{"id":3371,"date":"2012-06-04T13:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:34:23","slug":"snow-white-and-the-huntsman-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/04\/snow-white-and-the-huntsman-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow White and the Huntsman reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":" Yeah…probably should have taken this picture AFTER seeing the movie.\n

The previews for Snow White and the Huntsman<\/em> were gorgeous. People morphing into ravens and shards of obsidian, a T-1000 mirror, Charlize Theron bathing in a vat of white paint. All very cool visuals. \u00a0So I was super excited to see all of these beautiful shots come together in one stunning example of marvelous movie making.<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ebSZOlCnXq0]<\/p>\n

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Sadly, I was sorely disappointed.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say it was a bad film, it wasn\u2019t, it just didn\u2019t live up to my high expectations. Each scene is lovely, with superb visual fx, but the transitions between those scenes were awkward and choppy.\u00a0 The movie didn\u2019t flow. The acting was good for the most part but Director Rupert Sanders seemed much more interested in the quality of acting in the close ups than in the wide shots.\u00a0 Perfect example is Charlize Theron.\u00a0 She looked and sounded terrifyingly ravishing in the close ups but cheesy and garish in the wide shots.\u00a0 This was a bit disheartening for me since she was the main reason I wanted to see this movie and I know just how brilliant she can be.<\/p>\n

Snow White has been reinterpreted countless times since the middle ages. Being German, I grew up with the Grimm\u2019s version in which the dwarves are nameless, Snow is woken up by the Prince\u2019s inept servants as opposed to his kiss, and the evil queen is killed when she\u2019s forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes. Disney went and fraked that all up. (Fun fact, Dean Stockwell\u2019s daddy voiced the prince in the Disney version. I can\u2019t believe I actually know that.)<\/p>\n

Warning: I try not to spoil things but I might so be warned.<\/p>\n

This version is nothing like the Grimm\u2019s version. The evil queen has a creepy brother (with an even more creepy haircut), the huntsman is a drunk widower (who doesn\u2019t care if he dies\u2026except that he does care), the prince isn\u2019t a prince (he\u2019s the son of a duke), the dwarves live in a fairy land full of psychedelic flora and fauna (and don\u2019t whistle, work or have pickaxes), and Snow White is far more empowered (which is always nice). The giant elk in the forest with tree branch antlers is lovely and obviously supposed to be on the same level as Aslan but the scene where Snow approaches him is a pale imitation of the Lili\/Unicorn scene in Legend<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Charlize Theron as Queen Ravenna is otherworldly. She has a fantastic wardrobe that includes shoulder pads made from bones and lots of raven feathers (get it? Raven\u2026Ravenna\u2026.?) She\u2019s great at looking steely-eyed and has nailed the art of letting tears hover just on the cusp of her eye but not letting them fall.\u00a0 Whoever did her makeup and prosthetics should be nominated for an Oscar because WOW she looked incredible the entire time. Even when she was dying she was gorgeous. It turns out that Ravenna is a total spoiled brat throwing a giant man-hating temper tantrum. Which is really too bad because I bet she\u2019s a wildcat in the sack.<\/p>\n

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Kristen Stewart is most definitely not fairer than Charlize Theron but she\u2019s a very realistic kind of pretty and she does look really cute in her girly armor. To be honest, I kind of felt like I was watching one of the Twilight <\/em>films during her scenes. Jumping off a cliff? Check. Being scared by giant beasts and falling backwards? Check. Having men stare at her while she\u2019s unconscious? Check. Hair stuck to her lip while she\u2019s saying something that\u2019s supposed to be important except you don\u2019t know what she said because you were distracted by the hair stuck to her lip? Check. \u00a0As I mentioned before, at least she was an empowered version of Snow White. She wants to fight and kill her evil stepmother\u2026though where she gets the strength to do that after being locked in a tiny tower cell for 10 years with no exercise is a mystery to me. But she\u2019s got help. Birds guide her, horses wait around for her (then nose dive into mud which was HI-larious), and people are eager to help her (when they don\u2019t look like they want to eat her\u2026that was weird).<\/p>\n

My boyfr\u2026.I mean, Chris Hemsworth brings his usual charm and comedic timing to the role of the Hunstman aka Eric. I love watching him fight. In my opinion, he\u2019s one of the best movie fighters I\u2019ve ever seen. The chemistry between him and KStew was virtually non-existent but it\u2019s obvious how hard he\u2019s trying to make it work anyway. The part where it was most evident is when he\u2019s talking to a poisoned Snow. Without an acting partner in the way he\u2019s able to deliver a very touching monologue to what he thinks is her corpse.\u00a0 He\u2019s dirty and muddy for 99% of the movie and somehow that just makes him sexier. God, I love-hate him. I joke a lot about how hot Chris Hemsworth is and, it\u2019s true, he\u2019s insanely hot, but my love for him has much to more with the fact that he plays my favorite comic book character than the fact that he\u2019s deliciousness on legs. I swear!<\/p>\n

I totally thought that young William (aka the non-prince) was the kid who plays Bran on Game of Thrones<\/em>. But apparently it\u2019s not. Boo. Snow White’s little buddy grows up to be the guy from POTC: On Stranger Tides<\/em> who falls in love with a mermaid. He was ok. Nothing remarkable. I was more interested in trying to figure out who plays his dad, the Duke. Then it hit me that he was the Captain in 300<\/em>. I knew I recognized those eyes.<\/p>\n

The dwarves are the best part of the movie, especially when they are penetrating the castle through the sewer system. They are funny, charming, and I want to live in the enchanted forest with them. The most notable are Bob Hoskins, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone and Toby Jones. You can\u2019t go wrong with any of those actors.<\/p>\n

The end of the movie is rather anti-climactic. You think you know which boy Snow is going to choose but they never show her making her decision\u2026and the part where they should have shown her making her decision hangs on in weird movie purgatory for an uncomfortably long time. I wanted to shout at the screen \u201cStop standing there with your stupid tree branch and go kiss him dammit!\u201d You wait the whole movie for the truly satisfying, sexy kissing action and they never deliver it. Lame.<\/p>\n

The ending credits were beautiful though. Kind of Avengers<\/em>-esque in that it has the camera hovering over close up shots of armor and swords and whatnot. Because I always sit through the credit crawl (and you should too) I noticed that the movie is dedicated to \u201cLittle Eira White\u201d which caught my eye because I happen to know that Eira is \u201csnow\u201d in Welsh. \u00a0So the film is dedicated to\u2026itself.<\/p>\n

Well ok then.<\/p>\n

2 out of 5 Sci-Fives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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