Mirror Mirror

[Drunk Monk]

While watching this film, I realized that I never really had a flirty sword fight like in the movies. I know several DOOM brothers hooked up with other fencers. Now I feel like I missed out.

This was very enjoyable. Tarsem Singh's visuals really worked well here and Julia Roberts was funny. I confess that I still enjoy dwarf slapstick.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

All that and Phil Collin's daughter. Did you go to a screener?

[Drunk Monk]

The 'official' review will be up tomorrow, thanks to CF's speedy copy editing. In it, I state that Mirror Mirror is on the level of Stardust and The Princess Bride. TPB has it beat with that fencing scene actually, and SD has Gaimen going for it, but this is in that ballpark.

[Drunk Monk]

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ahhh, the things dm'll do to get his kid into a screener. :roll:

and i stand corrected about the flirt fight. i did have one. i just forgot about it. or denied it. :oops:

and no...it wasn't in the window of a gay club. surprised no one went there. that was a total invitation for some dm/fukichiki bashing.

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Maybe it was the fact that 'Once Upon a Time' is now on TV and the CGI stuff for Mirror wasn't significantly better than OUaT. Maybe I was too distracted by Snow White's eyebrows. I kept expecting one of them to crawl away. Maybe I think Arnie Hammer is bad actor or still see him as a Winkelvoss Twin, which this wasn't that far removed from. It makes me fear for 'The Lone Ranger' despite the fact they are paying 200million for that.

I didn't much care for this one. To say it is in the league with Princess Bride is quite the stretch. I know it is all based on a fairy tale, but the story seemed very slight. There were a few amusing bits, the dwarves were very amusing, but it all was disjointed. Time to go to the forest. Time to go to the town. Time to see the Queen be bitchy.

And let's talk about Julia Roberts. Did she used to be prettier, because she didn't seem to have that spark or charisma in this film. Although she must have put on a pound because the massive vein in her forehead was noticeably absent in this picture. I never got that she was all that pretty. I felt the same about Phil Collin's daughter. (Damn those eyebrows talking to each other throughout the film) She wasn't knock me out pretty either. But maybe she was prettier than Roberts so by the standards of that land, she was the fairest of them all?

I'm going to say DM was seduced into liking this film by the massive shout-out to Bollywood at the end. I was just about to turn it off and let the credits have their way with the darkness. But then they did the where are they now bit with the Dwarves, almost funny. And then Snow White started singing and everybody started dancing and I remembered this was directed by Tarsem and suddenly we had gone Bollywood. DM is a sucker for Bollywood and that wiped out all his memories about the standing of the film.

[Drunk Monk]

Guilty as charged. Also have to factor in the 'screener w/daughter' which increases the enjoyment ten fold.

i had this vision of reviewing all of the snow white films as sort of an ezine trilogy, but we weren't offered a screener for Snow & the Huntsman, and we're still a long way from Snow @ the 7.

[Drunk Monk]

So I finally saw Snow White and the Huntsman last night.  It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.  It's all about Charlize as the evil queen.  She's a great vampy villainess, a redux of Michelle Pfieffer's witch in Stardust.  There are some amusing nods to the Disney version and lots of sword fights (which are mediocre at best) and plenty of CGI effects.  On the whole, it takes itself way to seriously trying to be the next LotR franchise.  It's a fantasy world where the regal don't 'got shit all over them' and everyone else does.  Liam is Thor - I just can't get past that.  Kristen Stewart is again the object of attention for two hunky guys.  When in Cadaques, we saw Catch That Kid (2004), starring a coquettish Kristen caught between two dudes again.  She was good in that, btw.  It's a totally dumb Disney flick, featured Corbin Bleu, a black kid with a huge 'fro that Disney was trying to push back then.  The story is the three kids are trying to rob a super bank safe which is more guarded that Magneto's cell.  It certainly set the tone for Kristen's Twilight menage a trois, and this - totally ironic as she's come out gay since - perhaps that is what those early casting directors saw in her.  I just can't get past her buck teeth.  So there are tiresome Liam/Kristen scenes that you just want to fast forward over, some armored battle sword fights that are mediocre, and some great Charlize vamping it up scenes.  Just watch the Charlize scenes are you're good.  

Prequel might be good.  Looks like more Charlize, plus Emily Blunt....and Thor too, but whatev... seeing how it looks more like the Snow Queen, I just gotta 'let it go'.



Still hoping for Snow and the Seven.

[Greg]

Let it go. Let it go.

(It took me a long time to actually remember what movie we were originally talking about with this thread)

[Drunk Monk]

Caught on the plane. I'll watch about anything with Charlize, Blunt & Chastain, even if it has Thor not playing Thor which is really all he's good for. Charlize was great again, vamping it up with tar tentacles - reminded me of so many tentacled Chinese demonesses of late. Emily was ok as an ice queen but she pales to Tilda's Jada and Elsa. Jessica does ok for action. Maybe im giving her extra ginger cred. A lot of gingerness in my view now and that's fyne.

The weird part was Nick Frost, an actor I haven't noticed before, who plays one of the dwarves. I met him on Wednesday. He joined the cast of Into the Badlands. I can spoil this because it was already announced on Variety. The other reporters were very excited to meet him and I just played along acting like I knew who he was. He was really humble and absolutely hilarious.

Note: I don't really recommend any of these films now. Greg was spot on with his criticism of my earlier raving about Mirror Mirror. To damn much Bollywood. It messes with my head.

[thatguy]

Caught on the plane. I'll watch about anything with Charlize, Blunt & Chastain, even if it has Thor not playing Thor which is really all he's good for. Charlize was great again, vamping it up with tar tentacles - reminded me of so many tentacled Chinese demonesses of late. Emily was ok as an ice queen but she pales to Tilda's Jada and Elsa. Jessica does ok for action. Maybe im giving her extra ginger cred. A lot of gingerness in my view now and that's fyne.

The weird part was Nick Frost, an actor I haven't noticed before, who plays one of the dwarves. I met him on Wednesday. He joined the cast of Into the Badlands. I can spoil this because it was already announced on Variety. The other reporters were very excited to meet him and I just played along acting like I knew who he was. He was really humble and absolutely hilarious.

Note: I don't really recommend any of these films now. Greg was spot on with his criticism of my earlier raving about Mirror Mirror. To damn much Bollywood. It messes with my head.

He's in all the Simon Pegg ventures (Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, etc...), but he's done some solo stuff too. He was in Kinky Boots. Decent movie if you haven't seen it...

--tg

[Drunk Monk]

I get that now. He just didn't pop out at me before.