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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2011, 02:14:08 PM

Title: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2011, 02:14:08 PM
Quote from: Slant Magazine
Director Zach Snyder offers a peek inside his head, which turns out to be a vomatorium of pop culture's every geeky element.

Quote from: Scifi Movie Page
Snyder's made something authentically confused and moderately offensive, apparently eager to place this dodgy film at the feet of young girls in search of heroes -- his own glossy brand of marketable rebellion.

Quote from: Orlando Sentinel
An unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller in the video game mold, "Sucker Punch" is "Last Airbender" with bustiers.

Quote from: Emanuel Levy
Under the helm of the otherwise gifted Zack Snyder, the movie is both ideologically and thematically incoherent, uncertain of the right tone and rhythm.

Quote from: AP
One feels for the talented actors swept into such hokum.

Quote from: Hollywood & Fine
A sensibility that blends comic books and video games - then invests it with an operatic grandeur and a seriousness that gives it surprising emotional weight.

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confounding, divisive dudestravaganza ... A backstage musical where the stage is a battlefield and the amps are cranked to 11.

8 reviews, 6 negative. Average rating is 3.7/10.

Judging by the trailers, it looked like a sloppy mash of everything that the writer/director thought was really cool. A nice idea in theory, but almost also leads to something that's less than the sum of its parts. Might still be convinced to go see it though.
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Post by: Stoney Mason on March 24, 2011, 02:21:25 PM
Not a big fan of synder and I thought the commericals for this looked pretty weak.
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Post by: jiji on March 24, 2011, 02:27:06 PM
The Internet: The Movie
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Post by: Diunx on March 24, 2011, 02:32:16 PM
Looks like typical snyder shit, won't even pirate this crap.
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 24, 2011, 02:33:42 PM
The GAF thread is hilarious. People are honestly looking forward to this shit.

the main chick is pretty hot tho. I remember seeing her in A Serious Of Unfortunate Events and thinking damn, can't wait until your 18 :rock

*daps mupepe*
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Post by: Robo on March 24, 2011, 02:37:58 PM
The trailers for this turd were fucking repulsive.  And isn't it rated PG-13?  I can think of no good reason to see this.
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Post by: Diunx on March 24, 2011, 02:49:58 PM
In typical snyder fashion this movie won't be fun no matter how high you are.
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Post by: Mupepe on March 24, 2011, 03:04:50 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 24, 2011, 02:33:42 PM
The GAF thread is hilarious. People are honestly looking forward to this shit.

the main chick is pretty hot tho. I remember seeing her in A Serious Of Unfortunate Events and thinking damn, can't wait until your 18 :rock

*daps mupepe*
*daps*  Great minds think alike.

Didn't Warner screen test this and everyone hated it, so there were rumors swirling that it was so bad he might have lost the Superman movie?
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on March 24, 2011, 03:09:20 PM
I liked Watchmen, but this just looks like horrible fanwank material.

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An unerotic unthrilling erotic thriller

Love it.
Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 24, 2011, 03:12:20 PM
Quote from: Billy Rygar on March 24, 2011, 02:50:05 PM
Looks unimaginably bad.  Not quite Transformers bad, but probably Tron bad.

this looks far worse than ever of those...
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Post by: Raban on March 24, 2011, 03:45:10 PM
I'm probably in the same camp as Mojo and Spence watching this movie at home while stoned.
Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2011, 04:53:14 PM
Quote from: AV Club
Snyder has described it as "Alice In Wonderland with machine guns," but it's more like The Pussycat Dolls Present Steampunk Kill Bill, only more assaultive and pandering than that description suggests.

Quote from: IGN Movies
It all amounts to an epic "so what?," and doesn't make the viewer feel much of anything except bewildered by its single-minded devotion to be the "coolest" movie ever.
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Post by: tiesto on March 24, 2011, 04:54:03 PM
Looks awful, plus I hated Watchmen. 300 was OK.
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Post by: Mupepe on March 24, 2011, 05:26:15 PM
Any guy who has actually sat through all of 300 more than once is a homo.  What a boring fucking movie.  It was only entertaining seeing it on a big ass theater screen.  On my tv, their man meat is about as big as mine so who cares?
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Post by: WrikaWrek on March 24, 2011, 05:33:46 PM
Snyder delivers if you take care of the script before he arrives on scene.
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Post by: Great Rumbler on March 24, 2011, 06:13:24 PM
Quote from: Philadelphia Daily News
With all of his green-screen, CGI, treated-image technology, all Snyder does here is transport the audience into the middle of a pretty lame video game.

