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Suffers from the same inexplicable flatness that Immortals did. How these things, so visually resplendent, can be so boring I can't figure. At least Immortals had Henry Cavill and Kellan Lutz and Stephen Dorff and Luke Evans in their skimpy gilded nothings; Mirror Mirror perks up when Armie Hammer gets (repeatedly) tossed onto the screen in just his silky breeches but otherwise it's two hours of Lily Collins' Frida-brows and Julia Roberts' accent ricocheting off every corner of the globe. Aimless and airless and edited in a blender (my eyes honestly began to hurt from the over-cutting). There wasn't even enough love paid to Eiko Ishioka's costumes, her last ever, which never got the chance to pop iconically like every single thing she designed for Bram Stoker's Dracula et cetera did. They just scuttled across the screen in search of the next flailing bug gag.
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YUUUUUP.
How sad. I won't even bother. Tarsem is capable of so much better.
I wonder if the artifice of the design itself influenced how flat you found this movie. The forest floor itself was literally flat: no rocks, no snow, no earth - just a matte, featureless, dull white surface like the stage of a high school gym. It was very distracting. I found the movie kind of charming in some ways, but it felt weirdly unfinished.
but the important take-away is that the wolf-dwarf is hot.
Yes! Good call, shawnp - I totally meant to give him a shout out. I'll have to do it later.
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