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So MIRROR, MIRROR just went from absolutely unwatchable to being the most glorious trainwreck that I've got to see with Jeff!

Published at:  Jan 30, 2012 12:00:43 PM CST

Hey folks, Harry here...  Tarsem Singh's MIRROR MIRROR looks like the most astonishing "WHAT THE FUCK HOLLYWOOD" film of the modern age.   It's like a film, that's only purpose is to get you to giggle and drop your jaw with a sensation of WTF.   When the Dwarves have elongated accordian legs and shrink down to their normal adorable selves...  It's like.  I don't know what it is like, but it isn't like anything else.   There's an odd TIME BANDITS feel...  but at the same time, I have no idea what to expect from the film.   It is a comedy, so you are meant to LAUGH at this.   But I just don't know what to expect from a Tarsem Singh comedy based upon SNOW WHITE that turns Nathan Lane into a cockroach and makes Armie Hammer want to chase sticks.      

I'm actually ready to witness this, how about you?  This is MIRROR MIRROR's International Trailer!





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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:01:10 PM CST

    First whatever

    by frankenollie

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:05:25 PM CST

    Nope.

    by vanchimera

    I'd rather fuck a tree.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:05:41 PM CST

    It kinda looks like fun.

    by ingeld

    Yes, in a Time Bandits kind of way. I won't hate it yet.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:07:31 PM CST

    i wonder if Julia Roberts has big ole flappers

    by yaphet_kottos_ebony_lovequake

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:08:03 PM CST

    Movie looks a bit heavy on the chintz...

    by frankenollie

    ...but that might be intentional. Gonna have to wait for reviews.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:10:21 PM CST

    A live action Shrek

    by sminkypinky

    Except it looks terrible.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:10:46 PM CST

    I would never pay to see this

    by rupee88

    I liked The Cell but this looks pretty bad...maybe it is a movie for kids and not meant to appeal to adults but just looks unwatchable

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:11:22 PM CST

    Not as horrible as the first trailer.

    by fawst

    But that's like saying a spanner isn't as bad as diarrhea.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:11:55 PM CST

    Meta Snow White??

    by thelordofhell

    Tarsem Singh is turning into quite the acquired taste

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:13:49 PM CST

    Dreadful just dreadful and..

    by baronvonpenguin

    Does anybody else lose the will to live at the merest sight of Julia fucking Roberts' big gormless mush?

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:16:20 PM CST

    I agree with fawst

    by zoefan

    Not nearly as bad and would add that some of the humor in this trailer reminds me of Bettlejuice

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:18:24 PM CST

    ouch .. my industry ...

    by beniffer

    Dont know studio/writer/dir whatever, however, I do know it is a steaming turd. This had better be for 8-12 year old market.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:19:25 PM CST

    Is that Ron the small person from pitbull rescue

    by jestafool

    or whatever it's called with shorty.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:20:18 PM CST

    Was THE FALL a complete anomaly?

    by flickapoo

    I'm starting to think so.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:20:43 PM CST

    Has a "princess bride" feel to it now.

    by knowthyself

  • because it does...this is the smallest-scale Tarsem I've ever seen.

    and I blame the marketing and trailer editors for the chop-socky-cut trailer with cartoon noises....i doubt a lick of that sound is in the movie.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:21:28 PM CST

    See it for Sean Bean's obligatory death scene

    by jaguart

    And See It With Jeff! (tm)

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:25:25 PM CST

    Choosy filmgoers choose Jeff

    by jaguart

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:25:42 PM CST

    Bert from sesame street wants his eyebrows back, Snow

    by zombot

    cute girl, but gosh....

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:26:40 PM CST

    Total crapola.

    by bootsu

    I think the trailer gave me pink eye...

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:27:30 PM CST

    Would've been better with MC Hammer

    by samuel fulmer

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:30:24 PM CST

    This reminds me of CINDERELMO.

    by flickapoo

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:32:11 PM CST

    Methinks the Indian Director misjudges American Humor

    by zombot

    i have no idea who this is aimed at.
    maybe 11 year old girls will like it. it could be the next princess bride for the little girls that still have innocence these days..

    we need another labyrinth, though.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:34:31 PM CST

    Love the focus-grouped ethnically diverse dwarves the most!

    by riskebiz

    ...don't know what they are thinking with this movie. They ought to be marketing this as a b-movie.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:36:14 PM CST

    i think the dwarves look to be the best part of the movie.

    by zombot

    and i think he did watch time bandits right before shooting them.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:37:48 PM CST

    I saw the domestic trailer in theaters and it physically hurt me.

    by the reluctant austinite

    It performed two and a half minutes of painful torture on me. This was a kind of horrible pain I had never felt before and left me feeling sick at my stomach for hours. I'm not sure how many "gags" were in the trailer, but I know the audiences laughed ZERO times. There were a couple of heartfelt groans.

