Why would any girl want to imagine herself in a brothel of all places? That's like a guy imagining himself getting whacked in the balls because it's better than having them removed.
Why would any girl want to imagine herself in a brothel of all places? That's like a guy imagining himself getting whacked in the balls because it's better than having them removed.
^^^I'm the opposite actually. While I enjoyed the score well enough, I loved all the cover songs used in the film. Especially when you realize that each song used was selected for it's thematic material and used in the film accordingly.
Emily Browning's cover of Sweet Dreams is simply sublime.
That was originally in response to the Admiral's post...Archer just happened to post as I hit submit
And now to respond to him:
Her main goal is to escape the asylum, therefore her illusion has to also be something that she wishes to escape from.
Emily Browning's cover of Sweet Dreams is simply sublime.
That was originally in response to the Admiral's post...Archer just happened to post as I hit submit
And now to respond to him:
Her main goal is to escape the asylum, therefore her illusion has to also be something that she wishes to escape from.
^ Exactly. The brothel was a construct designed to represent the asylum it's self, not an escape from the asylum. That's just what her conscienceness depicted the Aslyum as. I loved Emily's cover of "Sweet Dreams" too and the use of it at the start of the movie. I believe that it set the tone for the rest of the film perfectly.
I may have had some problems with the but I did enjoy it . I had problems with inception saw three times did'nt fully understand all of it . but I liked it and I like sucker punch as well. liked the rock sound track on sucker punch . I thought best part was were they went after the map.
Really? You guys liked that? I have nothing to say about her version of the song - I'm pretty indifferent to it - but the use of that song tied to those scenes was so amateur that it hurt. Most of the music in this felt that way to me, but this one really stood out as a rookie movie mistake that Snyder probably shouldn't be making at this point.
^ All the movie's songs had a specific reason for being included according to Snyder. I don't really like most of the choices used in the soundtrack myself to be honest. Bjork did a cover of Army of One that only really works in the movie. Hearing her on the soundtrack at all is meh.
Different strokes for different folks I guess. I absolutely adored the first five minutes of the movie. It completely sold me before the title was even displayed
I added the songs used the trailers to the soundtrack...and Emily Browning covers Where is My Mind. Interesting to see that more people here think the movie is good compared to those who don't.
I think there are extremely critical people here...and that doesn't reflect someone liking the film or not liking the film.
^ Yeah sorry I seem to be overly sensitive about this film and I don't know why really. I wasn't insulted really. I know what you mean, about not furthering their views.
I gotta say I must not follow the grain then. The movie really wasn't what I expected at all, and that might be why I like it so much. Going in I thought it was going to be a movie about a girl trapped in an asylum who retreated into her mind in order to escape. Now while I suppose that is a simplistic explanation of what the movie was, I never expected two different realities in addition to the main one.
And as for the music, a lot of people have thought the covers were bad. I didn't, I can't really explain that except to say that everything is subjective. I like them, you don't, no big deal.
I don't know that I thought any one of the covers stood out as "bad", but I did think there were a few times where they should have de-musicvideoized some scenes in favor of a bit of interesting dialog or some more action or something else. I thought they worked well over the first 2-3 minutes (Sweet Dreams) and then over each of the dream world fighting scenes though......especially Bjork's Army of Me. If I had any complaint, it was just that it was too much of a good thing(s).
The stylized fighting was cool.......most of the music was cool.....the special FX were cool.......the layers of reality was cool.....it was all fine, but it was almost like they had everything dialed to 11 all the time except for a few scenes
when some of the girls died.
*SPOILER ALERT*
I have to admit, the scene in your spoiler code there, label, was one of the scenes that was evidence of weak plotting to me. It seems like those two girls were dispatched merely because they couldn't figure out what to do with them for the end of the movie. So we have a cackling villain moment that robbed the film of some of its integrity.
I have to admit, the scene in your spoiler code there, label, was one of the scenes that was evidence of weak plotting to me. It seems like those two girls were dispatched merely because they couldn't figure out what to do with them for the end of the movie. So we have a cackling villain moment that robbed the film of some of its integrity.
Just curious - I haven't seen the film... But are the other girls figments of Babydoll's imagination? Or is it some bizarro shared imagination/dream state where what happens to the other girls also happens in the asylum and is experienced by them?