Escape to the Movies: Sucker Punch
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I love Movie Bob's take on movies. They are personal and intuitively insightful in a really powerful way. This is also what I hate about his non-movie commentary. With the art, he has that perfect balance of walking the line between individual interpretation and attempted subjectivity. Outside the art he brings the same ratio, but, from what I've seen his ratio just plain doesn't work with the topics he touches on.
With the movies, finding his position and then letting things flow back to it works well because art is all about interpretation, but, beyond art, this same approach leads to rampant bias and he will often unrepentingly gloss over or just plain miss major elements of the topic for the sake of argument.
That sucks, because I want to like Movie Bob. I just hope that in the future he can temper his interpretive power with broader scope and research when the subject calls for it (this is a problem I recognize because I struggle with it in my own work).
With the movies, finding his position and then letting things flow back to it works well because art is all about interpretation, but, beyond art, this same approach leads to rampant bias and he will often unrepentingly gloss over or just plain miss major elements of the topic for the sake of argument.
That sucks, because I want to like Movie Bob. I just hope that in the future he can temper his interpretive power with broader scope and research when the subject calls for it (this is a problem I recognize because I struggle with it in my own work).
Actually, Scott Pilgrim got a lot of love from the critics. Obviously some negative here and there, but the reviews were actually overwhelmingly positive to the point it currently holds 81% certified fresh of rottentomatoes.hydroblitz said:
I saw this movie today and I thought it was alright , the action sceens were really good but when it went back to them at the asylem it became really weird, so I give it a 7/10 based on the action sceens.
Actually Oldboy was critically praised with outright negative reviews being few and far between (especially Rex Reed's racist commentary on the film).Verlander said:
(Spoiler alert, I ruin this thing in here)
Do not be fooled.
The one word I would use to describe Sucker Punch is "unsatisfying".
The action is over-the-top, but really means nothing in the context of the story. The characters are non-existent (honestly, I had a really hard time remembering any of their names other than Rocket or Babydoll, because the other girls probably had less than 50 lines between them). And the one, most unsatisfying thing is the freaking twist, which you spoiled in this review. It's the old "None of that was real! Lololololol". There's no deep commentary on the nature of dreams as Bob said, no Brazil-esque fanciful escapism and symbolism, and honestly, I wouldn't even recommend that someone watch this on TV for free. I would recommend watching the samurai scene on Youtube if you have a decent-size monitor with alright speakers.
I don't love, I don't hate. I'm just terribly unsatisfied with the whole ordeal.
Do not be fooled.
The one word I would use to describe Sucker Punch is "unsatisfying".
The action is over-the-top, but really means nothing in the context of the story. The characters are non-existent (honestly, I had a really hard time remembering any of their names other than Rocket or Babydoll, because the other girls probably had less than 50 lines between them). And the one, most unsatisfying thing is the freaking twist, which you spoiled in this review. It's the old "None of that was real! Lololololol". There's no deep commentary on the nature of dreams as Bob said, no Brazil-esque fanciful escapism and symbolism, and honestly, I wouldn't even recommend that someone watch this on TV for free. I would recommend watching the samurai scene on Youtube if you have a decent-size monitor with alright speakers.
I don't love, I don't hate. I'm just terribly unsatisfied with the whole ordeal.
If you have to show A LOT scenes from the director's other movie in order to prove your point about this one, it's probably not a movie worth watching.
Also, if I recall, you said there was nothing wrong in how Samus Aran was portrayed in Other M. Listening to you gush about deep characterization of the female characters of this film gives me reason to believe the opposite once again.
Also, if I recall, you said there was nothing wrong in how Samus Aran was portrayed in Other M. Listening to you gush about deep characterization of the female characters of this film gives me reason to believe the opposite once again.
Once, from what I recall having gotten back from seeing it not too long ago. Maybe twice. It's really not as "dumb, pandering, over-the-top action movie" as it was marketed. Yeah, it's really, really over-the-top during the action scenes, but it's so much more than that.Dora said:
You know, Bob, I agree with you for 99% of your reviews. I'm generally struck by how correct your insights are.
We disagree about one thing in film, and it's that one thing that makes me question your judgement for nearly every other film:
Zack Snyder.
You see artistic vision and depth. I see a man who can provide only one thing: aggressively over-the-top violent action scenes, dressed to look as visually-stunning as possible. I think you see the attention to detail in the visuals, and mistake it for attention to detail in the design of the film as a whole. Any good part of Watchmen (and that's assuming there were good parts to that particular film) was a direct cause of the source material, not Snyder's tenuous (at best) grip on the particulars of film making. This is a man who revels in bloodletting on film, at the expense of character development (compare Rorschach's transformation in the book to his transformation in the film for the premier example).
Does he keep a story going? You bet. Do I want to be there when he finishes? Hell no.
We disagree about one thing in film, and it's that one thing that makes me question your judgement for nearly every other film:
Zack Snyder.
You see artistic vision and depth. I see a man who can provide only one thing: aggressively over-the-top violent action scenes, dressed to look as visually-stunning as possible. I think you see the attention to detail in the visuals, and mistake it for attention to detail in the design of the film as a whole. Any good part of Watchmen (and that's assuming there were good parts to that particular film) was a direct cause of the source material, not Snyder's tenuous (at best) grip on the particulars of film making. This is a man who revels in bloodletting on film, at the expense of character development (compare Rorschach's transformation in the book to his transformation in the film for the premier example).
Does he keep a story going? You bet. Do I want to be there when he finishes? Hell no.
