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sexiest_hero wrote:I work next to a strip club. OT, I demand good movies, video games and books. Not 60's era "Girl in the gold boots" type films. If a guy wants to look at hot chicks for two hours I know a place. I demand good films and good female actors.
I just wanna see the 20ft tall samurai with an auto-cannon...
And it is a Science-fiction action movie that references a heap of gak I like (WWII, Martial Arts, Robots, Samurai etc, etc)
The fact that it has dolled up chicks is cool but of little consequence IMO ...
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Flashman wrote:
SpaceMonk wrote:It would be pretty bad for suspension of disbelief in an action movie if nothing bad could happen to the protagonists, so to be honest I don't think they would do that....
Hmmm... I think they will put something in there that if they die in there dreams they will die in real life, or maybe wake up lobotomised or insane or something.
Looking at trailer 3, it appears that their fantasy runs parallel to their real lives. So when the big samurai robot with assault cannon crashes through the door, it's actually the manager/head therapist of the lunatic asylum bursting into their room.
Interesting and creative theory there Flashman sound good either way
You forgot to mention the led zeppelin sound-track.
Boba Fex wrote:And seeing as my wife is almost as excited about SP as I am, I won't feel guilty enjoying some of the more feminine eye candy on screen.
This is a thing, I know more women who are excited about Suckerpunch than dudes.
I'm personally so un-excited about it. As I told MGS, it's like they said "What are all the things in a nerds spank-file? Ok, let's put that all in a movie."
Hot big titted blondes in schoolgirl uniforms and pig-tails just don't do it for me in a movie, oddly enough.
Boba Fex wrote:And seeing as my wife is almost as excited about SP as I am, I won't feel guilty enjoying some of the more feminine eye candy on screen.
This is a thing, I know more women who are excited about Suckerpunch than dudes.
I'm personally so un-excited about it. As I told MGS, it's like they said "What are all the things in a nerds spank-file? Ok, let's put that all in a movie."
Hot big titted blondes in schoolgirl uniforms and pig-tails just don't do it for me in a movie, oddly enough.
She who must be obeyed is nuetral. On the other hand she is quite jazzed about Priest.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
I am already filled with potential disappointment about this movie.
It looks like a movie where a girl goes to a prison/institution/whatever and uses her imagination to cope. It will seem like she is making progress, but in the end she'll either get set free by some family member or just rot away in the institution forever.
The same reason I hated Pan's Labyrinth. A whole movie that eventually leads to nothing.
Mine as well be a giant dream sequence where the main character wakes up at the end and says "oh well".
I will go see it. The visuals look nice, but I am not having high hopes about the ending.
Ayn Rand "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality"
Frazzled wrote:She who must be obeyed is nuetral. On the other hand she is quite jazzed about Priest.
From what I've seen of Priest it has the same kind of visual styling as Ultraviolet or the last Resident Evil movie. I'm just not a fan of that style. Not sure how to describe it but I'm always very aware of the fact that I'm watching something completely fake.
mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
I hears a (now I admit to liking ultrviolet). She's just into that whole kick ass priest theme. Plus she likes the eye candy methinks.
Its interesting she's jazzed about that and GC is major jazzed about the Easter bunny movie for some reason. I'm waiting for Super8 in a big way, so its all good.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Saw it yesterday and was disappointed. I give the movie a B. Reasons include spoilers so those are below the cut.
Spoiler:
There are two reasons why this movie doesn't hold up.
1. Less that a quarter of the way through the film, we are shown that EVERYTHING from that point on really doesn't matter because it's not real; it's all fantasy. Because of this, all the tension and grip is taken out of the fight scenes. I don't care if Rocket gets punched in the face because it means absolutely nothing- it's not like the matrix where if you die in the simulation you die in real life. So, because I have no emotional investment in the main characters I don't really care what happens to them. They died? So what, it's not real. Not only that I'm reminded about it ever time they fight, so I'm always jolted out of the immersion. Yes, some of those events did happen in other ways while Baby Doll prior to the lobotomization but at that point I just don't care. Conclusion: no emotional investment = a lot of effort wasted in making absolutely kicks ass settings because we simply don't care as much.
So what film did something like this and succeed? Avatar. Again that film's plot wasn't deep, but we cared about the characters because of their strengths and flaws. The main character went through the classical Hero's Journey story arc and we bought into it. High concept explosions and low concept romantic arc ties it together in a stronger bond. In Avatar, the hero went on a journey (story) in Sucker Punch went on a lot of short video game levels that don't really happen (events) and that's much more shallow.
