the "please turn off your phones" request?
 
Trekker4747 said:
Cinema Snob midnight screening review of the movie-

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Nice to meet another CS fan. Gotta admit his review did make me curious. May pick up the dvd.

But yeah, Kristen is gonna be a huge albatross around this movies neck. A lot of people REALLY hate her from Twilight.

Anyway, I'll just leave this here.

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Went to the midnight screenin' at work the other night...about twenty minutes into it, I started keepin' a mental checklist of stuff from the trailer as it showed up in the movie, to try & figure out how much longer I had to sit there.
 
I just realized Brave is coming out in a couple weeks. I'll be holding off on this then, since money is tight and I have to pick and choose what I spend it on carefully.
 
I know Ebert has not always seen eye to eye with the geek populace. But it's hard to imagine he gave it 3 and a half stars and everyone here is saying it's horrible.
 
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I saw it yesterday. I don't think it's a horrible film. I thought it was more engaging than Wrath of the Titans. At least I was able to stay awake during Snow White.

However the film was far from perfect. I thought Kristen Stewart was pretty wooden, though not as bad as she is in the Twilight movies. Also couldn't buy that Stewart was fairer than Charlize Theron, or the whole Stewart's Snow White being the Chosen One thing.

Theron was definitely a highlight. She went really over the top at times, but that's what the role required I suppose. But she made for a deliciously evil queen. Chris Hemsworth was good, though I wish he had more comical lines. I don't think he had much romantic chemistry with Kristen Stewart. And the dwarves were a highlight. The production values of the film were good too, really liked that troll design. I also thought the battles were engaging.

So Stewart was the weak link for me, as was some of the writing, and the directing/editing. There were odd pauses or cutaways to Charlize Theron for no real reason, that didn't advance the plot, but since they were cutaways to Charlize Theron I shouldn't complain.
 
Grade: B-

I'll do my positives first
  • Thought the acting by most was very well done. The principals at least in Charlize Theron, Chris Hemmsworth, Bob Hoskins and Ian McShane in particular.
  • The cinematography was well done
  • I had no issue with the CGI used, it felt nearly all real with exception to the fairies I guess. The mirror entity was cool I thought. Could've used more of him/her
  • Liked how the movie did't just flip a switch and have SW as some hardened warrior. She was really just a figure head riding into battle. No "Whedon-izing" of her for the sake of things.

The negatives
  • Why would the queen keep SW locked in the tower? Her brother tells us "another kingdom falls to you" meaning this isn't her first venture at this. Keeping a blood heir alive is just dumb.
  • The queen drains maidens of their youth. Why would she not have drained SW some time ago? Again, killing her. Nothing in the film gives a plausible reason for why she would keep her alive. She's obviously draining maidens, her brother brought Greta to her afterall for just such a thing.
  • SW should've escaped as a 10yr old child. This would've allowed for her to gain allies and get to know the kingdoms inhabitants. Even if her nobility was kept hush hush, the time of the reveal would've gave her instant allies. Afterall in the fairy tale she is living among the dwarves, not trapped in a tower.
  • Having to gain the trust of the dwarves and others of the land only prolonged the 2nd act. I checked my watch twice during the middle of the film. It drug out long, necessarily I get but only cause the set up was flawed from the 1st act.
  • Kristen Stewart was horridly miscast. That emotional chart of her is funny cause it's so spot on correct. She looked her best when she was "asleep from the enchanted apple".


Overall I think the film is worth seeing. I saw some really horrid write ups that I think were a bit overly slanted in the negative. There are so many more worse films out there or will be.
 
I thought that Snow White and the Lord of the Rings... I'm sorry, the Huntsman was good. I just wish Kirsten Stewart wasn't dead inside. Thor and Charlize are great tho.

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