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.
Agreed.
It blows my mind how folks just love complaining about Hollywood's lack of originality and yet when presented an original film like this they opted to crap all over it.
Yeah. Kill Bill never happened. The Terminator never happened. The Aliens series never happened. The Hunger Games franchise totally didn't make a billion and a half dollars. Wonder Woman wasn't just a huge success (those last two being your assertion that "people aren't ready today.")
Also, exactly what people are you talking about? You do realize women make up half the population, and they also go to movies, don't you?
Firstly, the female cast in this film was the definition of eye candy, doubly disturbing that they're all presented as sexualised children with names like Baby doll and wearing stylized high school dresses as outfits. They were damsels in distress masquerading as women with agency, all the "empowerment" they experienced in the film was in dream sequences while in reality they were all prisoners. I'm sure the intention was to present a film that was empowering for women but they failed.
shareI don't know, man. Most of the hate this movie got was based on a feminist critique. I'm sure there were feminists who stood up for it. The haters/defenders don't fall into the usual partisan camps. It's more interesting than that.
share“Ahead of its time”? In addition to Ellen Ripley, let’s consider Valeria, Queen of Thieves from Conan the Barbarian in 1982, or the 2 Heroic Trio films from 1993, or the Charlie’s Angels movie in 2000.
I’m not even going to start on all of Cynthia Rothrock’s B- and DTV films of the 90s.
I think the OP was a studio plant. I notice that whenever Hollywood promotes a garbage movie like this, the promo department will claim it was the first of its kind, ignoring 40 plus years of IPs that did it before. What about Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
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