Double Feature!

Been away a while, yes. After Dark Shadows, I got to watch three films. Firstly, Statham's Safe which features the usual ass-kicking Jason Statham. And then I skipped MIB3 straight on to SWATH and Prometheus.  So, let's kick it with this Charlize Theron double feature, first as Queen Ravenna in SWATH and Meredith Vickers in Prometheus.

Snow White & the Huntsman
After the superb first trailer, this film becomes a must-see. It is a re-telling of the classic story of Snow White and her apple. The film offers amazing spectacle with all the creature design and imaginative scenes. The highlight of the film is of course Charlize Theron as the evil Queen who needs to be the fairest of them all. Chris Hemsworth again proves he can throw weapons and fight plus a Scottish accent. However, the film sometimes becomes slow-paced and without the help of any score, a few scenes become quite boring. I need more dwarves too! I mean who would miss Ian McShane, Nick Frost, and Ray Winstone to name a few as dwarves! The dwarves only had little screen time, which is a bummer. Also, Kristen Stewart must hold the title of giving the worst pre-battle speech ever, no matter how good she looks in her battle armor. But Theron and the spectacle are already worth the price of an admission, so check it out, it doesn't disappoint. So kudos to debutante Rupert Sanders. And it's safe to say that SWATH wins this year's Snow White battle against Mirror Mirror. Snow White and the Huntsman: rated 2.5 out of 4 stars

Prometheus
Prometheus must have the best viral videos ever, you know, The Weyland TED speech and David ad are genius. The core story of the film is that a group of people funded by the Weyland Industries are on a mission to find the beginning of mankind to distant galaxy, but everything goes wrong. They went to the moon where Nostromo made its transit some years later. The film is superbly epic and it gotta be the most satisfying experience you had in cinemas so far this summer (sorry Avengers). I salute whoever designed the Prometheus and the spacesuits and all the techs on board because it is incredible. It has it flaws, unexplainable flaws yes, like [spoiler alert!] why did Fifield become a monster instead of being consumed by that black goo? Or maybe the captain didn't have to tell the remaining crew that there was a killing spree? And one of the crew didn't tell the captain that there is someone else on board? Or these questions are just from me? The star of the film is of course Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, both of them are ah-may-zinggg. Especially Fassbender as a freakin android, damn creepy and realistic. Dude, the David viral ad is enough to win him a Golden Globe at least. But don't you just hate it when they make a prequel out of classic sci-fi films, like Star Wars? Because when you watch em in chronological order, they don't make sense, in terms of technology advancements. One bit you saw a cutting-edge tech and supposedly some years later, you're back to Flintstones. And to be honest, this doesn't feel like a prequel to Alien. So, as a prequel it fails, but as a stand-alone sci-fi film, it succeeds. Prometheus: rated 4 out of 4 stars