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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 415431" data-attributes="member: 23">Snow White & The Huntsman (2012) <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.impawards.com%2F2012%2Fposters%2Fsnow_white_and_the_huntsman_ver20_xlg.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=9a57451a3dca356bb4eb6af3d9e8fb116c9a667bfd2a9dcf0b83b0b5cb994875&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 884px" /> It's a day and a half since I watched this, and I'm still not sure quite what to make of it.  It's fine, I suppose. I didn't dislike it, but the film's look and tone also felt very of its time, with all the dark fairytale remakes and Game Of Thrones and even the MCU. In fact, as I got halfway through the film, I decided it felt  rather like a sub-par MCU origin film: watchable enough, and not an entire waste of time, but there's still a sense that it's not the best. It looks very early 21st Century, with an abundance of CGI that's not badly done but at the same time never feels quite real in the way that practical effects will. Feeling a little unreal isn't necessarily a bad thing, though, when it comes to fairytales, so I can live with it. There are some familiar faces. I got mixed messages from seeing Ian McShane and Bob Hoskins since they were playing dwarves so I found myself convinced it was them, while simultaneously wondering if there could be small actors who happened to look and sounds like these familiar faces. But it was the real thing (through more computer-generated cleverness, of course). In fact this was Bob's last film il health forced his retirement. Ray Winstone was in the mix as well. Charlize Theron is fine for this role. Impressive performance in Monster aside, the only roles in which I've seen her are playing stunning icy cold blondes, and this runs true to type. Kristen Stewart is more impressive than I anticipated. I was surprised to find that she wasn't actually British. And I think she was the only character who attempted to speak properly, without any of the anachronistic T-glottalisation that was abundant everywhere else (in language terms, the contractions irritated me as well. Using "I am" instead of "I'm" or "she is" instead of "she's" would have made it sound more "proper"and traditional instead of Pret chatter). My least favourite casting was Chris Hemsworth. The performance just feels too similar to Thor to me (early Thor, that is. Before he became the MCU's jester) and the film, too, has a similar tone, which makes him feel like a one-trick pony. I haven't really seen him in anything else, besides playing a himbo in that horrible Ghostbusters remake and adverts for aftershave, neither of which persuades me he's a great actor. His accent in this film is atrocious. It kept changing region from line to line. I looked it up afterwards and apparently it's supposed to be Scottish, but he also visited Wales, Ireland and Newcastle. Funnily enough, I had no idea he was in this and he didn't appear for the best part of an hour, but when I heard the opening narration, I immediately thought it sounded like Hemsworth when he attempts to sound posh in Thor. There are no big shocks or surprises. This one does what it says on the tin, so I can't really complain, apart from the 2+ hour running length which should only really be reserved for really good films (and even then, only when necessary).  Despite myself, I fear the prequel might end up on the screen at some point in the next week or so. The little I've read tells me there's an even more offensive Scottish accent than Hemsworth's in the sequel which should at least add some unintended entertainment value.</blockquote>

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