#34: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Alright today we will be looking at our first movie... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  Now I was not excited at all to watch this movie.  Like I have mentioned before (and will continue to mention) I hate old things.  There are only a handful of movies/tv/music that I like that was made before 1980 and given that this movie was made in 1937 I was complaining to my mom (yes I am lame and still live at home) and my girlfriend on how I didn't want to watch this, but a man has to do what a man has to do.

Now Snow White was the first ever animated full-length featured film.  This means this film laid the foundation for animated movies to become a norm.  It is extremely hard for me to think of a childhood without animated movies.  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs paved the way for so many films like these:

So as you can see they aren't all that good but I guess you have to take the good with the bad.   Also this helped make Disney the awesome empire they are today.  Now I am an unapologetic Disney lover.  I go to Disneyland all the time, I love their movies, I pretty much worship Walt (not really just saying this for dramatic effect), and I own mouse ears (this is true.... I'm a dork) and this movie helped start their movie dominance.  They now have had movies nominated for best pictures and many rides at their theme parks based on their rides.  So despite my feeling towards old things, I love animated movies and Disney so I have to pay some respect to his film.

Next we will do a quick rundown on how this movie rates according to Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB:
IMDB= 7.8 out of 10
Rotten Tomatoes (Critic Rating) = 97%
Rotten Tomatoes (Audience Rating) = 72%
So looking at these scores it seems that critically this movie still means a lot and is a great piece of work for its time but it seems some people out there think like me and rate older things a little lower :)

Now for my person critique.  Lets start with the characters.  We have the huntsman, who is pointless and also his voice acting is miserable. Many of the characters in this movie have bad voice acting and I guess one can say its due to the time it was made in and to that I say I don't care.  The prince, who is in this movie for a whole 3 minutes is pointless and stupid.  Now lets move on to more important characters first we have the queen.  She is awesome!  But before I go on I have always always always always wondered what she is wearing.  What is it?  A hood?  Is she bald?  Gone gray and embarrassed? I mean if she was bald or losing hair it would explain why she isn't the fairest in the land  I hope someone out there can tell me.  Anyways she is one of my favorite characters from this movie she is evil, for who knows what reason, scary when she turns into that hag, and she is sorta hot... I mean umm..... So she is so scary my girlfriend won't go on the Snow White ride at Disneyland.  Next we have the seven dwarfs.  These guys take up so much time in the movie it should be called The Seven Dwarfs and Snow White.  There is so much time of them  just being funny and doing their thing.  I love these guys and without them this film would be really boring.  Now on a side note I always heard the dwarfs are representative of different stages of drug use or something like that (I have never done drugs so I may sound ignorant) like using cocaine or I dunno.  Now some of them make sense but the one I still don't understand is Bashful.  Does taking drugs make you shy?  I don't get it.  While we are on this side note when ever Sneezy was about to sneeze they would put their finger under his nose like this:

I just don't get it.  Oh well.  Now lets take a look at Snow White... well she is boring.  Her personality can be summed up as being nice.  Also he singing voice is one of the worst things I have ever heard, but we will talk about that later.

Now The story of Snow White is fairly simple yet it is entertaining enough with the help of some good characters.  The movies moves quickly and yet slowly is parts as well.  Now I don't want to spoil any of the plot since I hope by reading this blog you want to see some of these films I will just sum up the things I learned:
#1: Being pretty is important
#2: Women should clean to earn their keep
#3: Ugly = Scary/evil
#4: You don't need a good personality just good looks
#5: Don't talk to strangers
#6: Kisses fixes everything
I hope you take all of these to heart and apply them to your life today.  Seriously though the story is ok for a kids movie.

Now lets do a quick look over on the animation and music.  The animation is decent for a movie that old and when I was a kid I didn't think it looked that bad but compared with animation today it looks sub par.  I don't care if it was awesome in its day, cause its my day now and I think its is just ok.  The music is both great and horrible.  Some songs are good and really make me remember my childhood, also the score is good as well.  But then Snow White sings

AHHH it hurts my ears!!!  Wow it also makes me miss Ke$ha. 

Overall this movie is just average but as I watched it I was reminded how entreating an old Disney movie can be and nostalgia swept over me.  When you look at how this movie influenced culture and film it is easy to see why this movie is in the AFI top 100.  After reviewing this movie I give it a C+

The Adventure Begins....

Hello, I am The_Awesometeer and I will be partaking on a journey through the AFI Top 100 (if you do not know what this is please check out this site: AFI Top 100).  Now I am a semi-busy person so I will differ on how many movies I will watch and review a week.  It should always be at least one but I might be able to sometimes fit in two.  As of right now I am hoping to do video blogs but we will see how that works out (if you follow my blog or twitter you will know when new reviews are about to come out). 

Now for some background about me and movies.  I like movies but I do not like old movies (i don't really have a good reason why) with that said I have seen only a handful of older movies (made before the 70s) in my life, needless to say I do not have much reason to hate old movies.  Now I do like movies and for the past 8 years I have made sure to watch every movie nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.  Another thing you should know is though I enjoy movies I am no critic in fact I know hardly anything about movies.  I pretty much know if I liked it or not, so do not expect a review from a movie snob. 

Lastly lets talk about this blog.  First-off like I mentioned I will be watching and reviewing the AFI Top 100 but I will not be doing it in any particular order (I just used a random number generator).  I will be using my own secret formula (like Coke-a-Cola) to critique the film.  I will then make a post about it giving it a final grade.  As I start doing this I will then order the movies I reviewed by the grade I give them, eventually ending up with my own version of the Top 100.  So please join me on this adventure and lets look at some classic American movies.