Quote from: Philadelphia Enquirer
Hands-down the most nightmarishly awful film of the year.

Quote from: CampBlood.org
Its awkwardly embedded message of female empowerment fails to overcome the fact that it is ultimately a big, dumb, loud genre mashup coming soon to a "man cave" near you.
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Post by: Smooth Groove on March 24, 2011, 06:21:03 PM
another overhyped PS3 exclusive

Year of the PS3 continues
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Post by: choco parfait on March 24, 2011, 06:35:04 PM
It clearly had all the trappings of a horrible movie... but darn it, I can't help but like schoolgirl-samurai-sword-wielding-robot-shooting-geekiness on the big screen!
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 24, 2011, 07:05:55 PM
Will wait for the internet to generate fappable pictures and videos of Emily Browning.  That is the extent of my interest in the movie.
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Post by: Mr. Gundam on March 24, 2011, 11:12:31 PM
Quote from: choco parfait on March 24, 2011, 06:35:04 PM
I can't help but like schoolgirl-samurai-sword-wielding-robot-shooting-geekiness on the big screen!

Nope.
Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 24, 2011, 11:31:17 PM
Quote from: Billy Rygar on March 24, 2011, 03:27:42 PM
Zach Snyder can film a halfway competent action sequence, even with his overuse of slo-mo.  Michael Bay cannot at all.  Tron was just fucking boring.  That's what I'm basing this on.

Fuck you're right. But Shia makes Transformers tolerable at times!

Never seen Tron, I'm not a nerd :smug
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Post by: BlueTsunami on March 24, 2011, 11:31:25 PM
Whats horrible is I bet the burlesque bullshit Snyder is using as a frame for all the actiony shit doesn't seem to add any real or quality exposition to balance out the action. And whats even worse is that these "real life" parts take up a good chunk of the movie so its not even primarily action driven from the ratio I've seen from people who've watched it. If you want to throw in salt 'cause you feel the dish needs it you don't throw in a fucking fistful, just sprinkle that shit. But fuck it, I could probably watch Emily Browning eatch a juicy peach and be able to jerk to completion which is why I'm probably catching a matinee showing. I'm part of the problem.
Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 24, 2011, 11:53:04 PM
300 was very fun; perhaps the most fun I've ever had at the theater. Watchmen had a some flashes but ultimately Snyder focused so much on re-creating exact visuals from the comic that he completely overlooked "stuff that makes a movie not suck" like good acting and writing. He seems like a George Lucas style hands-off director who only cares about visuals and bringing his shitty vision to life in as many bright colors as possible.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on March 25, 2011, 12:16:16 AM
Looks terrible, will watch and never learn about not seeing Zach Snyder movies

Also, everyone bashing this for being "videogame nerd shit" had better have given that stupid Scott Pilgrim movie the same treatment.  Just sayin.
Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 25, 2011, 12:17:32 AM
Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on March 25, 2011, 12:16:16 AM

Also, everyone bashing this for being "videogame nerd shit" had better have given that stupid Scott Pilgrim movie the same treatment.  Just sayin.
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Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Great Rumbler on March 25, 2011, 09:13:31 AM
Quote from: BlueTsunami on March 24, 2011, 11:31:25 PM
But fuck it, I could probably watch Emily Browning eatch a juicy peach and be able to jerk to completion which is why I'm probably catching a matinee showing.

Well, okay, but make sure you keep it on the down low, don't pull a Paul Reubens.
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Post by: chronovore on March 25, 2011, 11:16:16 AM
Quote from: Spencer on March 24, 2011, 02:41:46 PM
Sorry dudes, this movie will be awesome in the comfort of my home while blazed.

Can't wait for it to open in Japan, where I will have an Yebisu beer in each hand. This will ensure I get buzzed, as well as prevent me from giving into Pee-Wee Herman-like temptation in the theater.
Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: Diunx on March 25, 2011, 12:51:39 PM
Micheal bay >>>>> shit snyder.
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Post by: Robo on March 25, 2011, 12:53:39 PM
Zach Snyder will never make a movie as good as Bad Boys (or Bad Boys 2).
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Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 25, 2011, 02:03:37 PM
Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on March 25, 2011, 12:16:16 AM
Looks terrible, will watch and never learn about not seeing Zach Snyder movies

Also, everyone bashing this for being "videogame nerd shit" had better have given that stupid Scott Pilgrim movie the same treatment.  Just sayin.

