Sucker Punch - Symbolic? It's more likely than you think! (spoilers)

I'll add that Snyder's use of gore and sex in general frustrated me. Very juvenile. But the overall package (Ha haaaaaa Dr. Manhattan) was great (of course, I love the comic and therefore enjoyed the film).

New TV spot. Not much new footage but still worth watching if you are interested.

Finally saw a trailer. It looks like a true visual feast, inspired by video games. I'm very excited just for that language to get into cinema - hopefully the story will be good, as well.

My town just got an IMAX theater a couple of weeks ago. I hope it opens on that screen.

Last big video tease before release...

I cant wait!

Everytime I see a commercial pop up on the TV I announce a 30 second silence rule to my roommates to allow sucker punch to stream into our retinas and our eardrums uninterrupted. Even if it's a trailer I've seen 20 times. I'll stop mid conversation if I must.

Spoiler:

Yes I am a little excited for this movie.

I did the same thing at one point. I was fast forwarding a DVR'ed show and stopped, rewound and watched the Sucker Punch TV spot.

My sister thinks it looks stupid. My retort is that I'm the one person in the family that is incredibly analytical and judgmental of films, and if I want to see something that "looks stupid" then it must be the good kind of stupid.

I hammered my point home when she went to see I Am Number Four.

It was either Watchmen or Iron Man 2 when I first saw spots for this, and then Comic Con. Does it seem to anyone else that the latest trailer has a very different tone?

Some animated shorts for the film

Yay - no 3D for Sucker Punch!

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Tanglebones wrote:

Yay - no 3D for Sucker Punch!

Of all the movies to have it, I expected it from this one. Call me pleasantly surprised. Friday can't come soon enough.

If received well, the wife and I may go see it Tuesday, if she's feeling up to it.

Speedhuntr wrote:
Tanglebones wrote:

Yay - no 3D for Sucker Punch!

Of all the movies to have it, I expected it from this one. Call me pleasantly surprised. Friday can't come soon enough.

I believe it is still getting the IMAX treatment. That should be enough to create an amazing visual experience not often seen in standard theaters.

I have seen a few 3-D movies now and I am starting to think you need a REALLY big screen to display it properly. It somehow reduces the scale of the image as it increases the depth of the image. It is a weird trade-off. I like the intimacy and immersion of the effect, but things tend to look smaller in 3-D, at least to my brain. I am glad they are not doing a post production transfer to 3-D with this movie.

Saturday is the game plan for me. Gathering some friends together for it.

So, let's get some reviews up. I'm not looking for the greatest plot here folks!

I enjoyed Battle for LA for reference.

karmajay wrote:

So, let's get some reviews up. I'm not looking for the greatest plot here folks!

I enjoyed Battle for LA for reference. :)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/suck...

karmajay wrote:

So, let's get some reviews up. I'm not looking for the greatest plot here folks!

I enjoyed Battle for LA for reference. :)

The other half has the day off, and she wants to go see it in about 3 hours. I'll let you know our reactions after that.

So far it looks like critics mostly hate it, a few think it's a worthwhile mess, and a few think it's brilliant.

Audiences seem to like it better than that, but not in overwhelming numbers.

It sounds like if you go to the movies to see cool images and don't care about plot, pacing, or characterization — you'll enjoy it.

Pretty much what everyone thought from the trailers.

lostlobster wrote:

Pretty much what everyone thought from having seen all of Snyder's previous films

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lostlobster wrote:

So far it looks like critics mostly hate it, a few think it's a worthwhile mess, and a few think it's brilliant.

Audiences seem to like it better than that, but not in overwhelming numbers.

It sounds like if you go to the movies to see cool images and don't care about plot, pacing, or characterization — you'll enjoy it.

Pretty much what everyone thought from the trailers.

Well, crap. The trailer looked awesome, and I was thinking of seeing it this weekend, but if that's the case, maybe I'll wait for the DVD.

Garden Ninja wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

So far it looks like critics mostly hate it, a few think it's a worthwhile mess, and a few think it's brilliant.

Audiences seem to like it better than that, but not in overwhelming numbers.

It sounds like if you go to the movies to see cool images and don't care about plot, pacing, or characterization — you'll enjoy it.

Pretty much what everyone thought from the trailers.

Well, crap. The trailer looked awesome, and I was thinking of seeing it this weekend, but if that's the case, maybe I'll wait for the DVD.

This http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/2962-Sucker-Punch gives me better hope than just that. And my taste in film typically lines up with his fairly well.

lostlobster wrote:

It sounds like if you go to the movies to see cool images and don't care about plot, pacing, or characterization — you'll enjoy it.

So it is the sort of movie my sister SHOULD enjoy, but thinks it looks stupid instead.

We're talking about someone whose favorite movie is Underworld, here.

DanB wrote:
karmajay wrote:

So, let's get some reviews up. I'm not looking for the greatest plot here folks!

I enjoyed Battle for LA for reference. :)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/suck...

"An inadvertent piece of drooling misogyny cloaked in Xbox trappings."

It's probably a bad thing that this makes me want to go see it now, right?

