For reasons that I cannot explain, I am a huge Angelina Jolie fan. I just love her. I don't know why. I'm a perfect Kinsie 6, and I'd far rather do her husband, but I still find her looks captivating. Even the brief glimpse of her in this trailer gives me goosebumps. It's completely irrational.
I'll totally go see this if the reviews are even halfway decent.
@1 Me too. I can't explain it. Maybe because she snagged Hollywood's hottest man? Maybe because she's a humanitarian? Maybe because she adopts all those babies? Or maybe because she is totally sexy even to an old homo like me. I think it's all the above.
My first thought was "Oh, they're trying to make Wicked into a movie before Wicked gets a chance."
But yeah, there is absolutely nothing to go on here. Maleficent is the greatest Disney villain of all time, and one of the best of all cinema, but so much of that is due to the impeccable art of the original film and the vocal performance. It's impossible to say whether today's boiled-bland Disney and Angelina Jolie can do the character justice.
I recommend Wanted based solely on that single shot of Jolie leaving the tub (the rest being pretty awful), I'm that much a fan of ogling her. But this seems... stupid.
Angelina Jolie is a Godess & is (was)? the coolest person ever to dominate the dumb celebrity worship magazine stands in my lifetime, but Disney? Sexist, gender stereotyping Disney? the institution who grafted the idea of evil with the idea of witch.
Fuck Disney. (Angelina, I don't know why you said 'yes' to this, but we're still cool, and I know you'll probs spend your kazillions on helping people, so like whatevs.)
The trailer has me a little worried (the bubble-gum CG and Let's-Put-Everything-Under-The-Sun-Plus-The-Kitchen-Sink approach to flashy FX is reminiscent of Oz The Great And Powerful- one of the worst films I've seen in years that seemed to think that quantity of CG could compensate for quality or writing/directing/editing/acting)- but I still have hope because Jolie looks magnificent. Or Malefecent. Har har.
I'll totally go see this if the reviews are even halfway decent.
But yeah, there is absolutely nothing to go on here. Maleficent is the greatest Disney villain of all time, and one of the best of all cinema, but so much of that is due to the impeccable art of the original film and the vocal performance. It's impossible to say whether today's boiled-bland Disney and Angelina Jolie can do the character justice.
I'll watch this for the same reason I watched and enjoyed Snow White and the Huntsman: not because it's quality, but because it's got the look.
Fuck Disney. (Angelina, I don't know why you said 'yes' to this, but we're still cool, and I know you'll probs spend your kazillions on helping people, so like whatevs.)