Sucker Punch

[GeneChing]

Looks better than Thor (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57932)

Sucker Punch - Official HD Trailer by Zack Snyder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSIetIg7O3M)


uly 30th, 2010
12:11 PM ET
'Sucker Punch' trailer brings girl power (http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/30/sucker-punch/)

Director Zack Snyder usually delivers comic book-based action, most memorably in the testosterone-fueled box office hit "300."

This time he's gone the opposite route with the all-female action movie "Sucker Punch," starring Emily Browning ("Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"), Vanessa Hudgens and Jena Malone ("Saved!").

"Punch," though not based on a comic book, was one of the surprise hits from last week's San Diego Comic-Con, and the trailer shown at the convention was posted online earlier this week.

As far as one can tell, it involves a girl named Babydoll (Browning) who is sent to a mental institution, and whose dreams (or reality?) involve samurais, sword fighting, fire-breathing dragons and Gatling gun-wielding giant robots.

Is it any wonder that it was a hit to fans who were raving about early footage from Snyder's "Watchmen" two years ago?

Unlike the other big successes at Comic-Con, like "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" and the "Avengers" saga, this movie basically came out of nowhere. We'll see if the final product lives up to the excitement over the trailer on March 25, 2011.

[@PLUGO]

The cast of "Sucker Punch" held a press conference (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=27663). Joined by director Zack Snyder and producer Deborah Snyder, the group discussed transitioning from child stardom, the empowerment of fight training and director Snyder's mental state.

"[I'm] completely schizophrenic," he answered when asked why his stable of films is so diverse. Beginning with "Dawn of the Dead," and following through to "300" and "Watchmen," the director has also completed "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" scheduled for a September 2010 release and "Sucker Punch" due out next March.

Each of the performers gave a quick brief on their characters in the film with Malone getting the ball rolling. "I play Rocket. Basically, Babydoll comes to this mental institution and she meets all these characters that she sort of brings into these alternate realities," she explained. "I sort of help rally the troops and form a really beautiful bond with Babydoll. And, you know, I'm kind of crazy."



"I play Blondie - yes, it is ironic," followed Hudgens. "She's in this whole crazy world as well. She starts off as kind of a follower. I feel like, in a lot of the fight sequences, she becomes a total badass, which is kind of funny because it's a complete difference [from my past role]; as well as the whole Blondie thing."

Emily Browning plays Baby Doll, who she described as "the only character whose story you get to see a tiny piece of outside of the asylum. She sort of comes into the institution and has very little time to kind of escape, so she rallies these girls together and gets them to help her escape and for them to escape as well. It sort of goes into her imagination a lot, which was really cool; being at the center of those fantasies."

"[Amber is] kind of the first one to jump onboard with Babydoll's plan," offered Jaime Chung about her character. "She's really sweet and she is extremely loyal to her friends, but, you know, she's always there for Babydoll and she wants to keep the group together. All she really has is her friends left."


Carla Gugino gave a longer take on her character, saying that, "I play a Polish psychiatrist named Dr. Gorski in the asylum, which is sort of the world of the 1960's, but it's kind of Zack's world, so there's a heightened reality to it. In the alternate world, I play the choreographer/madam of the brothel who is Madam Gorski. She just has a really interesting journey because she's clearly been through a lot before. She's in charge of taking care of these girls and she does it in a very strict, tough love way, but there's probably no one who understands them like [she does]."

The group spent three solid months simply training for the necessary stuntwork within the film. "[It] felt a lot like a mental institution," joked Malone. "You're in full wardrobe and you're just pushing past this idea of pain or emotional discomfort…

[Hebrew Hammer]

Mongo like...Mongo not know...Mongo just pawn in chess game of life.

[ghostexorcist]

Mongo like...Mongo not know...Mongo just pawn in chess game of life.
That's good to know. Just don't go around punching horses or squishing guys behind pianos!

[GeneChing]

Sucker Punch Movie Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBuIeH0vfg)

[Lucas]

Can we say Sword Hottie (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm600735744/tt0978764)?

[Liu Kang]

Can't wait to see this!

[GeneChing]

or not... ;)

Disney Punch Mash-Up Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQYKfw4fBhM)

[doug maverick]

that was epic gene.

