Phantastic and Visionary

Rating: 9/10 (24 June 2017)

After all those BIG disappointments lately (American Gods, The Mist, King Arthur, King Kong, The Wall, Lala Land etc. etc.) I more and more rewatch movies I like a lot. One of those "new classics" for me is Sucker Punch - a movie which promotes fighting girls (a year before Hunger Games and the inflation of men beating up girls and women hit the screen), it has stunning visuals and a story - if you care - that gives you a lot of material to think about, on top you get a certain tone of melancholia which is just superb.
Zack Snyder got at least three masterworks in his line: his version of the classic Dawn of the Dead, 300, and Sucker Punch - these movies beat easy everything Hollywood calls nowadays Blockbuster and tries to sell us - 2016 and till now 2017 are filled with disappointing bad or at most mediocre and certainly redundant outputs of the once called dream-factory: Hollywood needs to learn to dream again, and what I mean is not dreaming about making big easy cash with generic and bloodless products and big names, whose emptiness is disguised by the CGI-department (which is the only part of the filming industry that seems to make a - positive - progress). Not to forget all this primitive implemented liberal p.c.-schrott - how it is well done shows a movie like The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1975.
But I guess nowadays the possession of a notebook and the will to spill one's mediocrity over the world is enough to meet the qualifications to get a job as a scriptwriter (besides the "right" left "liberal" state of "mind") - real imagination and skill are a very rare thing in these modern times. Sucker Punch belongs (imo) to the master league of modern fantastic and visionary movie-making: Matrix, Fight Club, Sin City, Pan's Labyrinth and a few other triumphant works of (more) recent years.