the best they can do at this point...

I wrote this blog post back in February. Just messing around a bit really, but the thoughts are still mine. I find it funny to go back and read drafts, but this one stuck out for me. You don't have to read though the thing, but I would like to draw attention to the highlighted bit at the end and compare it to this

There's also a sense that the film has been edited to keep her presence as limited as possible, with few shots lingering and a role that's mostly passive

Mostly passive?  Her character is in the title of the film!!  She is supposed to be the lead character, how is she "mostly passive"?  Oh wait! Thinking back to the first, second and so on tv spots, not many of them actually feature Stewart and even fewer of them feature her speaking in them.  That is NEVER a good sign.

That was a bit of a review from ClickOnline.com which you can read here   I find it funny that these seems to be a common theme with this film.  I also saw a tweet last night that read,

"Phrase nobody ever saw coming: "the vastly superior 'Mirror, Mirror'"

That cracked me up, of course it was in the 2am hour.  After all the comparisons to these two films, which are clearly nothing alike, yeah, that was funny.

Any noodle...this is the rest of the blog if you are so included to read.

So there are going to be two Snow White movies coming out this year. Yes, two. Now, I've got nothing against Snow White, I mean she is the "Fairest of them all" but she is just not my favorite of any of the Princesses. So the fact that there are two movies coming out does nothing for me. However, these two movies, while possibly having similar themes, have a very different look and feel to them.

First up is "Mirror, Mirror" staring Julia Roberts, Nathan Lane, Armie Hammer, and Lilly Collins. I'll let you guess who is playing who. This version of Snow White is going to take a stab at the campy, humorous side of things. Just imagining the screen time between Julia Roberts and Nathan Lane has me excited to see this version.

The visuals alone look stunning and adding to that are the wonderfully designed costumes by Eiko Ishioka. Oh the colors!! I'm betting on this being a treat for the eyes.

"Mirror, Mirror" hits theatres on March 30, 2012, despite the earlier dates on the posters.



Now for something completely different. The second of the Snow White's to hit theatres this year is "Snow White and the Huntsman" staring Charlize Theron, Chris Helmsworth, and Kristen Stewart. Again, I'll leave it up to you to figure out who plays what character, though I'm betting you already know.

While both Snows have similar approaches, this one looks to be the darker of the two. In this version, Snow White takes on more of a bad ass approach. After being sent off to the woods where The Huntsman is supposed to kill her, he has a change of heart and rather than kill her, her trains her up to fight back against the Evil Queen. Enter bad ass Snow White.

There is no doubt in my mind that Charleze not only will act the part, but she looks every bit of the role of the Evil Queen. Her acting talents prove just how good she is in each role she takes, so I'm sure this will be no different. The spotlight so far in the films trailers has been on her which does not make me sad at all.

Oddly enough, the spotlight has not been on the films name sake. I found this strange. There have been a few rumors surround this topic. Are they saving Snow White for the big reveal, is her role not as big as suspected, how bad is her rumored British accent? Take your pick.

Now, I'm not suggesting that Stewart's acting is below par, but I have viewed her in other things and lets just say, well, ya know, I think I'll keep those comments to myself. I will say this, if her role is not that big or if she is not up to the task, Universal could always cut the film to make it all about the evil queen. Yes, it's been done before. This would give Universal a huge jump at the live action villain franchise that Disney is going to kick off next year with "Maleficent" staring Angelina Jolie.

"Snow White and the Huntsman" hits theatres on June 1, 2012

That evil part of me

I know it might sound evil to be happy about pissing someone off. Okay, it IS evil to be happy about it, but this couldn't be helped.

It gave me great satisfaction to piss off my husband this morning. You see, we signed our son up for baseball last week knowing full well the many nights we would be spending at the ball fields between practices, clinics, games and more. I mentioned the sacrifices that would have to be made to my hubs as we filled out the online forms and forked over the $100 registration fee. "Oh, it's no problem, I'm well aware of the sacrifice" he said. Well, that seemed to have gone right out the window when I reminded him of the Sunday practice our son had.

Our home schedule is not your typical Monday through Friday, nine to five schedule. Oh no. I work weekends and one day during the week while hubs works nights. Hubs usually takes morning shifts, while I take the afternoon. He gets the kids off to school, while I pick up and do the homework rounds. It's not the most convenient of schedules, but it works for our life.

Unless of course he has something more pressing to do. Recently he has gotten into competition BBQing. He's in with a great bunch of guys and they mean business. This is all well and good. I mean, everyone should have a hobby and I'm glad he found this as cooking comes very natural to him and he's very good at it. Although at times I wish he'd stop thinking of me as his "plongeur" (sorry, just watched Ratatouille) but I digress.

So here we are facing the Sunday ball practice. Hubs was complaining that if he knew about the practice he'd have come straight home from work instead of going out and picking up his BBQ smoker. This is something that could have waited, but didn't. Not to mention the baseball information that is marked on the calendar, in the paperwork in the counter and written on the dry erase board. All reminding him of the Sunday practice.

The question I was waiting for came not ten minutes into the "conversation" about this practice. "Well, can't your dad take him?" Breathe in, breathe out. I looked at my hubs with the patience of Job and said, "If you don't take him, he doesn't go. This is part of the sacrifice I talked about when we signed him up." Then of course came the complaints about lack of sleep.

Funny, there were never any complaints about lack of sleep when he stayed up many a mornings building his BBQ smoker. And believe you me, he put in some long hours making that thing. Don't get me wrong, it looks amazing and he could easily sell it for a good $2500. However, why is it so easy to make the sleep sacrifice for that and not our sons baseball schedule?

And don't get me started on lack of sleep. We have two children, twenty months apart and not once did he ever get up in the middle of the night to feel either one of them when he worked day shift or on weekends or on a day off. Not. Once. So for an estimated four years I woke up for every feeding and diaper change because that is what a parent does. So I don't even want to hear about lack of sleep. I'm pretty sure my current bouts of insomnia are still residual effects from night feedings.

The bottom line is that my son will go to ball practice today and it will be his father who takes him. And yes, the evil part of me is happy about his.