Chuck Wendig has an interesting perspective.

The first five, ten minutes of the film are some of the most visually arresting five minutes I’ve seen in a movie in a long time, and they pack an emotional, erm, sucker punch. It’s hyper-stylized and very sad, and I don’t say it as an insult when I say it has the kind of kinetic power of some of David Fincher’s music videos (Janie’s Got A Gun, f’rex).

Unfortunately, the movie fails to really live up to the narrative oomph felt in the first act. The movie is about… 20 minutes of actual story, and a not-terrible story at that, crammed into a two-hour movie.

So, what fills the other two hours?

Masturbatory tech demos.

{snip}

the school of cool has to stop. Just because something is awesome does not excuse its existence in the story. This movie offers a thousand darlings that should’ve been killed. It’s like Snyder had some sort of epileptic fit where he swallowed his tongue and had a fantasy involving every fanboy trope known to man: steampunk clockwork nazi zombies mecha samurai katana handgun gatling gun dragons orcs sailor moon tiny skirts hot girls robots sci-fi fantasy horror zeppelins hookers jon hamm. At first appraisal, that sounds super-cool. In reality, it is a dude painting with an uncontrolled hand.

{snip}

Worth reading his impressions though.

Speedhuntr wrote:
Garden Ninja wrote:
lostlobster wrote:

So far it looks like critics mostly hate it, a few think it's a worthwhile mess, and a few think it's brilliant.

Audiences seem to like it better than that, but not in overwhelming numbers.

It sounds like if you go to the movies to see cool images and don't care about plot, pacing, or characterization — you'll enjoy it.

Pretty much what everyone thought from the trailers.

Well, crap. The trailer looked awesome, and I was thinking of seeing it this weekend, but if that's the case, maybe I'll wait for the DVD.

This http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/2962-Sucker-Punch gives me better hope than just that. And my taste in film typically lines up with his fairly well.

I just saw that and was going to post as well. I haven't seen a large number of the movies that he has reviewed/discussed in his column but from those I have, our tastes mostly align. Even if they didn't, his insistence that there is more than just pretty pictures if you bother to give it more than a cursory glance gives me hope, so I may go see it afterall.

I dunno know. This review by someone who seems to have an appreciation of video game sensibilities is not encouraging.

The average male heterosexual might look at the trailer and say, "Hey, a bunch of attractive women in skimpy clothing, kicking ass. What's not to like?" Seeing the movie, you WILL find out what's not to like. Among other things, there's the aforementioned pandering, which is incredibly blatant in the sexist double-standard department. The picture practically nudges the viewers' ribs, saying, "Guys who enjoy looking at scantily clad women are all drooling despicable pigs -- except, of course, for you out there, sport!" But surely the wackily eclectic action scenes pack some punch, no? Not really. They're largely acceptable, but hardly what you'd call imaginative, and the content that surrounds them is so labored and lame that at times you feel like you're stuck in a video game that has the worst-cut scenes ever.

Did you like the trailers?

Go see it.

Didn't? Then don't.

There will be a lot of people that won't like the film. *shrug* There will be a lot of people that will.

Some random impressions:

The two hours went by fast. I honestly felt like there should have been one more action/dream sequence, simply because the film felt short. That's a good sign for me, meant I was too focused on the film to note the passing of time. That's not common, few films did that for me.

The movie felt oddly... sanitized.

Spoiler:

The opponents weren't human. Clockwork/steam powered zombies. Uruk-hai. Robots. All very non-objectionable choices for mowing down wholesale. Very little blood, even the orc through the propeller sequence lacked gore. This is not a complaint, btw. Profanity... erh, not recalling any.

I liked it. The other half liked it. Get past the skimpy costumes, no, really, stop obsessing about the skin. Its worth seeing. Its a whole lot of things-that-are-cool crammed into a loose framework, and its better than that makes it sound. Speaking of sound, loved the music.

Oh, and one last thing...

The other half said it was the best reason for watching scantily clad women cartwheeling through the air while kicking ass that she's seen. If it was just fan service, it wouldn't work for her.

Honestly, I'm sick of people talking as if women aren't into that sort of stuff either. I've seen enough girls go to conventions dressed like barely-dressed bad asses to know that there's an appeal in being sexy. Hell, the Females on Female Characters panel even stated that sexy isn't bad, it's just that when it begins and ends with sexy.

This film seems like the clothing is just for fun, but everything else is what really pulls it together.

Also, I look at it this way: if this one movie is an excuse for all that ridiculous sh*t coming together, who gives a damn. This may happen constantly in games, but in film it's very rare to see a dragon or a samurai with this sort of budget, let alone the two of them together.

So Hell yes I'm seeing it, and from the sounds of it there's actually some substance to get from it as well.

LtWarhound wrote:

The movie felt oddly... sanitized.

If I remember right, there was an interview with Snyder after the 1st trailer was released where he pretty honestly said they were targeting a PG-13 rating because it was the only way to get funding for the project. Can't ignore that ultra-lucrative 10 - 17 year old male demographic.

Now if this was Quentin Tarantino's Sucker Punch? OMG the buckets of blood & awesomeness!