Sucker punched

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2011)

Watch The Fall again. Even Inception, if you can't avoid it. If these don't work, get your fill of stories within stories in that Wojciech Has film about a manuscript. Come to this if you simply want to see this particular fimmaker steamroll in one swoop through a bunch of different movie formats so you won't have to when he devotes feature length time to one of them in the future.
Or to jeer at how the movie pretentiously wants us to indulge the notion about what place we occupy in what world, while romancing us that we have the tools inside to master our selves and "be free", as unfolding in the most simpleminded of fantasy worlds, where evil stepfathers commit innocent daughters at evil mental hospitals run by evil nurses, where 'troubled' characters experience predictable changes of heart.
Or, if you were curious, to see what the "visionary director of 300" has filled his Ipod with since Watchmen.
Or to be simply dismayed at the flimsy facade that purports to mask violence as game. The mentor says so; these Nazi soldiers are dead, so nevermind about killing them. So the kids won't be confused about what it is they're actually watching. If you stayed this long, stick it out to watch someone else finish the video game.
What about the 'female empowerment' angle mentioned by fans of it?
So the girl in this kicks a guy in the crotch. They tear through an army of male zombies. All the while looking like what the guys in the audience want them to look. Better yet, what to make of the fact that it is the girls who fantasize themselves as scantily-clad eye candy, precisely as the men who desire them look at them?
The opening credits of Watchmen is for me the only time where Snyder exhibited some talent. He has some sort of eye for a tableaux, but his notions about storytelling or moral dilemmas I find juvenile at best. This is why the posts exist for art directors or camera operators in the film world, not everyone has to direct.