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    All this distaste for the movie makes me love it even more.


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    I know opinions vary, and people are really entitled to like what they want, but if you like this movie, I don't know. There is so much you can say. You don't know what a good movie is, there is no hope for you, you have shitty taste in movies, etc. etc. It has absolutely no redeeming qualities about it.

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    On the bright side, this picture makes me laugh everytime I see it.


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    Friend persuaded me to see this over Source code, needless to say, said friend is now dead to me..

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    I saw it last weekend after seeing a lot of horrible reviews. Fiancee was out of town, so Friday after work I wandered over to the theatre with a hankering to see a movie, and this was the only film not named Hop playing in the next hour, so I bit the bullet and watched it. My expectations were extremely low, so I can't was disappointed, but there were a lot of things that could have been changed to make the movie more palatable, at least in my opinion.

    The coolest of the action sequences was the first one, by far. I felt the worst of them was the last one, which is unfortunate, as the scenes should get better, not worse. The German steam Nazis and dragon/orcs were pretty cool, but the Samurai scene was awesome.
    While I like a lot of the music that was in the film, it didn't "fit" the film and actually drew my attention away from the film and to the music a lot because it was such a contrast.
    The transition near the beginning of the film between sanitarium and house of ill repute was confusing, at least to me. I kept waiting for her to shift back to the asylum between visions/dances, but that didn't happen until the very end.
    I didn't like the "twist" ending,
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    because it felt like far too much was unresolved and we were supposed to become more invested in a character we knew almost nothing about. The first 2/3 of the movie sets up for a classic escape & revenge storyline, and then it says "Oh, nevermind, the evil stepfather got away with raping(?) and murdering her little sister."


    I can't say I hated the movie, but I can't say I liked the movie, either. There was a lot of potential there with some cool ideas and concepts, but the film lacked a cohesive way to bring them all together. I think if I had seen this opening weekend when I still had high hopes for the film, I would have been disappointed. As it was, it was pretty much what I expected in terms of quality, so I can't say I was let down, but I can't say I would recommend it to others.

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    father didn't get away with it. Blue(head guy who took money to give babydoll the labotomy), was arrested at the end of the movie, and as he was being taken away he was yelling that the father was guilty of stuff too. It's only an obvious assumption that the father will not get away with it.

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    Also father didn't kill the sister. Babydoll accidentally did. But yeah, it's implied that blue will have given the guy away as the police investigate more into what happened

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    Quote Originally Posted by Souj View Post
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    father didn't get away with it. Blue(head guy who took money to give babydoll the labotomy), was arrested at the end of the movie, and as he was being taken away he was yelling that the father was guilty of stuff too.
    Ah, I assumed he was talking about the other goons who were on screen looking guilty at that point. I didn't hear him mention the father.

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    Also father didn't kill the sister. Babydoll accidentally did.
    I missed this entirely, apparently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Byrd View Post

    I missed this entirely, apparently.
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    It was off screen (probably due to pg13 rating), but she shoots gun at father, sister is standing behind father, but not directly behind, sister falls to floor and dies. So one can only assume she missed the father and hit the sister. Which it's also said like 3 times in the movie that she killed her sister.
    Though 1 thing I don't understand is how she managed to shoot her sister and the lightbulb. I assume he threw out logic for that shot just for the look of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odesseiron View Post
    I know opinions vary, and people are really entitled to like what they want, but if you like this movie, I don't know. There is so much you can say. You don't know what a good movie is, there is no hope for you, you have shitty taste in movies, etc. etc. It has absolutely no redeeming qualities about it.
    Thinking my liking of this movie describes the entire length of my film knowledge is incredibly ignorant just FYI. I like an extremely diverse amount of movies (Akira Kurosawa is one of my all-time favourite directors) and I just enjoyed Sucker Punch a lot for what it's worth, the amount of hatred towards this movie just tickles me to no end though lol.

