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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

What has been seen cannot be unseen

I think I might have found a movie that is worse than "The Last Airbender" which shouldn't be possible. That movie had great graphics, nothing else was even remotely good about it. Nothing. Well, the costumes weren't bad. But everything else was horrible.

Anyway. I watched a movie called "Ronin" a 1998 crime thriller. It's so bad. The acting is not good, the script was poorly written and I lost interest in the movie about ten minutes in. Even with all the "action" shots. It wasn't as bad as some movies I've seen, but I ended up not even finishing it.

Speaking of really bad movies I saw another one a couple of weeks ago, "Snow White and the Huntsman." All of the previews made the movie look awesome. The graphics were good and again that is basically the only thing that was good. Most of the problems I blame on the script and the director. It was a movie based on the story of Snow White, written by the Brother's Grimm. I have not read the Brother's Grimm version of Snow White, but I feel like religion did not have a role in the story. For some unknown reason at the beginning of the movie Snow White says the Lords Prayer... There was not another reference to religion until the very end when she is crowned queen by people wearing quasi Catholic priest robes.

I just don't understand why the put religion in a movie that also has fairies. Granted they were super creepy looking fairies (Gollum meets Aang). It just didn't seem like that scene had any reason to be in the film. Throughout the entire film I had this sort of sinking feeling in my stomach. Each scene was lacking something.. I couldn't figure out what it was, I still don't know. There was not a single scene in the movie that worked for me. The scene was either pointless, to short or to long. It felt like the director was putting emphasis on plot points that were supposed to be side plots, not the main one.

He's so cool.


He is not.
The characters made me super annoyed. It took me the entire film to even kind of feel anything but apathy for them. The characters all had good back stories, but none of them were presented well. Of all the characters I'd have to say Queen Ravenna was the one I liked the best. And it wasn't just because she had the best costumes (but she did). Her character was just the most believable. Snow White kind of looked pathetic the entire movie, for a character that's supposed to be all innocent and pure she never smiled. Like ever. It was weird. I know her life sucked, but to me someone who is still pure would have the ability to smile past it. Not look like a drowned kitten. Of course that could be because she was played by Kristen Stewart, who may or may not be able to act. I can't tell if she sucks because of the roles she's played or because that's all she can do...

And the highlight of that entire movie was that Chris Hemsworth played the Huntsman. He is super hot. Although his character was borderline unbelievable. I feel like all of the character development lacked a real reason behind it. Of course I could just have ridiculously high expectations for movies. Either way I am tired of seeing poorly made movies.

Isn't she pretty? (Photo).

1 comment:

  1. Seriously? I looooved Snow White and the Huntsman! Minus the sucko ending. But I agree, the religion thing was weird. And Kristen Stewart sucks.

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