Sucker Punch is a misogynist fantasy mascaraing as feminist empowerment. The main character Babydoll gets committed after a tragic accident. In order to orchestrate her escape she goes into a world of her imagination. The movie is an incoherent collage of movies that have already been made, full of dream sequences and trope scenarios. The monsters in two of the fantasy sequences are taken directly from 'Hellboy' and 'Lord of the Rings.' The women are always scantily clad and aggressively controlled by the men in the film. There is build up to a big vengeful pay off that never comes. The plot makes no sense and the characters are so two dimensional you have no investment as to how the story is resolved. There's no creativity or skill involved in Sucker Punch. This same film could have been made by a 13 year old boy with decent pop culture knowledge. As long as he had a budget of $100 million. Don't see this movie.
Sucker Punch was a great movie, though I respect your opinion. When I saw the trailer I knew this movie would be shallow, and I was right. But too many people are going "The story was bad". WTF were you expecting, The Godfather of Action movies? I was suprised, it had great action scenes and the cover soundtrack was amazing. As with your Battle Royale vs. Hunger Games article, you can't really say that they copied from HB and LotR, as steampunk and ogres have been around for quiet awhile. The plot makes perfect sense, but the ending is very weak and thats what really turns the story off.
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