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You know, I'm seriously sick and tired of defending my affection for these movies. I'm no stan but neither am I a hater. I like the movies exactly for what they are. And if you don't, then jolly good for you, but don't piss into my cheerios because of that! Yes, I like Twilight. Yes, I like Transformers. And yes, damn it, I consider The Hobbit the best movie of 2012. You don't? Fine. Just stop trying to undermine my enjoyment of these things! GOD FRICKIN' DAMMIT! *deep breath*

I'm glad that they fired Catherine Hardwicke and replaced her with Chris Weitz as the director. Her directing was terrible. Weitz did a much, much better job. Especially with the fight between Edward and the Volturi, that was so well done! And the music... wow, the music was amazing. It's obvious that they put much more money into this one.

Bella has never been the most stable egg in the basket but to have first one guy you count on and the other dismiss you and try to direct your life? No wonder she went totally off the rails. Sheesh. And the way neither Edward, nor Jacob seem to respect her wishes? I mean, when Bella starts to sound like the only reasonable person in the room, you obviously have a problem!

I just love the world Meyer created so much. The Volturi, a family like the Cullens, Native Americans and their legends, werewolves...

Kristen Stewart has confirmed she's reprising her role as Snow White in a sequel to last summer's blockbuster "Snow White and the Huntsman."

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When asked if she could provide a hint of where the second installment will go, Stewart revealed, "I’m not allowed. The other day I said that there was a strong possibility that we’re going to make a sequel, and that’s very true, but everyone was like, 'Whoa, stop talking about it.' So no, I’m totally not allowed to talk about it."

Stewart did clarify, however, that the storyline justifies the sequel.

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I'm glad! And now I'm just crossing my fingers and toes that they don't marry Snow off to William, that would piss me off.

Yup, the movie still works for me - and still for the very same reasons: Snow White and Eric the Huntsman. These two, together, they are the reason why I love it so much. Their scenes. Everything else is just me waiting for them to pop up on the screen again, preferably together. I have so much love for them, they are, hands down, one of my favorite movie couples of the year.

Which is why I would prefer NO sequel if making one would mean dropping Kristen Stewart's Snow. I love Chris Hemsworth, Thor is my favorite Avenger etc. and so on. But SWATH worked because of BOTH actors and both parts, Snow and Eric. The possibility of Snow and Eric becoming a couple made the ending so sweet. Eric going off on his own and Snow marrying William would pretty much destroy that. So, NO!

Which brings me to my favorite scene: the ending...





... Perfection. Pure perfection. Exactly what I wanted from the movie. No huge declarations and passionate kisses because Snow wanted, first and foremost, peace for her kingdom, the movie wasn't about finding The One, the perfect love. That part was pretty much accidental for both Snow and Eric and I liked how understated it was. As I said, that bit was perfection pure.

Also, everybody and their uncle praised Charlize Theron for her part but, IMHO, she overplayed it like whoa in some places. I very much preferred Kristen's acting here. She was really good!

So, it's been splashed all over the media that Kristen Stewart cheated on her BF with the - married! - SWATH director Rupert Sanders. And the result is? Universal dropped Kristen Stewart from the SWATH sequel but Sanders might still direct it! Source. And not just that, Universal broke all ties with Stewart but just bought another stuff for Sanders to direct, the book "90 Church", as Deadline reports (sorry, LJ doesn't allow linking to Deadline's articles)!

Are they for real?! As actors like Sophia Bush and Clark Gregg posted on Twitter, this stinks of double standards and misogyny to the high heaven! So, a woman and a man cheat on their partners and the woman loses her job and the man not only keeps it but gets a reward? What the fuckity fuck! I hate, hate, HATE cheaters but this is taking it a dozens steps too far! Convicted felons get hired in Hollywood and Kristen Stewart is dropped because she cheated on her BF?! I didn't see anyone dropping Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp over the same thing and their latest movies earned less than Stewart's! I'm literally seeing red now.

Now they want to turn the sequel into a spin-off, focusing on the Huntsman. I did like Chris Hemsworth in that part but for me, the movie was so good because of BOTH, Snow and the Huntsman! They were amazing in their roles - which I couldn't say about the directing because one of the movie's problems was the pacing. And instead of fixing that by hiring a new director, they drop the movie's star... My excitement for the sequel-now-spin-off dropped to a minimum.

The more people bash something, the more pro-this-thing I become - and the more hyped something this, the more it turns me off. Yes, I'm contrary like that. Right now? I'm becoming a big fan of...


Kristen Stewart!

I think she's very, very beautiful and a good actress. And the more crap I see people heap on her, the more I like her. She seems like a genuinely nice, introverted person. Her cast mates from SWATH, Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron, talk about her with genuine warmth, like when Chris mentioned she showed him a private copy of her new movie and he thought she was amazing in it.

So yeah, no bashing her in this journal. You don't like her? Good for you, keep it in your LJ. This journal is now pro-Kristen Stewart!