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Brother SRM wrote:

The Fragile Breath wrote:
Does anyone even like Blondie? I thought her to be the most forgettable character.

Nobody likes Blondie. Nobody.

Blondie is second from left? (not seen movie yet)

I think she is most attractive of the five, purely from that picture.

The Fragile Breath wrote:

Does anyone even like Blondie? I thought her to be the most forgettable character.

Oh noes, you will not speak ill of Vanessa Hudgens!

All characters are honestly great. The movie was awesome yet so dark... and if you take time to reflect on it after it only gets better.

Hopefully Reaper makes the entire crew.

In order of preference:

Rocket, Amber, Baby Doll, Blondie... not really fussed about Sweet Pea, so I will say Ms Gorivsky...

WTB female minis that don't look like skanks.

Amaya wrote:WTB female minis that don't look like skanks.

Seriously? Did you miss the part about these being based on Sucker Punch? Did you miss the "Girls of Sucker Punch" picture a couple of posts up?

Go troll about women's portrayal in media elsewhere. I hear Soda Pop is coming out with a new mini soon, oh no! Better go harass that thread if you haven't already!

Back on topic, I would love the Samurai to be done, especially in the crispness of those three larger models!

You like that? You'll love this.

http://www.urban-collector.com/sucker-punch-baby-doll-statue.html

Kirbinator wrote:

Amaya wrote:WTB female minis that don't look like skanks.

Seriously? Did you miss the part about these being based on Sucker Punch? Did you miss the "Girls of Sucker Punch" picture a couple of posts up?

Go troll about women's portrayal in media elsewhere. I hear Soda Pop is coming out with a new mini soon, oh no! Better go harass that thread if you haven't already!

Back on topic, I would love the Samurai to be done, especially in the crispness of those three larger models!

Yep, I hear you.....to be honest, the whole "women being objects" thing is starting to grind.......I'm sorry, I'm a man and I love women....they make me gets jiggy and I likes da feelin.

Seeing a woman in a suit of armour is all great, but guess what, I'm imagining her in her chain mail undergarments....so sue me.

my review of the film.......... Spoilers




Sucker punch is a combination of stunning visuals and a engaging, occasionally confusing and quite bleak story.

The film tells the story of teenage girl who mother is murdered (?) by her stepfather. He attempts to dispose of her and her sister on realizing they are the benerfiacries of the will, and in trying to save her sister, she actually shoots and kills her.

She is dragged off to an asylum by her stepfather who arranges for the abusive staff to have her lobotomized in 5 days. Despairing and perhaps truly veering into madness her mind drifts into several layers of dream worlds

The first is an equally unpleasant brothel (which to be fair is also an excuse to see the many lovely lead actresses in a variety of hot outfits) where she is to be auctioned off in 5 days.

To escape this realm she also enters another reality where she and later the other girls are warriors on a series of quests - linked to tasks in other realms that they hope will get them out of the horrible places they presently are forced to inhabit.

Confusing - it can at times be. The imagery is stunning, the lead actresses great as are the really nasty people who oppress them.

The music is brilliant, the story is good and surprisingly (at least to me) bleak as it finishes

Excellent work by all involved.

Unfortunately this film was obviously too difficult and challenging for the "Proper" critics to understand and appreciate.............their loss

That's great. We were talking about the minis?

so they are Russian super models all in the same asylum in full makeup all the time with a hairdresser...and in their imaginations they look the same but their outfit changes and they have weapons and possibly combat training. But given its an asylum full of russian super models with a onsight asylum hair and makeup team maybe they have onsight combat training...


sounds really well written and thought out...anyways!

minis are not bad, love how they kept the realistic russian super model body proportions and didnt go to F or HHH size boobies.

heads very well done, love the military cap on the not amber

blaktoof wrote:so they are Russian super models all in the same asylum in full makeup all the time with a hairdresser...and in their imaginations they look the same but their outfit changes and they have weapons and possibly combat training. But given its an asylum full of russian super models with a onsight asylum hair and makeup team maybe they have onsight combat training...

So basically what you're saying is you haven't seen the movie?

Anyway!

The minis!

Yes, I hope they complete the line, including a selection of the Baddies too - steamwork zombie Germans?

Sure, why not!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Blondie is second from left? (not seen movie yet)

I think she is most attractive of the five, purely from that picture.

Yeah, but her character is kind of annoying and she doesn't look that good in the movie. She's just a weak character compared to everybody else.

I'm surprised Hasslefree didn't jump on this, since they've got a decent market on "Not (insert property here)" minis.

Well Hasslefree is a one man sculpting operation. Reaper has lots of sculptors making stuff for them.

The girls are all hot because that's how she's picturing herself in her brother fantasy, trying to escape the reality of the asylum.

