Maleficent

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I wish I could say I was surprised but just from the script leak a year ago, looks like it was pretty accurate to the final product. Ill still see it though.
 
Here's my thing. I think the reason fans like Maleficent so much is because she's so evil and ruthless and she's like a great villain and foil to the story. This story makes her really sweet and toothless. She's really a puppy dog here. And well not really cool. Like you love to hate Maleficent. I'm not saying a backstory shouldn't make her sympathetic. But in making her so sympathetic and HEROIC, she just became completely flaccid.
 
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I haven't seen it yet and will probably wait until it's out on DVD. But did Maleficent ever look like a normal woman in her backstory or did she always have those horns coming out of her head? Does it go into why she looks like she does?

Also, did they use some CGI effects to make Jolie's cheekbones so angular, or was it makeup?
 
Should I see this in 3D? The movie stills and trailers make it look like this is the kind of movie 3D was made for, but just wanna be sure.
 
Watching this and A Million Ways to Die right after tonight, so I'll see what's up.
 
Here's my thing. I think the reason fans like Maleficent so much is because she's so evil and ruthless and she's like a great villain and foil to the story. This story makes her really sweet and toothless. She's really a puppy dog here. And well not really cool. Like you love to hate Maleficent. I'm not saying a backstory shouldn't make her sympathetic. But in making her so sympathetic and HEROIC, she just came completely flaccid.

That's what I read in a review, that they basically took inspiration from Wicked. Sadly, now the characters that you watch in the Disney cartoon won't seem so good anymore.
 
I think this is always the risk with villain prequels. In their effort to make a character more interesting, understandable or sympathetic, they can easily lose that ruthless villainy that made them so appealing in the first place. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
 
Imagine Silence of the Lambs or other Hannibal Lecter stories and imagine that Hannibal was just this goofy eccentric psychiatrist that people believed was a cannibal but really wasn't. The real cannibals were Will Graham and Clarice Starling who framed Hannibal Lecter and ruined his reputation. That's kind of like what Maleficent is like.
 
I think this is always the risk with villain prequels. In their effort to make a character more interesting, understandable or sympathetic, they can easily lose that ruthless villainy that made them so appealing in the first place. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Like I recently brought up in the Unpopular Film Opinions thread, I'm sick of this pretentious BS were EVERY villain has to be deep and have some heart wrenching backstory. Sometimes having a villain who is evil just because they're ****ing evil is what a film needs. Simple fun. I don't think every villain should be like that but once in awhile is alright. Maleficent is definitely a villain that should have just been an evil ***** to begin with.
 
Imagine Silence of the Lambs or other Hannibal Lecter stories and imagine that Hannibal was just this goofy eccentric psychiatrist that people believed was a cannibal but really wasn't. The real cannibals were Will Graham and Clarice Starling who framed Hannibal Lecter and ruined his reputation. That's kind of like what Maleficent is like.
That sounds...dumb.
 
Like I recently brought up in the Unpopular Film Opinions thread, I'm sick of this pretentious BS were EVERY villain has to be deep and have some heart wrenching backstory. Sometimes having a villain who is evil just because they're ****ing evil is what a film needs. Simple fun. I don't think every villain should be like that but once in awhile is alright. Maleficent is definitely a villain that should have just been an evil ***** to begin with.

Yeah. I don't know about you, but the Star Wars prequels RUINED Darth Vader for me. It's like, when you watch the original trilogy, you know that at one point Vader was a hero and he (kinda) redeems himself a bit at the end, but that's it. He's a ruthless bastard through and through and that's what made him cool.

But now when I watch it, I imagine him yelling "YIPEE!!!" as he podracing or pissing and moaning about sand while he's drooling over Natalie Portman.
 
So Maleficent isn't really a villain in this movie?

Also, this new version of the song "Once upon a dream" sounds a bit spooky and sinister.
 
Sounds like Linda Woolverton needs to stay with animation.
 
So Maleficent isn't really a villain in this movie?

Also, this new version of the song "Once upon a dream" sounds a bit spooky and sinister.

Apparently she's really only a villain in the eyes of the king and his men. Everything I've read about this film, I don't think I'll be looking at her as a villain but more of a victim out for revenge. Years prior the king had
drugged her and had his way with her. Cut off her wings but it can easily be a metaphor for actual rape.
 
Did she ever look like a normal human being or was she always some kind of demon? Is there an explanation for the thing she wears on her head? Does she have horns?
 
She's pretty much a fairy in some kind of magical fairy kingdom. From what I can remember, I believe the horns are real.
 
But she definitely doesn't look like a good fairy of any sort. Her wings are not the typical fairy wings. And her appearance looks evil. I was just wondering whether she always had horns as part of her back story, or whether she only developed some of these and other characteristics when she apparently turned evil.
 
she has wings. maybe a fairy?

In some of the trailers she specifically mentions she is/was a fairy and that goes back to the original Sleeping Beauty.

In the original...

Maleficent unleashes the curse on Aurora because of the insult of not being invited to the christening along with the other fairies. It also looks like they toned down the new version by having the curse as falling into a sleep like death, but the original curse was for Aurora to die, but the curse was blunted by the other fairies who weren't powerful enough to stop the curse, but were powerful enough to alter it slightly.
 
Went last nite and loved it. Visually stunning and Angie is fantastic. Other casting choices could have been better though.
 
I wish we had a Disney/ Marvel Dr Doom movie. :(
 
Seeing this tomorrow. Not surprised with the reviews, but some are saying it is not as bad as Oz or Alice in Wonderland which is a plus.
 
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