Sucker Punch

Maxx · Sep 2, 2010

Great title.

What's the buzz?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_Punch_(film)

Toothpaste · Sep 2, 2010

I for one thinks this looks like a heck of a lot of fun. Ridiculous, but fun: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/suckerpunch/

Maxx · Sep 2, 2010

Toothpaste said:
I for one thinks this looks like a heck of a lot of fun. Ridiculous, but fun: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/suckerpunch/

Well, I want to expect the best, but since Inglorious Bastards, I've
been expecting that even a good idea can go bad very fast.

For example, the film is "set" in the 50s (whatever that means, maybe its just a way of making a lobotomy sufficiently horrifying) but there's not much sign that our heroine has been reading whatever girls read in the 1950s. Well, maybe that's why she's up for a lobotomy.

So I'm trying to be hopeful.

Kitty Pryde · Mar 20, 2011

Oh hai old thread, I revives you in anticipation of the movie coming out! Anyone seen it? Is it awesome? I want it to be awesome. I'm intrigued by the notion of a female-centered action flick (and it doesn't look like complete wank material either!). And I love the notion of fantasy adventure as an escape from an inescapable bad life. AND I love weirdly stylized movies. Anyways, fingers crossed!

Zoombie · Mar 20, 2011

Whats this?

Inglorious Bastards was AWESOME.

DavidBrett · Mar 21, 2011

Zoombie said:
Whats this?

Inglorious Bastards was AWESOME.

Here here!

And to anyone still wondering, my Film Studies Level deductions of the trailer mean that the main character - indeed, all the female characters - are nuttier than a squirrel's fart, hence consigning them to the Loony Bin.

Naturally, they want to escape but, being physically frail young 50s gals they have no hope of overpowering the many armed guards this asylum apparently has (I counted two).

Along comes their fairy godmoth-I mean, dance instructor type woman who tells them that their mind is the ultimate weapon, and within their own dreamscapes THEY are the masters of everything. They enter the Matri-their dreams, get suited and booted and proceed to lay waste to everything in sight ('everything' seemingly meaning nazi zombies and twenty-foot tall samurai mechs toting chainguns the size of a steam train with nothing more than wire-fu and a really shiny katana. Which makes perfect sense. Shut up) in their mission to collect five powerful objects (The rings of Earth, Wind, Water, Fire, and Heart!) with which to finally break free of their prison and, I dunno, go be bats**t crazy somewhere else.

Whether my analysis proves to be right or wrong who cares there's girls swordfighting giant warrior mechs!!!

*Ahem*

That is all.

Dave

Celia Cyanide · Mar 21, 2011

I'll be the party pooper. I think this movie looks all kinds of stupid.

I saw the trailer when I went to see Black Swan, and it looked so ridiculous that I thought it was based on a video game.

I have no idea what Zach Snyder even thinks it has to do with Alice in Wonderland.

Sheryl Nantus · Mar 21, 2011

Celia Cyanide said:
I'll be the party pooper. I think this movie looks all kinds of stupid.

I saw the trailer when I went to see Black Swan, and it looked so ridiculous that I thought it was based on a video game.

I have no idea what Zach Snyder even thinks it has to do with Alice in Wonderland.

I'm sure the video game will be out in time for the movie.

Looks to me like a male wet dream. Girls in skimpy outfits hacking away with swords and stuff with no cohesive plot. At least that's what I got from the trailer.

Eep.

maestrowork · Mar 21, 2011

The trailer looks really stupid. Not my cup of tea at all.

amrose · Mar 21, 2011

To me, it looks like a glossy exploitation flick. I dunno if I'll see it in the theater but I don't mind pretty ladies killing things.

All I could think of when I saw the trailer was that someone took Emilie Autumn's schtick and testosteroned it up, which is pretty boo.

DavidZahir · Mar 21, 2011

Looks like a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to it.

Jcomp · Mar 21, 2011

I'm pretty interested from a massive visual spectacle standpoint if nothing else. Plus a giant samurai busting out a Gatling gun is 100% whoa. It makes me wish it was a video game.

Zoombie · Mar 21, 2011

So far, Zack's films have been based off previous IP, with their quality pretty directly related to them. 300 was stupid-but-fun, so 300 was stupid-but-fun. Watchmen was genius, so Watchmen was genius (but not quite as genius, because part of the comic's brilliance came from the use and manipulation of comic book tropes and the medium itself, while the film didn't 'play with' the medium. Plus, the ending removed a big hunk of ambiguity).

But this looks to be the first Zack film (at least the first I know of) that's based entirely off his own brains.

So, it can either be good or bad. The basic premise might work, and the visual style is butfuckeryinsane enough to be interesting, but trailers can make anything look good these days.

jamesn65 · Mar 21, 2011

I can't wait for this. I love this kind of highly stylized, comic-booky movie. Plus I've had a soft spot for the main girl ever since I saw the adaptation of Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events (though I think I was one of the few who liked that movie)

COchick · Mar 21, 2011

I think it looks like fun. And I really like that actress, too. She was in some horror movie, can't remember the name...

bettielee · Mar 21, 2011

Just watching the trailer, I'm confused. Is there a story at all, or is it just all "in the mind". And if every man (or kungfufightinggirl) in their mind is free.... what is the problem? I'd go shopping in my mind....

I don't get it.

Kitty Pryde · Mar 21, 2011

The story is IRL they're in an asylum, and in their imaginations they are magical badasses, and the presumable conclusion is that they liberate themselves for real and/or die at the end, using the self-confidence gained in their imaginary world.

JoNightshade · Mar 21, 2011

I'm hoping this will be as good as it looks, visually, but the trailer makes me worry the plot is going to be a very thin, weak frame on which the director will hang any kind of spectacle nonsense he wants. I love the visuals, but it's not gonna do anything for me if there's no plot. Meh.

Celia Cyanide · Mar 21, 2011

COchick said:
I think it looks like fun. And I really like that actress, too. She was in some horror movie, can't remember the name...

The remake of A Tale of Two Sisters. It was called The Uninvited, I think.

Jcomp · Mar 22, 2011

Seeing more commercials, this sort of reminds me of the Japanese flick Casshern, at least visually. I doubt it will be as ambitious plotwise, but possibly as endearingly weird.

L_N · Mar 22, 2011

I'm curious to see what the audience will look like during opening weekend. As the movie is rated PG-13, I have a good feeling I'll feel quite old, sitting among a bunch of teens.

But at least a 33 yo is coming with us haha

Smileycat · Mar 22, 2011

It looks like a silly, but fun movie, so I probably will see it. :popcorn:

amrose · Mar 28, 2011

I saw this on Sunday. Did not like.

I don't know how with all the craziness in that movie but it was...boring.

Kinda like watching a 2 hour music video.

Victoria · Mar 28, 2011

I have to admit to a certain prejudice against anything containing ass kicking ninja chicks in tight black leather. So tired of it.

jamesn65 · Mar 29, 2011

Yeah, gave in and saw this and I understand why it's getting the reviews it's getting. None of it coalesces. The parts are definitely greater than the whole, but even then the parts weren't all that great.

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