What is wrong with this movie that makes it so vilified? I haven't seen it yet but I probably will soon

What is wrong with this movie that makes it so vilified? I haven't seen it yet but I probably will soon.

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it's a creepy misogynist's fantasy of what female empowerment looks like. terrible. just terrible.

its just stupid. Its like watching 3d benchmark video or bunch of unrelated video game trailers

>think it's going to be some really cool fantasy world with a group of hotties saving the world
>it's all just a metaphor and they live as whores in a mental ward

Completely ruined it for me

It's pretty cool, it's basically a new heavy metal but with chick music.

It's not very interesting and the long drawn-out CGI cluster fuck action sequences get really old quick.

It has cute girls though.

It just isn't good

It's really stupid, but that would be fine if the script wasn't terrible. Basically it is stupid and boring.

Embarassing covers, schizophrenic story that doesn't even seem to know itself what is going on, drab washed out colors, generic fantasy settings

The eye candy is 10/10 but it's still hard to watch because the movie feels like a 2hr long music video, it gets grating, especially with the aforementioned shit covers that butcher of all the classic songs you love.

bjork is chick music? fuk off

Movieblob has a massive penis.

>the movie feels like a 2hr long music vide

This is the point of the film.

They were going to make a new heavy metal.

It's on of those half-baked idea movies that often come up among friends when drunk and/or high.

Whereas most of those ideas die when sobriety kicks it, this one actually made it to the screen.

its a 2 hour CGI music video of cover songs.
and the cover songs are fucking horrible versions of the originals.

Zack Snyder is clearly deaf.

Bjork is the very definition of chick music. It's shitty pop music with an edgy aesthetic to make them feel special about themselves. It's pretty much Sucker Punch in music form.

They should just let Snyder make Heavy Metal 3. He's probably the only director with the style to pull it off. Ideally it would be a fancy cartoon instead but animation is dead.

Yeah, the torture scene felt way overly indulgent... Like it was the director's sick fantasy. Couldn't help but get creeped out and I'm a dude...

The fight scene were at least well choreographed, but that's really all the movie had going for it.

well that and Bjork.

>Like it was the director's sick fantasy.
Go back to plebit, we like this shit here.

He was going to do a segment along with other directors, no idea what happened to it though.

Inappropriately advertised film that was marketed as an action flick, but turns out to be about the broken lives of trafficked and abused women. It punishes it's audience for expecting action, and at the same time is too shallow a film for the complex subject it broaches. it misses every mark in a way that only America Ultra could come close to. It also shows what a hack Zack Snyder really is. It's almost embarrassing.

>They were going to make a new heavy metal.

The people who say shit like this have never seen heavy metal.

I can't watch this movie sober OR baked all the way through. It's that bad.

I love Snyder, I love his capeshit, I have no idea what it is. Boring set design? The girls are hot as fuck. The CGI has aged like milk. It should be a cult classic.

Just doesn't resonate with me

It was anime fanservice garbage

You're fucking retarded. This is why. Third Post.

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The implication in contention is that suckerpunch in any way remotely resembles heavy metal.

At first I thought you were retarded, Now I think you're just plain autistic.

And I stand by my assertion either you or no one on the production of sucker punch actually saw heavy metal.

the entire movie is basically, "BUT it was just a dream"

it's just so weird with these blockbuster, "cool", but in the end meaningless action sequences, when the entire movie is actually about underaged girls getting raped. I'm not one to get offended, but it's borderline tastless.

it's basically a mary sue fantasy circle jerk where nothing that is shown matters, because it's all her imagination

visually it's great, but you could say that for transformers as well. it just has nothing to offer hence it's wasting my time

hudgens >>>> malone >> browning > the other bitch

its one of those all show no substance films

>segments of high fantasy
>combined with music
>bare bones plot to link them together

Snyder we clearly playing around with a heavy metal styled movie.
You must be blind not to see it.

>but you could say that for transformers as well
Really? I don't think so.

I'm not sure man, I've seen it once in one sitting a a second time in bits and pieces and I can't hate it. It just doesn't mean anything to me, it's 109 minutes of Snyder visuals, hot girls and action. Whatever misogynistic messages folks are picking up from it just makes me think these people have too much free time on their hands. Watch it and forget it.

You know what's worse than letting Zack Snyder direct your movie? letting him write it

Like everything zack snyder, that falls apart under the barest scrutiny.

For we all know (or should know, by now) zack snyder has only the barest understanding of anything.

>links to imdb message board

>ywn fuck Emily Browning in costume

>because it's all her imagination
It's actually worse than that, because all the action scenes happen in a fantasy inside of a fantasy, in the mind of a lobotomized girl. And this isn't a reveal at the end of the movie to blow your mind... that's given away in the first 10 minutes.
Unlike inception, which used that dream within a dream as a TOOL by the characters to tell the story. In sucker punch it's just there for another out of context action scene that ultimately doesn't matter.

for such a horrible overall movie, it has a lot of good stuff going on.

including the best action scenes ever made in the history of cinema.

i wanted to like this movie so badly but couldnt.

