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Sucker Punch
Tom:
Snyder usually manages to hit the same level rock bottom notes as Tim Buckley.
scarred:
Snyder is Michael Bay, but in slo-mo. Sucker Punch was awful.
MusicScribbles:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 15 Apr 2011, 08:00 ---Hey, I haven't really heard about this movie so much but I have noticed that Zack Snyder made a couple of other films before this one? Notable 300 and Watchmen. I know these are both adaptations of existing comic books (which have a history for being cheap male fantasy, though I believe Alan Moore's comic was a deliberate satire of the entire convention) but how are women portrayed in those films? Is there something of a continuity here perchance? It's not like people are making observations on this film alone, I'd argue that we already knew certain things about Snyder from his previous releases. This time he doesn't have the luxury of hiding behind someone else's writing and concept.
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--- Quote ---"However, a director of drama, characters, and emotion he is not. He is especially awkward with women--note the performances of Lena Headey in 300, and both Malin Akerman and Carla Gugino in Watchmen--which makes the female-centric cast of Sucker Punch problematic.
Moments of supposed emotional poignancy are laughably bad. These girls don't have emotions, they have programmed behaviors. They preen and pose when they're supposed to act tough, then sob unconvincingly when things are sad. Browning is particularly dull as Babydoll, which is an issue given that she is at the center of much of the film. She is rivaled, at least, by Malone, Hudgens and Chung. Calling them wooden is an insult to wooden things. Antique chairs, signposts and cigar store Indians don't deserve to be lumped in with this lot. Cornish is the only actress seemingly willing to stride for something beyond Snyder's seemingly minimal direction, but even she seems relatively lost amid the din of robot Nazi fighting and abject violence against women." - Alex Navarro from Screened.com
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Is that what you're looking for Tommy?
Alex C:
Does anyone have an interview or whatever in which Snyder said he intended this thing to be empowering? Because that's one of the criticisms I see bandied about a lot and yet every interview I read with this guy is more along the lines of "Guilty pleasures are OK if you're self-aware" and "A lot of my inspiration growing up came from things like old Heavy Metal mags." I ask this because I'm curious if the guy is just kind of dumb or if at some point he got saddled with a position that he never really put much thought into.
KvP:
ITT Zack Snyder is Frankenstein and he is throwing the small child of women into a lake to drown.
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