Any boobies?
--- On Fri, 4/1/11, turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Sucker Punch > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Friday, April 1, 2011, 12:29 PM > When Zack Snyder was pitching this > movie to Hollywood > producers, he described it as "Alice in Wonderland with > machine guns." > > I'd describe it more as a kind of a Bardo experience, > including the use of the Beatles' "Inner Light" on the > soundtrack at one point. But it's less of a "Turn off > your mind, relax and float downstream" Bardo experience > than it is a "Turn off your mind, snort, shoot, smoke > and ingest a drug cocktail that would put Hunter Thompson > under the table, and float downstream" Bardo experience. > > "Sucker Punch" is a mishmash of every video game, CGI > action movie, and Bad Girls In Prison movie ever created. > It's all flash and style and no content. ZERO content. > > The plot, if there were one, would sorta kinda revolve > around Baby Doll, committed to a mental institution by > her evil stepdad because he got written out of her dead > Mom's will. But that's just the first level of reality. > As soon as Baby Doll is checked in, she starts checkin' > the place out, and her fellow inmates like Sweet Pea, > Rocket, Blondie, and Amber. They're all babes, because > you see it's not really an insane asylum; it's a kind > of sleezy whorehouse/strip club run by the same guy who > in the mental asylum reality is the head orderly. In > the whorehouse reality the babes are supposed to dance > for the customers and then "entertain" them. Only thing > is, when Baby Doll dances, she enters a third alternate > reality (the video game fantasy one), and gets to fight > battles, kick ass and take names. You following all of > this so far? > > Neither was I. :-) But it doesn't matter because this > movie was never *intended* to make any sense. In my > opinion it was designed as a super-flashy entertainment > for teenagers who have burned their brains out with the > drug cocktail I mentioned earlier. Such an audience is > not only not familiar with the word "plot," they're > incapable of following one. All they can do is stare > at the screen, toke up or snort up or shoot up one > more time, and say "Wow!" It's number two at the box > office in America this week, and took in $19.1 million > in its first weekend. Welcome to Maharishi's Sat Yuga. :-) > > All of this said, perversely, I kinda enjoyed parts of > it. I doubt that many others here will, but I had to > write it up anyway because I mentioned it earlier. > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com > > >