>Visually it's great, but because all the action scenes happen in a fantasy inside of a fantasy, in the mind of a cuck. And this isn't a reveal at the end of the movie to blow your mind... that's given away in the first 10 minutes.
>Unlike Sucker Punch, which used that dream within a dream as a TOOL by the characters to tell the story. In Inception it's just there for another out of context action scene that ultimately doesn't matter.

For all the tits and ass it still manages to be boring, depressing and shit

why do people still get Snyder to direct movies?

get into the mind of a studio exec
you don't watch movies
you don't have any particular taste

you look at the world through the prism of charts and trends

>can we get that HIP GUY WHO DOES COMIC BOOKS MOVIES?

I have the extended blu-ray, the soundtrack, and a Sucker Punch shirt.

>Pity the poor workaday film critics who have to make sense of something like Sucker Punch. They have to stand and deliver a logical assessment of this crazed, three-headed Ghidorah of a film; they have to persuade their editors that they aren’t immature enough, attention-deficit-disordered enough, to fall for such heavy-breathing juvenilia. Perhaps the majority of critics are simply being honest when they say that they feel battered and annoyed by Sucker Punch, that it portends the death of movies, that its hotshot director Zack Snyder (300, Watchmen) should be sent to his room without supper. I, too, must be honest, and I can opine with very little reservation that Snyder has constructed a right-brain classic, a coruscating work of pure cinema that, at times, plays as though some brave loon at Warner Brothers handed Snyder the keys to an $82 million art-house oddity.

>The story is a wheel within a wheel within a wheel, and I can imagine fans and non-fans alike working earnestly to parse the levels of reality and fantasy — what “really” happened, what “real-life” event has a “fantasy” analogue. The easy answer is that nothing in Sucker Punch “really happened.” It’s a movie. Duh. From there we can simply read the film as Snyder’s riff on themes of freedom, escapism, and institutional (the pun is and isn’t intended) sexism. In the run-up to the film’s release, Snyder went around saying things like (regarding the heroines’ peekaboo techno-fetish garb) “I didn’t dress them that way. You did.” The girls are dressed that way because ass-kicking girls in action movies have to be hot, as per the demand of the audience. Thus Snyder has made, in part, a movie that critiques other movies, just like Godard advised us to do. You don’t like Sucker Punch? Direct your own answer to it.

>Godard’s confrere Truffaut said, “The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure,” and Sucker Punch is that, if nothing else. The quintet of girls flip in and out of massive set pieces resembling nothing so much as a boy’s epic combat play with a wide assortment of action figures from a dozen different toy lines. The girls are plunked into that universe like Barbie dolls, except they’re lethal Barbie dolls. The lead character (Emily Browning) is even named Baby Doll, and the others have names like Sweet Pea and Blondie. Nobody except Snyder named the girls; nobody except Snyder put them in the situations they’re in, so the movie is also a gigantic critique of Snyder’s own ain’t-it-cool aesthetic.

>The girls, on a videogame-like mission to find various objects that will earn their freedom, don’t seem to feel much terror or joy in battle. They are emotional only in the setting of the burlesque house and brothel they’re “really” in, which may be a fantasy extension of the asylum they’re “really” in. What they’re “really” in is a movie called Sucker Punch that conceptually robs them of their dignity and humanity much as the male-fronted brothel/asylum does. But Snyder has cast the girls shrewdly, and the near-wordless Emily Browning, eyebrows perpetually knitted in anguish, compels us to lean forward and know what she’s feeling. Her cohorts — tough-minded Abbie Cornish, sympathetic Jena Malone, conflicted Vanessa Hudgens and Jamie Chung — breathe life into their archetypes.

>There’s a final betrayal of complacent audience expectations — the twist that gives the movie its name and probably served as the straw that broke the critics’ backs. Zack Snyder is wading deeply into meta-fiction here, toying roughly with storytelling itself. But always, always he seeks to entertain, to mount dazzling sequences set to the heavy insistent march of Björk’s “Army of Me” or various rock-classic covers. I’ve run hot and cold on Snyder; Watchmen impressed me, his other stuff didn’t. But this wild beast, whether he even fully understands it himself, is indeed the death of a certain kind of movie — the death and ne plus ultra at the same time, the apocalyptic orgasm that kills everything.

>How can we take action cinema, or babes-with-guns flicks, remotely seriously (if we ever could) after Sucker Punch? Snyder has created a monument to entertainment that he loves but, presumably, hates himself for loving. It is both a guilty pleasure and the original wellspring of guilt, plumbing the melodramatic Prozac-porn of Sylvia Plath and Girl, Interrupted and 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” to remind us of what Swoosie Kurtz had to tell us in The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom: “Crazy women are made by crazy men.” Crazy movies are, too. And sometimes great movies.

Because he married a producer from a major studio.