Sucker Punch - Page 3

Krylo · 03-24-2011, 05:32 PM

I think the frame has to do with the fact that they are drugged to shit in the insane asylum and thus are actually hallucinating a good amount of this stuff. So while in the real world they are punching Doctor McAsshole and his two orderlies in the face, in their mind's eye they are fighting off a giant dragon and it's two giant robot bodyguards, whom have gatling gun nipples.

But I haven't really followed it so I might be a little off.

rpgdemon · 03-24-2011, 05:35 PM

Not from the theatrical trailer linked in the original post. It looks a lot more dark/serious in the beginning, and that tone really killed the rest of it for me. Moreso, given even more context to it.

Edit: In response to not-Krylo.

Magus · 03-24-2011, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Yeah I mean it would definitely be a much better terrible movie if these girls just like, went to an insane asylum that ACTUALLY TRANSFORMED INTO a war zone filled with nazis and werewolves.

edit: I feel like this is one of my posts that reads as if I am being sarcastic or something so I am going to clarify that I am not, at all.

To continue in this bent, somebody mentioned that it was a lot like Scott Pilgrim, and I thought Scott Pilgrim's sheer genius is the set-up that it is a real-world comedy but then you find out the world they are in actually operates under the rules of a manga universe where regular people suddenly start getting into battles with kung fu and magic powers. This film supposedly doesn't do that but it would be better if it did.

I am glad to hear there is a reason for the hallucination better than "they thought it was boring so they imagined it as greater", though, the drugs are a decent enough element to introduce the visuals. Still think it would be better if the character was a fan of steampunk or something to make the hallucinations more symbolic. Or that they were more related to the actual situation.

The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk · 03-24-2011, 05:43 PM

Well I think there are supposed to be like 5 major areas where they go after each of those items, 1 for each character, so yeah it would appear to be at least somewhat linked, if not to their interests then at least to their extremely fucked up psyches'. Don't quote me on that one though.

rpgdemon · 03-24-2011, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Magus

To continue in this bent, somebody mentioned that it was a lot like Scott Pilgrim, and I thought Scott Pilgrim's sheer genius is the set-up that it is a real-world comedy but then you find out the world they are in actually operates under the rules of a manga universe where regular people suddenly start getting into battles with kung fu and magic powers. This film supposedly doesn't do that but it would be better if it did.

I am glad to hear there is a reason for the hallucination better than "they thought it was boring so they imagined it as greater", though, the drugs are a decent enough element to introduce the visuals. Still think it would be better if the character was a fan of steampunk or something to make the hallucinations more symbolic. Or that they were more related to the actual situation.

That's why I'm so disappointed. Someone compared it to Scott Pilgrim, but it's nothing like it.

Kyanbu The Legend · 03-24-2011, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Tev

Not quite. It's a story about girls who are brought to an institution and then sold into whoredom by the corrupt wardens. They hatch an escape plan and all the really cool crazy shit you see is their imagining a much more interesting reality as they steal shit and break out to freedom.

Well... god damn it!

Whelp that's one more reason why I don't go to the theaters much anymore.

That, really just killed the movie for me.

Overcast · 03-24-2011, 06:21 PM

There is really no reason not to watch this movie. If it is good plotwise then we get to say yay plot, if plot is backseat to action we get to say yay action, and if it sucks all the way through then we all get to come back here and bitch about how much it sucks.

And we'll all be even closer as a family.

Jagos · 03-24-2011, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

This is going to be the best terrible movie this year that doesn't star both Vin Diesel ---

F5, coming soon.

Fifthfiend · 03-24-2011, 08:39 PM

I don't know why you cut off the part of my quotation that includes The Rock as that implies that F5 does not ALSO STAR THE ROCK

WITH VIN DIESEL

in THE SAME SHITTY MOVIE

in the halls of shitty-movie honor, this one shall stand as a god

Krylo · 03-24-2011, 08:45 PM

I... I kinda like Dwayne Johnson.

03-24-2011, 05:32 PM	#21
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	I think the frame has to do with the fact that they are drugged to shit in the insane asylum and thus are actually hallucinating a good amount of this stuff. So while in the real world they are punching Doctor McAsshole and his two orderlies in the face, in their mind's eye they are fighting off a giant dragon and it's two giant robot bodyguards, whom have gatling gun nipples. But I haven't really followed it so I might be a little off. __________________ I am very tired.

03-24-2011, 05:35 PM	#22
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	Not from the theatrical trailer linked in the original post. It looks a lot more dark/serious in the beginning, and that tone really killed the rest of it for me. Moreso, given even more context to it. Edit: In response to not-Krylo. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF. Last edited by rpgdemon; 03-24-2011 at 05:38 PM.

03-24-2011, 06:21 PM	#27
Overcast Cinderella Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Trespassing in the graveyard Posts: 3,076	There is really no reason not to watch this movie. If it is good plotwise then we get to say yay plot, if plot is backseat to action we get to say yay action, and if it sucks all the way through then we all get to come back here and bitch about how much it sucks. And we'll all be even closer as a family. __________________ Time to bust out the glow sticks!

03-24-2011, 08:39 PM	#29
Fifthfiend for all seasons Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 19,409	I don't know why you cut off the part of my quotation that includes The Rock as that implies that F5 does not ALSO STAR THE ROCK WITH VIN DIESEL in THE SAME SHITTY MOVIE in the halls of shitty-movie honor, this one shall stand as a god __________________ check out my buttspresso

03-24-2011, 08:45 PM	#30
Krylo The Straightest Shota Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: It's a secret to everybody. Posts: 17,789	He's usually pretty amusing, and The Rundown was fantastic. I... I kinda like Dwayne Johnson. __________________ I am very tired.