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I really enjoyed the movie myself - but lets not get carried away.
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^ Are you referring to my comment? Because his other film the Watchmen is already widely considered a modern day Blade Runner and this movie had the same sort of reception from critics and moviegoers alike. However now both films have massive cult followings.
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Transformers is going to last longer because the entire thing has been integrated everywhere.
Kids love them. I honestly don't see Sucker Punch having any huge interest years after it's released.
Kids love them. I honestly don't see Sucker Punch having any huge interest years after it's released.
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That's obvious.Sucker Punch will not have the life those movies have.
Even Nolan's TDK trilogy will live tehtime longer then this atmospherless set of bright colourful and empty scenes.
Eamon
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We are comparing this to Bladerunner now??!
I think folks are kidding themselves if they think Sucker Punch will have any cult following or gain any sort of classic status.
I liked the movie but I am under no illusions that I was nothing more than a highly misguided extremely sexist teen boy wet dream. In some circles it is even considered offensive and I can see why.
Sill, wicked set pieces and cool action!
I think folks are kidding themselves if they think Sucker Punch will have any cult following or gain any sort of classic status.
I liked the movie but I am under no illusions that I was nothing more than a highly misguided extremely sexist teen boy wet dream. In some circles it is even considered offensive and I can see why.
Sill, wicked set pieces and cool action!
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Welcome my Precog Brothers. 
It already has a sizeable cult following. And Blade Runner was also a miserable critical and commercial failure on its theatrical release. (Co-incidentally another very downbeat sci-fi movie with strong action sequences.)
That would be the circle of 'critics'
slap) with little more than two brain cells to rub together and who very publicly demonstrate their stupidity by failing completely to understand what the movie is about. Maybe Snyder's biggest mistake was to assume audiences would be actually smart enough to figure out what he was trying to do. Ironically, the same mistake Blade Runner made.
https://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2011,5,299
Eamon
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: Oh yeah, the probelm with Sucker Punch that it was too smart!! Are you being serious??
It's pretty clear that some people don't know what "cult status" even means.
EVILFACE
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I think Bladerunner is a bit overrated but Sucker Punch isn't anywhere near it's level. Quality or "cult" status.
I can see why, too. Because some people are over-sensitive proles.
The movie was designed as one fairly simple concept: "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns and cool genre tropes". And that's pretty much exactly what it is. The opposite positions to either make it more/depper than that or charge it as offensive misogynist propaganda are equally faulty.
And it does have a pretty obvious cult following. The only question is whether that will stand the test of time. To answer that, see EVILFACE's post: we'd need a precog.
I don't like the comparison, either. Also, I think BLADE RUNNER has elevated beyond just "cult" status in the past 20 years.
Eamon
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Or they just have something called good taste.
Sucker Punch is a guilty pleasure for me but it is intellectually and morally void.
If folks think otherswise , good on em. People do have different IQ's after all.
VintijDroidGutzz
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I think it's obvious guys.. the film has an audience, but confusing things by attaching somewhat grandiose notions to it, is.. hmm.
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Really? I'm pretty sure this is faulty.
Watchmen had mixed/average reviews, Sucker Punch has negative reviews.
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/watchmen
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/sucker-punch
Watchmen also made $185 million worldwide while Sucker Punch made $89 million worldwide. Watchmen was also based on a graphic novel, had a cult following before the films already came out and i'm pretty sure if you went to the DC section people would kill you for comparing Sucker Punch to it.
I don't see how these films compare at all other than having the same director.
A biography of James Cameron that was published in 2009 mentioned how "The Terminator" went from being considered "classic trash" to just a "classic." We'll see how it goes for Sucker Punch. Meet you guys back here in about 25 years. 
Sucker Punch might be the next "Legend" or "Time Bandits" or maybe even "Highlander" but I definitely don't see it ever hitting Blade Runner status.
Sucker Punch might be the next "Legend" or "Time Bandits" or maybe even "Highlander" but I definitely don't see it ever hitting Blade Runner status.
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I don't know why people always feel the need to compare films to other films. I understand the want to search for a baseline, but there are so many different factors (not the least of which is that almost every movie is its own intentity) that it makes direct comparisons rather irrelevant.
I suppose the only "debate" here is whether SUCKER PUNCH is destined for "cult" status. And that's another non-starter due to one simple fact: no one knows. It has a cult following now, but we're just 1 year removed from its initial release. Like Khev and others have said, only time will tell. Futile to debate it at this point, and silly to try and make direct comparisons.
I suppose the only "debate" here is whether SUCKER PUNCH is destined for "cult" status. And that's another non-starter due to one simple fact: no one knows. It has a cult following now, but we're just 1 year removed from its initial release. Like Khev and others have said, only time will tell. Futile to debate it at this point, and silly to try and make direct comparisons.
Eamon
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Well i am taking issue with this notion that folks somehow didn't understand it as though it were some great intellectual content in SuckerPunch!
To me that's just funny!
But i am trying to think of a cult move that is 'stupid' for want of a better word.
Edit: Critters?? That was great and stupid, Is that considered a cult classic?
To me that's just funny!
But i am trying to think of a cult move that is 'stupid' for want of a better word.
Edit: Critters?? That was great and stupid, Is that considered a cult classic?
Highlander was pretty stupid.
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