10 Movies That Judge You For Watching

2. Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch
Warner Bros.

Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch is, depending upon your viewpoint, either a flagrantly sexist film that gleefully objectifies women, a self-aware action film that seeks to take misogyny to task, or some confused mish-mash of both.

According to Snyder himself, at least, the film was always intended to serve as a critique of sexist geek culture, which has an historic penchant for depicting women in sexualised or infantilised positions, all for the benefit of slobbering men.

In Snyder's action-fantasy, this satire is realised through the dream world which Babydoll (Emily Browning) escapes her abusive reality into, where she's kitted out in sexy, revealing clothing and fights epic, CGI-slathered battles against gigantic video game-esque enemies.

Men, on the other hand, are largely depicted as sex-obsessed, leering creeps easily manipulated by a cute woman in a sailor outfit.

There are certainly questions to be answered about how successful the film's critique actually is: after all, Snyder indulges in the very thing he's judging so pervasively that, to many, it simply comes across as an endorsement.

But unless Snyder's simply trying to impart some added depth into his film after-the-fact, that criticism of misogynistic geekdom was seemingly baked into the project from conception.

Either way, it's tough to watch the film without desperately craving a shower afterwards.

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