Post: SuckerPunch review
03-26-2011, 10:04 PM #1
helpmeoprah
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I give this movie a 10/10. The visual effects are amazing, the story is good sort of hard to understand, but when you figure it out your like awesome! I would defiantly watch it again and again. The fighting choreography is on point and beyond believable. I highly suggest you see this in theaters if you can afford it(it cost me 35 dollars for 2 tickets a large popcorn and a large soda, how shitty). I'd say it was worth every penny if i wasn't going to also buy it on Blu-ray...

The women are gorgeous in this movie, there is no nudity(keeping it PG-13). The fight scenes are very brutal, they use modern weaponry mp5's and such. Beautiful women+ninjas+dragon+gangsters+guns+swords= epicly awesome.
This movie is beyond epic, if you read comics you'd think that this was straight off the pages and onto the big screen. The movie is so over the top it isn't funny. Alot of CGI but it looks stunningly real, it's more than a movie but a work of supreme art.

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THE STORY


BE AWARE THAT THIS GIVES AWAY THE ENDING!!!
1955. A 20-year-old girl nicknamed “Baby Doll” (Emily Browning) is institutionalized by her stepfather at the Lennox House for the Mentally Insane after accidentally shooting her sister while trying to prevent him from molesting them. Blue Jones (Oscar Isaac), one of the asylum’s orderlies, is bribed by Baby Doll’s stepfather into faking the signature of the main therapist, Dr. Vera Gorski (Carla Gugino) and having Baby Doll lobotomized before she can either inform the authorities of what really happened the night her sister died or reclaim her recently deceased mother’s fortune, which her stepfather wants.

In the five days that it will take for the Doctor (Jon Hamm) to arrive, Baby Doll is encouraged by Mrs. Gorski to retreat to a fantasy world inside her mind in order to cope with the harsh reality that she’s living in. In this world, Baby Doll is a newly arrived dancer at a brothel owned by the mob. Baby Doll’s virginity will be sold to a client know as “The High Roller”, who will be arriving in five days. While at the brothel, Baby Doll befriends several of the dancers: the loyal Amber (Jamie Chung), the street-smart Blondie (Vanessa Hudgens), the outspoken Rocket (Jena Malone) and her reluctant older sister Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish). Meanwhile, the brothel's dance trainer, Madam Gorski, tells Baby Doll to dance for the rest of the girls in order to prepare her for the High Roller. As Baby Doll hesitates, Gorski whispers to her, "You have all the weapons you need. Now fight!"
As she begins to dance, Baby Doll’s mind travels to another fantasy world, in Feudal Japan, where she meets the mysterious Wise Man (Scott Glenn), who tells her that she can escape if she collects five items: A map, fire, a knife, a key and a fifth item - "a mystery" that will require "great sacrifice". She is then given a sword and a gun by the Wise Man and told to fight three gigantic demon samurai that guard the temple where the Wise Man lives. Baby Doll wins and returns to the brothel, where she discovers that she has mesmerized everyone – including Blue – with her dance.

The first item, a map, is kept on the wall of Blue's office. After reluctantly agreeing to Baby Doll's plan for freedom, Sweet Pea agrees to get a copy of the map. She interrupts Blue at dinner, telling him that Baby Doll is dancing. He leaves, and she sneaks into the office. When Baby Doll begins to dance, she again travels to a fantasy world, this time battle scarred trenches of World War I. The General (Scott Glenn) gives the girls their mission, steal the map from the German Commander before it is handed off to the courier. They assault the German position and manage to retrieve the map. Back in the brothel, Blue convinces Mrs. Gorski to let Baby Doll dance for the Mayor the next night, to raise funds for the brothel. Sweet Pea successfully copies the map, but Blue finds evidence of her presence in his office.

The girls then have to steal a lighter from a wealthy patron. Baby Doll does her dance for him while Amber, his favorite girl, gives him a lap dance and steals the lighter from his pocket. This time, Baby Doll’s mind travels to a fantasy world where she and her friends must invade a castle filled with Orcs that are battling knights and steal two crystals lodged in the throat of a baby dragon. They succeed, but accidentally awaken the mother dragon in the process and fight in the skies aboard a bomber plane piloted by Amber. They manage to lure the dragon into a trap and Baby Doll kills it. Back at the brothel, Amber successfully steals the lighter.

