Saw the trailer for the first time in the cinema while watching Godzilla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_9KvLutsA
Youtube has some trailers and reviews of the trailers.
This looks good and it seems to be in the vein of "revisionist" fiction. That is they take a villain and tell a story around it to make them not only more sympathetic, but ultimately good. For example Wicked or Oz the Great and Powerful where the wicked witch is shown in a more sympathetic light. The trailer and the wiki article makes Maleficient look like the victim.
I was pleasantly surprised that its due to be released in only a few weeks in Australia. This along with X-men days of future past is something I am going to see.
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They've started advertising it here in the UK too, though I'm far more interested in seeing X-men. I'll probably wait for the reviews before making my decision- though Angelina Jolie is a big plus for me
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Reinterpreting is fine, but I'm not a fan of them changing Maleficent's curse - she originally cursed Aurora to die, and the third gift of the Fairy Godmothers was to mitigate that to eternal sleep and the love's first kiss thing.
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I have been seeing the teasers for close to a year, they're all over Youtube. Each one has dropped more of the tale, and it makes me very happy that it's opening the 30th.
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i'm really unsure on this - i hated the alice in wonderland remake, and wasn't impressed by that recent fairytale one either. (can't remember the name, it was a snow white rethink)
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You mean the very very Tim Burton-ish one? I loved that! Though I felt the ending was a bit of a cop out...madd0ct0r wrote:i'm really unsure on this - i hated the alice in wonderland remake, and wasn't impressed by that recent fairytale one either. (can't remember the name, it was a snow white rethink)
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