[GeneChing]

I just posted more on Abbie in our Celebrities studying martial arts? thread. (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1084718#post1084718)

There's vid on this USA Today article - follow the link.

Abbie Cornish lives the fantasy (http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2011-03-21-cornish21_ST_N.htm)
By Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY
Updated 3h 40m ago |

She's keeping herself busy: Australian actress Abbie Cornish, 28, is currently co-starring in Limitless, which opened Friday. Sucker Punch, in which she plays a sexy heroine named Sweet Pea, opens this week.

LOS ANGELES — Abbie Cornish is a bit turned around inside the sprawling Los Angeles County Museum of Art— until she spots a giant blue Jeff Koons balloon animal.

"This is cool in real life," she says, studying the playful towering steel dog and its neighbor, an oversized Koons cracked egg. The Australian actress has a soft spot for the arts; one of her main criteria shopping for a home in Los Angeles was that it had room for an art studio.

"I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff," says Cornish, who departs from a résumé filled with art house fare this month with two movies rooted in fantasy.

In Limitless, a thriller that opened at No. 1 this weekend, Cornish, 28, plays Lindy, the ex-girlfriend of downbeat writer Eddie (Bradley Cooper) who is introduced to pills that allow for 100% use of his brain. On Friday, Cornish morphs into the kohl-rimmed, bustier-wearing Sweet Pea in the action-fantasy flick Sucker Punch.

"For a while I was searching for a film that had a fantasy element," says Cornish, who grew up watching her mother win karate championships. To prepare for Sucker Punch's intense fight sequences, Cornish trained for three months in mixed martial arts, sword-work and gun training.

"She came so eager to get physical and be physical," says Sucker Punch director Zack Snyder. "I think people will be surprised to see how much an action star she can be."

Hollywood first took note of Cornish in 2004's Australian film Somersault, but it wasn't until 2006's Candy, a heroin-fueled love story co-starring Heath Ledger, that Cornish signed with an American agent. Since then she has chosen roles carefully, including 2008's military dramaStop-Loss and 2009's Bright Star, in which she played the object of John Keats' affection. "For me it's not about constantly working or making money or projecting the future it's just about slow and steady," she says.

In Sucker Punch, Cornish plays a protective older sister imprisoned in an abusive insane asylum. She and her female cohorts (Emily Browning, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens) battle dragons, bombs and bayonets.

"I always wanted to do something where I could utilize all the stuff I grew up with," says Cornish, a vegetarian who grew up on a 170-acre farm. "We were always doing things outdoors, building, climbing, running, jumping, riding horses, swimming in the river, building rafts."

"There's a kind spirit (about her)," says her Limitless co-star Cooper, noting Cornish would break out rapping during breaks on set. "She's unique."

In the museum, Cornish peers closely at an intricately embroidered map of the world. "I kind of want to touch it, but I know I can't," she says with a smile.

The past 12 months have been eventful for the actress. Last February she broke up with Ryan Phillippe, and in the year that followed she cut her hair, found a house in L.A., lost the lead role in The Great Gatsby remake to her pal Carey Mulligan and scored the lead in Madonna's upcoming film W.E., which she shot in October.

Cornish nabbed her role with the pop queen-turned-director via Skype.

"I'd never used Skype before, and I was sitting there on my mum's computer setting up a Skype account," she remembers. "It was really surreal because I was meeting her — she was in New York — I just remember logging on and she's so beautiful and — it's Madonna, you know. It was kind of crazy."

Cornish finishes touring the contemporary wing, and she checks out a map to find Latin American art; she's keen on the region after learning Spanish for her upcoming film The Girl.

Later, in a hushed hallway boasting works from Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Cornish, now single, is contemplating her future. "I think it's really important to live in the moment," she says. "Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking." For example, she says, "I can see (having) a child one day, and so I start to take more care of myself."

Just outside, a woman shuffles up to Cornish and offers a poem in exchange for a few dollars to buy dinner.

"I'm excited about this poem," says Cornish, sitting down at a picnic table as the woman prepares to deliver a poem she titled, "She's Red Hot Hot."

