10 Movie Titles With Double Meanings Everyone Missed

Sucker Punch is probably the Snyderest movie Zack Snyder has ever made, starring a whole host of kick ass ladies in visually spectacular battles with fantastical equipment and stylised weaponry. The story, however, is paper thin in some places, melodramatic in others, and nonsensical everywhere else.

The titular sucker punch comes from the various unexpected attacks that occur during the movie’s climax as the girls escape, particularly when Sweet Pea makes her getaway.

The double meaning is more linked to the marketing than it is to anywhere else. It’s difficult to tell if this one is even deliberate or just a symptom of Snyder’s ‘yeah that seems cool, whatever’ attitude towards filmmaking. Regardless, it fits well enough.

Much of the marketing consisted of ‘look how hot these girls are’, with their battle attire little more than military themed lingerie. There’s always an audience for that sort of thing, but in the movie the very men who come to gawp at these girls are out and out villains.

Is this a deliberately self aware marketing campaign, which would (wait for it) sucker punch their audience? Or just ironic and inconsistent messaging which makes the studio itself look like a sucker? Answers on a postcard.