    This trailer is much better, and has 80% less Julia Roberts in it. That's about all I can say. The damage of the first trailer is irreversible.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:38:28 PM CST

    This movie looks soooo 1981, when a revisionist comedic version of a fairy tale

    by openthepodbaydoorshal

    was thought of as hi-larious.

    And for such a visual artist as Tarsem, why do a lot of scenes look drab?

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:40:45 PM CST

    The Enchanted trailers were terrible and that movie turned out great, BUT...

    by melgibsoncalledmethenword

    I dont think theres any hope for this piece of shit.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:41:00 PM CST

    Er, Duh! it's Tarsem Singh!

    by d o o d

    What else did you expect?!!!!

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:43:41 PM CST

    Tarsem / Shyamalan - was thinking the same thing

    by zombot

    was thinking maybe if they collaborated, the two negatives would make a positive.

    if you ask me, anyone that uses his first name (Trasem) alone in the directing credits is bound to fall from a pedestal at some point.
    same for one that goes by a first initial.(M.Night)

    you'd never see a Spielberg movie that says


    directed by









    STEVEN

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:45:00 PM CST

    Is he saying "I'm a fucking idiot" at 0.39??? WTF?

    by baronvonpenguin

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:45:00 PM CST

    Is he saying "I'm a fucking idiot" at 0.39??? WTF?

    by baronvonpenguin

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:48:22 PM CST

    It smells like "The Princess Bride" to me.

    by royston lodge

    That could be a good thing. I dunno.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:50:16 PM CST

    At least they cast an appropriate old hag to play the queen.

    by royston lodge

    Julia Roberts is enough of a hag to play the queen.

    Charlize Theron is way too smokin' hot for the role.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:51:00 PM CST

    Anything has to be Better than the Kristen Stewart version of this

    by optimous_douche

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:51:48 PM CST

    in any case, nothing we should get upset about, right?

    by zombot

    i mean really, who gives a shit. this isn't going to destroy the world, or fuck up your life.
    maybe it'll be a great classic trainwreck, like said. nothing more, nothing less, for us. but maybe a career injury for Tarsem, i guess.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 12:53:08 PM CST

    Armie Hammer is Brandon Fraser in this movie

    by optimous_douche

  • Jan 30, 2012 12:59:31 PM CST

    It still looks MUCH better than the HUNTSMAN movie.

    by derlanghaarige

    Remember the trailer, that just recycled every shot from every other, generic fantasy movie of the last 10 years, from Eragon to Alice In Wonderland?
    They even had a hilarious shot where Chris Hemsworth wields his axe like Thor, so that audiences remember where they know him from!
    At least MIRROR seems to be creative and is purposely silly.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:02:23 PM CST

    @buckwheat69, re: Jeff

    by kevred

    I haven't heard this specific reference before, but if it's like other such "names" I've heard, it's not a 'who', it's a 'what'.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:04:22 PM CST

    It should be a double feature

    by mrdexter

    with Rob Reiner's NORTH

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:06:05 PM CST

    Harry, Jeff Will Agree, But...

    by archernx01

    ...again, only if you *promise* NOT to mess with the upcoming Teen Wolf screening in Santa Monica.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:07:41 PM CST

    no one is going to make a GIGGLE joke?

    by zombot

    harry put it right out there. come on, wake up guys! :)

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:07:58 PM CST

    When the east writes comedy for the west

    by smackfu

    it's usually a disaster. In western comedy, we more or less require that the comedy stays consistent within the confines of the established character. For instance, if we're watching The Office, we require that Dwight Shrute's comedy stems from him being a weirdo, and Jim's comedy stems from him being a smartass, and Michael's comedy stems from his awkwardness and total lack of self awareness. If Dwight or Angela suddenly started acting outrageous and wacky, we would not react favorably to that. Whereas in Eastern comedy, every character tends to act inexplicably, and unrealistically zany. I saw a lot of that in this trailer, and it tells me this is going to be a train wreck. The evil witch is wacky and zany, the prince is wacky and zany, snow white is wacky and zany, the dwarves are wacky and zany.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:15:13 PM CST

    smakfu nails my Indian/American Humor issue much better

    by zombot

  • Jan 30, 2012 1:19:27 PM CST

    This many comments and not one about...

    by kgrimes

    Those eyebrows?