"That's the one I chose for you," says the stranger. "You seem like you have a spark going on."

[GeneChing]

We are slated to go to a screener this week, so we'll have something exclusive for you all on opening day. Stay tuned to KFM! (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/index.php)

Girl power: Action heroines pack a 'Punch' (http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/MOVIE-SUCKERPUNCH_4696238/MOVIE-SUCKERPUNCH_4696238/)
* By Rafer Guzman Newsday
* First Posted: March 21, 2011 - 11:26 am
Last Updated: March 21, 2011 - 11:26 am

NEW YORK — Black undies? Or white?

It was a choice that confronted writer-director Zack Snyder while making "Sucker Punch," a mostly female action-fantasy starring Emily Browning as a gun-toting, sword-swinging killer deceptively named Babydoll. She dispatches zombies and robots with the kind of brutality that made Snyder's mostly male "300" a hit in 2007, but she also wears a thigh-high skirt that, as viewers will discover when "Sucker Punch" opens Friday, can be rather revealing.

The underwear question involved more than just aesthetics. As it turns out, Snyder wanted the color to downplay any titillation, not increase it.

"I did make a concession to say, 'Let's make her underwear black,'" Snyder says. "Otherwise I'm noticing it too much. If it was white, you see it. But those are the kinds of things we did, because I didn't want the movie to be about that."

It's a small but important point that underscores the tricky nature of a movie whose sexual politics are as multi layered as its plot. A three-tiered narrative that unfolds in an insane asylum, a brothel and the escapist fantasies of its beleaguered heroine, "Sucker Punch" is a visual blend of pulp comics, steampunk and video-game violence, all shot in Snyder's signature heightened style. One minute its female characters are invincible warriors, the next they're chattel. And almost always, they are thoroughly rouged and suggestively dressed.

"It was difficult, at first, to convince the studio, not because it's about all-female action characters but because it was so different," says Snyder's wife, Deborah, who helped produce the film for Warner Bros. "You usually pitch them a set of comps" — that is, clips of comparable movies — "but there were no comps for a movie like this. That was both exciting and scary."

What has been done before is the revved-up mix of female-driven action and overt sexuality. The 1970s television show "Charlie's Angels" was famous for strategically jiggling its heroines; Russ Meyer's 1965 cult classic "Faster, *****cat! Kill! Kill!" featured women with aggressive personalities and outsize bosoms. More recently, Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft character often wore combat boots and little else.

"You have to recognize that we are making a genre movie, a movie that has elements of, say, Japanese anime," says Carla Gugino, who plays the brothel's mother hen, Madam Gorski. "In '300,' the men wore less clothing than we're wearing! It is absolutely embracing that women can be sexy, strong, smart, all of those things."

"Sucker Punch" features five young actresses cast somewhat against type. Browning (Babydoll) starred in the kids' film "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events." Abbie Cornish (Sweet Pea) played John Keats' love interest in the costume drama "Bright Star." Jamie Chung (Amber) recently had an eye-candy role in Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups." Jena Malone (Rocket) is known for indie films like "******* Out of Carolina." And Vanessa Hudgens (Blondie) is a dimpled tween idol from Disney's "High School Musical" franchise.

For "Sucker Punch," however, they practiced martial arts, trained with assault rifles and worked out under Logan Hood, a former Navy SEAL who also wrangled Snyder's actors on "300." Malone, for one, piled 10 pounds of muscle on her 5-foot-6-inch frame and eventually pushed her rack dead-lift weight to 300 pounds.

"I get incredible work as an actor," Malone says. "But no one ever says, 'When I look at you I see someone who can kill 40 men with heavy artillery.' Never had I had anyone instill that belief in me. It was incredible."

The film goes so far as to exclude men entirely from the main cast. There are no "boyfriend" roles at all, and most of the male characters are villains, from Babydoll's abusive stepfather to brothel owner Blue (Oscar Isaac, "Robin Hood"). Scott Glenn plays the Wise Man, a benevolent father figure who sends the women into battle; he is the film's only "redemptive" male, according to Snyder.

