I just watched suckerpunch...

[Gigano]

It has excellent visuals, a good soundtrack, quite decent action set pieces, and pretty women aplenty.

As I didn't expect or want any more from it, I liked it. It works well as a casual action flick.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Does anyone except MovieBob think it's great, really?

Still, I liked it, despite it's horrible pretentiousness.

Moviebob is also a guy who thinks that Watchmen was a brilliant movie. To me it was pure shit with pointless violence added where it wasn't needed.

Finally, someone else who agrees with me. The film bore the absolute sh*t out of me, to the extent that I gave up half-way through the first time I tried to watch it.

 

[Sean951]

I went in expecting a fun action flick. I walked out having enjoyed a fun action flick with some psychological twists thrown in. Add the awesome (in my mind) sound track and fight scenes, and I thought it was well worth the ticket price, even if my friends didn't.

 

[jawakiller]

Sweet Dreams. Marilyn Manson did it better though...

Ehhk... Really? I have four versions of that song on my iPod and two of them are up there with my favorites but I really didn't like Manson's version very much.

Meh, the cover by Eurythmics wasn't my cup of tea really and the pop version, I thought, was obnoxious.

I dunno. Opinions really, that's all it is.

Moviebob is also a guy who thinks that Watchmen was a brilliant movie. To me it was pure shit with pointless violence added where it wasn't needed.

... -.-

How is that movie boring?

 

[Caffiene]

Personally I enjoyed it by not turning off my brain at the door. At the front of my mind for each scene I had the thought "If this is the fantasy she is escaping to, what must the reality be like?"

Keeping focus on imagining what was going on underneath made it much more effective for me than most of the people who disliked it seem to have been looking for.

All the more effective for watching it at the cinema and witnessing other people in the audience chuckling and smirking at eye-candy parts that were obvious metaphors for a rape scene. Quite a good mindf$&%, IMO, as per Xanadu84's post.

 

[Tayh]

I liked the action scenes, but the ending broke it for me.
Lobotomy? Too horriby to contemplate.

 

[Nickolai77]

I quite liked it, a film with great special effects and music and many many layers of metaphors and hidden meanings. What's interesting about the film is that the central premise is a girls imagination, and with that becoming "reality", you can do pretty much anything at all, and the director really takes advantage of that and push's the boundaries in what you can get away with in a film. Inception did something similar, remember the hotel corridor fight scene? By using the whole "dream/imagination" premise, you can do what you would not normally get away with in a film.

I do think however that the director pushed the boundaries of what you can get away with in a film partially based around dreaming a little too far and alienated a large portion of the audience who just thought it was being silly. Also, the plot structure got a bit too repetitive as well. It's an interesting film to say the least, not a great film but one worth seeing for it's pure artistic uniqueness.

Oh, finally a question about the film, which i'll spoiler tag:

Spoiler

In the final scene we see the villain again about to perform a frontal lobotomy on the protagonist, and indeed earlier on in the film this is repeated so obviously there is symbolism here- what though is the point of this symbolism?- The power of the doctor over the patient, a mental rape metaphor?

 

[F'Angus]

I watched it last week and I didn't think it was a bad film. A little odd, but it wasn't bad. I enjoyed most of it.

 

[keideki]

I enjoyed the movie due to the fact that it was a good movie to turn my brain off during and enjoy pretty girls with weapons. The action was good, the CG was good enough. Its worth a watch I say, nothing life changing, and I certainly would not write home about it, but a good mindless action flick.

 

[Starke]

I haven't seen it. So it's totally not work my time or money? Except for the OST?


Was it just the bad writing that killed it?

Writing, Acting, Direction, and the whole having all the main characters in Japanese schoolgirl outfits made me feel like the movie was marketed to the worst sterotype of teenagers and nerds

Does anyone except MovieBob think it's great, really?

Still, I liked it, despite it's horrible pretentiousness.

I'm sorry, but this juxtaposition of responses cracked me up.

It also, in a short, explains why I'll never be watching this film. Nice to know I'm not the only one who picked up on that. :\

Moviebob is also a guy who thinks that Watchmen was a brilliant movie. To me it was pure shit with pointless violence added where it wasn't needed.

As a slight aside, anyone else notice that the violence in Watchmen actually runs contrary to the message from the comic?

I enjoyed the adaptation, but the comic has a running theme that violence, at least as presented in comic books cannot solve greater issues. The film slurps that message up in the text, runs with it, and still dispenses some downright vicious violence, without really noticing what it's saying about violence elsewhere.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Without a doubt the single greatest heap of shit I've seen in a long time.

Everything about it was terrible:

- The (figuratively) flat acctresses.
- The bastardization of classic songs.
- The phony-baloney CGI.
- The action scenes wich lacked any sense of weight, impact or consequence.
- The ludicrous "female empowerment" symbolism.
- And ofcourse the godawful story.

Worst of all however are the fans who discredit any criticism with the notion that "we just don't understand its depth".

And shame on Moviebob for comparing this horse shit to Brazil.

 

[Hawkmoon269]

I really really liked it, the premise, the visuals (and no, I dont just mean the lovely ladies) the blurring of different genres through the "dream" dances. Yeh, loved it, and i love Zack Snyder

 

[ABLb0y]

I hated it the first time I saw it, but the second time I watched it (Don't ask why) I loved it.

 

[ExileNZ]

I have a hard time knowing whether I really liked it or not.

I watched the whole thing with my wife, who sighed and commented and made it pretty clear she hated it, eventually falling asleep on me.

So my enjoyment of the movie was ruined anyway, I'm not sure how much I'd have liked it if I didn't feel I had to justify it.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I thought the "Dream sequences" where fun.

But the real world scenes just made me uneasy, Overall I didn't like it that much but it was certainly watchable.

 

[Caffiene]

Oh, btw... Theres an alternate ending available. IIRC, one is an adult rated cut and the original american version was a PG15 edit?

Different people may have seen different movies depending on where and when they saw it.

 

[Demgar]

It wasn't bad (It's one of my favorites), it just is not what it appears. It's very deep, but it's all deep. If you don't want to go down and get the story, you will just see it as a sequence of music videos.

I don't consider "it's so deep, you probibly didn't understand it" as a legidimate argument in anything's favor. The same as how the liniarity in something like Far Cry 2 was an artistic move and not poor design from that artical awhile back. If it isn't fun to watch/play, than it isn't good.

I haven't seen SuckerPunch, this is just my outlook on how it's judged.

I find "Your IQ must be at least this high to ride" a perfectly valid entry point for any discussion. Why pander to the lowbrows and knuckle-draggers when we're discussing the merits of something that they won't care about, and whose opinions we won't credit anyhow?

However, this does not make it inherently worthwhile. It just invalidates the arguments of those who "don't get it".

Suckerpunch? Good film. Thoughtful. Sexy while at the same time making you consider what that ideal means. Not for everyone? Agreed. I can't say the acting was stand-out, but I don't recall it being terrible either.