Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
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.
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...)
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).
Epic, I also thought that was an odd bit of dialogue.
Loki never seemed to have any problem passing as a local, while Thor's lack of knowledge was played for hysterical laughs. Given what he clearly already knows about Earth, it wasn't hard for me to imagine he understands idiomatic English--they are aliens you would imagine are speaking in a foreign tongue on their home planet, after all. I wouldn't know where to start drawing the line in translation.
I am hoping for something more enlightened in the update!
So far there's been no indication she loses consciousness, has there? Or is in anyone's custody? I mean, she's swinging a sword on horseback and all sorts of other things that are completely new to the story.
I remember a version that said the prince's kiss dislodged the piece of apple from her throat, and then she awoke.
Oh, right! I forgot that bit.
Really, I have a hard time with Snow White after watching Into the Woods. (Dwarfs are very upsetting.)
Dwarfs are very upsetting
Poor Dinklage, can't get a break...
Thank you, Debet. Nice not to feel all alone.
::sniffle::
Loki never seemed to have any problem passing as a local, while Thor's lack of knowledge was played for hysterical laughs. Given what he clearly already knows about Earth, it wasn't hard for me to imagine he understands idiomatic English
I will take this handwave with me to my next viewing, thanks.
Without establishing a mechanism in place to translate into High Asgardian, I can't find fault with it.
Epic, that stood out for me, but I can handwave it. Even without knowing
what "red in the ledger" means literally, red is blood and she's not a nice person, he can figure out what she means when she says she wants the blood out of her whatsis.
Now I remember the dislodging in the coffin version, too. When I was a kid I always wondered, wouldn't she just suffocate in a glass coffin?
Also the too-tight lacing, and the poisoned comb--it's all coming back to me.
I don't remember those, though. I have a copy of Grimm's fairy tales around here somewhere.