Jayne: Captain, can you stop her from bein' cheerful, please? Mal: I don't believe there is a power in the 'verse that can stop Kaylee from being cheerful. Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.

'Serenity'


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Consuela - May 22, 2012 6:20:52 am PDT #20486 of 30000
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he brings back a deer's heart instead...and then I got nothing.

And he warns Snow White to run away, so she runs into the forest and finds the Dwarfs' house, where they take her in as free household help. The mirror tells the Queen Snow is still alive (one supposes the Huntsman made tracks), and disguising herself as a beggar woman, she goes to the house and offers Snow a poisoned apple.

Because of narrative necessity, Snow doesn't die from the poison, but falls into a coma. The Dwarfs build her a glass coffin, and the Prince, wandering by, sees the coffin and falls in love (ew?). He kisses her awake, they marry, ta-da.

I'm not sure how the Queen is defeated: it might be one of the "she flew into a rage so great she burned herself up" moments.


§ ita § - May 22, 2012 6:29:04 am PDT #20487 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ha! My Snow White has no dwarves. I can't believe that.


EpicTangent - May 22, 2012 6:42:22 am PDT #20488 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Oh, dear. Rotten Tomatoes gives The Raven 21% (Audience 55%), though this particular review...

If you take it as agreeably macabre nonsense, yes, you might enjoy it. If you're going to have a conniption fit over every historical inaccuracy, however, give it a pass.

...makes it sound like it might be enjoyable enough. I'll report back. (Please, please, please not horrible anachronisms...Signed, Still Irritated by a recent Staged Dracula referring to Harker's "dime store cross"...because really, what's a "dime" in Victorian England?)

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Zenkitty - May 22, 2012 6:43:26 am PDT #20489 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

I remember a version that said the prince's kiss dislodged the piece of apple from her throat, and then she awoke. Which adds another level of ew.

I hope she's actually in love with the prince. Otherwise it's one guy handing over the prize to another guy, and that would just suck.


§ ita § - May 22, 2012 6:43:45 am PDT #20490 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Wait...doesn't that make it sound like it has horrible anachronisms?


§ ita § - May 22, 2012 6:44:08 am PDT #20491 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Otherwise it's one guy handing over the prize to another guy, and that would just suck

You have read fairy tales, right?


-t - May 22, 2012 6:49:59 am PDT #20492 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I'm not sure how the Queen is defeated: it might be one of the "she flew into a rage so great she burned herself up" moments.

The way I remember it, which may be something I made up in my head, Snow White and the prince go live in his kingdom and the Evil Queen is not defeated at all. But she doesn't care if Snow White is the fairest one of all in some other land? Something like that.

Also in my version - she doesn't swallow the bite of apple, it gets lodged in her throat, and when the prince asks to see her and the dwarves obligingly shift her coffin that piece of poisoned apple gets jostled out of place, letting her wake up. I think I must have read a bunch of variations on Snow White and mish-mashed them up in my head.


Zenkitty - May 22, 2012 6:51:52 am PDT #20493 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

You have read fairy tales, right?

I am hoping for something more enlightened in the update! After all, this Snow (trailer spoiler) screamed at a troll and distracted him from stomping on the Huntsman, while the original Snow would've just fainted.

I'm going to see it just to watch Hemsworth walk around and swing heavy things and Theron get her evil on.


EpicTangent - May 22, 2012 6:53:50 am PDT #20494 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Wait...doesn't that make it sound like it has horrible anachronisms?

Anachronisms, yes. But RDJ-Sherlock Holmes-style anachronisms I can mostly ignore. (I'm not entirely certain how I'd classify "dime"-style anachronisms, i.e., the ones that I can't handwave, I just hope they don't have too many of them).

Speaking of, I can't believe I was the only person bugged by the fact that Loki got Black Widow's reference to "being in the red" - Really? Lots of accounting references growing up in Asgard? C'mon, I can't be the most pedantic in the room - not when this is the room. (Oh, no, I really am turning into Sheldon...)


§ ita § - May 22, 2012 6:54:35 am PDT #20495 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The version wikipedia goes with has the dislodging. Also the too-tight lacing, and the poisoned comb--it's all coming back to me.

And, yes, shipping with the Huntsman is allowed, since he falls for her.

If you didn't want to do the legwork in calculating Avenger screentime: [link] (doesn't include Fury or Loki).