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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-03-15 (Saturday) & 2025-03-16 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:25:34 -0700
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On 3/17/25 11:08 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday I watched:
>>
>>
>> Show White and the Huntsman (blu-ray) 2012 fantasy action movie starring
>> Kristen Stewart as an armor-clad princess who battles her wicked
>> stepmother (Charlize Theron) for control of her kingdom.  Chris
>> Hemsworth co-stars as the eye candy love interest for the hero.  This
>> was mostly background noise with the director's commentary.  Oddly
>> enough the director pointed out his wife's cameo in the movie, but
>> didn't mention the affair he was having with the leading lady that lead
>> to his divorce.
> 
> This caused me to wonder which leading lady the skanky one or the really
> skanky one? From IMDb trivia:
> 
> Kristen Stewart had an affair with Rupert Sanders during the making of the
> film. When the scandal broke, Stewart's boyfriend, Robert Pattinson, moved
> out of their Hollywood house, while Sanders' wife, Liberty Ross, who
> appeared at the start of the film as Snow White's mother, eventually
> instigated divorce proceedings.
> 
>> The Huntsman: Winter's War (4K disc) 2016 sequel to Snow White that
>> brings everyone back, except Snow White.  The evil stepmother (Charlize
>> Theron) returns, but now she's a T-1000 terminator out for revenge
>> against the Huntsman and an often mention, but never actually seen Snow
>> White.  To get her revenge she teams up with her evil sister, The Snow
>> Queen (Emily Blunt).  Jessica Chastain also stars as the Snow Queen's
>> henchwoman and Hemsworth's love interest.
> 
> And again from IMDb, trivia:
> 
> Universal Pictures decided to drop Kristen Stewart from the sequel "Snow
> White and The Huntsman 2", due to the scandal of Stewart's affair with
> Rupert Sanders, and instead of a sequel, Universal Pictures decided to
> focus on, and develop, a spin-off following The Huntsman.

Is it any wonder, then, that this is one case where I have a clear 
preference for the sequel?! The cast of the sequel is so much better 
it's not even funny!!