Sucker Punch - WTH?

[Heron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G68fHZig9nA

This is too weird.

[Feloidea]

I might even go watch the movie later or sooner. Don't know if I get to pay for cinema or watch it lateron somewhere, but the movie sure looks crazy enough to be so bad it's already good.

[Heron]

I might even go watch the movie later or sooner. Don't know if I get to pay for cinema or watch it lateron somewhere, but the movie sure looks crazy enough to be so bad it's already good.

So true. I might watch it afterwards too. It is just, mind blowing?

The director, Zack Snyder though...hmmm.

[StormWolf]

Just from the look of it I really want to see it. The concept of it seems interesting has me interested to see this movie.

[Harrrr]

It's great if you're a fan on Snyder's work. The cinematography is awesome with very iconic shot layout. The stylization works, but sometimes it's hard to distinguish "locales" (I don't want to post any spoilers, so that's the best I can come up with).

The plot is thin and there are a number of holes, BUT it is a thrill ride if you take it as such. The dialog, as expected, is borderline cheesy at times. Not really much character development. Visual effects are top-notch (the usual for Animal Logic).

[Vayjir]

I tought the movie was so so could have been better.

[Raos]

^ Kinda agree with the above sentiment.

[Zocom7]

Ladies and girls are awesome, but they're not well-known stars. This movie just took a sucker punch for its epic fail ratings.

[Kyang]

I read that it was terrible and just another brain dead film.

Apparently there also wasn't a lot of skin either, despite whatever the costumes imply.

The action was good though.

[Harrrr]

Ladies and girls are awesome, but they're not well-known stars. This movie just took a sucker punch for its epic fail ratings.

Same ratings as Transformers 2....

[R315r4z0r]

This is a unique movie. I saw it and loved it. A lot of other people would agree with me too. However, there are also many reviews saying it isn't a good movie.

This movie appeals more to people who think creatively rather than logically.

It's plot and character development are all visually driven... so if you aren't that great when it comes to analyzing details then you most likely will not find Sucker Punch to be very good.

[Heron]

This is a unique movie. I saw it and loved it. A lot of other people would agree with me too. However, there are also many reviews saying it isn't a good movie.

This movie appeals more to people who think creatively rather than logically.

It's plot and character development are all visually driven... so if you aren't that great when it comes to analyzing details then you most likely will not find Sucker Punch to be very good.

So basically a visual style movie...

I think I will wait till my friend gets it on DVD then.

[Kyang]

This is a unique movie. I saw it and loved it. A lot of other people would agree with me too. However, there are also many reviews saying it isn't a good movie.

This movie appeals more to people who think creatively rather than logically.

It's plot and character development are all visually driven... so if you aren't that great when it comes to analyzing details then you most likely will not find Sucker Punch to be very good.

You can't "visually develop" a character or plot without a reason for the visuals that are supposedly driving their development. Basically it doesn't matter how "Visual" it is if there's no logical reason behind why the visuals were included. Then preempting that reasoning by saying it's, "creative rather than logical" is effectively a useless statement because the two are definitely not mutually exclusive. There's a possibility for so-called, "conventional-wisdom" being unfit to understanding something, but that's not a lack of logic.

Would you elaborate with some examples?

[R315r4z0r]

Note that I didn't say the movie was creative over logical. I said it appeals to people who think more creatively than logically. It's like an ink blot; different people will see different things.

A good example of a movie that is good for people who think logically is Inception. All of the things that the audience needs to understand what is going on is given right to them in a straight forward manner. With Inception, there was small tidbits of information the audience needed to hear scattered all throughout. If they picked up on them, they would then need have a better understanding of what is happening in the plot. Note, however, that all of the information the audience needed was given to them in an obvious way, such as through dialogue.

With Sucker Punch, however, it's a little different. Sucker Punch is more abstract in that most of the stuff in the movie isn't actually "real" or rather "really happening." All of the fantasy environments are just visual dramatizations of what is happening in the "real world" around the main characters.

In Inception, even though the characters are in dreams, the environment is still "real." For example, in Inception, even though it's a dream, the characters do explore a military base. In Sucker Punch, you see the characters work together to slay a dragon, but that is merely a representation of what is really happening in the outside world.


Sucker Punch requires the audience to ponder visual elements rather than wait for the elements to be handed to them outright. For example, why are the events represented as they are? Why does each individual character portray their particular roles? Why is it that all the enemies are what they are? (Like why is it a dragon they are fighting?) From the stuff the audience IS given flat out, they can make further conclusions by analyzing the visuals and therefore develop a better understanding of the movie as a whole.

[Kyang]

I see you're talking about the film being heavy with symbolism, and not about being appealing to "creative" or "logical" thinkers. Now that you put that way, it makes sense.

EDIT:
Then again, now that we've established it's symbolic, then does it work though? What was the message, and what examples of symbolism were there?

[CNCGeek101]

Wait for the DVD or Blu-Ray. It's a rental and only that. I walked out of the movie about an hour in. It was terrible and hard to follow.

[Commander_McNash]

I just have one simple question, is this movie cool?

[Raos]

^ At a few parts yes. As a whole meh not really.

[Commander_McNash]

^ At a few parts yes. As a whole meh not really.

Then I would wait for someone to make videoclips of the cool parts with crappy pop music on youtube, turn off the clip audio and play it while listening some metal remix of a Touhou song... something like this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNWnhRVUY0

[R315r4z0r]

I actually really liked the music in this movie. In fact, I went and downloaded its soundtrack. It's more base heavy techno/trance style music as opposed to pop. The music is thematic and stylized to both what's going on in the background and how you're supposed to feel when watching it.

Here is the background music for the first "fantasy" scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ShHTCvE7TY

I liked the music used in the movie but it's weird because I normally don't listen to trance music.

[Borreh]

I just have one simple question, is this movie cool?

IT HAS A SCENE WITH A GIRL FIGHTING A GIANT SAMURAI WHO WIELDS A HUGE MINiGUN.


I actually really liked the music in this movie. In fact, I went and downloaded its soundtrack. It's more base heavy techno/trance style music as opposed to pop. The music is thematic and stylized to both what's going on in the background and how you're supposed to feel when watching it.

Here is the background music for the first "fantasy" scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ShHTCvE7TY

I liked the music used in the movie but it's weird because I normally don't listen to trance music.

The music is more industrial rock than trance or techno.

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I really liked this movie. The plot is more in the visuals and symbols rather than layered out in the dialogue, and, to be honest, there still isn't too much of a plot to begin with, but..

The visuals, oh gods the visuals. Movie driven entirely by the rule of cool.

And it has a A GIRL FIGHTING A GIANT SAMURAI WHO WIELDS A HUGE MINIGUN.

How can that be not awesome?