At the same time, Snyder wanted his female characters to embrace certain traditional sexual archetypes — "the nurse, the French maid, the schoolgirl," he says — and simultaneously take control of them. Such archetypes are common in movies with explicit sexual content, he notes, yet "Sucker Punch" seems destined to cause some hand-wringing even though it contains no sex scenes at all.

"The most dangerous place to go, I think, with female sexuality, is when people are conscious of their own sexuality and it becomes a tool," Snyder says. "The power of it, when they're aware of it — that's dangerous. Society is not into that, for whatever reason. I thought we had a sexual revolution and everyone is cool with that. But apparently it's still a hot-button issue."

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LADY KILLERS: THE TOUGH 10

The female action heroes of "Sucker Punch" are unusual in Hollywood, but not altogether new. Here are 10 of moviedom's toughest ladies, from Western gunslingers to alien killers.

Joan Crawford — In the gender-bending 1954 Western "Johnny Guitar," she wore the pants and packed the pistols, while co-star Sterling Hayden mostly strummed.

Tura Satana — As the leader of a girl gang in Russ Meyer's 1965 sexploitation classic, "Faster, *****cat! Kill! Kill!," she literally kills a man with her bare hands.

Sigourney Weaver — As Ripley in 1979's "Alien," she turned a distressed-damsel role into a tough-as-nails character who survived through three more films.

Lori Petty — She played the title role in 1995's "Tank Girl," the poorly reviewed adaptation of the sci-fi comic books. Perhaps it was ahead of its time?

Bridget Fonda — She starred as a deceptively pretty assassin in 1993's "Point of No Return," though Luc Besson's original 1990 French version, "Nikita," remains a landmark among action chick flicks.

Milla Jovovich — The cat-eyed actress has helped make the pulpy "Resident Evil" franchise, based on a video game, a dependable seller at the box office since 2002.

Uma Thurman — Her otherworldly beauty made her an odd but surprisingly effective choice in Quentin Tarantino's ultraviolent "Kill Bill" movies (2003-'04).

Noomi Rapace — In 2009's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the Swedish actress originated the role of Goth-punk bisexual sleuth Lisbeth Salander. Fans are waiting to see if Rooney Mara can fill her boots in the upcoming American version.

Chloe Grace Moretz — In last year's "Kick-Ass," she played the 11-year-old superhero Hit Girl, racking up the highest body count and cursing a blue streak.

Angelina Jolie — One of the few widely successful female action stars, Jolie recently took the lead in the CIA thriller "Salt," a role originally written for a man. Her "Lara Croft" franchise is set for a relaunch; her replacement has not been announced.

[GeneChing]

We'll have a review up tomorrow.

There's a vid with this article, but the article just transcribes the vid. Still, given the eye candy, the vid is better than the read.

Mar 24 2011 2:06 PM EDT 155
'Sucker Punch' Stars Hope Action Flick 'Hits You In The Gut' (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1660596/sucker-punch-premiere.jhtml)
Vanessa Hudgens teases MTV News at the film's premiere, 'Sucker punch means you don't know what's coming.'
By Kara Warner (@karawarner)
http://www.mtv.com/movies/photos/s/sucker_punch_premiere_promos/281x211.jpg
For those who've seen the trailers, TV spots and highly stylized posters, you're likely aware that "Sucker Punch" descends upon theaters on Friday. Zack Snyder's estrogen-fueled flick has been billed as a curious, complex, action-adventure-fantasy, but despite the promotional push, it's safe to say that plenty of people are still scratching their heads, wondering, "What the heck is 'Sucker Punch'?"

MTV News headed out to the film's star-studded, slightly rain-soaked premiere in Hollywood on Wednesday night to find out.

"Sucker punch means you don't know what's coming," Vanessa Hudgens said simply. "It's being knocked out by something unexpected," co-star Jena Malone added.

"Sucker punch is this idea of taking an unexpected blow," Abbie Cornish said, adding in a brief plot summary to her definition as well. "A lot of the girls are totally unprepared for what's about to happen to them. They've been living in this institution and Baby Doll [played by Emily Browning] comes along and changes their whole perception of freedom, of hope, of escapism," she explained. "And so their ways of life are challenged, they're sucker-punched with this whole idea of freedom."

