I just watched suckerpunch...

[Thaius]

The only person I've heard say a single positive word about it is MovieBob. Now admittedly, I really like him as a film critic for the most part, so that recommendation is enough to make me interested in checking it out despite all the other negativity, but the point is that I have heard very few positive words about it. So not sure where you're getting the idea that everyone loves Sucker Punch, that's all.

 

[Dfskelleton]

My main problem with Sucker Punch is:
There's a difference between making a movie about girls in their underwear fighting robot-nazis, and a movie about girls in their underwear fighting robot-nazis that wants to be taken seriously.
The fact that the director pulled the "It was all a psychopath's thought process" twist about as poorly as you could possibly do so was just icing on the cake. It's been done before, and it's been done much, much better. One part I really liked is when a character said "fuck" and they blanked it out. Sure, we can have as many scantily-clad women backflipping through the air in slow motion so you can see their underpants, but swearing!? OHHH NOOOOO!!!!!
Don't watch Sucker Punch. Instead, do something I found to be much more amusing: find "The Forbidden Kingdom", fastforward about halfway through, and watch it from there. Some friends and I did this, and it was truly an experience to behold.
"We must free the Monkey King!"
"WAIT, WHAT MONKEY KING."

 

[Craorach]

I enjoyed the set pieces and fight scenes, it was interesting.. and yeah, cute girls in fun outfits...

.. but it just felt like it was trying abit to hard to me.

 

[NiPah]

and why does everyone think it is great? Sure the visual effects were okay but the bad script and acting just ruined it for me

Really? I haven't even watched the movie and I can answer that for you, they like it because "like" and "dislike" are personal opinions. You use terms like "okay" and "bad" when they too reflect on your own personal schema on the level of quality a certain aspect of the movie should be, its all subjective and meaningless to discuss.

Posting threads like this is really pointless, I could say Doctor Who is horrid quality and repetitive, I wouldn't be wrong because they loose blanket statements and based on my own opinion, but all it would do it start a flame war between fans and non-fans.

But yeah... back on topic, people like it because they are entertained by the movie.

 

[Instant K4rma]

I liked it well enough. Granted, it didn't blow me away, but I didn't think it was bad. Sure, it has its flaws. All movies do (aside from Scorsese flicks).

I think Zack Snyder is a fine director, and I am hopeful for his Superman film. I'd much rather see a Zack Snyder picture over a Michael Bay or Dennis Dugan picture any day.

 

[Gigano]

It has excellent visuals, a good soundtrack, quite decent action set pieces, and pretty women aplenty.

As I didn't expect or want any more from it, I liked it. It works well as a casual action flick.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Does anyone except MovieBob think it's great, really?

Still, I liked it, despite it's horrible pretentiousness.

Moviebob is also a guy who thinks that Watchmen was a brilliant movie. To me it was pure shit with pointless violence added where it wasn't needed.

Finally, someone else who agrees with me. The film bore the absolute sh*t out of me, to the extent that I gave up half-way through the first time I tried to watch it.

 

[Sean951]

I went in expecting a fun action flick. I walked out having enjoyed a fun action flick with some psychological twists thrown in. Add the awesome (in my mind) sound track and fight scenes, and I thought it was well worth the ticket price, even if my friends didn't.

 

[jawakiller]

Sweet Dreams. Marilyn Manson did it better though...

Ehhk... Really? I have four versions of that song on my iPod and two of them are up there with my favorites but I really didn't like Manson's version very much.

Meh, the cover by Eurythmics wasn't my cup of tea really and the pop version, I thought, was obnoxious.

I dunno. Opinions really, that's all it is.

Moviebob is also a guy who thinks that Watchmen was a brilliant movie. To me it was pure shit with pointless violence added where it wasn't needed.

... -.-

How is that movie boring?

 

[Caffiene]

Personally I enjoyed it by not turning off my brain at the door. At the front of my mind for each scene I had the thought "If this is the fantasy she is escaping to, what must the reality be like?"

Keeping focus on imagining what was going on underneath made it much more effective for me than most of the people who disliked it seem to have been looking for.

