Emily Browning is so thoroughly the canny and inventive Violet Baudelaire to me that there is seriously no amount of money on earth that could have bribed me to see
Sucker Punch.
It was totally irrational of me, but the entire premise felt like a personal insult to that character and to the intelligence of the actress who'd brought her to life.
Stoopid mainstream movie industry. Last I heard, the amazing girl who played Wendy in the most recent
Peter Pan
had quit; she hit her late teens and early twenties and got tired of being offered nothing but screaming and helplessness.
The
Sucker Punch
soundtrack is pretty good. Other than that, I got nothin'. We watched it on DVD and kept looking at each other going
"Really? REALLY?".
What upsets me is the swarms of teen girls (that I mostly see on Tumblr) who LOVE
Sucker Punch
and identify with Babydoll.
On some level, I feel like I get it, because being a teen girl is about restrictions and what-have-you.
Still, yikes, Jilli.
The Sucker Punch soundtrack is pretty good.
That it is. Given that and the fact that I love the TRAILERS for his movies more than the movies themselves, I think maybe Zack Snyder should just direct awesome music videos.
Well, that definitely was a Whit Stillman film.
Did anyone sing Pennsylvania 6-5000?
My favorite part was when the
Romans were brought down by barbarian invaders
.
Sucker Punch
was vile. I haven't been that angry at a movie in a long time.
I just got back from
The Hunger Games,
though, so now I need to go back and read all the juicy spoilerfont.
