Sucker Punch and Religious Beliefs
THIS BLOG WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS ABOUT THE MOVIE, SUCKER PUNCH. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET.
Soooo, today I went to see Sucker Punch. I've been waiting to see this film for a long time, and I said it'd be the film of the year. I'm not going to jump straight into it though, I'll tell you about the whole Wednesday that led up to watching the movie, and then I'll give you my view. It was an interesting day to say the least.
I headed off to Nottingham early on and caught my train from Worksop. I wanted to watch the movie at my favourite cinema, Cineworld, which is based at the Corner House in Nottingham. I got there to find that Sucker Punch had been fully booked. I thought it was a bit strange as nobody was there at 10.30am and yet it had sold out, as well as the three showings after that time. As I'd bought myself a Gregg's sandwich, I decided to head to the park and have me a relaxing feast in the sun. It's a park where me and Caroline went on our first date so it's always special.
I sat there and got a few photos of wildlife, had my food, and just chilled out thinking about anything. After a good half an hour, a couple of Johovah's Witnesses came walking along, black women they were, and I knew they'd be coming to my lonely little peaceful bench when I heard one of them say 'let's go and talk to him' or some crap where I thought 'Oh God, leave me in peace'. But they came up, and we actually had a nice chat. But once again, Tonyo verses religion.. it must be a good score to me by now and I still haven't lost a single round. You know you beat them when they have to resort to getting the Bible out and reading stuff from it, but that still doesn't work. My experiences in life and my knowledge on true spiritual and scientific facts will always win over a book written by 'God' knows who (haha, you see what I did there?) and a book that contradicts itself over and over.
These two women who were obviously trying to change my unchanging strong mind weren't getting anywhere. Especially when they said that good can happen if a family is good around each other. I told them 'That is not the world we live in. You must use evil to fight evil otherwise you cannot win'. They disagreed. Of course, being me I have an answer for everything. 'Alright, for an example, the old audio story of War Of The Worlds. A Priest stood before the alien and thought he could stop them, they struck him down and killed him. Good cannot beat evil by using good, only good can use evil to defeat evil, it's the only way'. This is when the Bible came out, and again, they said God made the planet, which previously I'd told them that God is a thought form and we created him.
It was a good ol' natter, but please Religious folk, don't you ever give up? People can be good without having religion pushed on them. Tell someone who hasn't got a clue about these Godly things, because I know what's going on in the world and don't need a book to tell me what I should and shouldn't do, especially one that's so out of date. After this chat, I must admit, I know about more things than I realised. I reeled off science, politics, religion, the paranormal, and War Of The Worlds in one 20 minute chat. Haha.
Okies, so I went back to the cinema after I left the park. I was going to head back to the train station but decided to see if the film had opened and there was some mistake. I was right, and caught the 1.15pm showing of Sucker Punch. So, was it any good?
I've been claiming that Sucker Punch would probably be the film of the year because it had a story and effects. I was wrong. The battle scenes with the giant samurai and dragon were mind blowing. The robots and Nazi zombies dragged on a bit too long and had far too many slow down sequences, especially the robot battle. I also felt sad when they killed the baby dragon, and there was no real reason for this in the end.
Babydoll had to find a map, fire, a knife, a key, and something that was a mystery... that turned out to be Babydoll herself, so that was original wasn't it and not exactly a shocker. I had a couple fo theories about this film... I thought maybe the imaginary world would be the real world and she'd escape the so called reality by going into this new place... Wrong! I thought the bloke in the imaginary world would betray Babydoll and her four friends right at the end and they'd have to defeat him... WRONG! I thought this film had a decent story and would be flipping good..... WROOOONG!!!!!
So pretty much, the world she went into was a pile of crap and seemed pretty pointless. It didn't have the structure of say.. Inception, and just mixed things up too much and battle effect scenes that were film sellers and not giving a shit about the storyline. If I could have read this script before they used it, I'd have changed so many things. It's a potential story that I'd probably write myself, but if I'd have written it, it'd have made more sense.
I love the characters and costumes and can see a lot of cosplays coming from this movie. I don't think there will be a sequel, it'd be a waste of time if they brought another one out. These battle scenes would have fitted a Gantz movie perfectly, and it wouldn't have been pointless.
So all in all, this movie was a disappointment to me. I'd probably buy the DVD for the battle scenes alone, and watch it again to try and figure out what's going on and fit together all the imaginary stuff to the reality stuff.. which is broken from the first time Babydoll enters her fantasy world so saying that is pointless too.
Could have been a lot better, maybe they'll improve it in the re-make in about 30 years?
The day was nice though and the weather was perfect. I got home, had my tea and jumped online with Caroline until really late. Life is great, but Sucker Punch isn't!