First full trailer for SUCKER PUNCH: what the hell am I watching?
First full trailer for SUCKER PUNCH: what the hell am I watching?
Nov 04
I like video games. I like movies. I do not like video games that try to be movies, or movies that try to be video games. Sucker Punch‘s trailer plays like a bad Japanese beat-em-up: the juvenile misogyny is there in full force, there’s a lot of weightless CGI violence, and there’s even a Zelda-esque mythical-item fetch-quest thrown in for good measure.
As always, I’ll try to reserve judgement until the film itself is released, but trailers like this do little to inspire faith.
Sucker Punch is due on 25 March 2011 in the States, and is directed by Zack Snyder. Expect lots of punching, a fair amount of suckering, and way too much slow-mo ramping.
This looks like it will be very messy and hard to suspend disbelief with all that CGI going on.
It’s Chicago meets The Matrix. It’s Dragon Quest meets A Very Long Engagement. It’s AI meets Annie. It’s Mouse Hunt meets Girl Interupted. It’s every edgy notion Zack Snyder ever reprocessed from every movie, comic or game he ever came into contact with.
It stars Australia’s own Emily Browning as a plucky blonde in a skimpy costume that quotes the roaring 20s and Sailor Moon and it has Scott Glenn hamming it up in a role that might have gone to David Carradine were he still with us. I would usually hate this film just based on this trailer, but I enjoyed Watchmen right off the bat without caring a crap about Alan Moore – so maybe Snyder will put this off. We shall see.