People were not ready in 2011 (and still are not ready today) to see female leads in a film who are not damsels in distress, eye candy, love interests or merely a token female in an all-male cast.
Unfortunately, it will take at least more ten years to people evolve enough to appreciate Sucker Punch as teh gem it is.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens begs to differ.
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Rasengan!
Rey, the female lead, was prehaps the best part of the movie.
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Rey, the female lead, was prehaps the best part of the movie.
Well yeah but if you have visited that message board you will see a very different narrative. I don't think a lot of nerds were ready for a female lead in Star Wars.
shareOh please, that's such a pathetic argument for why people didn't like this movie. The movie was just plain awful, which had nothing to do with women playing the lead roles. The majority of the movie takes place in the fake reality in which these women pretend to be in. While somewhat visually "cool", it really provides absolutely nothing to the movie in terms of substance. But I'm sorry, your original point is an awful argument, and just a false statement all together.
shareWhat a hypocritical mysoginist. You certainly would be praising this movie if it were a fantasy about 40-year-old men in carnavalesque costumes.
shareUmm, wow, not at all. How simple minded of a response, typical feminist crap. You obviously didn't read my first post where I said it had absolutely nothing to do with the sex of the leads, I just thought the movie was terrible. So I have to like the movie, or else I'm sexist... could you be any less intelligent?
shareExcuse me, but how the hell do you know whether or not this person would be praising the film if it had males leads? You cannot just invent your opponent's position for them, and then attack that, while expecting to be taken seriously.
shareYou need to watch Mad Max Fury Road.
shareNaw, I think it's simpler than that - it bombed because it doesn't have a happy ending. At best it's a very bitter, slightly sweet conclusion, reminiscent perhaps of Brazil.
It's also a storyline capable of many interpretations and despite the manga style imaginations there is such a dark, serious undertone it's never going to be a feel-good movie. I actually liked it very much and suspect I will watch it again and again - I may even enjoy it more already knowing the ending.
to be fair... the women in this film ARE absolutely eye candy. They are most eye candy-ish eye candy as can be possibly presented on film. They just hang out the house in fishnets and stilletos, and you think its some testament to not objectifying them? It aboslutely is objectifying them. This film ain't targeted at females... It targets male geek fanboys who want to fantasize aobut being with these chicks.
Oh, incidentally.... ALIENS came out in the late 1980's. In fact, the first ALIEN film came out in the 70's. both of those had a female lead hero. Even Kill Bill was 5 years before this crap.
Tell that to Ellen Ripley, circa 1979.
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
Tell that to Ellen Ripley, circa 1979.
How does that make her not the hero? Plus, the character went on to appear in the rest of the franchise as the hero. She's particularly notable in the second film, where we see her face and defeat her fear.
I actually like Sucker Punch, but trying to paint everyone who doesn't as being some kind of woman-hater is the feeble argument of someone who can't muster any facts.
The go to argument of all SJW's. "you didn't like this? You must be a bigot!".
shareI loved the movie way before it was released, i wanted to give it a shot because it was interesting to me, and to tell you honestly, Sucker Punch is a 1000 times BETTER than Paul Feig's awful remake Ghostbusters, it makes Zack Synder's Sucker Punch a Cult Classic entertaining movie, the 5 main characters were more of a real women and badass than those 4 feminist losers
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