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I saw Paul today. I liked the geeky nods especially with the casting for "the Big Guy" and some lines specifically and plotpoints. Seth Rogen's voice acting came off very naturally but overall the movie was just "okay fun".
 
Watching the new Brave and the Bold episode this morning and i loves all the homages to Superman being a **** in the silver age

Watching some YJ today too. Miss Martian is still my favourite thing about that show:hrt:
 
I saw Sucker Punch yesterday. I feel like I should love a movie that features a group of half-naked chicks fighting Steam-Powered Clockwork Zombie Nazis set to Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," but that scene was one cool island in a sea of boiling hot suck.
 
I'm no mental health professional, and I'm all about having an active and healthy imagination...but if she's got that much shtuff rolling around in her head....

maybe she does belong in some sort of institution
 
Manic said:
I saw Sucker Punch yesterday. I feel like I should love a movie that features a group of half-naked chicks fighting Steam-Powered Clockwork Zombie Nazis set to Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," but that scene was one cool island in a sea of boiling hot suck.
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That scene sounds like enough reason to go an see the movie :atp:
 
BlackLantern said:
I'm no mental health professional, and I'm all about having an active and healthy imagination...but if she's got that much shtuff rolling around in her head....

maybe she does belong in some sort of institution
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Pffft that is not that crazy
 
You dont need therapy for having an imagination :oldrazz:

The Sucker Punch girls need to get get of those straight jackets and into my bed :awesome:
 
Mystirious said:
That scene sounds like enough reason to go an see the movie :atp:
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It's not.

Because the main character immediately turns psychotic (despite not even being crazy in the first place), her fantasy worlds are used to cope with something she's doing in the real world, causing new scenes to pop up and represent other stuff we (the audience) would probably like to see. Every time an action scene set in a mad battlefield pops up, it's because the main character recedes into her own mind. But it's a double mental recess (if that makes sense).

Basically, she's in a mental hospital, but she spends the entire movie imagining she's enslaved by a burlesque house instead-- a burlesque house that's built and secured like a mental hospital. So whenever their doctor treats them, we instead see them at a dance rehearsal or performing on stage. Except we never actually see any dances. Whenever the main character is about to dance, she recedes into another fantasy where she's fighting for her life against Nazis or dragons or Samurai statues or robots.

She spends a good portion of the movie imagining she's somewhere else, but then imagining she's somewhere other than that once her original fantasy gets too unpleasant.


Another thing that annoys me is how the main character is presented as some sort of pedophile's fetishist dreamgirl. Here's this barely legal girl, maybe 5 feet tall, wearing pigtails throughout the movie, and she spends the whole damn time wearing a schoolgirl's outfit. Maybe they were trying to give her an anime vibe, but it was just plain creepy.
 
Burlesque fight scenes with Nazi robots and hawt girls

This film sounds like fun on a bun i cannot understand how it could suck. This confuzzles me :huh:

I must see it even if it isn't as good as it sounds.
 
agreed Manic....it tries to be fun, but comes off as creepy and a little sad
 
Mystirious said:
Burlesque fight scenes with Nazi robots and hawt girls

This film sounds like fun on a bun i cannot understand how it could suck. This confuzzles me :huh:

I must see it even if it isn't as good as it sounds.
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Almost everything about this movie sounds good on paper, but it just doesn't work at all. I feel like I should've waited for it to hit Netflix Instant so I could watch it back to back with Sky Captain or Princess of Mars.
 
BlackLantern said:
agreed Manic....it tries to be fun, but comes off as creepy and a little sad
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Wait, have you even seen it yet?

Manic said:
It's not.

Because the main character immediately turns psychotic (despite not even being crazy in the first place), her fantasy worlds are used to cope with something she's doing in the real world, causing new scenes to pop up and represent other stuff we (the audience) would probably like to see. Every time an action scene set in a mad battlefield pops up, it's because the main character recedes into her own mind. But it's a double mental recess (if that makes sense).

Basically, she's in a mental hospital, but she spends the entire movie imagining she's enslaved by a burlesque house instead-- a burlesque house that's built and secured like a mental hospital. So whenever their doctor treats them, we instead see them at a dance rehearsal or performing on stage. Except we never actually see any dances. Whenever the main character is about to dance, she recedes into another fantasy where she's fighting for her life against Nazis or dragons or Samurai statues or robots.

She spends a good portion of the movie imagining she's somewhere else, but then imagining she's somewhere other than that once her original fantasy gets too unpleasant.


