Just saw the Snow White and Huntsman movie.

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Better than I expected. Director did a great job with Kristen Stewart. She even had a major moment. It's best to go in without any expectations, so I won't give out any spoilers. Except to say, that it didn't hurt Stewart to have a British boyfriend. She nailed the accent for American audiences.

BTW, there will be a sequel.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-battleship-box-officemt1thewrap42476-20120602,0,1424207.story

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1. We really enjoyed it a lot...

I want to go back for another viewing.

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2. I was rooting for Kristen Stewart because I had seen her in other things "not Twilight."

God. She was so awful in those Twilight movies. Some of it was director's mistakes. Hardwicke's crew did a phenomenal job of casting, but she was hardcore indie on a shoestring. She talked about writing lines for the actors but there were hits and misses. Telling Stewart to blink to fill in the lack of lines was a bad idea.

The next one, New Moon, had the absolute wrong director for the first half of the movie. (I realize Chris Weicz did the whole thing, but his style of old time romance didn't really connect until the setting caught up with him.) I usually pick that movie up in the middle, if I can ever bring myself to see it at all. But Stewart had a major fail when she exchanged squealing for loss when Edward left her. That was the director's fault. She should have shed a tear or two. Most of us have been in a position of losing a boyfriend and it didn't look like that. By Breaking Dawn I was already in fatigue stage. It was better, but meh. The Eclipse director did a better job of bringing in the secondary actors. Should have been done sooner, in my opinion. Maybe Stewart's weaknesses wouldn't have been so notable.

ANd yet I walked into the Snow white movie rooting for her. I think it was a homerun for her. I would stick to that director if I were her.

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3. I generally don't like her, but I like Chris Hemsworth more. n/t

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4. He was solid.

Don't know if he's signed on for the next movie. Not sure where the sequel was going to go because I think the three's company angle has been exhausted, and because we already know she has no feelings for William.

It comes down to who is going to be the villain. Hopefully it will not be a resurrection of the wicked queen. Theron did a great job playing Psycho, dysfunctional queen. But by the end, I was happy for her that her pain was over. I wonder though, because the huntsman said to keep the knife in and don't retrieve it until you see the soul leave their eyes. And they made a big deal of showing how Snow White allowed the queen to retrieve the knife before the Queen died. And we had seen the Queen survive such wounds. And she died by the mirror, where maybe some kind of Voldermort transfer could take place.