Welcome to Thunderdome

Posted: **Sun Feb 19, 2012 8:14 pm**

A girl gets committed to an insane asylum by a stepfather who wants to shut her up. She escapes into her own fantasies.

Through the movie I was smiling at the dreamscapes she sent herself into. 10 feet tall Samari warriors with chainguns vs. Little blonde schoolgirls with katanas..... World War II B-29 vs. A dragon while assaulting a castle full of orcs with machine guns. Sword-wielding schoolgirl commandos assaulting undead German mecha zombies in the World War I trenches with a hot asian girl in a suit of mech armor for support.

There are a couple layers of reality in the movie, and I spent most of it wondering what exactly was going on. In the end it ended up being sort of a bummer movie and I should stop watching so many bummer movies.

This flick got a lot of flack for "sucking," but I thought it was worth seeing for the fantasy vignettes alone. Very extremely cool.

Edited By GORDON on 1329700520

Posted: **Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:55 am**

Got the soundtrack. Made me realize how important the music was to this movie. Getting the Blu Ray next.

Posted: **Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:09 pm**

Started watching the bluray with the wife last night, we had an hour to kill.

Got through the second combat sequence.

She wasn't enjoying it.

This suggests it is a good movie.... FYI.

Posted: **Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:13 pm**

When you see it, pay attention to the early scene in which the girls are in their dressing room at the makeup tables. Pay attention to their reflections. Tell me what you see.

Posted: **Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:15 pm**

I watched this movie a year or so ago. It was pretty good, but I wasn't quite in the mood for what it is. Admittedly, I had no idea what it was about when I started watching it, I think I had confused it with another movie.

Gordon's right, the vignettes are pretty stellar, certainly the best part of the movie.

As a whole, I'd give it a "interesting, but not great"

Posted: **Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:17 pm**

Here's what Rotten Tomatoes says:

t's technically impressive and loaded with eye-catching images, but without characters or a plot to support them, all of Sucker Punch's visual thrills are for naught.

I agree. Too much on the vignettes kinda leaves you not caring about the characters.

Plus, none of the girls gets naked.