I can't wait to pick up the DVD next week.
me either. i thought this was a pretty good movie and can't wait to rewatch it.
I'm intrigued by the 18 minutes of extra footage on the blu-ray - apparently the dance sequences that were cut from the film.
^ This alone is going to be interesting to view. I believe there have been rumors about an Ultimate Cut eventually being released sometime next year (similar to the Ultimate Watchmen DVD release) with even more footage included.
Really? I hadn't heard that... I also haven't seen the ultimate version of 'Watchmen.' Was it any good? I have the director's cut, and I already feel like it's pushing being too long.
I've not seen the "Ultimate Watchmen" DVD yet. Heard it's okay.
Probably not. Just pure curiosity. I always like watching alternate versions of movies.
It's interesting about the extra footage. The way Zach has described it...it seems the missing footage will indeed attempt to strengthen the story but that just might be the case of a director promoting his film rather than there being any truth to the matter. We shall see in a short while though. I'm wondering if Jon Hamm's character sex/rape scene with Babydoll will be included in the additional footage. I think it was removed due to the lower rating of the film.
Wow.
I did not see this at the movies and only just watched this last night on a rental, because this got such bad reviews.
I wonder if I saw a different movie than the critics.
I am completely blown away and will probably take a few days to completely digest the movie.
I did not see this at the movies and only just watched this last night on a rental, because this got such bad reviews.
I wonder if I saw a different movie than the critics.
I am completely blown away and will probably take a few days to completely digest the movie.
Really? I didn't think it was that deep at all. Even with the whole sexy dance/rape metaphor they had going.
My thoughts of the film echo Tyberius. There is a great deal going on in the film...it is very much structured like a "layer cake" only it doesn't really take it's self as seriously as "Inception" did and gives off an entirely different message (and no it's not the one that critics would have you believe). There are some fine essays out there now that describe the film better than I possibly could, I even posted one here earlier. Most people who saw this film chose only to see what they wanted to see and that is part of the "Sucker Punch" as well I believe.
Finally saw this, and it wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. I certainly wouldn't call it a very good movie, but as far as mindless popcorn movies go, it still did it's job fairly well (and was a helluva lot more fun and enjoyable than crap like Transformers 3).
Agreed. I can see how Snyder was aiming at something deeper (and I don't think the movie was nearly as sexist or juvenile as the critics said), but still, this isn't exactly Stanley Kubrick we're talking about. It's still fairly simplistic, obvious stuff, and I think people are reading MUCH more into the movie than is actually there.
Hell, you could probably see something profound in a Police Academy movie if you stared at it long enough. That doesn't mean it really deserves that level of analysis.
Agreed. I can see how Snyder was aiming at something deeper (and I don't think the movie was nearly as sexist or juvenile as the critics said), but still, this isn't exactly Stanley Kubrick we're talking about. It's still fairly simplistic, obvious stuff, and I think people are reading MUCH more into the movie than is actually there.
Hell, you could probably see something profound in a Police Academy movie if you stared at it long enough. That doesn't mean it really deserves that level of analysis.
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I gave it a B...I enjoyed it more than I thought I would...I had my problems with the movie...but it didn't suck. 
[edit] My first review...
[edit] My first review...
^ Those are exactly some of the messages the movie attempts to portray. I would love to get my hands on this script. There were a lot of awesome lines and bits of advice from the Scott Glenn character that I just loved. Have seen the movie twice now and both times my enjoyment of it increased.
I'm watching it again for the second time now on blu-ray.... and the real world / brothel scenes are even worse than I remember them being. I just really don't care about that story at all.
If this had just been a story of a team of super fighter chicks going to different planets and kicking ass in the future it would have been so much better...
If this had just been a story of a team of super fighter chicks going to different planets and kicking ass in the future it would have been so much better...
Just to add my tuppence worth.
