BLU-RAY REVIEW: SUCKER PUNCH (EXTENDED CUT)

I love you, man.

A review more insightful and entertaining than the film itself!

The theatrical cut, at least.  Regardless of what was going on subtextually, the film was just so dull and monotonous.

Oh you guys.  *blush and wave*

And while I disagree with Joon's criticism (I'm a sucker for Snyder's various visual flares), I get it.  Completely.

The first person to refer to this shitpile as a "noble failure" gets a sucker punch from me to the balls.

Jeremy initially refers to it as an ambitious failure. I'll give it that. It has ambition and it fails. Nobility has no place in describing this film.

Nah, I don't think Snyder has the legacy, pedigree or even the chops to make it be considered as noble, but I'm rooting for the guy.  I think if he learns how to pick a good script, hires someone to tell him no once in awhile and takes a few pointers from Tarantino on soundtrack selection the man could be a national treasure.  But that's a lotta ifs.

When the movie first came out, the term "noble failure" was the buzzword in describing it, which annoyed me. I don't mind if you like the movie, and I don't have a problem with Zack Snyder and have liked two of his films (WATCHMEN, DAWN OF THE DEAD). But depending on what you think Snyder was setting out to do, he was either pandering to a perceived audience or provoking to implicate said audience in the shallow (and frankly, lame) exploitation elements, or both. Neither ethos is "noble". 

But really I just think this movie is a deeply stupid piece of work which thinks it's smart, which in my mind, is worse than a pandering piece of garbage like TRANSFORMERS that knows it's stupid.

I'd agree that Snyder needs to learn how to pick a better script, except that SUCKER PUNCH was written by him from an idea he had. This was his passion project, which is probably why it being so headsmashingly stupid and inept pissed so many people off. This was his moment to step up to the plate, and he pulled a Casey At Bat.

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Originally Posted by Greg Clark 

I'd agree that Snyder needs to learn how to pick a better script, except that SUCKER PUNCH was written by him from an idea he had. This was his passion project, which is probably why it being so headsmashingly stupid and inept pissed so many people off. This was his moment to step up to the plate, and he pulled a Casey At Bat.

I disagree comPLETEly.