What made me reflect a lot on the movie is that in her brothel reality, when she's being asked to "dance" she see the act as degrading enough that she has to imagine herself in those insane action sequence.

so if on a scale of 1 to 10, Dancing is 1 and her action sequence is 10... what is she doing in the asylum reality that would bring dancing to 10 on that scale?

It's a rather disturbing movie when you think about it and it's probably what made it so good for me.

Have seen the movie, a bit disturbing and Zak must hate women (no Zak movie without beating, raping and killing women). Too much mistreatment of women to be a fun movie for me, but cinematography is great of course.

Those WW1 Germans look close to DKoK or the Wargames Factory Stormtroopers. If you want WW2 Zombie Nazis, also have a look at Westwind (Secrets of the Third Reich, Incursion), and Darkson Design. Now waiting for a non-Rocket miniature

Opps sorry mis read things

Right minis - they look cool - second the call for the armour suit, clockwork zombies etc and the other girls

Dman have to do a Reaper order and usually get hammered for import duty :(

Grot 6 wrote:You like that? You'll love this.

http://www.urban-collector.com/sucker-punch-baby-doll-statue.html

So... Forgeworld Krieg army with airships and those Reaper minis as an elite unit... and this as a titan?

And I have to add that the Sucker Punch soundtrack is a great buy, and has helped me through several painting sessions already (The length of it is great for a gym workout, too, if that's your thing).

The Dreadnote wrote:Well, they also do Reich of the Dead if you want Nazi zombies...


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Troy wrote:Wow, what a monumentally bad idea. Minis aren't very good either.

I really shouldn't bother, but I have to admit I'm curious - what's a bad idea? Making models based off film characters?

Bad minis from a bad film.

Troy wrote:
Bad minis from a bad film.

Well that's double subjective.

Where's the chest and armpit hair? And while we're at it... we need neck beards... full on neck beards... then these would be great mini's.

I need me some rocket!

Brother SRM wrote:

Troy wrote:
Bad minis from a bad film.

Well that's double subjective.

As is life.

Mr Morden wrote:my review of the film.......... Spoilers




Sucker punch is a combination of stunning visuals and a engaging, occasionally confusing and quite bleak story.

The film tells the story of teenage girl who mother is murdered (?) by her stepfather. He attempts to dispose of her and her sister on realizing they are the benerfiacries of the will, and in trying to save her sister, she actually shoots and kills her.

She is dragged off to an asylum by her stepfather who arranges for the abusive staff to have her lobotomized in 5 days. Despairing and perhaps truly veering into madness her mind drifts into several layers of dream worlds

The first is an equally unpleasant brothel (which to be fair is also an excuse to see the many lovely lead actresses in a variety of hot outfits) where she is to be auctioned off in 5 days.

To escape this realm she also enters another reality where she and later the other girls are warriors on a series of quests - linked to tasks in other realms that they hope will get them out of the horrible places they presently are forced to inhabit.

Confusing - it can at times be. The imagery is stunning, the lead actresses great as are the really nasty people who oppress them.

The music is brilliant, the story is good and surprisingly (at least to me) bleak as it finishes

Excellent work by all involved.

Unfortunately this film was obviously too difficult and challenging for the "Proper" critics to understand and appreciate.............their loss

Thats not a dream or alternatif reality...

The Owner-Blue- of this "Asylium use it as a brothel, by taking in only hot looking young girls who ran away, are delcared mentally unstable due to circumstances like Baby doll or even orphans like Sweet Pea and Rocket.

Ms Girvisky is a Brothel tenant/Psychiatrist who for some reasons is owned by Blue.

Voldrak wrote:The girls are all hot because that's how she's picturing herself in her brother fantasy, trying to escape the reality of the asylum.

What made me reflect a lot on the movie is that in her brothel reality, when she's being asked to "dance" she see the act as degrading enough that she has to imagine herself in those insane action sequence.

so if on a scale of 1 to 10, Dancing is 1 and her action sequence is 10... what is she doing in the asylum reality that would bring dancing to 10 on that scale?

It's a rather disturbing movie when you think about it and it's probably what made it so good for me.

No...

Its not that she finds degrading to dance, she imagine all of this because MS Gorvisky told her that when she dance, she is in her own world, that she will have all the weapons she need to fight her fears and that she as complet control of it.

Like someone concentrating on a task, where the outside world is non existent to him/her, she does the same by letting her fantasy and imagination loose while dancing.

Wich in the movie is translated by kick ass action scenes.

My only gripe with the action scenes is that Sweet Pea is pictured as some kind of Templar Chick/ Guardian with the armours and sword, but she doesn't at any point of the movie use the goddamn sword!!!

