Best Snyder movie so far. Sadly it is deeply misunderstood. Movie is way more deeper and complex than it looks like on first glance.
People don't realize Sweet Pea is the protagonist, Babydoll is a figment of Sweet Pea’s imagination. Babydoll does not exist. Babydoll's story is Sweet Pea’s story. Sweet Pea was sexually abused, killed her sister and is in psychiatric hospital in therapy. Babydoll is Sweet Pea's avatar. Way of dealing with grief, with guilt, and way to manage her current situation and overcome it. Babydoll is also Sweet Pea's guardian angel.
Sweet Pea is the only fully rounded character, other girls represent aspects of her psyche. Babydoll represents strength and courage, Amber loyalty, Blondie fear, and Rocket represents guilt. In the third level reality her psyche fights for the things to get her free from her current state. Second guardian angel (the Wise Man) guides her through. To fully recover she needs to get over her guilt (Rocket dies as a symbol), also other girls represent things which she needs to leave behind to fully recover .
Babydoll is one of those things. She is the fifth thing (“The fifth is a mystery. It is the reason. It is the goal. It will be a deep sacrifice and a perfect victory.”). Lobotomy of Babydoll represents Sweet Pea’s mind of taking control. Sweet Pea needs to sacrifice Babydoll to be “cured”. Escape at the end is a symbol of that process of being cured. That’s why the driver is the Wise Man, he guides her further.
Sucker Punch is Sweet Pea’s journey from “madness” to “sanity”. Movie is philosophical / psychological investigation wrapped in a special effects action-fantasy. As the movie changes realities (mostly in the third reality), Snyder uses more fetishized image of the girls. He uses clichés and cluttered iconography (nazi zombies, sexy schoolgirls). It is a way to detached and disconnected characters from second reality. Second reality, the brothel, is the “main” reality. In which everything happens.
Imogen Poots is the most beautiful girl i've seen in my whole life. Seriously
This was just brilliant. Too brilliant, in fact.
Trust me, if you've seen it, it's worth the extra 25 minutes to watch this video that explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AWkqRwd1I
Seriously? This junk really won awards? It's not even a movie. More like a crappy CGI test demo where nothing exciting happens the whole way through. The only thing I remember is Clooney trying to hit on Bullock. Fail.
The structure was a mess. Any enjoyment I would have had in the movie is ruined by how poorly scripted it was.
From the first scene, which steals the beginning from Apollo 13, I couldn't stop comparing both films. Both based on true stories so unbelievable that you wouldn't be wrong in thinking they were from a movie script and both with Tom Hanks playing the commander of a ship.
But while Apollo 13 is a masterfully piece in how to maintain tension and drama when there's no Bad Guy and we all know the happy ending, Sully relies on the crutches of every other Hollywood trope and makes up villains out of ordinary people who did their job well and tries to insinuate a reveal that never really pans out.
There are some effective moments in seeing capable people passionate of their jobs helping others working like clockwork to save lives. But those few moments aren't enough to save this train wreck of a movie.
I see you shiver with antici......................pation
I don't know why it took so long for me to watch this, but I'm glad I did. It's a pretty enjoyable thriller. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the movies, by now it's like 4 or 5 of them, ha ha
Honestly Im a huge fan of the anime, and manga, just look at my damn avatar! I love Ichigo and was hoping they don't butcher this, cause I would be so disappointed. But for a live action movie adaptation they got a lot right, and don't expect it to pack all anime and manga all into 108 minutes, for a live action adaption of a fantastic anime series this was pretty good.
Honestly I enjoyed it, and I loved the character of Ichigo in the movie, and for what little time they had, they did some decent character development. You could only do so much, and I was hoping for more, lets just hope their is a BLEACH 2 so they can jump deep into the Bleachverse.
If you are a fan of Bleach you will enjoy this.
...1 star for the incredible costume designers, set designers, choreographers, set directors, etc. It was so deeply colorful & rich in culture, you brought a wonderful life to the world of Agrabah.
1 star for Naomi Scott,who really seems to be the only one who cares about her performance. I did like her reprise of "Speechless" towards the end. She definitely has stronger pips than Mena Massoud as Aladdin.
and 1 star for my little carpet boi, he's was the only one I really cared about.
Maybeee half a star for that little OG poster in the cave scene that made me smile. :)
and that's it.
The overall story was ok. The fight scenes are what made this movie. Even the small fights were really well done. Some of the best I've seen in a long time.
I had high hopes for this but I'm dissappointed. Didn't focus on Tony nor Dickie, instead we see too much partial stories unrelated to the series. And seriously what the hell was that ending?!
Post-credits scene at the very end
