I just watched suckerpunch...
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It had Dragons and the Imperial German steam-Reich: how anyone could possibly dislike it is beyond me!
I'd imagine there's only two ways you can enjoy this movie, you either have to just go for the hack and slash action and the hot chicks, or you actually have to get get into the story and understand what was meant with all the multiple realities and stuff.
Needless to say I enjoyed all of it. The hot chicks especially so.
Needless to say I enjoyed all of it. The hot chicks especially so.
Really? I thought, if anything, it was blandly obvious. In fact, I thought many of the people claiming it to be complex or subtle obviously missed the parts where the music shouted "SOME OF THEM TO ABUSE YOU!" in your face while a man approached a little girl with a vampirish grin.Scorekeeper said:
In fact, I thought the whole thing was pretty much trash. Unless my entire group of friends collectively zoned half-way through the film, I think the fact that none of us could point out three personality traits about any one of the female characters is very much a point against this 'subtlety' idea. If you boil it down to basics, I see it as: it's a girl trying to escape her situation by making up a music-video where she's in control of her situation by enacting violence against threatening masculine characters. That's not at all deep, in fact it's very cliché in my opinion.
I liked the scene with the giant Samurai
The action scenes were generally quite cool, but I don't give a flying fuck about the plot in movies like this, I just want to see people die and things explode
The action scenes were generally quite cool, but I don't give a flying fuck about the plot in movies like this, I just want to see people die and things explode
Yeah, I LOVED Suckerpunch.
I hadn't seen a movie that it looked like the filmakers were having that much fun with it since Zombieland.
Just straight up, badass, popcorny fun.
I hadn't seen a movie that it looked like the filmakers were having that much fun with it since Zombieland.
Just straight up, badass, popcorny fun.
Watch it again, only this time pretend you watching someone playing a silent hill game . I swear if the creators ofthe first three silent hill games made a suckerpunch game , it would be amazing . I really liked it , it used videogame logic, well to me anyways .jackpackage200 said:
I'm surprised more people don't notice something.
Baby Doll is drug off to the nuthouse after fending off a possible rape attempt by her step-father. The bordello/dance hall fantasy level isn't just something Baby Doll created out of thin air really - it reflects a portion of her reality. Her dancing to hypnotize men isn't shown and it isn't really dancing.
She is being raped. And I don't mean this metaphorically. Her bordello fantasy is very close to her reality - she is an involuntary sex provider and the other girls have been going through it too, possibly for years. That is how she "hypnotizes" the orderlies via moving her body.
And when it's too much for her to cope with even on her first level of fantasy she wanders off into a reality where she isn't absolutely and completely helpless. Every CGI explosion represents a rape and that's where the title comes from I think. The visual selling point of the movie tries to impress but it's just a retreat from a horrible reality. The "rape" scenes sell the movie - and just hide what they are.
We get it - it's not some complex Shakespearean plot we're talking about here and it's pretty laughable anyone would think that but there you have it.
The soundtrack beats you in the face and the first few minutes of the movie, like Watchmen, leads me to think Snyder would be better served by instead applying his talents to music videos.
It's also a profoundly stupid movie with fantasy sequences that don't seem to fit the mind of a girl in the 60s (steampunk soldiers, Tron robots, mecha-samurai?) and that fall apart as the movie goes on. CGI isn't a replacement for a script or acting - despite what George Lucas says.
And haven't we all gotten tired of the slo-mo/speed ramp thing already? It was cool in 300 because it was new, Watchmen used it to show us slow motion broken bones (yuck), and by now we're over it. It's the bullet time of the 2010s - and if this is all Zack's got in his bag of tricks (and I think it is) then the Man of Steel is 169% screwed.
Overwrought CGI, bad wire work, characters with no personalities.
Zack Snyder is as much as feminist as Joss Whedon - the 90 pound girl that beats up everyone - that's their fetish and nothing more. The eventual porn parody will at least be more honest in their intent.
Rotten Tomatoes:
23% Critics liked it
48% Audience liked it
Box Office Mojo:
Production Budget: $82 million
Worldwide: $89,792,502
They'll sell a few DVDs and the broadcast rights but after promotions and advertising it's possible you made more money working your job than this movie made.