Mr Morden wrote:my review of the film.......... Spoilers




Sucker punch is a combination of stunning visuals and a engaging, occasionally confusing and quite bleak story.

The film tells the story of teenage girl who mother is murdered (?) by her stepfather. He attempts to dispose of her and her sister on realizing they are the benerfiacries of the will, and in trying to save her sister, she actually shoots and kills her.

She is dragged off to an asylum by her stepfather who arranges for the abusive staff to have her lobotomized in 5 days. Despairing and perhaps truly veering into madness her mind drifts into several layers of dream worlds

The first is an equally unpleasant brothel (which to be fair is also an excuse to see the many lovely lead actresses in a variety of hot outfits) where she is to be auctioned off in 5 days.

To escape this realm she also enters another reality where she and later the other girls are warriors on a series of quests - linked to tasks in other realms that they hope will get them out of the horrible places they presently are forced to inhabit.

Confusing - it can at times be. The imagery is stunning, the lead actresses great as are the really nasty people who oppress them.

The music is brilliant, the story is good and surprisingly (at least to me) bleak as it finishes

Excellent work by all involved.

Unfortunately this film was obviously too difficult and challenging for the "Proper" critics to understand and appreciate.............their loss

This is more of a plot overview than an actual review.

Thats not a dream or alternatif reality...

The Owner-Blue- of this "Asylium use it as a brothel, by taking in only hot looking young girls who ran away, are delcared mentally unstable due to circumstances like Baby doll or even orphans like Sweet Pea and Rocket.

Ms Girvisky is a Brothel tenant/Psychiatrist who for some reasons is owned by Blue

SPOILERS ahead!!

As I understand it:

The Asylum and the Brothel are two seperate worlds - she has a completly different arrival scene at the Brothel (she is taken there by a priest rather than her stepfather).

There is a very strong likelihood that she is abused (or at the very least the attempt is made) whilst in the Asylum itself and perhaps even used as a prostitute (would not be the first time this has occured) but the Brothel is a Nightmare rather than her equally unpleasent reality.

Grivisky has two distinct different pesrsonailties -

1) is a former prostitute turned madam in the Brothel
2) and a Psychiatrist in the Asylum who is the one that calls in the authorities after the labotomy.

Delephont wrote:

Kirbinator wrote:

Amaya wrote:WTB female minis that don't look like skanks.

Seriously? Did you miss the part about these being based on Sucker Punch? Did you miss the "Girls of Sucker Punch" picture a couple of posts up?

Go troll about women's portrayal in media elsewhere. I hear Soda Pop is coming out with a new mini soon, oh no! Better go harass that thread if you haven't already!

Back on topic, I would love the Samurai to be done, especially in the crispness of those three larger models!

Yep, I hear you.....to be honest, the whole "women being objects" thing is starting to grind.......I'm sorry, I'm a man and I love women....they make me gets jiggy and I likes da feelin.

Seeing a woman in a suit of armour is all great, but guess what, I'm imagining her in her chain mail undergarments....so sue me.

Hear hear! I may not be a leader of man but i'm certainly a follower of women.

Slayer le boucher wrote:
My only gripe with the action scenes is that Sweet Pea is pictured as some kind of Templar Chick/ Guardian with the armours and sword, but she doesn't at any point of the movie use the goddamn sword!!!

This!!! I would have loved some sword action for her. I'm thinking the actress could be badass enough for playing Red Sonja in the upcoming movie... if they finally make it.

One of the best explanations I have read, goes something like this.

-SPOILERS-

In the beginning of the movie you hear Sweat Pea talking, not Baby Doll. Sweat Pea is also the one escaping. Seeing Sweat Pea and Sucker Punch both have SP together with several other hints throughout the movie gives us the hint that not BabyDoll, but Sweat Pea is the main character in this movie. In the end, Babydoll discovers the last item was ultimate sacrifice.
As for the worlds, most common theories are that the Brothrel world is the world that SP is imagening, the fighting scenes are the worlds BD is imagening. The asylum is the reality, where the girls are being abused by the guards (and Blue) in all sexual ways. The brothrel is a way of SP to escape the asylum and his cruelties, where the dances were 'raping' or "love" scenes. The theorie behind this is that BD volunteerd in seducing those guards, having sex with them while the other girl(s) would steal the items in the meanwhile.
These things I wrote are just some quick overview of very interesting and more in-depth articles people wrote on fora. However this 'interpretation' I see most commonly throughout the web. And thinking about it, it makes some sense indeed.
I might want to see the movie another time though, I want to see what goes on excactly in the beginning, just before the 'Brothrel' world begins.

The asylum is reality.

The brothel is the way Blue rationalizes what he is doing to the girls.

The fight scenes are how Baby Doll detaches herself from pretending to enjoy the assults so the other girls can get the items.