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:21:06 PM CST

    i mentioned her Bert eyebrow(s)

    by zombot

  • Jan 30, 2012 1:25:32 PM CST

    I am a fan of Tarsem...

    by ironhelix

    ...but this looks REALLY bad. Doesn't even look like one of his movies, and what on earth compelled him to try comedy? I don't understand what is so hard about getting this shit right. I mean making movies is what these fucking people DO, why are they so motherfucking BAD at it?

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:26:52 PM CST

    Seems like Enchanted

    by nuck81

    But nobody understood why Enchanted was actually decent. It reaks of trying too hard

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:27:51 PM CST

    bollywood..damn no edit

    by zombot

  • Jan 30, 2012 1:31:23 PM CST

    I'll Pass

    by wcwlkr

  • Jan 30, 2012 1:46:41 PM CST

    I kept staring at Snow White's eyebrows.

    by bubcus

    ... and I thought I had overwhelming eyebrows. Anyway... I would send my nephews and nieces to this. Looks like a nice little safe family comedy... and that's about it. At least is looks better than the original teaser we all saw.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 1:54:21 PM CST

    Wow, I hope it was a fat check, Harry

    by mugato5150

    To white-knight a movie like this.

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  • 1. It looks like a somewhat-tolerable kids movie that I wouldn't like to sit through, but wouldn't fight tooth-and-nail to avoid like something like The (motherfucking) Squeakwel.

    2. Let's not forget that this is fucking Harry saying it's the worst thing he's ever seen. So it can't be all that bad.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 2:35:39 PM CST

    Looks like pure shit

    by coosawatchie

    but that makes it miles better than what's coming down the pike this summer with Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart.
    So by that logic, I will agree to take my kids to see this one but not the other. At least it looks like "Mirror Mirror" will have some random silliness that may hit the mark.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 2:44:06 PM CST

    re: "name one subtle bollywood comedy"

    by scratchmonkey

    'The Happening'.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 2:44:43 PM CST

    That looks to be a razzie contender

    by mattman

  • So utterly bad it is beyond belief that it even masde it to a storyboard.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 3:13:33 PM CST

    Please, please don't take "Time Bandits" name in vain

    by angry kitty

    Blasphemer.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 3:46:55 PM CST

    Um. No. This isn't cool news.

    by toughguyrizzo

    Time Bandits. Really?

    Susan Surandon gets a pass. Not Julia Roberts. "Agree to disagree." Ooooookay.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 3:53:07 PM CST

    Yet another movie

    by riff_randell

    that I can guarantee I will never see it. Forget everything else. It's got Julia Roberts. So.....

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  • Jan 30, 2012 3:54:12 PM CST

    as if its not been said enough

    by jsfithaca

    this looks like absolute shit!

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  • Jan 30, 2012 4:04:30 PM CST

    my 2 year old niece will probably love this.

    by vulturess

    as long as there isnt an intestinal twirler thing part in it. it looks very my little princess vibe.
    also was expecting more visually from singh.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 4:18:00 PM CST

    Terry Gilliam meets Bollywood

    by tituspullo

    what's wrong with that?

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  • Jan 30, 2012 4:28:40 PM CST

    If Liam Neeson was in it, would it be called Dwarfpuncher?

    by dirkd13"

  • Jan 30, 2012 4:41:03 PM CST

    At least Nathan Lane's getting work

    by waynefoolx

    Haven't seen him in much lately.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 5:05:45 PM CST

    She has Scorcesse eyebrows!

    by bigtuna

  • Jan 30, 2012 5:20:22 PM CST

    Julia Roberts: an ego the size of, well, you know

    by covjack

    I hear that on the set of this movie she would freak out if the crew even just looked at her when the cameras weren't rolling.

    Sorry, bitch, it's a free country. My eyes can go wherever they want. Not that there's much to see in your direction, anyway.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 5:52:59 PM CST

    Wonder how much the studio paid Harry to plug this?

    by choppo

    Seriously. I bet it was maybe $1,500 for harry to post the trailer and pretend like he was excited.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 6:12:34 PM CST

    am i ready to see this? i have a penis, harry, so, no.

    by antonphd

  • ...or GTFO.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 6:50:46 PM CST

    Be careful of seeing this with Jeff, Harry.

    by happyfat73

    You might end up stroking the furry wall.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 7:00:55 PM CST

    looks like fun

    by dioxholsters_ghost

    what you people talkin about? its decent.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 7:09:46 PM CST

    This looks seriously awful!!!!!!!!

    by mainman2001

    That dude can't be a leading main. Simple and done. That girl can't be a lead actress and Julia Roberts as the evil queen is a fucking joke. The tone is completely off and not in a good way. This will bomb 100%

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  • Jan 30, 2012 7:10:14 PM CST

    This film isn't good?

    by lv_426

    Snow way!!!!!

