Snyder's "cult" film

Rating: 5/10 (28 June 2012)

After watching this flick, maybe sometime into it, you may get the feeling that Snyder made this film simply to fill in his time between projects. I remember reading about him making this film as saying; "...I wondered about why couldn't a film be made that encompassed all these cool effects and martial arts without any regard to propriety." To me, that sounds like what Michael Bay's philosophy towards his films is all about. Sucker Punch I think is Snyder's attempt of making a "cult film/art film" ou of his own material and that is reminiscent of those '70's films like "Two-Lane Blacktop" and "Vanishing Point" where there was no real rhyme or reason to the whole movie. I think it's Snyder's "Existential" film. What never made sense to me about Babydoll, was that when she embarked on her "Matrix Moment", her other ditzy friends followed and strangely, in her head whatever they suffered in the "Matrix Moment", translated to their reality. This made no sense whatsover. But then I remembered Snyder's rationale behind the reason for the film. That it didn't need to make sense! Disappointing of all, was the way the characters stood out from the greenscreen and it simply looked like doing a karate exhibition in front of the audience at a theatre. Using the screen as a crude "forced perspective". Above all, was that Snyder was eager to move from one action sequence to the next but doing that would just make the film 45 minutes long. So we get unnecessary dialogue scenes that are supposed to give us Exposition and emotion which comes off as forced and redundant.