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Assemble The Avengers!
Video games and comic books, there’s nothing that I can say that I love more. Recently though, there has been a series that’s been making a kick ass comeback. What series you ask? Why nothing more than our favorite superhero team: The Avengers. That’s right, they’ve been back on the big screen and now they get a video game to tag along with it called The Avengers: Battle for Earth.
Movie Review: Snow White and the Huntsman
Ugh. I felt obligated to do a review of this movie because I KNOW that none of the boys are going to be able to make it through this movie, and since I had some cross stitching to do anyway I could focus elsewhere while watching the movie. Once I got started, however, it was so bad that I had to take notes as I went along.
The Movie: Snow White and the Huntsman
The Director: Rupert Sanders
The Leads: Kristen Stewart (Twilight girl, Bella), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Charlize Theron (awesome.)
The Time: Forever… ie: 2 hours
The Rating: 5/10
The Quick Summation: The plot was predictable at best, frustrating at worst. The acting was poor, the lighting was all blues and and dark corners. It looked like the guy from 300 hooked up with the chick who directed the first Twilight movie and made and abortion. Kristen Stewart is still awful, Charlize Theron is still awesome, and Thor is pretty to look at, but doesn’t have a whole lot of character development. Fairly obviously cast just to be pretty. Oh, and they (of course) did another of those stupid love-triangle things that EVERYONE and their mother have been putting in movies lately.
_________Don’t read past here if you’re not interested in SPOILERS
The TRUE Review: The story starts out much the same as every fairy tale. Princess is pretty and loved by everyone. Mommy and Daddy die so she’s left to be raised by an evil step-mother. Stepmommy sends her to the prison to be kept there forever and ever, but (for no understandable reason) never actually kills her. Just lets her live there to be her undoing some day.
Kristen Stewart (Snow White) wanders about with her mouth wide open, as usual, and is incapable for standing up for herself. The Queen is inexplicably angry at the world, but still wants to live in it so she goes to the greatest length to stay alive.
There is this odd scene where she dips herself in white paint and it looks bizarrely like Akasha from Queen of the Damned, and the paint doesn’t seem to have any purpose to the storyline but was thrown in because it looked kind of cool. It was used in most of the commercials. Also, the big black man voice of the mirror on the wall is kind of silly.
Also, apparently Snow White can talk to birds. She tries to escape from her prison, and the birds lead her to a loose nail that she can use to escape. The Queen’s brother comes to bring her up to the Queen just after finding out that Snow will be her downfall, and she cuts his face open with the nail and runs away. The brother-guy is super rape-y. Watch out for him in dark alleys.
So, of course, Snow escapes and gets out of the castle. When she falls into a river there is just a horse chilling there waiting for her to mount and let her ride it into the creepy woods. (A real plot would be great right about now, as well as a reason why anything is happening other than the writers made it that way…)
The Queen hires a Huntsman to find Snow in the creepy forest. He takes the offer only after she agrees to bring his dead wife back to life. He goes to the woods to find Snow. Meanwhile, in the forest Snow is getting her butt kicked by castle knights, and Thor just happens in with enough time to save her. He does, even though he’s contracted to kill her. The Queen’s brother says that she’s going to die and that the Queen can’t bring the wife back, so Thor goes bananas and kills the guards. Snow runs away (without even thanking him!)
The dialogue in this movie is awful. I shit you not this is actually said between Thor and Bella, “Do you drink to drown your sorrows or your conscience?”
“….”
“I suppose a man’s sorrows are his own.”
Ugh. At least Thor is pretty.
There was some nice imagery of the plants slowly being more and more green the further they get away from the Queen’s evil influence.
They meet the dwarves (who were played by normal-sized people which caused quite a bit of hubub in Hollywood when this first came out.) They are the last surface dwelling dwarves left and they can see the light in the darkness. Of course, they keep staring at Snow White because she’s the problem solver above all problem solvers.
The Queen does some sort of spell. Cut to William (her love interest since childhood who never gave up hope that she would still be alive. Because this is a fairy tale. That’s why.) who starts making out with her with all these gross smacking sounds. They talk about childhood and she steals his apple. She takes a bite and Will turns into the Queen who is now triumphant that she has killed Snow. Thor and the real William run into the scene, William kisses her, she doesn’t wake up, and so they drag her sleeping ass all the way to the next kingdom.
So, somehow or another, Thor gets in the room, whines about how dumb he was for letting her out of his sight for even a second and then kisses her sleeping form. She wakes up. Gives a pep talk to her ragtag group of knights and they decide to ride on the Queen’s castle. They win the fight, she goes up to the throne room to fight the Queen. Somehow she manages to win and becomes the Queen.
Do you see what I mean about predictable. Ugh. It wasn’t worth watching. Don’t do it.
Avengers, Assemble!
So, first and foremost, today is my birthday. So, in honor of my birth, Joss Whedon created a movie for my viewing pleasure. You might have heard of it.
Avengers.
Say it quietly to yourself. I know. You got all hot and bothered, and who can blame you. Rippling muscles abound in this wonderful movie. The posters did a great job of preparing us for it, TV couldn’t stop playing the trailers, and I had an Avengers themed birthday party.
My mother likened me to a 10 year old boy. I’m not, though. I’m a (now) 23 year old girl, who happens to have a HUGE thing for Thor and anything that Chris Evans happens to be in.
My apartment was transformed. I think I may have used about 2,000 feet of streamers, and I may have gone a bit overboard at the party store, but it looked amazing.
Then, we got to the movie. The movie was phenomenal. I’m voting that Joss Whedon direct every super movie from here on out. He proved his mettle well before now, but this is his first extremely huge commercial success. (Firefly was pretty amazing, though.)
He focused so much more on the characters. He built them up, to tear them down, only so they could build themselves back up again. It was fantastic.
I was listening to NPR this morning while out looking for party supplies and someone did a review on the movie. I’m not sure that I agree with what he said. In the review he said that Tony Stark became annoying at times because he was always jabbing and being rude. (I thought he was the perfect blend of arrogant, snarky, and pissed off.) He said that Scarlett Johansen’s character, Black Widow, got too much face time, and that she wasn’t as important of a character. Well, certainly she hasn’t got her own movie, but she is just as much a main character of the series as any of the other characters. Hawkeye was fantastic. Angsty and a total B.A. Hemsworth played Thor perfectly, and I liked how pissed he seemed about his brother’s betrayal.
Now for the true gem, Hulk. I’ve NEVER liked The Hulk as a character. I’ve always thought him to be one-dimensional and overly emotional, but this portrayal of Banner was absolutely wonderful. He had some great one-liners throughout, and was wonderfully twitchy and ready to go. He was a pleasant surprise. Edward Norton is no longer even on my radar.
All in all, if you haven’t seen it yet, go. It isn’t a movie one waits to see on Netflix. It was amazing, and it might be my favorite super movie of all time. Suck it up and go watch it in droves tomorrow. I know you want to.