Sucker Punch

[Ironwood]

I don't.  Was he fucking Hitgirl or something ?

[DraconianOne]

I don't.  Was he fucking Hitgirl or something ?

That reason is much better than the real reason, so let's go with that! 

(Real reason: the screenplay and most of the comic were written in parallel. Mark Millar gave Jane Goldman pointers on how he planned to write the characters and what the story was going to be even though he hadn't written it. )

[Ironwood]

That's a shit reason.

 

[UnSub]

IIRC, it's because


Just another case of Mark Millar throwing an "up yours" at his audience.

[NowhereMan]

IIRC, it's because


Just another case of Mark Millar throwing an "up yours" at his audience.

[Azazel]

And that's the thing :  I really, really wanted to have a gander at Sucker Punch, if only for the, you know, older women pretending to be schoolgirls.  But I know if I do I'll probably end up hating it all because, frankly, all the reviews and word of mouth and friends who report back all have a big stamp that says 'NOT FOR YOU.'

If you treat it like a music video, turn the volume off, put some music of your taste on in the background and do something else (use your laptop, read the paper, play a videogame) and then look up at it for a few minutes when the motion onscreen catches your eye then go back to your task, repeat, it might be quite decent.
 
 

[Ironwood]

Glowing praise.

That reads like some of the appraisals I used to write back when I had staff.

[angry.bob]

If, like me, you felt Emily Browning didn't show her boobs or vagina enough in this movie I recommend Sleeping Beauty. The stoy of a college girl who takes a job in a brothel that specializes in drugging her into unconsciousness while the clients do stuff to her. It's got so much nudity in it makes me wonder why she wasn't begging to go nude in Sucker Punch.

[HaemishM]

I see that she's 23 but every pic of her I've seen makes me feel like  for thinking she's hot.

[01101010]

I see that she's 23 but every pic of her I've seen makes me feel like  for thinking she's hot.

I got that way with Lily Cole. 

[ghost]

I'm not into Lily Cole or Emily Browning. 

[Threash]

I see that she's 23 but every pic of her I've seen makes me feel like  for thinking she's hot.

I feel the same about the chick from Juno.

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm not into Lily Cole or Emily Browning. 

I am. Two stunning women right there.

[Ironwood]

Sadly, I've thought she was rather stunning since Lemony.

Which puts me in a really tricky position.

[Azazel]

I had to google image search to see what she looked like at the time of Lemony (also to see which of the two actresses mentioned above was in Lemony). Emily pretty much looks exactly the same now as she did then, according to my cursory googling. That's the thing though, I guess. 16 years olds don't look that much different to 17 or 18 or even 22 year-olds in many cases, especially when presented in a sexualised or semi-sexualised manner (ie in full makeup in Film or TV or Magazines). So if you find her hot now, and noone told you that a lemony picture was taken 5 years before a SP pic, you wouldn't likely know the diff, aside from hair colour.

Then again, bus drivers used to give me shit for not having a concession card when I was 15 (you needed one at 16 and up) and I could pass for 18+ at 16. So it happens.

[Tale]

The Escapist's film critic takes another look at this and what it tried to do, but failed at. And pretty much comes up with what I thought at the time.

[HaemishM]

Jesus Fucking Christ. 2 things: 1) that's entirely too much fucking beret-wearing analysis of a movie that is just a failure from start to finish and 2) the Zero Punctuation staccato style of speaking isn't nearly as funny without an English accent or writing that is, you know, funny.

[Samwise]

Jesus Fucking Christ. 2 things: 1) that's entirely too much fucking beret-wearing analysis of a movie that is just a failure from start to finish and 2) the Zero Punctuation staccato style of speaking isn't nearly as funny without an English accent or writing that is, you know, funny.

Poor Yahtzee.  I hope they pay him well to appear on the same website as cheap knockoffs of himself.

[sickrubik]

That analysis... gives Snyder far too much credit.

[01101010]

This movie's thread will not die. That is saying something... not sure what that something is though.

[Merusk]

That it's a great bad-movie and in another decade or so will be on the air as much as Starship Troopers is now.

[tazelbain]

I think it is because you can see the pieces of a great movie that fail to come together on all levels.  Master's class in failure.

[Ironwood]

I think it's riotously unfair to compare this utter keech to Starship Troopers.

[DraconianOne]

I wouldn't call this film keech because there are times when I feel totally satisfied after having a shit. I just felt abused after watching this.

[Fabricated]

Jesus Fucking Christ. 2 things: 1) that's entirely too much fucking beret-wearing analysis of a movie that is just a failure from start to finish and 2) the Zero Punctuation staccato style of speaking isn't nearly as funny without an English accent or writing that is, you know, funny.

Bob is alright. What kinda sucks is that he has a thick New Yawwk accent that he hides behind his fake midwestern non-accent because he was in broadcast/radio at some point and got trained to do so. It'd be a lot better if he just talked normally.

I think I like him because he hates the Transformers movies. Go check his "Escape to the Movies" reviews on The Escapist of the Transformers movies (also The Expendables). This Sucker Punch thing is an eye-roller though; sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes a bad movie is just a bad movie.