Just watched Sucker Punch. For free, thanks to an HP event.
In short: Google for “Vanessa Hudgens naked” and you’ll be happier with what you see. Synder basically wrote a bunch of fun scenes and attempted to connect them, and failed miserably.
In detail (attempting to avoid spoilers): The movie’s based around one very cute girl losing her shit. She develops an intensely surreal fantasy world(s) in order to cope. The individual fantasy scenes are neat, beautiful, and interesting. The (not so) subtle connections between them, both the connections to the real world that’s developed and the fantasy in between each, are poorly contrived. Foreshadowing is too obvious, the twist is nearly impossible to not see coming, and the story arch is broken. Synder took a lot of archetypes and smashed them together. If I were 14 I’d hate myself for saying any of this, because it’s got Nazi zombies, guns, hot chicks, swords, dragons, robots, bombs, etc, and that OBVIOUSLY makes it an Oscar worthy movie.
If they were able to lock a few higher profile (better) actors, which would be hard because no one worth it would agree to what it is, it might of been more enjoyable. If Synder developed a few story boards and gave it to someone to write, it would have been a lot better. However, all he did was prove “I can make movies based on comics that are fucking awesome, but I can’t write for shit.” I really think getting a higher profile secondary writer in, besides this guy that hasn’t done anything (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793122/), would have done this movie a world of credit in the direction of not sucking.