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    Why? Are you really so surprised people generally thought it was a bad movie? Are you the only one that can see the genius behind it? I don't get what you're trying to prove here...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elcura View Post
    Why? Are you really so surprised people generally thought it was a bad movie? Are you the only one that can see the genius behind it? I don't get what you're trying to prove here...
    I'm not trying to prove anything... just expressing my opinion. Just like Rhinox's flaming for a whole page (which is why I posted that lol) isn't going to change my opinion for the worse, I know I can't change anyone's for the better. I'm not proclaiming some all-knowing benevolence about liking this movie.. I just do like it and the constant hating is just funny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Souj View Post
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    It was off screen (probably due to pg13 rating), but she shoots gun at father, sister is standing behind father, but not directly behind, sister falls to floor and dies. So one can only assume she missed the father and hit the sister. Which it's also said like 3 times in the movie that she killed her sister.
    Though 1 thing I don't understand is how she managed to shoot her sister and the lightbulb. I assume he threw out logic for that shot just for the look of it.
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    I thought she hit the lightbulb and the father killed her. It's said that she killed her sister, but I was just interpreting it as one of the lies her father told. Oh well. I guess some combination of a confusing scene and me being a dumbass worked together for me to misinterpret that.

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    Saw this movie an hour or two ago
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    I also thought the sister was killed by the father, the girl was on the ground and the wound wasn't in her head (as far as I remember). I felt he probably locked up the blonde because he was gonna come back for her next and didn't want the other one to get away, so his intent was definitely to kill.

    The action scenes were okay, but I liked this movie more for the message that reality is what you make it. I thought it was very interesting that the movie ended up being about the character who gets 'left behind' - where usually movies end with a happy ending for the hero who worked so hard for that ending, this one gave the happy ending to someone else. It's also notable that the main girl ended up driving her captor crazy when she was supposedly the crazy one. Basically, the movie managed to do something different, and I actually really like how the story was told and how it ended.

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    I think the argument that people should have gone in with low expectations for this movie is rather silly. Why bother going to a movie that you expect to be awful? Why make movies that you think the viewers will expect to be bad?

    This movie doesn't even rate deliciously bad, it's just plain bad. It could have been done better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aduidarnenye View Post
    I think the argument that people should have gone in with low expectations for this movie is rather silly. Why bother going to a movie that you expect to be awful? Why make movies that you think the viewers will expect to be bad?
    Why do people smoke pot and other drugs then watch/listen to shitty cartoon shows/music and say that said cartoon or band is great when high, when you could just watch a good television show and listen to good music from the start instead of needed to be baked out of your mind to enjoy such trash?

    I can't say if that analogy had anything to do with what you said, but it does have the same underlying message;
    People are fucking stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Souj View Post
    Why do people smoke pot and other drugs then watch/listen to shitty cartoon shows/music and say that said cartoon or band is great when high, when you could just watch a good television show and listen to good music from the start instead of needed to be baked out of your mind to enjoy such trash?

    I can't say if that analogy had anything to do with what you said, but it does have the same underlying message;
    People are fucking stupid.
    The lesson here, of course, is that you need to be high to enjoy Sucker Punch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Souj View Post
    Why do people smoke pot and other drugs then watch/listen to shitty cartoon shows/music and say that said cartoon or band is great when high, when you could just watch a good television show and listen to good music from the start instead of needed to be baked out of your mind to enjoy such trash?

    I can't say if that analogy had anything to do with what you said, but it does have the same underlying message;
    People are fucking stupid.
    l o fucking l

    Quote Originally Posted by aduidarnenye View Post
    The lesson here, of course, is that you need to be high to enjoy Sucker Punch.
    Was sober the 2nd time I saw it, still loved it.

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    I heard it was a dream in a dream in a dream! Wrong Movie? Maybe not? LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by aduidarnenye View Post
    I think the argument that people should have gone in with low expectations for this movie is rather silly. Why bother going to a movie that you expect to be awful? Why make movies that you think the viewers will expect to be bad?

    This movie doesn't even rate deliciously bad, it's just plain bad. It could have been done better.
    No one expected shit from the story or the characters, but the action scenes and the visuals. And the action scenes didn't cut it, both in terms of choreography and... well, plot? Just wasn't enough.

    Quote Originally Posted by Souj View Post
    Why do people smoke pot and other drugs then watch/listen to shitty cartoon shows/music and say that said cartoon or band is great when high, when you could just watch a good television show and listen to good music from the start instead of needed to be baked out of your mind to enjoy such trash?

    I can't say if that analogy had anything to do with what you said, but it does have the same underlying message;
    People are fucking stupid.
    The fuck are you talking about?

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