Sucker Punch Movie Makes First TV Appearance

[Logan Westbrook]

Sucker Punch Movie Makes First TV Appearance

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The very first TV spots for Sucker Punch pack samurai, robots and a dragon into a little over a minute.

Between them, American McGee and Zack Snyder seem to be conspiring to make 2011 the year of the girls-battling-bizarre-foes-in-a-fantastical-dreamscape. McGee has the end of the year covered with Alice: Madness Returns [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107751-American-McGees-Alice-Madness-Returns-Brings-the-Crazy-Back-to-Wonderland], and Snyder is handling the start of the year with the movie Sucker Punch, a film that TV audiences got its very first glimpse of this weekend.

There are actually two TV spots to watch. The first shows the main character Baby Doll in an oppressive, real-world environment, which is quickly contrasted with the warzone inside her mind. There she battles a giant samurai wielding miniguns and dragons, while things explode left, right, and center. The second spot takes a slightly different approach, hinting at how Baby Doll ended up in an institution, and then quickly juxtaposes that with more of her crazy mental exploits. This trailer has more giant samurai, but this time they have traditional weapons. There are also robots, a blimp, and what looks like a Helghast from Killzone in a World War 1 trench.

Some people will have seen a lot of this before in other, longer trailers, but for a lot of people this this will be their first look at the movie. It seems a better fit for Snyder's directing style then Watchmen was, and should give him plenty of opportunity for the over-the-top, slow motion action that he does so well.


Sucker Punch hits theaters on March 25th.

Source: Blastr [http://blastr.com/2011/02/explosive-new-sucker-punc.php]


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[Gorden Springel]

Holy crap its out on march 25th, im so pumped to see it.

 

[Calico93]

..... *Gulp*

That. Looks. Awesome.
Why have I not heard about this before!?!?

 

[Atmos Duality]

I remember seeing the trailer for Sucker Punch something like 3 times when I last went to the theaters.
My initial thoughts were (and still are): "Special effects; The Movie."

It's pulling all the stops; guns, samurai, robots, and even a dragon.
The problem with this is that (contrary to the saying) you can't just throw cool/awesome shit into a movie and turn it into an "awesome movie". Dirty Harry's infamous .45 Magnum wouldn't have been half as awesome if someone had used it for, I dunno, mixing cake batter.

It might still be entertaining, but the quickest way to bore me is to provide me with characters whose sole purpose is to lead us around a special effects blue screen (See: Star Wars 1-3, Avatar).

I predict the blooming obvious: It's a dime-a-dozen action-exploitation movie trying desperately to use surrealism as an excuse to blow millions on CGI-effects.
Others will have fun with it and that's obviously fine, but I can't help but feel jaded at what appears to be a movie driven entirely by marketing.

 

[se7ensenses]

Well it ain't Legend of the Guardians that's for sure!

 

[manythings]

Am I the only one who thinks it looks retarded? Go get Psychonauts for christ's sake, it'll be cheaper, more interesting and last longer.

EDIT: And most of you don't pretend you are going to see it for anything other than the blonde chick.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

I'm more than pumped for this movie.

 

[Gxas]

I don't know how this movie managed to pass my eye, but holy shit! I will be seeing this opening night for sure.

 

[cerebus23]

how about a read or die movie? ;p

 

[LogicNProportion]

Is it wrong of me to already declare this as movie of the year?

Seriously, I'm drooling for Captain America, but I came at least ten times watching this.

 

[CrimsonTemplar]

Am I the only one who thinks it looks retarded? Go get Psychonauts for christ's sake, it'll be cheaper, more interesting and last longer.

EDIT: And most of you don't pretend you are going to see it for anything other than the blonde chick.

I have no doubt it's going to be a special effects orgy with 5 hot girls kicking @$$ in highly choreographed fight scenes.

And for the record, Jena Malone is hotter than Emily Browning.

 

[LogicNProportion]

how about a read or die movie? ;p

They already had an animated movie..............which was better than the series in every way...

xD

Still, not a bad idea.

 

[GonzoGamer]

I remember seeing the trailer for Sucker Punch something like 3 times when I last went to the theaters.
My initial thoughts were (and still are): "Special effects; The Movie."

It's pulling all the stops; guns, samurai, robots, and even a dragon.
The problem with this is that (contrary to the saying) you can't just throw cool/awesome shit into a movie and turn it into an "awesome movie". Dirty Harry's infamous .45 Magnum wouldn't have been half as awesome if someone had used it for, I dunno, mixing cake batter.

That's funny. I thought the same thing except I called it "Overstimulation: The Movie" and it had Indonesian Jegog and The Go Team blaring all over the soundtrack.
I don't know. If I'm baked enough I can enjoy something wild like that even if the story has all the depth of a Hanna Barbara cartoon.

 

[Harbinger_]

If there is a helghast in this game or something that looks extremely close to it there may be a possible legal battle with Guerilla Games.

 

[Vaccine]

I saw trailers for this ages ago, it looks so fucking awesome.

 

[gellert1984]

how about a read or die movie? ;p

Somehow I dont think hollywood would ok a movie in which PODUS wets himself everytime something interesting happens, let alone has the US (and indeed the world) getting there asses pulled out of the fire by the British Library.

If they ever make a Read or Die movie it'll be about an american guy working at the library of congress (special forces division), and it'll suck.

Sucker punch looks like it could be fun, unintelligent, but fun.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Of course you can just look at wanted.

This movie looks and will be awesome. And rewatchable awesome at that. I will love this film for ever I know it. Like Kill Bill.

"Look at wanted?"
Pardon, I do not follow. Is "Wanted" meant to be a proper noun/title?

I knew Kill Bill was going to work because I knew about Carradine's style. He recalls all of those Martial Arts exploitation films from the 60s and 70s (the Crazy 88 are a direct tribute to Ricky-O, aka, The Story of Ricky). It was material that he knew about and loved, and so did Uma Thurman.

Sucker Punch...I have serious doubts about. This looks like CGI-exploitation at its finest.
Then again, I could be wrong. It's entirely possible that the trailer (like some OTHER trailers in the last year) is a bait-and-switch for a totally different movie.