I’ve seen 17 films at the cinema this year, and currently Sucker Punch is the worst, and I’m not sure I can see that changing. I still can’t figure out if it’s a smart film pretending to be dumb, or a dumb film pretending to be smart, but whichever it is it didn’t work, for me at least, and for my friends who went to see it with me, and that’s the telling point, as I’ve liked stuff they didn’t before and vice versa, it’s rare we all agree.
Not since T4 have I seen a film so full of explosions that managed to be so dull. And the added indignity is that it’s also full of hot girls yet contrives not to be sexy (and I realise that may be the point, but frankly dressing up actresses like sex objects and then saying isn’t it terrible to dress actresses like sex objects is hypocritical at best. There are infinitely more powerful films about the abuse and degradation of women out there.)
I found many of the ‘fantasy’ scenes repetitive and kinda dull, and you have to wonder how a 50’s girl imagined weapons and technology that wouldn’t be invented for decades. You also have to wonder why a girl would decide that it’s better to imagine herself in a brothel than a mental hospital? I’ve always had a lot of time for Scott Glen, and it was nice to see him again. Just a shame he was spouting the kind of nonsense not heard since the Sphinx in Mystery Men
And don’t even get me started on the ‘dance’.
The shame of it is that there is probably an interesting film in here somewhere, and the actual sucker punch is a neat idea, it’s just that by the time we got there I was bored. I’d lose the brothel scenes, and the film definitely needs fewer cut scenes (cos face it that’s all many of those fight scenes were) It also needed more Rocket! I think it needed a clearer idea of what kind of a film it wanted to be as well.
Interesting to note that my favourite two Snyder films are Dawn of the Dead and Watchman, neither of which he wrote/produced at least. This gives me hope for Superman given he’s only directing that.
On a side note, I recently saw John Carpenter’s The Ward and though it isn’t a great film, it does the notion of pretty girls in a period mental institute thang a heck of a lot better…and I bet it cost a heck of a lot less to make as well.
I’ve seen 17 films at the cinema this year, and currently Sucker Punch is the worst, and I’m not sure I can see that changing. I still can’t figure out if it’s a smart film pretending to be dumb, or a dumb film pretending to be smart, but whichever it is it didn’t work, for me at least, and for my friends who went to see it with me, and that’s the telling point, as I’ve liked stuff they didn’t before and vice versa, it’s rare we all agree.
Not since T4 have I seen a film so full of explosions that managed to be so dull. And the added indignity is that it’s also full of hot girls yet contrives not to be sexy (and I realise that may be the point, but frankly dressing up actresses like sex objects and then saying isn’t it terrible to dress actresses like sex objects is hypocritical at best. There are infinitely more powerful films about the abuse and degradation of women out there.)
I found many of the ‘fantasy’ scenes repetitive and kinda dull, and you have to wonder how a 50’s girl imagined weapons and technology that wouldn’t be invented for decades. You also have to wonder why a girl would decide that it’s better to imagine herself in a brothel than a mental hospital? I’ve always had a lot of time for Scott Glen, and it was nice to see him again. Just a shame he was spouting the kind of nonsense not heard since the Sphinx in Mystery Men
And don’t even get me started on the ‘dance’.
The shame of it is that there is probably an interesting film in here somewhere, and the actual sucker punch is a neat idea, it’s just that by the time we got there I was bored. I’d lose the brothel scenes, and the film definitely needs fewer cut scenes (cos face it that’s all many of those fight scenes were) It also needed more Rocket! I think it needed a clearer idea of what kind of a film it wanted to be as well.
Interesting to note that my favourite two Snyder films are Dawn of the Dead and Watchman, neither of which he wrote/produced at least. This gives me hope for Superman given he’s only directing that.
On a side note, I recently saw John Carpenter’s The Ward and though it isn’t a great film, it does the notion of pretty girls in a period mental institute thang a heck of a lot better…and I bet it cost a heck of a lot less to make as well.
Agreed.. While maybe not the best, it's VERY close to the top. The visuals, the music, the stuff under the surface.. Can't watch it enough.
Actually, yes, you have to wonder why she would, that's pretty much the point, isn't it?