Holy shit Sucker Punch.
Earlier today in his piece on Sucker Punch at Comic Con, Devin had the following to say…
Writing about this is, frankly, frustrating, since there’s no way I can
truly get across to you the frenetic, kinetic energy of the footage
shown. It was big, dense, busy but focused. It was incredibly stylish
and sensual and simply expertly shot. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen
before while being made up of lots of things you’ve seen very often
before. It’s the collision of geek pop culture, and it looks totally
explosive.
…and I am loath to try and do any better. This trailer is fucking NUTS in the best way possible. Never before have I seen a trailer so worth going through a frame at a time, or watching 30 times and seeing what new pieces you can catch with each view. While the vast majority of the imagery is fleeting in appearance, it’s all so bold that it makes an impression no matter how quickly it rockets by.
Watch it. Then watch it again. Then tell us what you think on the board. I’ve pulled some still that I thought were particularly striking that you can check out below (and click to HUGE). I hope the script lives up, because I really want this movie to be as good as it will be fun.
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Looks like a load of videogame scenes cut together with no sign of character or narrative drive. Sorry, that's what I get from the trailer. Vacuous filmmaking.
It's kinda tough to type this..one handed.
s**t — Abbie Cornish firing a gun prompts me to fire mine!
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ho Lee Sheeyot
Outside of the last pic, this looks really cool. I really love the shit out of Dawn of the Dead and Watchmen, but please lay off the speed ramp stuff, Zack.
I dig Snyder, for the most part, but wish he'd abandon the green-screen look; it's really starting to grate on my eyes.
I'm feeling like the script for this is probably only going to be pretty vapid. And as far as I'm concerned, this movie is Snyder's do-or-die. The man can shoot a real nice lookin' movie, but DAWN and 300 were both braindead, and WATCHMEN was kinda good but mostly just bizarre because it aped the comic so slavishly but every single change it made was for the worse. So if SUCKER PUNCH can't prove that Snyder actually has anything to say, then SUCKER PUNCH is as far as I go with Snyder.
smart guy Snyder puts out his teaser for all to see. Watch and learn, Marvel and the rest of you stingy studios. This looks like the imagination of Time Bandits and Brazil and Twelve Monkeys ramped up to maximum rampage!
Booooooorinnnnnng. This Zack Snyder guy is not a great visual stylist. Any fucking moron can put a lot shit in a frame (Lucas). I love CHUD articles and editorials, but the fact that CHUD is pimping this so hard means that it is horrible; remeber Kurt Wimmer and his shitty movies (what a visual stylist – barf). This movie has boring meh written all over it – bring your eye-bleach.
Yeah, Sucker Punch is right. More of the same greenscreen CGI backgrounds and gauzy camera work. Looks like a cross between KILL BILL, SIN CITY, BEOWULF, and any number of anime films.
Hope it works as a movie. Kashern was similarly filled to the brim with wonderful imagery, but completely unwatchable.
Jesus H. F'ing C****t! Son of a bitch made the movie using footage that's in my head . . . As for those b!tching about substance: yeah, we saw you at TRANSFORMERS and AVATAR: your "opinion" is invalidated.
Looks like Spy Kids
Zack Snyder makes great trailers, terrible movies. Perfect example, Watchmen.
I felt it was worth noting that the song in the trailer is "The Crab Louse" by Lords of Acid. Yup, a song about having crabs.
"Looks like a load of videogame scenes cut together with no sign of character or narrative drive. Sorry, that's what I get from the trailer. Vacuous filmmaking."
A bunch of scenes cut together with no narrative…. isn't that a trailer? I just want to see the guy do something original considering the last two movies he was adored or hated for were adaptations and his first movie was a remake.
I loved this movie when it was called Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow! Wait no I didn't I forgot that movie was a piece of shite.
Holy shit! Dude! Duuuuuude! Oh man! Omigod! Oh shiiiiiit. This looks terrible.
SirVincealot is incorrect; I was at those movies and I hated them for having no substance too. And I LOVE movies with no substance, so they've gotta' be REALLY HORRIBLE for me to hate them.
SirVincealot I hated Transformers 2. I hated avatar.
I hate this trailer with hatred normally reserved for the "not another teen/date/epic movie" type pieces of shit.
It looks fucking horrendous.
I agree, it looks horrendous. Every scene is practically black and white, but with orange tint … the cheapest visual palette to put CGI to. The trailer dared not show one second of the "actors" attempting to "act", so we can expect none when the film finally premiers. As people have so astutely noted above, Snyder has so far done nothing but adaptions. It may have bought him a chance to do his own thing this once, but .. you know … we should be as excited about what issues forth as we would be to see some random stranger's YouTube movie project, because it has exactly that low low chance of being any good. The visuals certainly don't show any flair, contrast, or focus that should make any of us care. Was there a dragon? I like dragons. Didn't make "Reign of Fire" a good movie. Stop with the mindless group-think geekgasms already. Grow up.
It seems that supposed film lovers root for movies to be bad far more often than they root for them to be good. I do understand the cynical nature towards this type of film, but there used to be a time when the type of person that read CHUD was the type of person that got giddy over the thought of some genre mash-up geek fest like this. Then again, there's an assload of people that come here now that don't get the charms of Drag Me To Hell or Observe and Report.
Gotta say agree 100% with #23. Most of you sound like swine turds divided into two groups: those who pretend to know a lot about the history of cinema and then there's another much larger group that seems to exist just to hate. Have you ever attempted to make a movie? Have you ever written or created anything? Highly unlikely or else you'd see how small your comments really are.
Yeah, dude, I've made movie. I'm Hal Hartley.
OK, Hal Hartley, then you of all people should understand how much work goes into creating these bbbbbborrrinnng shit in a frame flicks. You sh/articles/articles/__captcha/img/6088ould also have a grasp on the idea of a teaser trailer, as in a trailer that's sole purpose is to entice with… well, pretty much just imagery. Who knows how this is gonna turn out? YOU certainly don't. And your generalizations about big budget films just makes you sound jealous. But I mean, you have made movies, so that much we agree on.
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