Audio Reviews - Sucker Punch - Audio Review

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  January 02, 2013 at 7:12 AM, The Host said ...

• July 28, 2011 at 7:28 AM, said ...

  Eh, it's passable. Zack Snyder is both the film's greatest strength and its biggest flaw. His screenplay is a disaster and the film would have been so in the hands of a lesser director. Yes, I said it. I find Snyder to be an underrated, ambitious and extremely talented director. Of course, he still has a ways to go, as we can clearly see here, where he does his trademark flaw of improvable storytelling, which is even worse here, as he is clearly too proud of his first original story to clean up the holes that he could have easily fixed. Still, there is enough of what's great about him in here to make it passable.

  2/5 - Passable (Spill Translation: Rental)

  Read my full review here:

  http://www.rottentomatoes.com/user/874785/reviews/?movie=770805422

  
  
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  June 30, 2011 at 8:45 AM, said ...

  I just finished watching it. Didn't have to pay for it so maybe that colours my thoughts about it, but I thought it was alright. Not great, but the action scenes - though very Zack Snyderish - were pretty cool. I appreciate the fighting choreography and military/anime style the girls were using. I didn't buy baby-faced Emily Browning for a second as an ass kicker, and she really kept throwing me out of the movie, but in the end those couple of fight scenes were good. But I can understand that not being good enough to rate a full-priced or even matinee ticket, so I give it a rental.

• April 24, 2011 at 12:21 PM, said ...

  This could have saved the film for me:

  either Amy Lee singing this tune

  or Paramore covering this

  
  
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  April 21, 2011 at 10:25 PM, said ...

  Great idea, terrible execution is what I say.

  While I might be crucified for this, I say that the film sucks because the soundtrack as "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of These)" but no "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" to complement it.  If any Journey song, or even any 80's Arena Rock or Sleaze Metal song, was in this film, it would have been Matinee or High Rental, but this lack is unforgivable.

• April 17, 2011 at 7:18 AM, said ...

   I'm a little surprised by everyone calling out for bloody vengence on this movie.  Did you not see the trailer before you walked in to the theater.  I knew right away what I was paying for.  Hot girls in sexy outfits kicking ass and it delivered on that promise.   As for the story.  Does anyone remember the series "The Maxx" about a homeless bum who belives he's a superhero.  "SuckerPunch" had elements of that mixed in with parts of "Brazil".  When things got too rough in the real world  and Babydoll couldn't handle it anymore she would escape into her fantasy world.  She may have been doing that way before she got sent away.  

  
  
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  April 16, 2011 at 6:04 AM, said ...

  Zack Snyder is, without a doubt, one of the worst filmmakers of all time. 

   

  I find hit hilarious that his first "original" movie sucks.

• April 15, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Francisco Martinez said ...

  I love video games, anime, and hot chicks wearing sexy stuff...this movie was BULLSHIT!!!  I left the theater depressed, hoping that the movie would be good.  Visually is nice, but the story is just so terrible that it overshadows any or everything good about this movie.  It was a concept that was good on paper, but was executed extremely poorly.  Definitely a SOME OL' BULLSHIT, and it sucks because I really wanted to like this movie.

  
  
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  April 10, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Michael Tribbia said ...

  you haven't seen sucker punch until you've seen it high

• April 10, 2011 at 3:32 AM, said ...

  And when I mean "to have fun with it," I meant I had a good time with the film, and despite that, the points that annoyed me with the film was the constant overlap between the reality of the asylum that the main character is trapped in and the brothel she imagines.  The action scenes in this are well made but don't save the film by the end, which sucker punched me in the head where I expected Zach Snyder to do better.  This is still to me a rental because what saves it from some ole bull**** was the craftsmanship that went into such an empty downer film.

  
  
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  April 10, 2011 at 3:26 AM, said ...

  I went to an IMAX showing of this with expectations low enough for me to have some fun with it.  But in reality, any audience member would have felt like Slim Pickens in "Blazing Saddles" in the scene where he finds out that "Rock Ridge" is not the real town and hollers: "It's a fake!  We've been Suckered In!"  To me, this is a very low rental, and I mean LOW rental, though it's a low matinee for young nerds.

• April 08, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Joseph Cox said ...

  @Christopher People can enjoy the movie if they want to. A lot of people can enjoy flashy effects and shiny colors and overused slow motion. But it's not worth seeing in theaters. It's more of a rental.

  
  
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  April 06, 2011 at 2:04 AM, said ...

  @MasterKingJC just because you don't understand the movie doesn't mean other people can't enjoy it

• April 05, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Joseph Cox said ...

  This movie was between bad and okay for me. I was confused at some parts and it seemed to just get dull and boring.

