Review - Sucker Punch sucks

[scottish_like]

For some reason it takes WAY more energy for me to simply say "(Insert movie title) fucking sucked" than it does for me to write a thousand words about why it fucking sucked. There's no logical reason why this should be true, but it is. I used to think it came from holding in all of the things I really wanted to say about a film, welling up in my

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[louiserobertson]

Isn't that essentially the device of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" published in 1890?

[scottish_like]

Yep.

[louiserobertson]

Except "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" kept me from knowing how things really turned out for most of the film. I was really with him the whole way.

[scottish_like]

HOWEVER: to its "credit", it relays some information during the dream sequences that is tied to aspects of the reality we don't see. So there is more to the story than two seconds turned into two hours, but not much.