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27 January 2013 @ 04:19 pm
Girl's Afternoon At The Movies  
So two of my girlfriends and I went to the movies this afternoon.  We were supposed to go tonight but, feeding the kids and all that ...  Anyway.  Off we headed, without said children (the thing is rated "R" for a reason) to the IMAX 3D Silver City to see Hansel and Gretel, Witchhunters.  (Of course, the reviews sucked, and of course, the critics are wrinking their noses.   But I noticed the Rotten Tomatoes score actually keeps climbing, and me and my friends would watch a two-hour slide of Jeremy Renner, sooo ...

What's not to love?



Hansel 1

And whaddya know?  Yes, certain reviewers -- who obviously have no sense of humour -- tittered about the anachronisms.  Hello?  Fairy Tale?  Exactly whose time line are we talking about here?  We had a grand ol' time.  Expected campy gore, got campy gore.  Witch bits flying at us in 3D!  Things blowing up!  Evil people getting smooshed in bad ways!  IMHO, we are looking at a future Midnight Classic.  (They scoffed at Starship Troopers, too, didn't they?  Now look where it is, in the pantheon of A-grade B-movies!) 

What I didn't expect -- and the moment when I whispered to Kathy that I'd just gotten my price of admission's worth -- is this.



Bonus!!

The whole thing can best be summed up by the line "Revenge won't bring back our parents.  But it sure as hell feels good."  

So -- yeah.
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[identity profile] purely-distel.livejournal.com on January 28th, 2013 12:03 pm (UTC)
I seriously do not know what some peoples problems are with the film. No one ever said they were aiming to rewrite the history of how to movie. This film never pretended to be anything other than it actually ended up being - a fun, steam-punky, gory affair with kickass action.

That's exactly what I wanted, and it's what I got and more. Because both main characters were actually more than you might have needed. They could have been just 2D and it would have been fine. But they were 3D. Seriously, the amounts of time I went into squee mode because of socially-awkward-Hansel?! Running away with a Pumpkin? IN A TREE?!

Screw every bloody critic. It was FUN and sometimes that is exactly what you want and need.
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