While there are many films on this list that are perfect examples of brilliant visuals meeting inane story, Sucker Punch exemplifies the most extreme at both ends - a film that is eye-poppingly gorgeous with its CGI enhanced cinematography and yet still has one of the most indecipherable plots in contemporary Hollywood history. Zack Snyder's "masterpiece" is truly a marvel: a massive achievement in visual artistry and literary ineptitude. I encourage you to watch Sucker Punch with the audio muted - odds are you will have a pleasant experience just savouring Zack Snyder's comic book inspired visual aesthetic, which is a wonder to behold on its own merits. While these segments may be more palatable in small doses, the colors and images captured in both the "real" and "imagined" worlds (if either really exists - the film is frustratingly ambiguous on that point) captured by cinematographer Larry Fong are utterly stunning, and mesh perfectly. Best Shot: A sequence in which the main characters burst into a train and dispatch an army of robots displays a brilliant combination of CGI and camerawork through this continuous take action scene. Reflections, slow motion, shamelessly fetishized violence - it perfectly captures the kind of geek fever dream everyone hoped Sucker Punch would be.
Self-evidently a man who writes for the Internet, Robert also writes films, plays, teleplays, and short stories when he's not working on a movie set somewhere. He lives somewhere behind the Hollywood sign.