2. For six months we have been shown sexy dance scenes in the trailer. What do we get? Nothing, and no those 1-2 second snippets in the credits don't count, in fact it makes it worse because you KNOW they're out there and yet you're still not allowed to see it. Not only that, we have our faces rubbed in it through the entire movie. The fantasy is that the girls are semi exotic dancers, and we're told this repeatedly. We see them warm up in their dance room, we see them in costume, ALL the other movie characters get to see them dance and say, "Oh god damn! That was an awesome dance! " and yet... we the paying audience get to see... NOTHING . WTF?! I'm not talking nudity, I'm talking about seeing what the rest of the characters saw, like the mayor. This is a burlesque film with no burlesque in it! Checkov said that if you introduce a gun in act one of play it had better go off by act three or you piss off your audience, and that's exactly what happened here. Do NOT promise something repeatedly, say that it's great, and then keep us from seeing it. And yes I do get the "violence as dance" metaphor and my statement still stands.
Other thing that bugged me:
How did Baby Doll manage to shoot her sister in the head when the bullet blew out the light which was far above the girl? That was a plaster and wood wall, so there would be no bullets bouncing about. Huh.
Slow motion can be cool, but during the robot fight, after the 3rd slow mo bullet I was getting pretty sick of it. Use that sparingly for maximum impact people. : /
No bruising/bleeding from the lobotomy process.
It felt a little too moralistic at the end. Bad guy gets caught in the act and punished by cops. Doctor who's repeatedly done this process with no qualms yet suddenly/magically thinks the process isn't right- trying not to be a bad guy by just saying it's bad. Felt like a corporate suit trying to slime his way out of something bad his company did.
So Moopy, what did you like?
1. I really liked the fantasy settings. The mixing of genres and high tech vs low tech is awesome and powerful. You can tell they spent their efforts here. I really want the art book.
2. I like the quest set up in the fantasy scenes. Here are your goals, here are your enemies, and here's a twist. Go! That worked really well for each scene, but because of the above mentioned comments, lost all of it's impact.
3. Being brave enough to effectively kill off your main character is daring and dicey. I like the concept, but lost it's impact because of the above reasons.
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Chowderhead wrote:Im gonna go see this as a man-date.
Man-date: A session of two men in a platonic relationship doing something non-sexual that a dating couple would do.
After your last thread, somehow, I do not believe you have pure and honest intentions...
MikZor wrote:
We can't help that american D&D is pretty much daily life for us (Aussies)
Walking to shops, "i'll take a short cut through this bush", random encounter! Lizard with no legs.....
I kid Since i avoid bushlands that is But we're not that bad... are we?
Soladrin wrote:I thought it was pretty damn good, at least a lot better then the drivle that is modern cinema.
All cinema is modern.
MikZor wrote:
We can't help that american D&D is pretty much daily life for us (Aussies)
Walking to shops, "i'll take a short cut through this bush", random encounter! Lizard with no legs.....
I kid Since i avoid bushlands that is But we're not that bad... are we?
Gonna go see it with the wife in about an hour actually. What's the general consensus, Dakkaites? Am I about to waste my money and time? Or are there at least a couple good parts?
I'll come back here afterwards and give you all my 2 cents.
VoidAngel wrote:And there are no stupid wars, only stupid hippies.
In that foulest of ages, this ship had hung in the skies above Holy Terra as the world's atmosphere burned. Its name was Ashallius S'Veyval, in a dead language, from a dead world. In Imperial Gothic, it translated loosely as Echo Of Damnation.
Thank Heaven! The crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness is over at last --, and the fever called "Living" is conquered at last.
I went and saw the movie yesterday with my girlfriend and she hated it but I enjoyed the various types of eye candy that the film had to offer. Be prepared for an annoyed wife, though.
DarkTraveler777 wrote:Turn your mind off and you will have a fun ride.
I went and saw the movie yesterday with my girlfriend and she hated it but I enjoyed the various types of eye candy that the film had to offer. Be prepared for an annoyed wife, though.
Leaving now. No worries about the annoyed wife part, I'm used to that. (kidding!)
And my brain is usually off anyway, outside of work.
Edit: I'm back, DarkTraveler you were right, I turned off my brain and had a blast And she said it was pretty good too, so no problems there.
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VoidAngel wrote:And there are no stupid wars, only stupid hippies.
In that foulest of ages, this ship had hung in the skies above Holy Terra as the world's atmosphere burned. Its name was Ashallius S'Veyval, in a dead language, from a dead world. In Imperial Gothic, it translated loosely as Echo Of Damnation.
Thank Heaven! The crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness is over at last --, and the fever called "Living" is conquered at last.
It was wicked. Don't let the critics ruin it for you. It's got as much plot as anything else out there and it has hot-chicks fighting steam-powered-nazi-zombies and mega-samurai weilding mini-guns and orcs and robots and a frikkin dragon. Bamn! What more do you want.
