It is officially summer so now it is time for the summer films. Let's start with Snow White and the Huntsman I have been looking forward to this film since it was announced last year. I am quickly becoming a fan of Chris Hemsworth and with Charlize Theron's impressive resume there isn't much that she can do wrong. As for Kristen Stewart I have never been a fan of hers the only movie that I have seen of hers has been Panic Room and that was when she was ten years old. I have heard other people say that she is a one note actress and after seeing SWATH I can kind of see why. As it has been mentioned before this isn't your mothers typical Snow White. We get a more detailed view of the journey that Snow White takes when she runs away from her evil step-mother Ravenna. While on the run she is chased down by the Huntsman who quickly becomes her ally and helps her become a warrior. Problem is we aren't given too many scenes of him teaching her to become this tough women. By the end of the movie she is wielding a sword that looks as if it weighs as much as she does and a shield. With all that aside I didn't mind the movie too much Rupert Sanders the director clearly is a visual master and I look forward to his future projects. Universal has already green lit a sequel which I am not sure that this film really needs but hey as long as chris and charlize are back for round 2 I am in.
Grade B
After months of anticipation I was finally able to get to see Prometheus. I have seen alien but it has been awhile since I have seen it the last time I saw I was a young kid and it scared the crap out of me. This one didn't scare me as much. Noomi Rapace stars as a women who is determined to find the origins of man kind. OF course in her journey she unlocks things that should have never been unlocked. This is definitely slower and a thinking mans version of aliens. I gotta say the real standout here is Micheal Fassbender (this guy can do no wrong) he plays a droid named David. You simultaneously love and hate his character and yet every time he wasn't in a scene I was anxiously awaiting for him to pop back up on screen. I can't go into the movie too much without giving away to many spoilers. There is one scene in the film that is very alienesque with an alien bursting out of a stomach that is pretty stomach churning. All in all a good movie but I was expecting more I am not sure what more I was expecting but I was left wanting more.
Grade B
Finally on my list of movies to see was the Dictator, to say that this was a huge swing and a miss for Sacha Baron Cohen is an understatement. These characters that he has been creating are getting kind of old. and the Dictator by far was the worst. By now we all know what to expect when Sacha does these characters a lot of low blows and obvious jokes about the situation his characters find themselves in. I probably laughed maybe a handful of times. To Sacha Baron Cohen as a fan please stop making these kinds of films but continue to make films like Hugo or Sweeny Todd.
Grade D
One final note I wanted to throw in some Hollywood dish on Friday Katie Holmes filed for divorce from that nut job Tom Cruise and I want to say thank goodness. There whole relationship always creeped me out their courtship how they got together him trying to make her the women he has always wanted, it all was a little too strange. Personally I feel Tom was abusive to her not physically but emotionally. Keeping her family at bay cutting off her friends making his family and Scientology friends her new family and friends. It all just seemed a little too staged. On the bright side with Tom out of the picture Katie's career will surely get a boost much like what happened to Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz both of whom went on to become Oscar winners post Tom. So good luck to you Katie!!!!
