Hansel and Gretel
Jan. 8th, 2014 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrlichYeah. So I broke down and watched Hansel and Gretel tonight. What can I say? I'm a sucker for fairy tales - especially bad remakes.
In this case? Really bad.
Most of you know me well enough to know that my taste in movies is such that you can be sure when I say that it's really bad that puts it into its own special category of Holy Jebus How Did This Film Get Made?!
I do try to see the silver lining in all the things, so here it is for this movie: This is the first action movie that I think I've ever seen where the co star / co hero female lead isn't really just eye candy wrapped in a couple pro-women quotes. Strip away all the awful special effects and the completely anachronistic (not in a good way) weaponry, and our heroine is STILL equal in every way to her brother. She's a warrior - and not the "slit up the side of the dress so she can stay more agile" type of warrior.
She dives into hand to hand combat with a physically superior foe wrapping a chain around her hand in one scene.
Leave it to the shit films to get one element really really right.
In this case? Really bad.
Most of you know me well enough to know that my taste in movies is such that you can be sure when I say that it's really bad that puts it into its own special category of Holy Jebus How Did This Film Get Made?!
I do try to see the silver lining in all the things, so here it is for this movie: This is the first action movie that I think I've ever seen where the co star / co hero female lead isn't really just eye candy wrapped in a couple pro-women quotes. Strip away all the awful special effects and the completely anachronistic (not in a good way) weaponry, and our heroine is STILL equal in every way to her brother. She's a warrior - and not the "slit up the side of the dress so she can stay more agile" type of warrior.
She dives into hand to hand combat with a physically superior foe wrapping a chain around her hand in one scene.
Leave it to the shit films to get one element really really right.
