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Monday, March 28, 2011
Why Everyone Hates Sucker Punch
From sexybeast, Critics, fanboys, and the moviegoing public rarely reach consensus, but on the action movie Sucker Punch, they all seem to agree that it's horrific. Chris Lee examines the vitriol.
In an increasingly fractured, 700-channel digi-verse, where attentions are divided between myriad media pursuits, strong opinions travel with lightning speed 140 characters at a time, and anything approaching critical consensus is nearly impossible to come by, a movie has arrived to provide a kind of cultural unity seldom seen outside of responses to natural disasters or terrorism.
The critical assessment nearly everyone with access to a computer keyboard seems to share? That director Zack Snyder's impressionistic action epic Sucker Punch is absolutely dreadful.
Read the full article here
[JPX] Anyone see it?
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Crap! Really? I don't have time to read past the blurb, but that's disappointing.
Still, I'll probably see it later this week. Then you'll all know.
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