My thought upon first seeing the trailers was The Matrix retold starring the hookers from Sin City.
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2011 9:55:40 am PDT #13745 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Polter-Cow - Mar 25, 2011 12:36:52 pm PDT #13746 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I skimmed Annalee's review, and I agree with a lot of her criticisms. As awesome as a lot of the genre mash-ups are, there is a surprising dearth of true HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SO BADASS moments. It was still pretty cool, though.
One thing that was amusing to me was that as I was trying to figure out which characters actually had any semblance of character, I thought to myself, "You know, I wish this movie were about Sweetpea and Rocket instead." And then it actually kind of was.
There's definitely no there, there, and it's not as awesome as it really ought to be, but I did enjoy it.
JZ - Mar 25, 2011 1:01:23 pm PDT #13747 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm... it's... Babydoll is played by the girl who played Violet Baudelaire? My heart is breaking into a million little broken bits. God DAMN, Hollywood, you ought to be doing more right by Violet Baudelaire.
Dana - Mar 25, 2011 1:01:50 pm PDT #13748 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Aw, man, that is depressing.
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2011 1:20:41 pm PDT #13749 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am loving IO9's March Movie Madness, not least of all because Serenity is pissing off so many commenters.
Volans - Mar 25, 2011 2:50:18 pm PDT #13750 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I think I'm going to go with Showgirls+Inception for Suckerpunch.
Except I liked Inception.
beekaytee - Mar 25, 2011 2:53:18 pm PDT #13751 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
thanks for the reminder ita, I just went to add my vote to March Movie Madness.
I'm not going to bother reading the comments. Joke 'em!
Jessica - Mar 25, 2011 2:59:45 pm PDT #13752 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
DH tried to describe the plot of Sucker Punch to me. It made even less sense than the plot of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.
I've decided that Zack Snyder's demographic is pretty exclusively 13 year-old boys, and that I should just stop bothering to be interested in anything he produces.
Polter-Cow - Mar 25, 2011 3:05:57 pm PDT #13753 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Zack Snyder's movies make much better trailers than movies.
I can't wait for the Superman trailer!
Anne W. - Mar 25, 2011 4:16:11 pm PDT #13754 of 30000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I just got back from seeing Rango. What a delightfully strange movie. It was downright surreal and/or trippy in parts, which shouldn't have surprised me, given the Hunter S. Thompson cameo in the movie's first five minutes.
What did surprise me is how gorgeous the cinematography was. Absolutely breathtaking.