Sucker Punch

Vorpy

If the movie didn't remind you that everything happening to the girls is actually their imaginations and that they are actually just trying to escape from an asylum, I think the movie would have done a lot better.

GLORIOUSLeader

The asylum scenes were boring, and Zack Snyder needs to stop reminding people that he made 300. 

Vorpy

made what?

GLORIOUSLeader

oh u

Vorpy

hmph.

-goes to google to find out what 300 is-

Schitzo

Comic book adaptation of a Frank Miller work. Manly somehow. Totally not homoerotic at all.

Schitzo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi2t58CRmbU

MANLEH!

GLORIOUSLeader

And my main point was that ever since he made it, every movie he's done has had at least one gratuitous slow motion action sequence. It's really annoying when the entire intro to Sucker Punch is done this way. 

Schitzo

I hate that. When it slows down before a punch. i can see it just fine, douchebag, stop shaking the camera so fucking much.

Vorpy

Oh, that's what This Is Sparta came from.

And is it funny that I didn't even notice the slow motion at all? It's something I tune out completely unless it comes to a extremely slow pace and it makes it noticable, like in V for Vendetta or most things in Avatar TLA.

Chagen

Dude. That kind of slow motion stuff is fucking awesome.

ninjaclown

Only when done right and not all the damn time.

InsanityAddict

It lacked a good climactic action scene, methinks.

inkblot

It would have been better if it didn't feel like a Let's Play of a T-rated video game.

And this coming from someone who usually does nothing but play video games.

Vorpy

I liked it, I just think that the whole "We are actually in an asylum" ruined it.

ClockworkUniverse

See, slow motion is good if done right, but the way some movies do it just makes me think they didn't have enough footage for a whole movie and needed to add more time by any means necessary.

Counterclock

Slow motion is good for times when the things on screen would be too overwhelming visually to some people.

"You want people to see your work and appreciate it, to give them time to contemplate what's happening if what's happening needs help being clarified a bit"

Unfortunately, most people think it's "edgy" to add slow motion to every scene nowadays, rendering it basically stripped of that use and just for serving the purpose of annoying people.

Vivi

In my opinion, slow motion scenes can't be taken seriously, thanks to things like the Matrix.

I don't think I'd ever put slow motion in one of my movies.

ClockworkUniverse

^Well, I probably wouldn't use it for action, but I might for, say, the revalation of a really awesome vista.

IanExMachina

I use it to pad out my homemade porn.

Vivi

Oh yeah! I did actually plan to do that. For the reveal of a scenery after the characters time traveled. But it action, no.

It was good at the dramatic part of Zombieland. The music helped.

inkblot

^^ For a second I thought you spliced footage from Sucker Punch into your porn.

Start doing that.

Malkavian

I haven't watched a Zak Snyder film since Watchmen and I wouldn't have watched that if someone else hadn't paid for my ticket.

Vivi

Why all the Snyder threads?

MillerCross

Why so snide against Snyder, gaiz?

Anyway, pretty much what Malk said. I'll probably download it at some point because I'm a masochist.

As for slo-mo, I like it in action, but it's supposed to be there so the action can be appreciated and emphasized. Like the italics I just used. If you overuse italics to make a point, however, it just looks bad. Especially,  when you alternate them all the time.

Malkavian

Juan's point is one of my main cripes against Snyder. If you use a technique too much it becomes predictable and obvious. Slo-mo in a Snyder film is practically People Sitting In Chairs.

Vorpy

The girls were cute and enjoyable. The action was pretty awesome (seriously, even if you are resistant to Crazy Awesome bullshit this is at least smile-worthy as it unfolds) and not only that, there is little to no "Look at my tits and ass and watch me strip naked and touch myself oh god fuck me hard audience you wish you could"age going on like in Ultraviolet or Jonah Hex.

Vivi

Vorpy's right. Like, take Transformers 2. There is a part where Fox is outside and undresses, changing into a sexy dress. Why? To look hot. It's annoying and stupid.

TheMightyAnonym

They should have just dropped the whole imagination thing all together. THAT would have made it better.

inkblot

But then we wouldn't have such wonderful koans as "If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for everything".

GLORIOUSLeader

Or "we have to show the Fire Nation that we believe in or beliefs as much as they believe in theirs" WHOOPS WRONG MOVIE