Director Zack Snyder, who created the story along with co-writer Steve Shibuya, continued with the "expect the unexpected" theme.

"I think it means two things: If you have preconceived ideas about what these girls are capable of, you're going to get a sucker punch," he said. "And also too, there's actually a thing in the movie, a physical thing that supplies the sucker punch as well."

Carla Gugino said the title of the film and the idea itself are fun because there's a lot left up to interpretation or theories. She also echoed the sentiments of her co-stars.

"To me, a sucker punch is one of those things you least expect, that you're unprepared for, but that hits you in the gut," she said. "And I think that hopefully this movie is, and this movie embodies that."

[sanjuro_ronin]

I am drooling and I don't know why....
:D

[Lucas]

i do lol. ive been waiting for this one for a while...

[Shaolinlueb]

does not look better then thor!!!

[Lucas]

i bet it has more booty shots!

[GeneChing]

I think Mick liked this more than I did, which is really rare as he's very critical. Our review will be up in a few hours. Stay tuned!

'Sucker Punch' review: Be a doll and escape (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/03/25/MVDL1IIRNT.DTL)
Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic
San Francisco Chronicle March 24, 2011 04:00 AM

03/25/11

http://imgs.sfgate.com/n/p/2011/03/21/62494632-eaa4-461a-85c1-2fee1229acaa_part6.jpg
In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Emily Browning portrays Babydoll, left, and Carla Gugino portrays Madam Gorski in a scene from "Sucker Punch."

Rated: G | PG | PG-13 | R
Sucker Punch

ALERT VIEWER Action fantasy. Starring Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung and Abbie Cornish. Directed by Zack Snyder. (PG-13. 109 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)

Though Zack Snyder is known as an action director ("300," "Watchmen"), he is a genuine artist and one of the most exciting and promising filmmakers to emerge in the past 10 years. His new movie, "Sucker Punch" - let's just say it - is a failure, but there's so much talent on that screen that the movie can't be dismissed as a waste of time. Or at least not a complete waste of time.

With other action directors, even some good ones, you get the sense of people working mechanically - that they have an idea for something they want to see and then assemble it, using actors, props and computers.

But Snyder seems to work internally and intuitively, so that no matter how overpowering the action, there is always room for unconscious inspiration, for details that make only psychological or emotional sense: A young woman has her blouse ripped by her stepfather, and Snyder pauses to show the shirt button, in slow motion, twirling to a stop on the floor.

That moment occurs in the brilliant first sequence of "Sucker Punch," a miniature silent movie in which our heroine, Baby Doll (Emily Browning), endures the death of her mother, brutalization by her stepfather and commitment to a nightmarish mental institution. All this is communicated with style and specificity and with shots that reverberate through the mind: a blue eye staring out in horror through a keyhole.

Snyder gives us a film that takes place in three worlds, or rather levels of consciousness.

In the first world, which we take to be the real world, Baby Doll has been institutionalized and must escape before she is given a lobotomy. In the second world, which might also be real, she has been sold into white slavery and lives in a brothel with other women, where she has to dance for customers. Finally, the third world is made up of Baby Doll's fantasies, the dreams of destruction, triumph and freedom that she has every time she dances.

In this way, Snyder is attempting to do something similar to what Guillermo del Toro did in "Pan's Labyrinth." In fact, he's trying to go del Toro one better: Instead of giving us two parallel worlds, he is giving us three, each commenting on the other.

Indeed, the very first time Baby Doll goes into her dance and lands in some ancient temple, fighting three armored monsters, it seems that Snyder's inventiveness and imagination are without limit. Yet, ironically, it's precisely at that point that the limits of "Sucker Punch" are defined.

This film marks the first time that Snyder has made a film from his own original story, and everything that's wrong with "Sucker Punch" - and, in the end, fatal - derives from that story.

All too soon, the movie degenerates into a formula, one in which, at certain intervals, Baby Doll dances and we, in the audience, are force-fed another action sequence - each one longer and less interesting than the last.

The story of Baby Doll's attempts at escape, the real story, is abandoned for interminable stretches.

