The thing is with movies like this (highly stylized impactful visuals) is that they can either be great of fall flat on their face. They rely heavily on the emotion they can muster in the viewer through character development and story. You’ve got to want to root for the hero and want vengence on the enemy.
An example of one that fell flat was Skycaptain and The World of Tommorw. Looked completely awesome but you were bored silly by paper thin characters and couldn’t care less who lived or died. Compare that to 300 where you’re emotionally invested in the outnumbered Spartans fighting for their lives.
This type of movie (sci-fi/fantasy) is completely not my genre, but as I just got a brand spankin’ new TV and a Blu-ray DVD player, I threw it on my Netflix queue.
I was disappointed to hear it was edited down to achieve a PG-13 rating. I’ll probably wait to see an uncut version, if one ever materializes.
That’s a good point and one I hadn’t thought of before. OK, bring on the teenage schoolgirls in their fetish gear!
But we need to put the teenager talk to bed. The oldest of the girls is almost 30 while the youngest is 23.
See: The end of Pirates of the Carribean III where the East India Company was attacking the Protagonsists with what appeared to be more ships than could have possibly existed in the whole world at the time.
I had exactly the opposite reaction – Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow had a strong but not overpowering aroma of cheese; 300 was so far over the top that it just looked annoyingly stupid. Everything I’ve seen and heard indicates that Sucker Punch is going to fall into the latter category.
Because when a woman goes into a battle, she should be wearing more then a miniskirt and midriff.
So you wouldn’t want to watch Supergirl.
Ok Supergirl is one of the worst movies ever made but any female super hero fits your description.
Having just rewatched the trailer…
We have no idea on the age of the protagonist.
The outfits are not that skimpy or fetishy. If anything it looks like workout clothing.
I posted upthread, in a spoiler box, my reasoning about her age (without being spoilery over plot, it involves a parent having legal say over her). I fully acknowledge this may not be the case.
I was merely noting that there are other ways to appear “feminine” and still kick ass; miniskirts are not an absolute requirement.
There are plenty of intelligent, interesting films that do not pander to anyone. They usually play for a week and, if they are lucky, make back their small budget. And then we have films like this.
The thing is, sometimes I want to be pandered to. Sometimes I want to see “hot chicks” in skimpy clothes kicking ass. This is why theaters these days have multiple auditoriums showing different films.
You know, you’re right. Nelson had just 33 ships at Trafalgar, and that was one of the biggest naval battles to date.
Yup. As my SO says, “this movie has everything!” Sure, the characterization will probably be paper-thin and the plot might not make much sense, but movies like this are pandering to the lizard part of our brains that think giant samurai robots fighting Nazi dinosaurs are awesome. Cause they are.
I think Calvin said it best.
Obligatory TV Tropes, main trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolVersusAwesome
I was thinking of this C&H strip instead: This is so cool.
Dirigibles? Multi-engine biplanes? I’m interested.
Brian
i’ll have to say that this movie looks really dumb. I am some what bothered by bleach blonde white girls running around with katanas trying to collect the sacrad items in order to escape this world that actually doesnt exist, its really just in her mind. Uma in Kill Bill was able to pull of the " blonde girl with a katana" because she was surrounded by japanese people and for some reason seemed to fit in that role. But this chick in this movie, god she is so BLONDE, like peroxide bleach blonde, its hideous. Take off the japanese school girl outfit and quit acting like you are a samurai master. I cant imagine watching her ( in her mind) run around looking for items ( in her mind).
Dude. (and you are a dude.) Don’t waste any additional brain matter on a summer pop-corn unplug-your-mind-and-watch-the-pretty-pictures movie. Seriously.
N9IWP plus Nazis!
ETA: Robots!
I am a dude? You are an idiot. I am girl. When have I ever said I was a guy?
Which explains why you aren’t as amazed with this film as myself.