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Chris Hemsworth’s Awful Fantasy Movie Is Somehow Crushing On Netflix


These days, Chris Hemsworth is most well known for his portrayal of Thor, but in between Marvel movies, he played a crucial role in two films based on the German fairy tale Snow White. Coming off the commercial success of 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman, Hemsworth reprised his role for a 2016 film that functioned as both a prequel and sequel, The Huntsman: Winter’s War. Though this film was widely considered to be a critical and commercial flop, FlixPatrol reports that it’s currently the seventh most streamed film on Netflix this week, and people are giving it another look.
Though The Huntsman: Winter’s War was praised for its casting choices and stellar visual effects, even Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt, and Jessica Chastain couldn’t escape the fate of a 19 percent critical score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Chris Hemsworth led sequel The Huntsman: Winter’s War is racing up the streaming charts on Netflix.
The prevailing critical consensus is that the film was well acted and executed, but was wholly unnecessary in its storytelling. In other words, Winter’s War was the sequel that nobody really needed, but got anyway.

The narrative centers around Queen Freya (Emily Blunt), an ice queen, and her quest to kill parents so she could train their orphaned children for her army. Despite her efforts to teach her army of children to avoid the pains of love, a pain that she suffered when her lover Andrew murdered her child, Chris Hemsworth’s Eric and Jessica Chastain’s Sara fall in love and marry anyway.
At this time, Eric was the best huntsman in Freya’s rankings, and when he was gifted Sara’s mother’s medallion necklace as a symbol of her love, they planned to escape from Queen Freya’s reign and live a free life together.

But when Freya finds out about their newly formed romance, she takes action by having Eric beaten and thrown into a river. Eric survives, and is under the impression that Sara has been killed because he was shown an illusion that depicted her death. One of the primary throughlines in The Huntsman: Winter’s War involves the deception that both Chris Hemsworth and Jessica Chastain’s characters have to work their way through in their attempts to stop Freya’s reigning rule of malicious powers.
The prevailing critical consensus is that the film was well acted and executed, but was wholly unnecessary in its storytelling.

Though this sounds like an inherently compelling narrative, critics have asserted that Chris Hemsworth’s and Jessica Chastain’s chemistry was hindered due to their inability to successfully portray a Scottish accent, which made their line delivery fall flat, causing the film to suffer a great deal.
The Huntsman: Winter’s War also suffered from trying to function as a prequel and a sequel at the same time. We see Chris Hemsworth put his best foot forward to establish Eric’s above-mentioned origin story.
Then the film quickly jumps forward several years so we could see him go on his mission to recover Ravenna’s (Snow White’s evil stepmother) magic mirror. It could be said that Winter’s War fell flat by trying to cover too much ground with too short of a run time.
Instead of doing a proper prequel treatment and then having a subsequent sequel, The Huntsman: Winter’s War feels a bit cramped despite all of the great storytelling elements that it boasts.
In an ideal world, we could have seen Chris Hemsworth lean more into the earlier characterization that we see at the top of the film, and further development of the plot line could very well have made the film feel less rushed. If this approach was taken, it would only make sense for this story to be developed into a trilogy, which would have probably fared better on both the critical and commercial front.
The existing iteration, however, performed poorly, only bringing in $165 million off a budget of $115 million. This is a far cry from Snow White and the Huntsman, which brought in almost $400 million with a similar budget.
It could be said that Winter’s War fell flat by trying to cover too much ground with too short of a run-time.
So clearly, this Chris Hemsworth sequel got the green light because of how well its predecessor performed. But Winter’s War suffered from trying to cover too much ground in a short amount of time.
All criticism aside, we’d venture to say that Chris Hemsworth’s more recent successes at the box office (Thor: Love and Thunder) have inspired fans to give the film a second look, and The Huntsman: Winter’s War has something going for it aside from its storytelling.
Fans overwhelmingly agree that the special effects steal the show despite the film’s other shortcomings. Given how well The Huntsman: Winter’s War is currently performing on FlixPatrol, you may want to check it out on Netflix because it was an ambitious film at the time of its release, and it’s certainly turning some heads in 2023.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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