Moreover, in a film whose approach must be justified in psychological terms, there are nagging imprecisions. Whose fantasies are these? What are the parallels, either factual or emotional, between the actions in one world and the next?

In a sense, these are the little things Snyder needed to work out meticulously, if only for the sake of letting his imagination run free within these wide constraints. Instead, we get the opposite, an imagination cramped by too unsure a grasp of what will fit and what won't.

In the end, Snyder confuses going ugly for getting serious, and he destroys his movie completely.

To talk about the acting in a film like this is pointless. The young women are decorative, images to be manipulated or sometimes just photographed lovingly, paired in front of mirrors as they talk, looking at each other, their reflections looking elsewhere. They're fine, but this is Snyder's show all the way.

I just hope he doesn't misinterpret what I expect will be the reception of "Sucker Punch" as punishment for being artistic. It's just a bad screenplay. Not everyone has to be a writer. To be a first-class director is rare enough.

-- Advisory: This film contains sexual situations, scenes of violence and emotional torment.

[GeneChing]

Hit with a SUCKER PUNCH (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=954) by Gene Ching and Patrick Lugo.

[sanjuro_ronin]

By the sounds of it, I will wait for the unrated directors cut :D

[Lucas]

would you suggest this or battle for l.a. if one had to choose?

[@PLUGO]

I think I would choose this over Battle LA for the under the skirt shots and new wave nostalgia.

AV club gave Battle: LA a D+ while ginging Sucker Punch a grade of C


Sucker Punch bears the unmistakable mark of hyper-auteur Zack Snyder, but it could just as easily have been willed into existence by the collective geekocracy. (http://www.avclub.com/articles/sucker-punch,53611/) It’s as if the filmmakers took a poll at Comic-Con of all the elements attendees seek in a movie—starlets in skimpy outfits adept at hand-to-hand combat; Nazi robot monsters; elaborate fantasy worlds; a wise mentor figure who adopts many forms; cabaret-style covers of New Wave hits; and why not throw in Don Draper while you’re at it?—then combined them all in the ultimate fanboy mash-up. Snyder has described it as “Alice In Wonderland with machine guns,” but it’s more like The *****cat Dolls Present Steampunk Kill Bill, only more assaultive and pandering than that description suggests.
Emily Browning leads a cast of young actresses as a hard-luck orphan in some alternate universe 1950s where life would have to improve immeasurably just to qualify as ****ensian. A gauntlet of formative traumas lands Browning in a gothic mental hospital and then in a nightmarish cabaret/brothel. She regularly escapes the drudgery by entering into an elaborate fantasy world where she and her fellow kept/abused women do battle with Nazi mechanical men, dragons, and various other beasties with the sagacious counsel of shape-shifting mentor Scott Glenn.
CGI has made it so easy to create fantastical worlds out of computers and imagination that a film can offer a never-ending parade of eye-popping images and larger-than-life setpieces and still feel dull. Sucker Punch offers the same combination of overpowering style and nonexistent substance as Snyder’s earlier 300, along with a depressingly black-and-white worldview that splits humanity into vessels of pure good and exemplars of unspeakable evil. Only this time, Snyder is pandering to the Barely Legal demographic rather than trafficking in over-the-top ****eroticism. Browning has wildly expressive eyes and body language, but she turns wooden when delivering Snyder and Steve Shibuya’s alternately purple and stilted banter. Like the film, she seems to regard plot and dialogue as necessary evils. With its quests to retrieve magical totems, clearly demarcated levels, and non-stop action, Snyder’s clattering concoction sometimes feels less like a movie than an extended, elaborate trailer for its redundant videogame adaptation.

[GeneChing]

I haven't seen Battle for L.A. so I couldn't say...

Given a choice right now, I'd see The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58753).

[Lucas]

thanks Design Sifu, i think that seals the deal, Sucker Punch it is!

@Gene...I wish that was in a theatre near me :mad:

[doug maverick]

what can say about this thing who some would call a movie.....it was horrible, no kind of story, not enough action or rather there was enough action but the scenes inbetween were just so melo dramatically boring, you almost didnt care when the action came up. the music while good, was misplaced and way to contemporary for a film that suppose to be in the late 30s early 40s.had they kept the entire movie in the "animepunk" fantasy world from beginning to end this would have been a bad ass movie. a group of badass girls on a suicide mission i could so get into that. but the whole thing about her step father and especially the whole club stuff, was just lame and unnecessary. Zack Snyder once again proves he is the poor mans michael bay....i had 0 expectations for this movie and it failed to live up to even that.

