^ The more and more I see these negative reactions, the more I'm thinking Snyder is secretly laughing his ass off having accomplished his intent, and that was the "Sucker Punch". LOL.
Well, if he continues directing box office bombs, I don't think he'll be laughing much longer.
If I ever see him saying that it was supposed to be bad to "sucker punch" the audience, I hope someone sucker punches him with a polite handshake.
^ ^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. Making a comment that if he keeps directing box office bombs he won't be laughing much longer is an obvious statement. My comment was directly attributed to "Sucker Punch" and nothing else.
Well, there's three types of movies, apparently. Those that Ebert likes, those that Ebert dislikes, and those that Ebert skips.
^ I was interested in reading his review haha. Guess he didn't care to even see it lol.
Same. I really enjoyed Battle:LA as an action flick. But Sucker Punch failed on every single level. Even as an action flick, these outrageous fight scenes were framed and presented in such a way that they had zero consequences (the one character that died died because of what happened in the "real" world) which made the tension non-existent. That killed the visuals for me. People ripped into Battle:LA for having no "memorable" characters, but in this the main characters are literally imaginary playthings, acting in a story that is presented in such a way that it makes light of all the "heavy" issues it deals with because ultimately the protagonist(s) had no part in any of it.
It's not a bad flick because of a sad ending, it's bad because it made no sense and pretty much degraded everyone in the film.
These two blog posts pretty much align with my take on the film (though I disagree on some points such as the Wiseman):
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/sucker-punch-part-1-the-story-that-no-one-is-talking-about
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/sucker-punch-part-2-women-weapons-and-self-sacrifice
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/sucker-punch-part-1-the-story-that-no-one-is-talking-about
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/sucker-punch-part-2-women-weapons-and-self-sacrifice
Those are great articles.
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.
^ Fair enough.
What I took from the film, is that women can't actually fight for themselves - they have to resort to imagination in order to feel "bad ass" - and that they have to resort to selling their "sexy" bodies in order to get anywhere in their world. Which I think is the exact opposite of what Snyder intended.
Arguing that the fight scenes were empowering is something I feel is completely wrong because they never happened in the context of the story. They were day dreams while they either danced seductively or pick pocketed what they needed, neither of which are particularly empowering in the action movie sense which this film advertised.
Arguing that the fight scenes were empowering is something I feel is completely wrong because they never happened in the context of the story. They were day dreams while they either danced seductively or pick pocketed what they needed, neither of which are particularly empowering in the action movie sense which this film advertised.
Naw - I think he knows it's a turkey. When it was launched here in the UK, he did a Q&A at a screening - however, unlike what normally happens - he took the questions before they saw the film.
LOL. Maybe. I dunno. I liked the film. I know others think it's horrid. I believe "Green Hornet" was worst than this, but that's just me.
I was listening to a pod-cast and they said that someone asked him "It's not full of that slow-mo junk is it?"
LOL.