All the more effective for watching it at the cinema and witnessing other people in the audience chuckling and smirking at eye-candy parts that were obvious metaphors for a rape scene. Quite a good mindf$&%, IMO, as per Xanadu84's post.

 

[Tayh]

I liked the action scenes, but the ending broke it for me.
Lobotomy? Too horriby to contemplate.

 

[Nickolai77]

I quite liked it, a film with great special effects and music and many many layers of metaphors and hidden meanings. What's interesting about the film is that the central premise is a girls imagination, and with that becoming "reality", you can do pretty much anything at all, and the director really takes advantage of that and push's the boundaries in what you can get away with in a film. Inception did something similar, remember the hotel corridor fight scene? By using the whole "dream/imagination" premise, you can do what you would not normally get away with in a film.

I do think however that the director pushed the boundaries of what you can get away with in a film partially based around dreaming a little too far and alienated a large portion of the audience who just thought it was being silly. Also, the plot structure got a bit too repetitive as well. It's an interesting film to say the least, not a great film but one worth seeing for it's pure artistic uniqueness.

Oh, finally a question about the film, which i'll spoiler tag:

Spoiler

In the final scene we see the villain again about to perform a frontal lobotomy on the protagonist, and indeed earlier on in the film this is repeated so obviously there is symbolism here- what though is the point of this symbolism?- The power of the doctor over the patient, a mental rape metaphor?

 

[F'Angus]

I watched it last week and I didn't think it was a bad film. A little odd, but it wasn't bad. I enjoyed most of it.

 

[keideki]

I enjoyed the movie due to the fact that it was a good movie to turn my brain off during and enjoy pretty girls with weapons. The action was good, the CG was good enough. Its worth a watch I say, nothing life changing, and I certainly would not write home about it, but a good mindless action flick.

 

[Starke]

I haven't seen it. So it's totally not work my time or money? Except for the OST?


Was it just the bad writing that killed it?

Writing, Acting, Direction, and the whole having all the main characters in Japanese schoolgirl outfits made me feel like the movie was marketed to the worst sterotype of teenagers and nerds

Does anyone except MovieBob think it's great, really?

Still, I liked it, despite it's horrible pretentiousness.

I'm sorry, but this juxtaposition of responses cracked me up.

It also, in a short, explains why I'll never be watching this film. Nice to know I'm not the only one who picked up on that. :\

Moviebob is also a guy who thinks that Watchmen was a brilliant movie. To me it was pure shit with pointless violence added where it wasn't needed.

As a slight aside, anyone else notice that the violence in Watchmen actually runs contrary to the message from the comic?

I enjoyed the adaptation, but the comic has a running theme that violence, at least as presented in comic books cannot solve greater issues. The film slurps that message up in the text, runs with it, and still dispenses some downright vicious violence, without really noticing what it's saying about violence elsewhere.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Without a doubt the single greatest heap of shit I've seen in a long time.

Everything about it was terrible:

- The (figuratively) flat acctresses.
- The bastardization of classic songs.
- The phony-baloney CGI.
- The action scenes wich lacked any sense of weight, impact or consequence.
- The ludicrous "female empowerment" symbolism.
- And ofcourse the godawful story.

Worst of all however are the fans who discredit any criticism with the notion that "we just don't understand its depth".

And shame on Moviebob for comparing this horse shit to Brazil.

 

[Hawkmoon269]

I really really liked it, the premise, the visuals (and no, I dont just mean the lovely ladies) the blurring of different genres through the "dream" dances. Yeh, loved it, and i love Zack Snyder

 

[ABLb0y]

I hated it the first time I saw it, but the second time I watched it (Don't ask why) I loved it.

 

[ExileNZ]

I have a hard time knowing whether I really liked it or not.

I watched the whole thing with my wife, who sighed and commented and made it pretty clear she hated it, eventually falling asleep on me.

So my enjoyment of the movie was ruined anyway, I'm not sure how much I'd have liked it if I didn't feel I had to justify it.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I thought the "Dream sequences" where fun.

But the real world scenes just made me uneasy, Overall I didn't like it that much but it was certainly watchable.