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.
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.
Aw, man, that is depressing.
I am loving IO9's March Movie Madness, not least of all because Serenity is pissing off so many commenters.
I think I'm going to go with Showgirls+Inception for Suckerpunch.
Except I liked Inception.
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!
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.
Zack Snyder's movies make much better trailers than movies.
I can't wait for the
Superman
trailer!
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.
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.
I thought his remake of
Dawn of the Dead
was fantastic. And
300
was technically really cool, and mostly coherent. But it's been all downhill from there.