Bringing back the Fairy Tales

It seems like this is the year of fairy tale re-imaginings.  There's that TV show "Once Upon a Time" which is actually pretty good, the craptastic looking "Mirror, Mirror", and the movie "Snow White and the Huntsman" that caught my eye. 

Some initial thoughts on the 2 Snow White trailers:

"Mirror, Mirror"
- beginning music made me think it was going to be an Indian musical
- their choice for Snow White, while sticking close to the childhood description, did not make me want to go watch the movie.
- Julia Roberts has an accent worse than mine
- it is meant to be a action/ comedy... but the jokes seem to be mostly puns and lame pop culture references... no thanks
- the set and costumes seem blah.  nothing special and very stereotypical fairytale.
- I can see this appealing to people over 40.

"Snow White and the Huntsman"
- if you want to grab the viewer's attention, get some new, epic music.  this did it.
- queen's accent sounded tightttttt.  evil, but not over the top.  I would probably be scared if I met a person who talked like that in real life.
- film looks real and gritty from the opening scenery pan and battle.
- it's cool to see a movie that seems to put the focus on the character development of the queen instead of Snow White.
- Charlize Theron seems to be an awesome choice based on the trailer.
- graphics are so cool!
- Ugh.  Kristen Stewart.  A possible reason why this movie might fail.  Pretty face.  that's it.
- Thor's accent might be the only reason I give him a chance.  Haven't seen Thor, but doubtful about Chris Hemsworth's acting ability.
- Based on a cool villain, awesome looking setting and cool story concept (never heard of the story of the Huntsman before), I would definitely watch this.