My favorite sentence of the morning so far:

"No, this was my first time seeing a bear fall out of a tree."

After making that admission, the person continued: "He's adorable though," the observer added. “He got hit by a tranquilizer dart twice and he fell.

(The bear is fine.)

Bears are making a slow but steady comeback in central Florida, and are walking into Orlando, driven by their love for human garbage. At least something loves our garbage. I'm not sure why that first sentence amused me so much, but it did.

Snow White and the Huntsman

Without trying to, I happened to watch this in a theatre one quarter filled with a generally appreciative and polite audience of employees of Universal Studios and excited Twilight fans whose in and post film comments perhaps colored my snark here. (Spoiler: the Twilight fans all felt, without exception, that Twilight is a much, much better movie, a verdict that I shall not comment on further.)

Anyway. This, as the Twilight fans agreed, is a Film With Problems. Not visual problems – it looks great throughout and I think I speak for everyone when I say that we were all just as glad not to have this in 3D. But script problems. Acting problems. (Particularly with Kristen Stewart, where the kindest word I can use is "miscast.") Turning Ray Winstone – yes, that Ray Winstone – into a dwarf problems. Unexpected Bambi and stealing from Japanese anime problems. Accent problems. Christianity problems. (Seriously, film. What?) Snow White not being particularly likeable problems. Me spending the film cheering on the Evil Queen problems.*

As such, it needs snark. A lot of snark.

( So, let us not delay. As always, major spoilers below. )