Scott Pilgrim was a bad movie.

As many strikes as Sucker Punch has against it, it is still very likely that it will be a better movie than Scott Pilgrim.
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Post by: CajoleJuice on March 25, 2011, 02:52:48 PM
Yeah that's stretching it.
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 25, 2011, 06:02:35 PM
Quote from: Billy Rygar on March 25, 2011, 04:20:27 PM
I like this line from the AV club review especially:

"Only this time, Snyder is pandering to the Barely Legal demographic rather than trafficking in over-the-top homoeroticism.

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Post by: Raban on March 25, 2011, 06:27:47 PM
Saw this on the GiantBomb status updates and I find it sums up my opinion of this film:
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Sucker Punch might be terrible, but I have to see it to get context for the slashfic, which is sure to be a delight.
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Post by: bork on March 26, 2011, 12:47:22 AM
Took the wife to see this...thought if nothing else, it would be easy for her to follow, but uh...nope.   :lol

I don't know what the hell I just watched.  It was like there was kinda-sorta a regular movie in there that just threw in random cut scenes straight out of various video games.  Would not recommend anyone go to the theater to see this, or see this film at all for that matter.

Also, those poor dragons.   :'(
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Post by: bork on March 26, 2011, 12:57:35 AM
Quote from: Green Man on March 26, 2011, 12:53:18 AM
Do any of the girls kiss each other?

 :lol No.   :(

Seriously, the name of this film is perfect...it's exactly what you feel like happened to you after you watched it!

Here is the plot in a nutshell:

spoiler (click to show/hide)
The whole movie is a dream within a dream.  The lead girl's mother dies, her greedy stepfather finds out that her and her sister are the heirs to her money, tries to hurt the sister, and the lead girl gets a gun and accidentally shoots her sister.  He gets her committed to an insane asylum and pays off an orderly to get her lobotomized.  From here she starts dreaming and the asylum turns into a burlesque-type club that's a front for a brothel.  She gets some other girls to break out of there with her.  Apparently she's a really awesome dancer...so good that she mesmerizes the room.  They used this as a distraction to steal the stuff that they need to break out. 

Now, this might actually sound like a real movie when you read this, but here's the thing- everytime she starts dancing, you don't get to see anything.  Instead the film changes to random video game cut scenes.  There is no other way to describe it...shit-tons of CG,  panty shots, cliches all over the place, etc. etc.  It's basically like watching sequences from Onimusha, Killzone, Final Fantasy VII, and random LOTR-like game with dragons. 

The film ends with her getting lobotomized.  Turns out that the shit they all did in the dream actually happened in the asylum.  Some of the other girls die, and in the end the main girl helps another girl to escape.   They catch the crooked orderly and he starts telling the cops how her dad paid him off.  We get to see her face, and she's "gone," but smiling.  The other girl gets on a bus and leaves. 

The end.  Money wasted!
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Title: Re: Sucker Punch [to the gut]
Post by: bork on March 26, 2011, 03:35:31 AM
Quote from: The Business on March 26, 2011, 01:21:47 AM
Normally I wouldn't want to see this, but after seeing Scott Pilgrim recently and actually liking it maybe I'll like this too. 

I wasn't that thrilled with Scott Pilgrim, but it's leagues better than Sucker Punch. 
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Post by: Diunx on March 26, 2011, 03:42:56 AM
SP had some actual talent behind it.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on March 26, 2011, 03:44:13 AM
Quote from: The Business on March 26, 2011, 01:21:47 AM
Normally I wouldn't want to see this, but after seeing Scott Pilgrim recently and actually liking it maybe I'll like this too. 

You should probably get out of your own head, because the sickness is coming from inside you.
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Post by: Cormacaroni on March 26, 2011, 03:49:51 AM
Quote from: Diunx on March 26, 2011, 03:42:56 AM
SP had some actual talent behind it.

hint: both movies you are discussing have the initials 'SP'
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Post by: Diunx on March 26, 2011, 10:13:42 AM
But only one have a talented director.

Hint: it isn't shit snyder.
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Post by: ferrarimanf355 on March 26, 2011, 10:38:52 AM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 25, 2011, 12:17:32 AM
Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on March 25, 2011, 12:16:16 AM

Also, everyone bashing this for being "videogame nerd shit" had better have given that stupid Scott Pilgrim movie the same treatment.  Just sayin.
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