That Sucker Punch movie is stupid. Zach Synder says that it is an empowering woman film. Yeah, girls always dream about becoming hookers and selling their bodies at a brothel. That sure is empowering woman!! I can see all those scumbag producers approving of this movie and use the girls as a sex idols to appeal to men and and make some gak up of how wearing revealing outfits and seducing men is empowering. It's like a 15 year olds wet dream: Hot Girls vs Robots, Zombies, Dragons, Samurai and Mechs. The Story is stupid. With her mind she changes the mental hospital into a brothel where they dance. On top of that, When the girl dances she escapes into another world where she imagines is fighting in the battlefields.
The fights have no relation to what is happening in the brothel. Its a dream within a dream. And in no way is this helping her escape because she is imagining it and it's all in her head. But some how!! The dreams do help her escape in the reality world. It's a jumbled up mess with a bunch a plots holes. It is a stupid stupid movie.
So if this is not an empowering woman film. Would we see the girls dance?? NO!! It's rated PG-13!! That means no blood or girls sexy dancing!! So whats the point of putting hot girls in a strip club/brothel if we are not going to see these girls dance?? We got to keep it rated PG-13! There are some moments where it gets close to a rape scene. But we still keep it at PG-13
Even the action is boring for me!! Since she is imagining it in her head. NOTHING CAN KILL HER!! With good action you need the sense of danger and the element that death in the fight is possible.
So action is boring when you know no one will die in these scenes because it is ALL inside her head. No matter how many hits she takes, she still gets back up without a scratch.There is too much slow motion. Slow motion does not add the intensity of the action. It just slows it down and hinders the thrill of the action. High paced action without slow motion is the best because you are the edge of your seat and you are feeling the speed of the power of the action. I didn't get what was the point of the action scenes if they in no way had a relation in the objects they had to get to escape.
If she wanted to escape, why not just imagine you are not in a brothel but you are at home or something where there is no evil stepfather. What was the point of changing the mental hospital into a brothel if it was just as bad as the hospital?? There is no character development for these girls. These girls are only here to look hot and thats it.
And these critics are smarter than these teenagers think. These guys are professionals in understanding film and what is wrong with them and what is good about them. These aren't stupid minded teenagers who do nothing but spank off to porno all day. These guys know film. All these guys are smart critics who know what they are talking about.
The Visuals were amazing. I liked the dragon and the mech the most. But I don't think it is worth it just for the visuals. Just because it has hot-chicks fighting steam-powered-nazi-zombies and mega-samurai weilding mini-guns and orcs and robots and a frikkin dragon doesn't automatically a good movie. Anybody can make great visuals if they have $80 million!! It is a polished piece of gak. Not worth your money. Go rent it when it comes out.
So while all you losers turn your brains off and turn into brain dead retards, everybody who has their brains turned will have way better intelligence than the brain dead retards.
Like IGN said, It's for suckers only.
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And these critics are smarter than these teenagers think. These guys are professionals in understanding film and what is wrong with them and what is good about them.
This is where I must disagree. Films will not be universally liked/despised, therefore any number of people can and will disagree with a critic and they can be speaking just as truthfuly, because the fact is that liking/disliking a film is a huge matter of person opinion.
Just becaquse Critic A said Film Z was crap does not make it fact, it means that HE found it bad. What happened if a critic said that Titanic was a whole bunch of gak that nobody should watch? Since a critic said it does that make it correct?
You cannot be a professional in seeing a film from everyone's viewpoints with everyone's opinions, it is not possible to know what some guy in Australia thinks about an American film you're reviewing the US surrounded by other Americans.
I also don't know what you have against teenagers, because they're the single target for your rant (which isn't new, they're the single target for most people because a good chunk of them are ignorant, arrogant buttfethers) whereas a lot of adults will have watched it as well and disagreed with critics.
So a critic reviewed it, so what? Watch it yourself and formulate your own opinion instead of having your opinions dictated to you by someone you've never met with tastes and viewpoints that differ from your own.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
Warboss Narznok wrote:So while all you losers turn your brains off and turn into brain dead retards, everybody who has their brains turned will have way better intelligence than the brain dead retards.
Like IGN said, It's for suckers only.
I see someone has turned their jackass up to 11.
mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret.
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= Bjorn Stormwolfs Great Company (6000+pts of Space Wolves)
= The Ancients (4000+pts)
= The warband of Aconis the Indefatigable (Black Legion w/ Daemon allies 5000+pts) 
allowed to see it. Not only that, we have our faces rubbed in it through the entire movie. The fantasy is that the girls are semi exotic dancers, and we're told this repeatedly. We see them warm up in their dance room, we see them in costume, ALL the other movie characters get to see them dance and say, "Oh god damn! That was an awesome dance! 
And she said it was pretty good too, so no problems there.