Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-15 (Saturday) & 2025-03-16 (Sunday)

On 3/17/25 11:08 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
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On Saturday I watched:
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Show White and the Huntsman (blu-ray) 2012 fantasy action movie starring
Kristen Stewart as an armor-clad princess who battles her wicked
stepmother (Charlize Theron) for control of her kingdom.  Chris
Hemsworth co-stars as the eye candy love interest for the hero.  This
was mostly background noise with the director's commentary.  Oddly
enough the director pointed out his wife's cameo in the movie, but
didn't mention the affair he was having with the leading lady that lead
to his divorce.

 This caused me to wonder which leading lady the skanky one or the really
skanky one? From IMDb trivia:
 Kristen Stewart had an affair with Rupert Sanders during the making of the
film. When the scandal broke, Stewart's boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, moved
out of their Hollywood house, while Sanders' wife, Liberty Ross, who
appeared at the start of the film as Snow White's mother, eventually
instigated divorce proceedings.
 

The Huntsman: Winter's War (4K disc) 2016 sequel to Snow White that
brings everyone back, except Snow White.  The evil stepmother (Charlize
Theron) returns, but now she's a T-1000 terminator out for revenge
against the Huntsman and an often mention, but never actually seen Snow
White.  To get her revenge she teams up with her evil sister, The Snow
Queen (Emily Blunt).  Jessica Chastain also stars as the Snow Queen's
henchwoman and Hemsworth's love interest.

 And again from IMDb, trivia:
 Universal Pictures decided to drop Kristen Stewart from the sequel "Snow
White and The Huntsman 2", due to the scandal of Stewart's affair with
Rupert Sanders, and instead of a sequel, Universal Pictures decided to
focus on, and develop, a spin-off following The Huntsman.

Is it any wonder, then, that this is one case where I have a clear preference for the sequel?! The cast of the sequel is so much better it's not even funny!!