Snow White and the Huntsman

Snow White and the Huntsman. I wasn’t expecting much from it, but the trailer looks pretty good. It might shape up to be a good retelling, and I like retellings. Except Hollywood has made retellings into a garbage dump of tired, overused cliches that no one cares about anymore. Thanks, Hollywood (and before anyone says I shouldn’t watch Hollywood movies if I’m going to be a bitch about Hollywood, then let me say that if there was no Hollywood, I wouldn’t give two shits except that there wouldn’t be anymore The Superficial updates and the possibility of a Firefly reunion would be well and truly scrapped).

But this retelling here of Charlize Theron’s boobs (that Seth claims he didn’t notice. Yeah right) and K-Stew in armour looks interesting at least. Thor showing up wasn’t as jarring as I thought it would be. And I love all that raven shit going down. Let there be ravens! And bats! Hopefully there’ll be a slinky black cat that bursts into a gazillion black geometric crystals when K-Stew White nudges it with her steel toe.

What I don’t really buy is Stewart as Snow White. She doesn’t look like a princess. You know who looks like a fairy tale princess? Liv Tyler. Amanda Seyfried. Emily Blunt. Megan Fox (okay, she doesn’t look like a princess. but she’s stupidly hot). Stewart looks like a butch. I don’t mean she looks like a man or she looks like a transvestite. I just mean that if in Twilight while she was moping around in her stupid boy clothes of jeans and shapeless top, she had grabbed her blonde best friend and made out with her in some corner I would not have been surprised. I would have been, I knew that would happen. Because I’m psychic.

And come on. Do you really look at Stew and think, Goddamn, she looks like a fairytale princess? Hell no! I look at her and think, at some point in her fairytale, she’s going to wear man clothes. And since she wore armour, I guess I’m right and this is the fairytale for her. But I still don’t buy it. Maybe I’m just used to more conventional princesses like Aurora and Ariel and Belle who were just really pretty and flounced around in dresses and sang. Stewart doesn’t look like she’d ever sing. Not to the woodland animals, and not to her prince charming (about that. who the heck is the guy? i can tell he’s pretty unimportant from the trailer since he got like 0.45 seconds that weren’t even a headshot. but do they really have to choose the most insipid looking people to play princes now? it’s like insipid people suddenly have a wider range of characters to choose from – prince charming, best friend, villain, reality tv star. it’s like that emo hipster guy in Red Riding Hood. seriously wtf). Stewart looks like she’d open her mouth and breath depression and dysthymia on everyone until they wilted and died and their souls looked just like her face. I don’t mean people’s souls look like butches, I meant they look perpetually suspended between abject misery and uncertain uncertainty. Like limbo. Stewart’s face looks like limbo.

Anyway, I’d watch it. Even if the trailer music reminded me of Tron.

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Reading the newspapers really pisses me off nowadays. I think to myself, how can these people write this sort of absolute and total BS? I mean, really. I know I technically write for the papers too, so I figure these people are similar to myself. So when they file stories or whatever, do they roll their eyes? Snigger when writing down quotes from local politicians about issues that involve the people? Do they? I don’t really blame them though, not many people have the freedom of living purely by their principles. We all need to put bread on the table.

So after the whole Seksualiti Merdeka fiasco where the sexist, moronic Bung Mokhtar gave his 2 sen why it cannot beheld (It will promote baby dumping. Baby. Dumping. Because couples of the same gender have tonnes of children they don’t know what to do with, yeah? Idiot. The highest section of society that contributes to baby dumping is actually married couples who can’t afford another child. I do believe that going into politics immediately makes you incapable of using Google or your brain), comes the PPSMI thing.

Which I shall not talk about. Because I’m starting to feel like the purpose of my writing is just to complain complain complain. Sure, that’s what I do a lot of in real life, but it should stay there. Some of it anyway.

Readings@Seksan

Went to my first Reading for Readings (or was it by readings?or what? it doesn’t really make sense either way) and it was not as bad as I thought (mostly because I went with greg and seth).

The lineup was, I think, great. It was mostly non-fiction, dealing with serious issues. Even the travel writer read an excerpt about her visit to a really old jail in the Philippines. There was a university professor (whom greg and I had interviewed previously), a politician, the travel writer, a journalist who had just come back from Afghanistan (awesome or what eh?), a dude who wrote a Malaysian Zombie apoc piece and PKR’s Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad. And they were all incredibly interesting and incredibly intelligent.

I know it sounds terrible, but I was really expecting some mediocre self-satisfied fiction (maybe because I’m afraid people would see me that way if I were to read my works?) and really weird poetry, but this was fascinating stuff. I don’t know if it was because it was mostly non-fiction, hopefully I’ll go again and find out. Apparently they’re changing the date for Nov’s readings because there’s a (writing festival? book fest? something) going on in Penang involving Bernice Chauly (yum). Anyway, can check out dates here.

And at the end Reza Salleh played a few songs. He is so cute and his voice is disgustingly awesome. He could do a bit better in the lyrics department though, but otherwise super cool.

And later I went for Halloween and didn’t take any photos. So I shall dress up again and take a photo of myself to preserve the memory of my steampunk aviator. I’m so pleased with myself tbh. Hahahaha.