Sucker Punch

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Shannow

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It was terrible. And yes "I got it," and I also love bad movies. But this one was was horribly executed, meandering, and jsut no good, even on a bad movie fun level.

One of the reviews I read for this after I watched it, which, while the review itself had a neutral feel for the film, summed up a lot of the points I felt wrong with this movie (although not all). Ill quote some of that here, sincce it is a much better written conveyance thn what I could put in.

"The fundamental problems I have with it are, I imagine, what many have already pointed out. The characters are thinly sketched, and the performances (save for Oscar Isaac’s) uninspiring. The narrative layers are ludicrous. The fantasy effects are a hodgepodge of slick references that firmly paint it as Zack Snyder’s fantasy world, not Baby Doll’s. It also played my least favorite story trick ever, which was to have a narrator that is relaying events that he / she cannot possibly have seen."

As for the music video reference, yeah, i get that, and agree with it...btu that is a negative thing. Music videos can be slick and good looking, but almost always, you do not care about the characters in those pieces. in that respect...yes, this is a long music video.
 
SpecialKO

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I liked large parts of it, like the action girl, anime/VG-esque bits, but on the whole, the story framing felt really, really forced, and every time we got a scene of Babydoll in the burlesque house, I just felt uncomfortable.

I know nothing about the director personally, but it seems pretty obvious that he knew just how much he was pushing the mysogyny/child-abuse edge, and he pushed at it as hard as he could to the detriment of almost everything else.
 
Espy

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Child abuse/sexual abuse: Remember, if you are a director who doesn't know how to create any actually interesting characters just get the audience to feel bad for them by making them abused!
 
figmentPez

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The Cinema Snob compared it to Dune or Hudson Hawk. He didn't like it, but he thought that it would gather a cult following over time.
 
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figmentPez said:
The Cinema Snob compared it to Dune or Hudson Hawk. He didn't like it, but he thought that it would gather a cult following over time.
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I like Dune and Hudson Hawk. They don't compare to Sucker Punch (Dune was awesome and I love Hudson Hawk, it is a fun comedy)
 
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I would put Sucker Punch over Hudson Hawk but under Dune: Extended Edition easily.

I love how so many of the critics are over analyzing the movie, finding problems with the film that never existed in the first place.
 
linglingface

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Took Mike to see it today and he loved it. I'm almost convinced that it was all Sweet Pea's fantasy played through Babydoll... almost on the Sweet Pea train. :) It was even better the second time around, noticed a few things I hadn't seen the first time around. (I guess that's how 2nd times normally play out, though :p)
 
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heatherling said:
Took Mike to see it today and he loved it. I'm almost convinced that it was all Sweet Pea's fantasy played through Babydoll... almost on the Sweet Pea train. :) It was even better the second time around, noticed a few things I hadn't seen the first time around. (I guess that's how 2nd times normally play out, though :p)
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That is what I was saying. It is not Babydoll's story :)
 
Charlie Don't Surf

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My favorite part about the whole sexualizing children angle of the movie is how in the opening scene, it makes a really blatant show of his father yelling out SHE IS TWENTY YEARS OLD and then walking over and writing it in huge, zoomed-in block letters on the admission form.
 
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The Lovely Boehner said:
My favorite part about the whole sexualizing children angle of the movie is how in the opening scene, it makes a really blatant show of his father yelling out SHE IS TWENTY YEARS OLD and then walking over and writing it in huge, zoomed-in block letters on the admission form.
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lol, nice. Snyder, master of the understatement.
 
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Jiarn

I love how people over analyze things, create problems where there aren't any, then begin bashing away as if they had any foundation to stand on.
 
linglingface

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Regardless, Boehner's post did made me chortle. :)
I'm at least happy to see that the forum guys here aren't simply loving the movie because of girls in sexy costumes with weapons.
 
Espy

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Meg Ryan, the main protagonist from Final Fantasy X, who dies at the end ends up with Tom Hanks at the end.
 
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drifter said:
Tidus, the main protagonist from Final Fantasy X, who dies at the end.
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well, you can't really die when you don't really exist in the first place ;) He was a figment of a dream.
FFX-2 shows that the real living Tidus (i.e. the actual person) doesn't even know Yuna ;)
 
Shannow

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Jiarn said:
I love how people over analyze things, create problems where there aren't any, then begin bashing away as if they had any foundation to stand on.
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I would not say that I did any over analysis at all, but that it is just a terrible movie.
 
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I thought Hamlet was actually a person.

Tidus wasn't even a real person. He is a dream construct.
 
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