1. Sucker Punch Is Zack Snyder's Middle Finger To Male Geekdom
I watched Sucker Punch, and I was left cold. It was utterly underwhelming, nonsensical in places, overly fetishized and jam-packed with forgettable characters. By and large the critics agreed with me, agreeing that Zack Snyder's first attempt at an original screenplay went down like a lead-lined Hindenburg. Yet a strange thing happened next a minority of my cinema friends started telling me that Snyder was being far cleverer than you might have thought, and all that voyeuristic flesh-shows (seriously, look at the above) totally had a point, dude. Apparently, Snyder was making it clear in interviews that the whole thing was a satire of male geekdom and their inherent sexism. If it's true and not just an attempt at re-establishing credibility then I've got to hand it to him for potentially out Haneke-ing Haneke. It's well known that as a cultural group we tend to objectify women, so to managing a damning indictment of the culture by biting the hand that feeds can certainly be viewed as ballsy, if nothing else. I guess if you go in for a second time with this interpretation in your head, it certainly does put a different spin on on it. After all, there comes a point somewhere between the quasi-dominatrix murder and the incongruous Asylum-set strip club scenes (read that back for how mental it sounds) that you realise something might be up, and Snyder might just be a genius. Of course, it might all just be as shallow as we originally thought, but we can dare to dream, right? Right?