Sucker Punch Review: Sometimes You Have To Take the Sweet with the Sour
Sucker Punch...It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Sometimes in life you really do have to take the sweet with the sour. Watching Sucker Punch was kind of like that, it was good, it was bad, and it was also big on the ugly.
A firestorm of controversy has erupted since the release of Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch. Objectification, exploitation, spellbinding, revolutionary, these are the words being bandied about and Zack Snyder’s visionary status is under heavy fire and intense scrutiny.
Sucker Punch (2011) – Emily Browning as the diminutive samurai butt kicking Baby Doll.
There has been grumbling about the deceiving marketing of Sucker Punch and packaging the movie as simply a guy’s graphic novel style T & A flick, when in actuality it was really a message movie about Zack Snyder’s idea of female empowerment. Whatever the argument, this is one fantasy action thriller that will leave you bewildered and unprepared for the depth of the darkness that is delved by Sucker Punch…[Read more...]
More From The Scribe's Desk
- The 12 Brightest and Most Visceral Moments of Harry Potter
- Sucker Punch: Are You Excited To See It?
- The Road to Oscar is Paved with Disappointment
The Scribe's Desk Recommends
- Book Review #7: The Fry Chronicles (The World According to Dave)
- Film Review #5 The Closet (The World According to Dave)
Tagged with: Abbie Cornish • action • Emily Browning • fatasy • movie reviews • movies • Sucker Punch • TheMoviePool • thriller • Warner Bros. • Zack Snyder
Filed under: Buzz! • Did You Know? • Face Time • General • Good Movie Alert! • Housekeeping • Movie Comments • Movie Music • On the Casting Couch • ReHash! • Shout Out! • Something Wicked • Women In Film • Word Of The Day
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
