Monday, April 4, 2011

Zack Snyder: Sucker Punch

In the first dream sequence, the heroine has to fight three samurai. The samurai are very big, like, say, trees. One of them also has a chain gun, which is also as big as a tree. It is not a chain gun, but rather a CHAIN GUN! The demonic tree-sized samurai fills the air with about three tons of ammo, demolishing a huge Buddhist temple in the process. This is the mother and father of all chain gun scenes. The chain gun scene in The Matrix is a duck fart compared to this. Then the heroine shoots his face full of holes. I watched all this with child-like glee.

There might be a serious movie under all this, and some meaning beyond "all men are sweaty, greasy, lecherous swine - including Don Draper". I am sure that Zak Snyder thinks so. I'm afraid, that it might turn out a Disney-approved meaning like "Believe in yourself!". But at the moment I am still giddy with the dream sequences. It is terrible to find out the exact level of one's own immaturity, but clockwork zombie Nazis, the heroes strafing a fantastic battleground with an WWII era bomber, a dragon going after said bomber...sometimes, you just have to let the awesome in, know what I mean?

5 of 5 VTOL-capable, auto cannon-armed powered battlesuits which have a grim, pink bunny face painted on the front/ face armor plating.

I'd pay for a desktop model of this suit.

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