Snow White and the Huntsman. Wha?

[sarah_tv]

I won't inflict the trailer on you. Go see it if you really want to know.

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I thought, that after Alice in Wonderland, the producer would have never gotten another story again. I know people loved it, but I feel it was only because of Johnny Depp's star power, and if anyone really thought about the story, they would have seen how really horrible and out of touch the story was.

So... here we have... a murder of crows sorceress that has a giant army that kills other armies with... what I assume are swords that make people into shattered glass, I don't know... who gets this huntsman, for reasons I don't understand, to go out and kill the white druid snow white... and then go off to be the Mad Mardiggan and slay the queen. With some dwarves as sideline support?

How can you take Snow White, and mess it up so much? It's like Willow meets World of Darkness. It looks WORSE than Alice in Wonderland, which is a bit of work... and ... oh, I don't know.

It's just sad that Once Upon a Time, the TV series looks like it's better than either of these movies.

Comments

[brushwolf]

My opinion is; moviemakers and to some extent the people investing in them want to do these kinda darker, heavily CG modern films. But there's also this reluctance to tackle new material which might really lose money at a time when studios don't feel very comfortable losing money, so people will be more inclined to go for safe stuff - remakes of 80s things, and versions of stories everyone knows. Snow White goes darker/CG appeals to both those aspects which is how the project gets greenlighted. This doesn't mean I think it's good; this doesn't mean I think it's bad; just how I think that happens.

[sarah_tv]

I accept this as part of a function of hollywood, but I've been burned to many times now. From the Alien Franchise, to all the adaptations that are not really adaptations, I am so tired of Hollywood taking core stories and then pissing on the source material.

While I understand the reason that Backers end up supporting these kinds of films, I wish that the Backers would grow some backbone and decide on the original, instead of the continued destruction of established works into crazy unrelated works.

I will respect the backers that take an original story and keep it an original story. While I sort of enjoyed the Looking Glass Wars (Check Young Litrature) as an semi-orignial work, I blame the whole idea and the ideas like it on not being brave enough to actually be their own work.

(My spelling is a little off, as I'm on a friends machine, and I don't know how to check spelling from a drop down menu on a mac. Forgive me)