I was actually really excited to go see Snow White and the Huntsmen today, then everyone bailed  . Is it as dark as it seems to be?

I love the ending.

And oh please let it be some sort of undead western. Zombies are overcooked at this point, but something else would be awesome.

I watched The Borrowers with my 9-y-o niece and nephew this weekend. Good fun but nothing special; it's full of British actors who appeared in Harry Potter later. We recognized Slughorn and Arthur Weasley of course (as well as Peter from Jumanji, House from House and Sully from Monsters, Inc.), but it wasn't until the credits rolled that we realized that the littlest borrower was Draco Malfoy!

Last edited by Zarban (2012-06-04 16:33:47)

I was talking on a more basic story and character level as far as what you'd be able to get away with. What I posted above was much more of a gut reaction sort of feeling immediately after I watched the movie, but taking a bit of time to think about it, I don't think you'd have to alter as much as I originally thought.

I think the major issue with it is that a modern audience expects a certain depth to a character and a story that I don't think EFNY inherently displays. From the very outset it's a very 1D story, as are the characters for the most part. There's very little going on that isn't just right there on the surface, and what little is there actually doesn't make any difference. For example Snake's whole "I heard you were dead thing." It never actually becomes a thing, it's just a running gag that doesn't really add anything to his character (Because we never find out why anyone thinks he's dead, or why he isn't actually dead. And it never plays a role in the movie, except as a joke.)

Now don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed it, but I think it benefits from being made when it was, so it gets a pass on a lot that stuff. But I think if you tried to make it today, everyone would just look at you and go wtf is this shit?!

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the impression I get looking at it compared to the complaints that people throw at a lot of modern action/genre movies.

And both Precinct 13 and Halloween are next up on the list.

Although I tried watching Dark Star a couple months ago and I couldn't even make it past the 5 minute mark. I'll probably force myself to sit down and watch it, but that doesn't exactly bold well with the whole "We need more of these" idea.

I'll play the douchebag here and say that this is probably the reason why people make those types of movies, because they don't see that every day. If I wanted to watch a movie about what I see everyday, I would just go live my life.

/end douchebag mode

Otherwise I pretty much agree, and I'll have to check out The Horseman. Although you seem pretty focused on the action genre as the pinnacle for what indie guys should be making. What about like, horror or sci-fi? (I'm pretty sure a good indie team could make a pretty solid The Thing)

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2012-06-05 04:26:39)

Speed Racer is indeed entirely underrated. I could have done with less kid and less monkey, but it still has a special place...on my movie shelf.

I also like that the Speed Racer Blu-Ray disc starts playing the movie right away without any menus or ads. As it should be! It annoys me to no end to have to sit through advertising on something I paid for. It's so ugly.

I just saw Piranha 3DD and wish I hadn't. I found it an unfunny unimaginative mess. And I quite enjoyed the first one, too, I thought it had wit and charm. This one had none of that, they just tried to offend people without having much point to it.

Oh, and earlier today I saw Safe House which was quite boring and dull. I'm not having a very good movie watching day.....

Last edited by Jimmy B (2012-06-07 20:36:34)

Yeah, it's pretty bad. And really fucking mean-spirited. That last scene over the credits, the one in black and white because they wouldn't get it past the censors if it was in colour, is horrible. Left a bad taste in my mouth if I'm being honest.

And yeah, probably the worst I've seen so far this year too.

I started watching the Asylum's version of Snow White last night and stopped half way through because it was so god damn boring. I know they're mostly aware of how schlock their films are, but someone needs to tell their directors to stop making dull shit. The last several I've seen have been hard to watch, with the Three Musketeers being the only exception. I've not seen Lincoln Vs Zombies yet, tho, and Brad Jones apparently loved it a lot, so I'll have to check that one out.

When I first heard they were making a movie called "The Raven" about Poe, I was hoping for a biopic, cause the dude lived a really tragic life that would make for a very compelling story. After I saw the trailer I lost interest, but the visuals looked pretty good. Haven't seen it yet, tho. My parents liked it.

My parents, however, have horrible taste in film. If it shows up on netflix instant I might watch it just to see how bad it actually is.

Isn't the whole POINT of the piranha movies to be as horrible and stupid as possible? I'm not even kidding, no one in their right minds could have seen a trailer for any of them and thought, "Yep, they are trying to make a good movie here." Actually the trailer for 3DD looked really really elf aware of they were doing and actually made jokes about it. "You seriously replaced all the lifeguards with strippers?" and etc

I've never actually seen any of them, but I'm aware enough of them to have gathered that much at least.

I'm not defending them, I'm just wondering why anyone thought it would be good in the first place, thereby having expectations to disappoint.

Which you did explain...sorta, so thank you

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2012-06-08 03:03:52)

As Trey can tell you, their directors aren't generally in charge of what kind of shit they make.