Last night I watched on Blu-ray Snow White and the Huntsman. (It took me until this movie to figure that Thor was Captain Kirk's father?) I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. It was a big production stylistically shot (according to the Internet Movie Database it had a $170 million budget). Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart were both lovely in it (although Charlize had the cooler costumes) and there was enough action, adventure, and fun to keep even me interested. They didn't over-use CGI effects as is so common in movies these days. There were a lot of CGI effects but they were part of the story, not the story itself.
I did think the writers/directors needed to study medieval war tactics a bit more for accuracy sake. And I was trying to decided if explosions pre-dating gunpowder were an anachronism or were magical. I gave it three stars on Netflix but it was closer to 3.5 (not an option on Netflix). I enjoyed it, I just didn't really enjoy it.
Random thoughts and information from a published author, S. Evan Townsend.
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