^ ^Except that in the case of "Sucker Punch" he was most likely intending a Sucker Punch and for some reason people are not getting what he intended and are only seeing a flawed film. Now in no way am I saying that people are wrong for disliking the film, you can dislike a film and not understand it.
Not everyone was excited by the movie enough to watch interviews and thus realize some of what Snyder intended. The movie fails on account of his intentions not being apparent within the movie itself. What that means is that the "story", if it can be called that, is not told well.
I did not have to watch any interviews to understand what he intended. It seemed pretty evident in watching the movie.
I was gonna add, even if you realize what his intentions were, noble as they are, one is entitled to disliking the movie based on its failure to go about delivering its message in anything other than a ham-fisted way.
The movie fails on account of his intentions not being apparent within the movie itself. What that means is that the "story", if it can be called that, is not told well.
It seemed apparent enough to me.
Yeah, stop the sexual oppression, women of the world unite, etc. I agree it's pretty obvious, now that I've given some thought to the movie after having seen it (it made my brain go completely blank during). My problem is that all the "story" bits take place in the boring brothel reality, and after realizing that the action scenes are actually just some lame dance, I kinda stopped paying attention. I didn't initially see the point of the whole thing because it failed to draw me in. I hold the film-maker responsible.
Every movie must be Oscar material.
EVERY. MOVIE.
And if it isn't, every little Internet poster with a fist up their ass must rant and rave about how horrible it is, all because they have no idea how to enjoy a mindless popcorn flick. And if even that isn't sufficient, they must feign ignorance and claim an inability to follow even the most simple of plots in said popcorn movies.
So yes, Sucker Punch isn't winning any Oscars for brilliant storytelling. Oh no! The horror! The horror of it all! By default, if it's not an Oscar movie, it must be the worst movie of all time! There's only two possible outcomes! /wrist
I'm surprised at my need to bitch about how much I hated this movie, myself. I mean, most dumb films you just kinda go "meh" and forget about them. This one, it made me think, it stayed with me. It made me obsess over why it sucks so much. And the thing is, it's not a mindless popcorn flick. It strives for more, which is why it so utterly frustrates in its failure.
Basically, Snyder invented a couple action scenes that could be used for the trailers to get nerds to come see the film, so he could preach at them about watching less tentacle porn. But this ain't an action film. It didn't even end with an epic action scene. No, it would be ludicrous to make a film about women who can actually fight like that. It's all in their heads. And in the real world, they can't take care of themselves without the help of a kindly male bus driver.
Had there been any relevance to the action scenes, and a reason for me to care about the visual extravaganza, I would've liked this much more. What if it turned out that these women actually had been part of an elite fighting unit, and the action scenes were their memories? And the brothel is like, a result of hypnosis meant to break their will (just so it wouldn't sound like a blatant Matrix ripoff). But they overpower the programming, escape, and kick ass in whatever scifi compound they were held in. Now that would've been empowering, and even entertaining. There would even be room for a sequel, in the case of box office success.
