Sucker Punch

[Winter Nights]

Barely-clothed hot chicks sell more tickets than realistic strong women.

Yeah, because the Alien films and The Terminator/Terminator 2 were both such big box office flops

I believe you may have missed his point. Our culture, as a whole, has moved towards the idea that sex, above almost all else, sells. Despite whether or not you think this is wrong, the sad fact is that the less clothes a woman has on throughout the movie, the more tickets are sold.
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I don't think it's as cut and dried as all that, and my point was that having a strong female character in centre stage who doesn't get her kit off doesn't mean your film will flop.

If you can name one movie made in the last 10 years, whose central character was a strong women not backed by sex appeal and the movie had skyrocketing ticket sales, I'll concede to your point.

I'm not saying it isn't atrocious, cause it is and it annoys the piss out of me. But regardless of what I think, as a culture, people want eye candy above depth.

[Dreddz]

name one movie made in the last 10 years, whose central character was a strong women not backed by sex appeal and the movie had skyrocketing ticket sales,

Kill Bill. Speaking of Tarantino films you can also add Death Proof although that movie bombed at the box office unfortunately.

[charliepanayi]

Barely-clothed hot chicks sell more tickets than realistic strong women.

Yeah, because the Alien films and The Terminator/Terminator 2 were both such big box office flops

I believe you may have missed his point. Our culture, as a whole, has moved towards the idea that sex, above almost all else, sells. Despite whether or not you think this is wrong, the sad fact is that the less clothes a woman has on throughout the movie, the more tickets are sold.
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I don't think it's as cut and dried as all that, and my point was that having a strong female character in centre stage who doesn't get her kit off doesn't mean your film will flop.

If you can name one movie made in the last 10 years, whose central character was a strong women not backed by sex appeal and the movie had skyrocketing ticket sales, I'll concede to your point.

I'm not saying it isn't atrocious, cause it is and it annoys the piss out of me. But regardless of what I think, as a culture, people want eye candy above depth.

Can you name any that have been made that flopped, Grindhouse apart (and that was little to do with the female roles). Plus Dreddz mentioned Kill Bill. The fact is barely are made and good female roles are at a premium as studios are too scared to take any risks. And people want eye candy over depth? Stupid people maybe, but the likes of Inception and Toy Story 3 recently show there's an audience for films that don't insult the intelligence, and which don't need to have Megan Fox in shorts to succeed.

[Shorty]

From my understanding, (SPOILER)the premise of the movie is Emily Browning's character is taken to a mental institution for witnessing something... bad. During her stay there, she comes to learn that she is going to be subjected to a lobotomy unless she can escape. At the same time (or shortly before this) she creates an elaborate fantasy world (which explains the presence of dragons, samurai, and the five lead female's ability to fight somewhat supernaturally). The two worlds collide in a way where they learn things in the fantasy world and use them to escape in the real world.

Speculative though as I don't know much about the movie itself.

This makes more sense to me than that trailer. As it went on, it looked a little ridiculous to me, but if the movie actually goes something like this, it would be something I could handle.

I also hate these overly sexualised female action heroes. Just used as cheap marketing tools to attract pubescent teens to the picture. Whatever happened to proper action heroines like Sarah Conner and Ellen Ripley?

I quite like the sexualized female action heroes. Female heroines are obviously the minority when it comes to action films, and I think it's a nice change to see women kick some ass. I'm happy to see more movies about it.

[Dreddz]

I quite like the sexualized female action heroes. Female heroines are obviously the minority when it comes to action films, and I think it's a nice change to see women kick some ass. I'm happy to see more movies about it.

I'm all for women kicking ass its just the filmmakers don't have to exaggerate their femininity whilst doing so. Its as though we need reminding that they are in fact female rather than male. The best female heroines are the ones who show that being female has nothing to do with their heroics.

I can just imagine the girls in Sucker Punch to take down someone and blow a kiss or something stupid like that. Oh and expect a lot of rear shots, cause we guys LOVE that.

[Depression Moon]

cause we guys LOVE that

Only if it's a girl that actually has an ass. All of them look pretty skinny. The women's looks was the third thing I was really thinking about in this. Mostly for me it was speculation on the movie's story and what it could possibly do for me and others.

[Winter Nights]

name one movie made in the last 10 years, whose central character was a strong women not backed by sex appeal and the movie had skyrocketing ticket sales,

Kill Bill. Speaking of Tarantino films you can also add Death Proof although that movie bombed at the box office unfortunately.

While I do think Kill Bill's success had more to do with Tarantino than Uma Thurman, I'll concede the point.

That said, even if what I said is not actually the case, the studios believe it and are more open to let fools like Snyder do their thing, because they sex it up.

[McLovin']

This looks cool. I read this is based off a fantasy porn comic or something?

Whatever, I liked 300 and Watchmen so I guess this director knows what he is doing. And who cares if Vanessa Hudgens is in this? She's negligible.

[Depression Moon]

YouTube - Sucker Punch - Official Trailer 2 [HD]

[Dreddz]

I didn't think it was possible for this movie to piss me off even more but it just did.

[McLovin']

That second trailer was badass.

[spirit]

I've talked to a few people at work, they want to see it too...But, no one on line seems interested. Posted this in the wrong place, oops...

[Iceglow]

This movie looks to be bloody awesome is all I am going to say.

[G13]

That's strange, the only people I know who are interested in it are online. I think it looks awesome. What little information I've gotten from the trailers it looks like a steampunk Wizard of Oz. I'll definitely be seeing this in theaters.

[McLovin']

Even if the story sucks it will still be awesome. These actions scenes look amazing.