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Sucker Punch
Cartilage Head:
I found it to be more satirical of exploitation of women in film than anything. Also, Tender, I wouldn't trust Roeper's review seeing as how he got a few things in the plot completely wrong. He really didn't seem to get it at all.
"With her short skirt swirling about and her midriff exposed, Babydoll slices and dices and shoots her way through a series of battle zones, from a World War I tableau complete with zeppelins to a gunfight with dead German soldiers who have been regenerated (huh?) to a fire-breathing dragon that seems to have flown in from another movie."
Yeeeeaaaah, Roeper, that is kind of the point. It is supposed to be ridiculous and full of weird and cool shit. You would think more people would realize that just because a movie was not made to be an Oscar contender and isn't completely serious, that it is a bad film. This movie was great, highly entertaining and amazing looking. My only gripe is that the soundtrack has a few shitty covers of great songs.
MusicScribbles:
I kind've agree wholeheartedly with this review! It's one I found to fit how I felt about the movie after I left the theatre.
Cartilage Head:
A pretty big thing he got wrong was thinking that the mental asylum was a "front" for the bordello. It wasn't. The mental asylum was the grim reality, the bordello was the theatrical fantasy.
Also it disturbs me that he would criticize the filmmakers about their exploitation of women after using a term like "whorehouse".
ALoveSupreme:
Wait, by saying it was a "theatrical fantasy," do you mean it was part of her disassociation episode? I'm confused by this, as I also assumed the "asylum" served two "real" purposes in the film.
MrSteevo:
In the bordello Babydoll was being set up as a gift for the "Big spender" and you always hear about this "Big spender" throughout the bordello scenes. When the time finally comes with said person, you can clearly see it's the lobotomizing doctor. If you didn't pick that up, the psychiatrist later reveals to the doctor how Babydoll actually did the things in her dreams of the bordello, but in a less fantastical way.
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