 Originally Posted by Neil
Well that's the second dud review I've seen for this flick today ... the likelihood of me seeing this in the cinemas is plunging rapidly, and I was only moderately interested in the first place.
The trailer, to me, simply said "a bunch of cool looking shit going on" ... and by the sounds of it, it's just that, albeit the "cool stuff" becomes "uncool" because it's not in a trailer, and because there's sod all connection to the material apparently. I was always sceptical about this have anything in it to make you care ... and it seems to be becoming clear that this is the case with this flick, which seems to be more about getting a bunch of boner-fied teenage boys into the cinemas and nothing more.
In the IGN review they also mentioned the use of music being far too literal and blunt, which was a concern I had with Watchmen - now, Watchmen I rather dug, particularly in the longer cut, but at times the music did feel a bit too 'on the nose' ... so apparently with Sucker Punch that goes into hyperdrive, oh dear.
I'm not surprised it seems to be getting more and more dud reviews, because the trailer didn't have anything in it to make me connect to the material at all, and up until now Snyder has been trading on the work of other people. The MTV-styled remake of Dawn was a poor, music-video-like immitation of a far superior product ... 300 was taking someone else's content, and indeed visuals, and just making them move ... the same with Watchmen. Indeed the reason why I rather like Watchmen has fuck all to do with Snyder, it's all to do with the source material being so strong in the first place, so all the hard work and heavy lifting has been done already.
Take away someone else's already established and applauded source material, and what do you get? A bunch of flashy visuals in slow motion - and who gives a fart about that if you're not invested in it?
I'm starting to think I'll wait until it shows on Sky Movies to see it, or borrow it from a friend ... I'm increasingly not keen on dropping £6.30 on this.
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), but I still knew just by watching it that it was a sub par product. 
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