Critically despised, audience was indifferent. financial disaster - so it's 0/3 - it's not a winner kids.
Baby Doll is drug off to the nuthouse after fending off a possible rape attempt by her step-father. The bordello/dance hall fantasy level isn't just something Baby Doll created out of thin air really - it reflects a portion of her reality. Her dancing to hypnotize men isn't shown and it isn't really dancing.
She is being raped. And I don't mean this metaphorically. Her bordello fantasy is very close to her reality - she is an involuntary sex provider and the other girls have been going through it too, possibly for years. That is how she "hypnotizes" the orderlies via moving her body.
And when it's too much for her to cope with even on her first level of fantasy she wanders off into a reality where she isn't absolutely and completely helpless. Every CGI explosion represents a rape and that's where the title comes from I think. The visual selling point of the movie tries to impress but it's just a retreat from a horrible reality. The "rape" scenes sell the movie - and just hide what they are.
We get it - it's not some complex Shakespearean plot we're talking about here and it's pretty laughable anyone would think that but there you have it.
The soundtrack beats you in the face and the first few minutes of the movie, like Watchmen, leads me to think Snyder would be better served by instead applying his talents to music videos.
It's also a profoundly stupid movie with fantasy sequences that don't seem to fit the mind of a girl in the 60s (steampunk soldiers, Tron robots, mecha-samurai?) and that fall apart as the movie goes on. CGI isn't a replacement for a script or acting - despite what George Lucas says.
And haven't we all gotten tired of the slo-mo/speed ramp thing already? It was cool in 300 because it was new, Watchmen used it to show us slow motion broken bones (yuck), and by now we're over it. It's the bullet time of the 2010s - and if this is all Zack's got in his bag of tricks (and I think it is) then the Man of Steel is 169% screwed.
Overwrought CGI, bad wire work, characters with no personalities.
Zack Snyder is as much as feminist as Joss Whedon - the 90 pound girl that beats up everyone - that's their fetish and nothing more. The eventual porn parody will at least be more honest in their intent.
Rotten Tomatoes:
23% Critics liked it
48% Audience liked it
Box Office Mojo:
Production Budget: $82 million
Worldwide: $89,792,502
They'll sell a few DVDs and the broadcast rights but after promotions and advertising it's possible you made more money working your job than this movie made.
Critically despised, audience was indifferent. financial disaster - so it's 0/3 - it's not a winner kids.
i can't really judge, the labotomy thing always makes my skin crawl, seriously the stupidest things make me feel ill, i spent practically the whole movie trying not to throw up
I liked it. I also like Emily Browning. And every other movie she's done that I've seen.
I wonder if there's a correlation.
I wonder if there's a correlation.
The thing I find weird is all the people who were saying "Did anyone besides MovieBob like it?" I'm not sure where people are getting that. I watched the MovieBob review and my thoughts were "I'm gonna watch it anyway"
He even criticized that the plot was kinda weak and that the main focus of it was good music and decent fight scenes.
Anyway, as for my thoughts on it...I watched it at the discount movie theatre, and I bought it on DVD. I've watched it a few times, and I think it's ok.
It's not the greatest movie ever, but it's a unique experience. Whether you like the movie or dislike it, you can't argue that it's unique. Then you have to decide where that's a fault, or works in its favor.
I understand why people don't like it, and they understand why I did. It's not a movie I wanna watch again and again and again, but I liked it enough to pick it up.
He even criticized that the plot was kinda weak and that the main focus of it was good music and decent fight scenes.
Anyway, as for my thoughts on it...I watched it at the discount movie theatre, and I bought it on DVD. I've watched it a few times, and I think it's ok.
It's not the greatest movie ever, but it's a unique experience. Whether you like the movie or dislike it, you can't argue that it's unique. Then you have to decide where that's a fault, or works in its favor.
I understand why people don't like it, and they understand why I did. It's not a movie I wanna watch again and again and again, but I liked it enough to pick it up.
Many people came into the film being told it was very deep and meaningful. They were met with explosions and characters with little to no dialogue making deep sacrifices you cared nothing for.Ursus Buckler said:
If I came into the film wanting tits and explosions I'd have been fine, but I'd been told it was deep and clever. It wasn't.