Honestly, I found it to be fairly boring. The acton scenes reminded me of a poorly done anime, and the story was nonsensicle and barely existant. I nearly stopped watching it, and I've sat through made for TV movies on the SciFi channel.
Just because I have a smattering of taste and won't lap up whatever piece of drivel that squirts out of Hollywood's teet doesn't mean I don't like anything at all. Sucker Punch just isn't very good on any level. The special effects are painfully obvious on a decent TV. Everything is done in front of a green screen and it shows. As I said, the story barely exists, and what is there is fairly misogynistic. It's wrapped up in the guise of girl power, so that makes it OK for some people, I suppose. The acting is adequate, not that there's very much dialog worth listening to. Carla Gugino was particularly bad though. Every time she spoke I couldn't wait for her to stop so I wouldn't have to listen the awful fake Russian accent she was trying to pass off.
I recently watched Drive Angry and it was far better than Sucker Punch, and that movie was terrible. At least the people making it knew it was terrible and had some fun with it. The worst thing about Sucker Punch is how serious it takes itself.
"It's not that I'm a snob, this movie's just bad and here's why: <personal opinions>."
Go figure, taste in movies, like so much else, is subjective. What I don't like is how you indirectly call the rest of us inferior because we enjoyed the movie. I'll quote in case you question it.
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Just because I have a smattering of taste and won't lap up whatever piece of drivel that squirts out of Hollywood's teet
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Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
A movie exists which serves as the dividing line between those who have taste, and those who do not.
That movie is the Italian Job remake.
I have a feeling that I'm on the "I have no taste" side of the line on that movie, then.
The first step is admitting that you have a problem.
But hey, at least it shows that you can appreciate a good Mini Cooper commercial.
Edited, Jun 30th 2011 2:01pm by Eske
Does it help if I never saw the first one, and I had no idea that it was a mini cooper?
Oh, and that I recognized one of the restaurants in the movie as one that my husband and I were at when we were on our honeymoon?
Realistically speaking, the best you can hope for is being designated Class C (Good taste, but prone to sudden and irrational lack of taste). I'll bring it up to vote at the next pretentious movie snob meeting, but I can't make any guarantees.
We meet bi-annually in Turin's basement. Allegory takes the minutes.
Realistically speaking, the best you can hope for is being designated Class C (Good taste, but prone to sudden and irrational lack of taste). I'll bring it up to vote at the next pretentious movie snob meeting, but I can't make any guarantees.
We meet bi-annually in Turin's basement. Allegory takes the minutes.
Edited, Jun 30th 2011 2:55pm by Eske
Honestly, I don't mind having bad taste. I'll stick with my Harry Potter and Disney movies since they make me happy.
I went in with very low expectations but actually thought it was a fun watch. I appreciated that the action sequences weren't all flash cuts that didn't let you follow what was happening but you could actually watch the girls fight.
It's not great artistic cinema but I might pop it in a second time yet just for the spectacle.
Looked cool, "plot" was silly. Zach Snyder can make cool, stylistic movies (Dawn of the Dead Remake, 300, Watchmen), but those movies only seem to be more than eye candy if he didn't write the screenplay (Suckerpunch).
And what was with all the awful covers in the soundtrack? He may have single handidly ruined Iggy & The Stooges "Search & Destroy" for me forever, & I ******* love that song.
"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Yeah I saw it now too. I have to say it was pretty cheesy. There are somethings that even with whiskey my suspension of disbelief can't get around. Scantily clad babes kicken wireworks **** in disjointed heavy metal action vignettes sounds good at first.
Shooting Orcs with machine guns and battling German steampunk zombies while wearing a sailor uniform or fetish lingerie should be fun right?
Then I got to thinking if this movie was anime I would have loved it. We would all get pretentious about how the dancing and action sequences were babydoll's coping mechanism to gather the strength to survive the mental hospital.
But instead becuase it's live action it just all comes out more than a bit cheesy. Not G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra bad, but not that far behind it either.
But the important question here was who was the hottest mental patient? (Also sign me up for nurse duty at Our Lady of Hotness Care Facility for Wayward Babes.)
But instead because it's live action it just all comes out more than a bit cheesy. Not G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra bad, but not that far behind it either.
With the heavily stylized CGI, it was easy for me to watch it like a live-action cartoon* versus action films which are ostensibly set in reality.
*Also, since the action bits were presented as an allegory** to the actual events, I didn't see any need to view them too realistically.
**Not really the word I'm looking for but I can't think of it; you know what I mean.
It's not so much about realism and more about immersion. You know there are not really dwarves and elves but when watching the Lord of the Rings you care about the characters becuase you become immersed in that reality.
I just never got immersed in this one. I was far away on the surface thinking things like, the shape of that dragons head is wrong or Babydoll has some thick thighs for a shortie.
You know there are not really dwarves and elves but when watching the Lord of the Rings you care about the characters becuase you become immersed in that reality.
But the action bits didn't have any reality. In LotR, I'm being asked to accept elves as real for a couple hours and that's fine. But the clockwork zombie ***** were never real in any sense, not even in the movie, so I took it all as being a live-action cartoon. It was imagination (or psychosis).
Now, if it failed to immerse you, that's a valid complaint. I'd even agree in that I never felt especially connected or went Oh my God, Rocket's dead! but it was fun to watch for what it was. I enjoyed giant robot samurai and dragons without fretting over Babydoll's legs.
