Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
I just watched the trailer for Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and part of me thinks it looks like a fun action movie but the other part of me is shaking my head in disdain. I mean the premise is hokey as all hell and the dialogue seems wooden. I saw in an interview that Jeremy Renner said he had no problem doing action films as long as the character was interesting. I respected that and I think he has kept to that. However, I'm just not sure this movie is going to fit within that framework. Who knows though. I've seen trailers that make a movie look so good and it was terrible (The Golden Compass) and I've seen trailers that did not intrigue me but the movie turned out to be fantastic (The Town). I also don't want to be a snob that that is all "Jeremy Renner you are so talented and you are wasting your time with these movies." He can do whatever hell movie he wants and there is something to be said about movies that are pure entertainment. Those movies can be good while not necessarily being a high-brow awards movie (Avengers). However, I'm just not sure this movie is going to be even entertaining, besides the cool action sequences. We shall see.
Oh and am I supposed to suspend belief about the characters' ages? I mean in the flashback they look the same age, but in real life Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner are fifteen years a part and they look it in the film. It must be nice to be a man in Hollywood where you can play young a lot longer than you can play young as a female. I don't mind age differences with couples as long as it's acknowledging there are issues that have to be overcome when there is a 10+ year age difference. But to blatantly try to convince me that a 25 year-old woman looks the same as a 40 year-old man and that they are siblings is just ridiculous and perfectly illustrates the ageist quality of Hollywood.
Oh and am I supposed to suspend belief about the characters' ages? I mean in the flashback they look the same age, but in real life Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner are fifteen years a part and they look it in the film. It must be nice to be a man in Hollywood where you can play young a lot longer than you can play young as a female. I don't mind age differences with couples as long as it's acknowledging there are issues that have to be overcome when there is a 10+ year age difference. But to blatantly try to convince me that a 25 year-old woman looks the same as a 40 year-old man and that they are siblings is just ridiculous and perfectly illustrates the ageist quality of Hollywood.