Me going in to see Sucker Punch: "I'm not much of a Synder fan but this looks like it will be pretty cool."
Me coming out of seeing Sucker Punch: "Fuck everything about everything and all those little things I kinda liked about those other films, I now hate reflexively. What the fuck"
It made me viscerally angry. I have never been angry at a film before. A writer, a director, an actor, sure. But an entire film?!
I *hated* The. Whole. Thing. It got worse every scene. Like, it was personal. Even Carla Gugino could not save that piece of absolute trash I want my 2 hours back
The only films that have ever made me more just-plain upset after spending my time watching them were "Virus" (which is just a waste) and "Hollow Man", which was so bad it put my spouse and I both into a zone where we fought about *nothing*.
After I moved in with my wife, we had loads of duplicate DVDs. We just gave them away to friends.
We had two copies of Hollow Man. Literally oculdn't give it away. Atrocious pile of shit.
The real sucker punch was the god damn film and you stumbling into it thinking it would be mediocre at worst.
I saw this and The Host for Emily Browning, and both were rough but this was a special kind of dreck.
Okay, I don't despise Dark Tower, I just despise it's association with the books.
They've tried to take a *huge* story and turn it into a single film, and they've not done it too well. But compared to other King shorts that were totally butchered, it's just mediocre.
Sucker punch is so odd. Has those occasional flashes where synder shows he has an excellent eye for photography then it’s all squandered in a horrific wizard of oz for techbros
I am always confused by Easton-Ellis stuff. Is he incredible at making dead inside characters in banal places that are usually so lauded for their life, to the point where he's writing a backlash?
Or does he just have no sense of character, or life, or humanity?
I used to think 1 now I am unsure
I'm not really familiar with his work. Never read any, and I watched the Canyons last year, and American Psycho about 20 years ago (so I can't really remember it), and that's it I think.
The books are good, I think. Certainly I remember American Psycho being a work of genius. The film is silly and cartoonish. So I watched the Canyons in that context of having read quite a lot of his stuff. And it fitted in. Everyone was loathesome and dead inside (and occasionally outside)
I think the thing that surprised me about Sucker Punch is how unbelievably ugly it is to look at. I wasn't expecting a great story based on everything I'd heard (though it was still so much worse), but everyone kept saying it was at least visually great. And it's horrific.
Yeah that's always been my opinion based on trailers and clips, so I have been interested to see where the claims of "at least it looks good" come from
