Snow White and the Huntsman

I gave Kristen Stewart the benefit of the doubt, and went to see this movie.  The people that I saw it with really liked it.  I was all "meh."  Here are the problems that I have with it (there might be SPOILERS in here...):

• Someone who was locked in a tower her 10+ years would not have the stamina of a huntsman.  Or any stamina at all.
• Who gets to decide who's the fairest of them all?  What if I only like red-heads?  Or chubby women? What if my type is mixed-race gothic punk?  It's just sorta simplistic for today.
• The camera spent an inordinate amount of time on Bella... uh, Snow White when she wasn't really doing anything or expressing anything.  She was mostly just breathing (and then that whole scene where she wasn't breathing..."
• We also were looking at her back a lot.  I guess to show what she was seeing, what was in front of her.  But it was more breathing, really.
• The last scene was ridiculously uninteresting.  Again, she really just breathes.  And almost smiles.  
• Kristen Stewart doesn't close her mouth much.  She's a mouth-breather.  
• The rallying speech was uninspiring.  I don't blame that all on Kristen Stewart, though.  The writing does have to take some blame.  And really, in the context of the story, she wouldn't have had to rally too much.  Everyone was on her side, she just had to mention the little fact that she had the power to kill the queen.
• I'd like to have seen more between William and the Huntsman, to know what each of them were thinking of the other one.  I liked that bit in the third Hunger Games book where Peeta and Gale talk about their predicament with Katniss.
• The huntsman mostly just glowered for the first half of the movie.  The acting during that first half was really lackluster.  Director:  "Kristen- look scared.  Chris- glower.  Good!"

But it wasn't all bad.  Here is what I liked:

• Snow White was very persistent.  Against odds, she just kept running, kept trying.
• A Snow White story finally gave some background as to why a grown woman would care if she's the prettiest, why she would care so much that she'd destroy for it.
• I liked how they made Snow White peaceful and loving, a friend of animals.  
• Yay, the apple's back in the story!
• I liked that Snow White was unsuccessful in defeating the queen when she was basing it out of anger, but was successful when it was more like protecting herself.  That keeps with the theme of the character. 

What about diversity?  I care about that in a movie, too!

• Well, the whole cast was white, except may be for one evil guard.  Fail.  
• There were, obviously, two female main characters.  They did talk, to each other, about something other than men, so it passes the Bechdel Test.  And they both were strong characters, in their different ways.  
• There were little people; is that a disability?  
• Presumably everyone was straight.  Wouldn't it have been awesome if Snow White was a dyke?!