  Anyone, I repeat, ANYONE who says this movie is awesome needs to get slapped across the face.

  
  
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  April 04, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Michael Farfaglia said ...

  @Adam Kola

  They did an Uninvited audio review. It's up on youtube. 

• April 03, 2011 at 1:48 PM, said ...

  I really did enjoy this movie, and I understand where you guys are coming from but who says we can't enjoy looking back as if we were still 13 year olds? i think it was kinda a crazy fun ride and sure it may have not made much sense but basically all of it was dreams and dreams rarely make ANY sense.  I give this a definite Matinee for anyone who just wants to enjoy a crazy fun movie

  
  
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  April 03, 2011 at 5:45 AM, said ...

  @Hlaleleni Walker Thank you for the link. These are things most people choose to ignore. The amount of internets you get for your post is over 9,000!

• April 03, 2011 at 4:35 AM, said ...

  I haven't seen Sucker Punch, but Emily Browning is in another mental hospital. I wonder if the Spill Crew did a review on The Uninvited?

  
  
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  April 03, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Michael Farfaglia said ...

  I don't hate Zack Snyder, I'll give him another chance...but this movie f-ckin' sucks!

• April 02, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Hlaleleni Walker said ...

  @ VoiceoftheBoa Is Corey paying to see it? Most established critics can get free screenings most of the time, every now and then there are movies that are not screened for critics. Also, since he is a reviewer and generally has to watch most movies anyway I don't see how "people bugging" him to see a movie is even a factor.

  
  
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  April 02, 2011 at 8:43 PM, said ...

  @Sleepwalker12

   

  Here's a hint, listen to what Korey says at the beginning. When you go see a movie that hundreds of people are bugging you to go see and it sucks, why wouldn't you get angry? Especially with the prices for movies today, I wouldn't want $8-11 dollars and more to see a film that I hated.

   

   

• April 02, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Hlaleleni Walker said ...

  I really enjoyed it. Rather than write a book (AKA more than 3 paragraphs long comment) about why, or getting into internet beef about it, I find it easier to just post a link to a well thought out synopsis explaining what made some of us enjoy Sucker Punch. Warning! This is filled with spoilers. http://whatdidijustwatch.blogspot.com/2011/03/sucker-punch-review.html

  I don't understand why the Spill Crew were so mad. If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't. No need to get your blood pressure worked up it's just a movie. 

  
  
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  April 02, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Collin Mckinney said ...

  I'm reading the comments below and it is a complete war with people who agree with spill vs people who defend this movie. I expect this movie to be action oriented and a visual thrill ride. I should check this out for myself. I wanna know who are the idiots who compare this movie to Scott Pilgrim vs the World. The movie looks cool to a certain extent, but by just looking at the trailers, both movies incoporate anime, video-games, comic books, just what everyone fantasizes about, but Scott Pilgrim is more constructed more thought out well executed. and to me Sucker Punch just doesn't look like it's up to that level. But then again I haven't seen the movie so who am I to judge.

• April 02, 2011 at 5:49 AM, said ...

  Oh yeah, I give the movie a "Matinee."

  
  
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  April 02, 2011 at 5:49 AM, said ...

  Sucker Punch has a storyline.

  
  
  

  Baby Doll's mother dies, she leaves everything to her two daughters. Their step-father becomes enraged and takes it out on Baby Doll's younger sister—whom she rushes to protect, yet accidentally kills her while trying to kill her step-father.

  
  
  

  The step-father then takes Baby Doll to the institution where he she is setup to be lobotomized, effectively shutting her up about the true events that transpired. During this time Baby Doll becomes lost in a fantasy world that coincides with events in reality—one of the scenarios which does become a dream-within-a-dream of sorts.

  
  
  

  Sure, the movie makes it seem like there was a short story lying around somewhere that was steam-rolled so that a feature length film was shot out of its ass, but the point of the movie was that it was a low-brow action movie with a lot of eye-candy (speaking of the visual effects and risque outfits of the sailor moon wannabes).

  
  
  

  The movie isn't that hard to follow, if you actually try to give it a chance. My biggest problem with the film was Scott Glenn—he was more than unnecessary in the movie. If his part was cut down significantly, (I felt) that the movie would have held together just a little bit more.

  
  
  

  Can we not just enjoy a movie for what it is anymore? Does every movie have to be completely original? Nothing is original anymore anyway, we've seen everything.

  
  
  

  In this review, it was even said that the movie kept you guessing—aren't you tired of the predictable garbage being regurgitated from Hollywood? Even if the movie does feel like a 13-year-old's acid trip, I liked not being sure what was going to happen next.

  
  
  

  And, you were basically told at the beginning of the film that the lobotomy was going to happen...

  
  
  

  
  
  

   

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