Guilty Pleasures: Movies

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by itvnetop

Oh boy, you done did it now SS! Most of the 80's classics are a given, so I'll skip those.

Really bad flicks I can never turn off:

The Room
Troll 2
Enough (Really horrible J-Lo)
Gymkata
Double Team (JCVD + Dennis Rodman, anyone?)
Garbage Pail Kids: The Movie
Side Out & Soul Man (The C. Thomas Howell classics)
Just One of the Guys
The 6th Man
The Smurfs (2011)
Anything from Troma Films
Lifetime movies (Sexting in Surburbia, anyone?)

Flicks I love that critics (and most people) hate:

Sucker Punch
Speed Racer
Belly
Spork
Four Rooms (not to be confused with The Room listed above)
Visitor Q
Crash (Not the Oscar winner, but erotic obsession w/ car crashes version)
Wet Hot American Summer
Sorority Row
The Golden Child
Seed of Chucky

Flicks cinephiles should love, but lose nearly everyone else:

Videodrome
Lost Highway/Eraserhead/Mulholland Drive (Lynch stuff)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
El Topo/Holy Mountain (trippy Jodorowski)
Bad Taste
Enter The Void

And try as I might, I can't sit through most chick flicks. But I do love these:

The Princess Bride
Annie Hall
Married to the Mob
Dirty Dancing
Heathers
The Ramen Girl
Thelma & Louise
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Witches of Eastwick
The Secretary
Party Girl

Sucker Punch was wonderful I thought. The CGI, the practically all-female cast, I thought it kicked ass. I couldn't figure out why so many people hated it. Because it was chicks running around scantily fighting bad guys? I dunno. I thought the storyline was inception-y and pretty unique. The soundtrack is also worth a listen as well.

[itvnetop]

Originally Posted by DynamiteRave

Sucker Punch was wonderful I thought. The CGI, the practically all-female cast, I thought it kicked ass. I couldn't figure out why so many people hated it. Because it was chicks running around scantily fighting bad guys? I dunno. I thought the storyline was inception-y and pretty unique. The soundtrack is also worth a listen as well.

Right? I passed on seeing this in the theater because of how bad it got panned- none of my friends who saw it liked it at all. Then when I finally caught the blu-ray, I was blown away. There's one deleted scene in the blu-ray that totally explains the ending- it was a travesty the studio pulled it for the theatrical release.

I think marketing tricked a bunch of fanboys looking for scantily clad chicks kicking butt (which the film provides in spades), but like you said- the story was pretty creative and caught those viewers off guard. It was Zak Snyder's "sucker punch" to those expecting a vapid candy show. Everyone whines about Hollywood retreading ideas and storylines- Snyder creates something original and the same people get mad because it doesn't fit into a traditional narrative. And kudos to the actresses learning how to handle their weapons- I totally bought the action (the German trench warfare scene was insane).

And yeah, the soundtrack is amazing. Loved Bjork over the samurai sequence.