I Got Sucker Punched

After reading some early reviews for Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch I went ahead and saw it despite their warnings and I am glad I did. Now Sucker Punch isn't for everybody but for me, a guy who loves movies like Speed Racer, 300, Watchmen, Blade Runner and other high concept films, it was pure awesome. The weird thing I've started to notice is that like these other movies Sucker Punch is being panned by critics and looks like it will have a mediocre box office take, but a lot of people actually like the movie. On Twitter, in the theater and on the Superherohype.com message boards there are fans of this film and I believe that it will be seen as a great film one day. As for what I liked about the film, I'll just use my Smallville format to say....

The Good: I absolutely loved this movie, it had so many of my favorite things in it! Emily Browning was beautiful as Baby Doll and I think I might have fallen for her but Abbie Cornish's Sweet Pea competed for my affections. The music video/action sequences in the film were amazing to watch and just plain awesome (Baby Doll Vs. the Samurai Robots!). My favorite sequence was definitely the World War I zombies quest to get the map. I loved the wise old man who briefed them on their missions, he reminded me of David Carradine (On a side note I realized I recognized him from a movie I had seen recently titled The Seventh Stream). The bad guy whose actors name escapes me was entertainingly evil as Blue who was both the crooked doctor in the real world and gangster pimp in Baby Doll's bordello fantasy. The ending was sad but awesome, its the kind like Inception where you leave the theater thinking. So ignore those critics that say its a mindless movie because Snyder obviously has something going on underneath the surface that I couldn't quite grasp. It will take me more viewings like Inception and The Prestige to fully understand its meaning. Ideas I have, 1. Baby Doll was Sweet Pea's guardian angel? Just a thought. 2. The whole point of the movie was that God gave humanity the weapons to go through life and we don't use them enough. Both are just me theorizing but it brought up some interesting ideas to me. I also loved the wonderful John Hamm in his small role not to mention Carla Gugino. A list of things I love that were in the movie Dragons, World War I, Beautiful Girls that kick ass, Thought provoking themes, Great music scenes with covers of The Beatles and The Pixies, A Samurai Sword, and an Escape. Great movie, not for everybody but definitely for me. :)

The Bad: I would have liked an explanation behind Baby Doll's fantasies but maybe that was the point.

Final Random Thoughts: If you like any of the things I listed above then go see this movie and say to hell with the critics and their Black Swan loving ways!


So anyway, I hated two of the best pic nominees this year (Black Swan and The Kids Are Alright), so me and liberal critics don't have the same tastes. On a completely unrelated note I will continue my Smallville rewatch after I finish watching Dexter season 2.