At The Movies!

People who know me know that I love going to the movies. I even recently got myself one of those streaming Netflix accounts so I can watch more while I am at home! (It really does beat always buying the ones I missed when they first came out. That was really beginning to cost me!)

Anyhow, last weekend I was feeling a little funky, but I did make it out to see Sucker Punch. I pretty much knew what I going in to when I went. I saw the trailers. What surprised me was that it actually had some depth to it. Not only that, it was a little bit darker than I thought it would be. You have to keep in mind that this was, at least in most part, all in one girl's mind. That girl, the one they would call Baby Doll, seemed to be living on multiple levels of consciousness: where her daydreams would merge with her reality. I don't know whether she was insane, or if it was all just defense mechanism to shut out the realities of the world she lived in. Go see it and decide for yourself.

That said, I thought it was really well done and the director, Zach Snyder, is fast becoming one of my favorites. At least you can tell what is going on in the action scenes. Even though he does get a little too artistic at times with the camera, he is way better overall than most of the directors out there, who seem to be employing a bunch of over caffeinated monkeys to do all of there action photography! If you are looking for girls with guns and swords, and a lot of juicy visuals, this is the movie for you.

On a side note, I noticed that a lot of the critics out there just didn't get it. I say this because it seems to me that they have a hard time grasping the fact that there can be real communication within action scenes. They want to look at a fight sequence as just a fight sequence and nothing more! They just don't understand that a lot can be said while people are fighting. Often it reveals their true beliefs, philosophies, feelings, and more. But, I digress. I'll rant more on that another time. No one said you had to posses a great mind to be a critic, only that you need a sharp tongue.

 Enjoy the trailer!