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  • Jan 30, 2012 7:16:02 PM CST

    Just give Tarsem 100 million budget

    by lv_426

    And let him loose on a balls to the wall insane film adaptation of Contra or Metroid.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 7:38:18 PM CST

    This looks like an ABC miniseries.

    by gary_buseys_upper_half

    Cheap effects, cloying humor and cheeseball acting.

    Oh, and thanks a lot Julia Roberts for making prostitution look fun and harmless in Pretty Woman. Bet you wouldn't think that if it was some fat sweaty Greek guy instead of Richard Gere trying to shove his semi-flaccid dick in your ass while you pretend you love it for $50. "You like, baby...YOU LIKE?"

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  • Jan 30, 2012 7:56:42 PM CST

    Jestafool/Pit Boss

    by ayrton1

    I was thinking the same thing. It has to be the same guy (Ron) from Pit Boss. I only saw a few episodes but in one of them he was going to an acting class. So since it looks just like him I am guessing thats to many coincidences for it not to be.

    If anyone else has watched Pit Boss on Animal Planet take a look at the asian dwarf in the trailer and see if you think its Ron from the show.

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  • It's your mother tongue. Embrace it.

    Reply to Talkback

  • It could still be awful, but you never know. Tarsem's The Fall was a wonderful overlooked film.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 9:43:42 PM CST

    Love the HANNA-BARBERA sound effects

    by nasty in the pasty

    Jesus, hard to believe that THIS Snow White movie is the one by Tarsem, when Snow White & The Hunter looks so much more stylish and adult.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 10:13:03 PM CST

    Well, that certainly blows away the American trailer

    by lord elric

    Which is dreadful, bland, and pretty much gets low marks every time I see it.

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  • Jan 30, 2012 10:21:21 PM CST

    You can see SNOW WHITE on TV for free each week

    by mace tofu

    on ABC's ONCE UPON a TIME. Why would you pay for this one?

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  • ...I had a fleeting moment of hope that someone adapted the novel by Gregory Maguire into a smart movie - getting into some evil Borgia machinations, mythology, and a not-entirely-Hollywood ending.

    I'm pretty let down by both current movie iterations of Snow White. One just wants to cash in on the Kristen Stewart/Chris Hemsworth money cow, the other is merely giving Julia Roberts something to do because she's bored.

    Can't believe this is the same guy that gave us The Fall. I call shenanigans!

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  • Jan 30, 2012 10:39:26 PM CST

    Who's Jeff? And why should anyone give a fuck?

    by mundungus

  • Jan 30, 2012 11:58:46 PM CST

    It really does have a TIME BANDITS feel

    by moosemalloy

  • Jan 31, 2012 12:33:28 AM CST

    Re: eyebrows

    by misterdarcy

    Lord, spare me from ghastly 21st century kids expecting girls to look like mannequins.

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  • Jan 31, 2012 1:43:48 AM CST

    Devil's advocate: The Fall was Tarsem's pet project,

    by bedknobs_and_boomsticks

    he had a hand in the script, paid for the movie out of his pocket. This he was hired to direct, like the recent Immortals, and I'm fairly certain he wrote neither film. This may look stage-y, but it appears to be inspired by the art of Aubrey Beardsley crossed with Edmund Dulac, so "stage-y" would be appropriate.

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  • Jan 31, 2012 2:02:35 AM CST

    Guys like Arnie Hammer, Hemsworth, Channing are the

    by chien_sale

    male equivalent of the girl-whores they keep hiring. eye candy for the girls and gays.

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  • Jan 31, 2012 3:36:34 AM CST

    Sorry

    by kiwimetal

    , but Ms Emo, Thor and sexy Charlize have my money.

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  • Jan 31, 2012 7:07:07 AM CST

    Meet the eighth and ninth dwarves

    by truxton spanglers cereal cabal

    Left Eyebrow and Right Eyebrow.

    Phil's spawn is normally a pretty girl, but why did they feel the need to exaggerate her already prominent eyebrows for the movie?

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  • Jan 31, 2012 8:40:44 AM CST

    Jane

    by kesoze4

    Jesse is going to be pissed to see she's still alive.

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  • Jan 31, 2012 10:03:15 AM CST

    I want to lick this chick's asshole

    by ultratron

    with some fava beans..

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