Ruined Glory

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN DESTROYS THE BOX OFFICE

Guess Snow White was the fairest this box office weekend raking in $56,255,430 over the weekend defeating it’s estimates and dethroning Men In Black 3 out of the top spot already.

I estimate that $50 million of those proceeds were from the very soul reason of Charlize Theron’s mega hotness. 

- Milan J

AVENGERS PASSES HARRY POTTER

THE AVENGERS has officially surpassed HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 to take the number 3 position as the highest grossing film of all time behind Titanic and Avatar.

Avengers has made $1,331.3 billion and Harry made $1,328.1 billion.

U Mad Muggles? =]

- Milan J

MOVIE REVIEW: SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

“Remember the Snow White movie with Julia Roberts? Me neither.”

Snow White and The Huntsman is a movie that shines with beautiful environments, wonderful cinematic flair and enough interesting twists on the age old lore to keep it fresh but ultimately is held back from greatness by some of it’s one dimensional characters, questionable story aspects and choppy editing.

Let’s just get it out of the way if you ever had a childhood you know how this movie is going to play out, if not you either lived in a cellar or only catch a single movie every ten years on your iStone 3000. Snow White tells the story of the tyrannical dark reign of the evil queen who is appropriately named Ravenna, since she turns into ravens. There’s a spooky mirror that judges people, a badass drunk Huntsman, dwarfs and a banging lady who is if you haven’t guessed the fairest of them all.

The story doesn’t change much minus some minor tweaks but adds enough of a shake up to the formula that it keeps mostly engaging to its climax. The characters are mostly cannon fodder besides the main ones and in all honesty you can’t help but not care about anyone past Ravenna, Snow White and The Huntsman. Even the dwarfs seem like a loss opportunity to be something amazing even with the amazing talent behind the seven of them. 

But luckily Snow White has a few things that really make it worth the entire experience. First and foremost is the environments which perfectly capture the very essence of what my childlike mind imagined the world of Snow White to look like when I was only five years old. I always pictured Snow White as a beautiful girl in a dark fantasy world riddled with grizzly creatures, fantastical and whimsical fairies and the essence of darkness that should and does appropriately seep through this world like a disease.

And I loved it, it was easily the most impressive and enjoyable thing this film had going for it since in my opinion Snow White was never a happy fairy tale. It was a child’s story about jealousy, predjudice, revenge and the obsession of the human state. It masterfully envokes and wraps such tough subject matter in a shiny coat of literature clothing that allows us as an audience to absorb one of the most famous and important stories in a gratifying way.

This is not a happy story. Snow White is a damaged individual with otherworldly beauty that she see’s as a curse more than anything for it leads to the deaths of innocents and robs her of most of her young years. Kirsten Stewart is infamous for being a one emotion kind of actress and although in this film it’s nothing really new to her acting chops it makes sense that Snow White would be a cold stone kind of person. This is a girl who witnesses her loved ones murders at the hands of a woman she almost accepted as family. Again, the story really questions our own lives with who we really trust in this diluted and twisted place we call society sometimes. And I love that about this flick.

The creature designs are also amazing from the amazing troll, fairies and the imaginative plant life that exist in this beautiful world that I wouldn’t mind visiting again. It should also be said that Charlize Theron steals the show as the evil queen as does her outfits which are elaborate yet beautiful as they coat her body from luxurious fur coats and my personal favourite being her dress made of ravens feathers. 

And Thor himself Chris Hemsworth is as one would imagine a good fit for The Huntsman. The guy looks like he’s been through hell and never feels forced or annoying or a blatant sex symbol in the film. Although I’m sure a lot of women will be drooling at the sight of him he’s actually the strongest male performance in the flick. The same can’t be said about William however. 

Ultimately Snow White and The Huntsman is a good action fantasy movie with a strong central cast and although you already know what’s going to happen the set pieces, environments and costumes and attention to the detail of this world is more than enough to warrant a ticket admission.

Just don’t expect anything new really story wise. And Charlize Theron is hot.

OVERALL SCORE: 8 out of 10

By Milan Jegenjan

EX-CALL OF DUTY HEAD’S NEW GAME UNVEILED

It’s called “HUMAN ELEMENT” and the description is as follows:

“Speaking with Game Informer, Bowling stated that the studio’s game focuses on how, in a zombie situation, “Unreasonable fear that leads us to do unreasonable things to survive.” He also detailed that there will be three classes (action, stealth and intelligence), as well as the option to survive alone, survive with a partner or survive with a child.”

Really hope it capitalizes on the survival part. I want to stealth past zombies and pick and choose my battles. I want to scour through houses and find crazy shit in the bedrooms and bathrooms and have monsters pop out of attics and go into libraries and sewers and just really move slowly watch my surroundings.

Imagine a Metro 2033 game with the open world structure of Fallout and the melee combat of Dead Island. Wouldn’t that just be all kinds of awesome? 

I guess we’ll see more at E3 next week!

- Milan J