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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5606200" data-attributes="member: 21169">The fan service is great, it's when Zack Snyder pretends there's more to the film than that that it fails.I'm not sure if it's an interesting failure or not, but at least you get to see beautiful women in fetish gear fighting steampunk zombies, and a WWII bomber versus a dragon. Though the whole thing is strangely unsexy, partly, but not entirely because of the PG-13 rating.The 50s/60s setting is pretty incomprehensible. The women don't look right for that time period, no one then would be imagining the kind of wahoo katana mashups we see in the action scenes either. I think the only reason for it is so Babydoll could be threatened with lobotomy. And I find it unlikely that a woman would create a fantasy about being a prostitute in a brothel as a way to escape the horrors of an asylum. That's obviously a male fantasy.Sucker Punch wants to be The Matrix but its fun parts, the action scenes, are so wonderfully extreme, such pure geek Id, that Snyder feels he has to pull it back the other way and juxtapose that with really dark stuff in the brothel and asylum. Imo he should've had the confidence to embrace the fun. The whole movie should've been like Flash Gordon, lighthearted, camp, with a bit of sex, the whole thing raised up by some really good character actors. Sucker Punch should know it's stupid, but it doesn't, it thinks it's smarter than it is.So I guess it is an interesting failure, very much a missed opportunity.</blockquote>

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