Another thing that annoys me is how the main character is presented as some sort of pedophile's fetishist dreamgirl. Here's this barely legal girl, maybe 5 feet tall, wearing pigtails throughout the movie, and she spends the whole damn time wearing a schoolgirl's outfit. Maybe they were trying to give her an anime vibe, but it was just plain creepy.
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I don't think that's entirely accurate

I think there's really only one fantasy level, and the fight scenes are meant more as a visual metaphor than her receding into her mind. The entire fantasy isn't really her imagining a skin over that either, I think it's kind of a dream in that second when she gets lobotomized.

Also, Snyder said he meant for the girls to look like that as a comment on the bizarre sexuality he sees entering the pop scene in recent years (or something to that degree). It wasn't developed well enough to come through, but he was trying to do something above surface level with it.
 
Manic said:
Almost everything about this movie sounds good on paper, but it just doesn't work at all. I feel like I should've waited for it to hit Netflix Instant so I could watch it back to back with Sky Captain or Princess of Mars.
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Think i will still go to see it at the cinema because it sounds like my kind of movie. Even if it is not as good as it sounds still want to see for myself

Sorry to hear you did not enjoy it at all though Manic :csad:
 
Tron Bonne said:
I don't think that's entirely accurate

I think there's really only one fantasy level, and the fight scenes are meant more as a visual metaphor than her receding into her mind. The entire fantasy isn't really her imagining a skin over that either, I think it's kind of a dream in that second when she gets lobotomized.
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See, I thought the whole movie was supposed to be a dream she fully imagined right before getting lobotomized, but then characters in the hospital started referencing things she had done in the burlesque dream, like stabbing an orderly in the neck, helping another patient escape, the chef missing a knife, and the burned closet. Stuff like Sweetpea's escape and the burned closet implied that everything done in the burlesque dream ran parallel to what was actually done in the hospital that we didn't really see. Plus the burlesque house looked like the hospital during most scenes.

Most of the movie was a memory of everything that had transpired after the main character was checked into the hospital, only with a burlesque house painted over the building.

I got the impression that the fight scenes were her receding into her mind again because they kept showing a close-up of her face as she closed her eyes right before each dance, and she opened her eyes in a new world. Yes, the action scenes were also a metaphor for the dances, but that's because the main character imagined them as such. She has to dance so her friends can steal a lighter from a distracted man, so she closes her eyes and opens them to a world where she and her friends have to steal magical flaming stones from a dragon. The mission succeeds, she opens her eyes to the burlesque house again.
 
Manic said:
See, I thought the whole movie was supposed to be a dream she fully imagined right before getting lobotomized, but then characters in the hospital started referencing things she had done in the burlesque dream, like stabbing an orderly in the neck, helping another patient escape, the chef missing a knife, and the burned closet. Stuff like Sweetpea's escape and the burned closet implied that everything done in the burlesque dream ran parallel to what was actually done in the hospital that we didn't really see. Plus the burlesque house looked like the hospital during most scenes.

Most of the movie was a memory of everything that had transpired after the main character was checked into the hospital, only with a burlesque house painted over the building.

I got the impression that the fight scenes were her receding into her mind again because they kept showing a close-up of her face as she closed her eyes right before each dance, and she opened her eyes in a new world. Yes, the action scenes were also a metaphor for the dances, but that's because the main character imagined them as such. She has to dance so her friends can steal a lighter from a distracted man, so she closes her eyes and opens them to a world where she and her friends have to steal magical flaming stones from a dragon. The mission succeeds, she opens her eyes to the burlesque house again.
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Yeah, I think it was probably kind of a mixture of a lobo-dream and kind of fantasized images of what had really happened. I mainly don't think the dances were another complete fantasy world of hers because, if I remember correctly, the time with the cook that messed up we kind of bleed back into the dance area and see the cord snark and go out before she actually sees it. I mean, obviously, there was that fantasy edge, but I don't know if it was meant to be a psuedo-dream within another psuedo-dream.
 
Amy Adams? Best casting news/rumor in the entire damn movie.
 
I find it appealing, too. I can definitely see her in that role.
 
i don't know if she's *****y enough to be lois, and i don't want to see her dye her hair
 
She was about as *****y as you get in The Fighter. Strong and justified *****y perhaps, but *****y regardless. Besides, Lois doesn't have to be all that *****y to work. Or *****y much at all, really.
 
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