[Lucas]

All that aside I think the action scenes were sick myself. Just for the first scene with the giant demon samurai I think it was worth it . If I were to watch this in the future I would prob only watch the action scenes its really the best part. I thot the dragon part was badass too. I also thot the main chick was hot and was good for passing the rest of the time as eye candy

The katana was sick

[doug maverick]

All that aside I think the action scenes were sick myself. Just for the first scene with the giant demon samurai I think it was worth it . If I were to watch this in the future I would prob only watch the action scenes its really the best part. I thot the dragon part was badass too. I also thot the main chick was hot and was good for passing the rest of the time as eye candy

The katana was sick

just imagine if zack snyder had the balls to make the entire movie in that "animepunk"(this is my official word for this type of film) world. you would have had a whole new genre of film. he didnt have the forsight, and neither did warners, this could have been the tentpole they so desperately want.....oh and one more thing(said in scott glen voice) carla gugino who i love to death and thing she is one of the hottest chicks walking the planet shouldve known that americans doing eastern euro accents, sounds like americans doing eastern euro accents.

[Zenshiite]

^So how do you feel about Snyder doing Superman doug?

I thought he did a great job with Watchmen. His love for slo-mo is a little exasperating though.

[doug maverick]

idk, superman needs a shot in the arm, and watchmen was ok. zack just needs to know how to make a coherent story, im glad jonathan nolan is writing the script for this. hopefully zack spends time on the inbetween scenes. and not just running to the action.

[Lucas]

I do agree the film would have been better if it were all that live action anime style. The parts that were, were super hot. all there was to do when it wasn't was look at the women. Even so they were way more fun to look at when slaying dragons and robot gunmen lol

[Lucas]

Oh also I think most of the stuff that wasn't action was for female viewers

[GeneChing]

This guy gets too many second chances. Why can't he just get it right the first time? :rolleyes:


Zack Snyder Wants A Chance To ‘Fix’ Sucker Punch: ‘I Have The Footage Already Shot’ – Exclusive (https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/zack-snyder-wants-to-fix-sucker-punch-footage-already-shot-exclusive/)
Sucker Punch
By Ben Travis | Published 6 Hours Ago
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Zack Snyder
Emily Browning
Carla Gugino
There’s rarely just one version of a Zack Snyder film. His Watchmen adaptation arrived in various cuts – theatrical, director’s, ultimate. Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice has its Ultimate Edition. The Snyder Cut campaign brought the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, while his Rebel Moon films at Netflix will later receive extended, all-out, R-rated versions too. And while his 2011 original fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch technically has an extended edition already, the filmmaker has unfinished business with that film – with something much closer to a full-on director’s cut in mind.
In a major new Empire interview, Zack Snyder answered your reader questions, on movies from across his career (and plenty of other topics aside). And when asked what, if anything, he’d want to change about one of his movies, he gave a broader answer: there’s one movie he actively wants to change in a bigger way. “The only movie I would change is Sucker Punch, because it never really got finished correctly,” he tells Empire. “Even the director’s cut is not really the correct cut. It’s really just an extended version. If I had the chance, I would fix that movie.” What exactly that ‘fix’ would involve remains to be seen, but the film – revolving around a group of women, led by Emily Browning’s Babydoll, trying to survive within a sadistic institution by mentally escaping into fantastical worlds – wasn’t well received on release.
Whatever Snyder has in store for Sucker Punch, he has what he needs to complete his cut – he just needs permission (and resources) to do it. “I have the footage already shot: they just have to let me put it together,” he says. “We ask every now and then. We have to ask again. I think there has to be a window when no-one’s got the movie.” Given the success of previous fan movements, we may see Zack Snyder’s new-and-improved Sucker Punch one day. “If they want to start a campaign, that’s alright,” he says. Your move, Babydoll…