Blue realizes things are missing and that they are planning something. In order to prove that any attempts to defy him will only lead to problems, he openly threatens the girls. Blondie starts having second thoughts about the plan and tells Mrs. Gorsky everything. Blue is hidden nearby and discovers the truth.

The girls’ next mission is to have Baby Doll distract the brothel’s cook while Rocket steals his butcher knife. Baby Doll’s mind travels to the distant future, where the girls’ mission is to enter a train filled with robots and disarm a bomb therein, the “Kitchen Knife”, before it explodes and destroys a futuristic city. However, at the brothel, water spills across a short in the radio's power cord that is producing the music that Baby Doll is dancing to, causing the music to stutter and fade out. Without it, the cook snaps out of his trance and realizes Rocket is stealing from him. At the distant future, the girls are ambushed by a robot that reactivates the bomb and damages Rocket's jetpack. Rocket sacrifices herself to allow the others to escape and dies when the bomb detonates and destroys the entire city. At the brothel, the cook attacks Rocket and fatally stabs her.
Blue bursts in and, realizing what has happened, he locks Sweet Pea in a utility closet. Baby Doll, Blondie and Amber escape with the knife. Blue catches up to them and kills Blondie and Amber. He tries to rape Baby Doll, but she stabs him with the knife and escapes with Blue’s master key. She releases Sweet Pea with it and uses the lighter to start a fire. The alarm goes off and the doors unlock, allowing them to escape. However, the gate that leads to their freedom is surrounded by Blue’s men. Baby Doll realizes that the final item is her, and that this isn’t her story, but Sweet Pea’s. She then exposes herself, distracting Blue’s men and allowing Sweet Pea to escape.

Back in the real world, Baby Doll is taken to the Doctor’s office, where she is lobotomized. Mrs. Gorski is there, and regrets not being able to help Baby Doll, who stabbed Blue and helped a fellow inmate escape the asylum. The Doctor asks her why she agreed with the lobotomy then. When Mrs. Gorski says she didn’t, they realize the truth and call the police. Meanwhile, Blue kidnaps Baby Doll and takes her to the solitary, where he intents to rape her in retaliation for being stabbed earlier. However, Mrs. Gorski and the Doctor burst in with the police and have him arrested. In hopes of reducing his sentence, Blue agrees to tell the cops everything about Baby Doll’s stepfather. He is going to be arrested as well.

Meanwhile, an escaped Sweet Pea is seen preparing to board a bus. However, she is stopped by a pair of suspicious policemen. She is saved by the driver, who reveals himself to be the Wise Man and tells the policemen she has been on the bus the entire time, giving her an alibi. After they leave, Sweet Pea says she doesn’t have a ticket. The Wise Man says that this is no problem and they drive off into the distance.

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04-19-2011, 11:18 PM #20
Originally posted by ThereWillBeBud View Post
I think I fell asleep twice during this movie. I'm kind of sick of Snyder's film style. It was pretty cool for 300 and I didn't mind it in Watchmen because I love the source. But the whole slow motion sequence every minute with 'cool' music playing is getting pretty old.


I'm worried about this. Snyder is going to be directing the new superman movie and TBH if he makes a total disaster of it, it could be the final nail in the coffin for the worlds greatest superhero.
I'm a bit of a Superman fanboy and went through the whole Superman 5 saga for the whole of the nineties before we finally got Superman Returns and if this one fails then that could be it for Supes on the big screen.
04-23-2011, 12:14 AM #21
k1dn1nj4
I am error
Meh. Suckerpunch to me is more style than substance. And it tries really hard to have substance too. But it falls flat. All the stylistic flair and CG without an emotional core is just well... a cartoon. If that's what you're looking for, by all means, go see it, cuz Snyder definitely delivers in the image department, however, it just feels very forgettable. Also... is feminism dead? It's as if the only way girls feel that they can get accrue any social leverage these days is to well, objectify themselves or hypersexualize themselves. I mean, I got no problem with it LOL, but it just sucks for their gender as a whole.

I think a much better alternative to seeing this film would be Hanna, a movie which is similar in its elements (kickass female lead, lots of fighting), but feels more real, less CG/plastic, more real, and quite frankly, more empowering to females.
04-23-2011, 04:49 AM #22
Sounds cool. ill watch it on Netflix
04-30-2011, 05:21 PM #23
MR-SpaCe
Save Point
nice hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :embarrassed:

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