"Prolly Rape" with Quality CGI - Sucker Punch Needs a Director's Cut???

So this happened.  Man listen - I liked '300'.  I own '300'.  Twice.  On two different platforms.  Cuz '300' was amazing.  I remember the day I bought my dog, he was in a small suburb outside of Dallas, and he actually got there before the breeders had him ready to go, so we went to a theater to kill some time.  We saw 'The Departed', in my opinion Leo's best work, and the preview for '300' was shown.  It was amazing.  Visually, tonally, you just KNEW how great it was going to be.  So I've seen '300' maybe as many times as I've seen 'Friday After Next'.  Kidding, I've seen 'Friday After Next' more times than your parents have seen the news, but you get the idea.

Honestly, things could only get worse from here.

Back to my point, '300' was a visual masterpiece, heavily stylized and completely taking advantage of everything green screen can provide.  Then came 'Watchmen'.  Oh boy.  'Watchmen' is considered by many to be one of the best American STORIES ever produced in any medium.  It's fun, it's deep, it's a mystery, it very mature, and most importantly, it's smart.  To find a movie that is all these things, it would have to be a LONG ASS MOVIE.  Zack Snyder wanted his cinematic interpretation of the comic series to be at least four hours.  The studio wasn't having that shit, cuz nobody's gonna sit through a four hour movie about anything.  Long story short, the movie sucked, for many, many reasons, but it was really good looking, and was profitable.  Slightly.  Like, it cost a butt load to make, and only made a crack load profitable.  But yeah, they kept giving Snyder the ball to run with - and where did he take his next carry?  'Sucker Punch', that's where.

Pretty as it was... this was a BAD PLAN.

 First off, if you like the movie 'Sucker Punch', I don't like you.  If you say "I liked things ABOUT 'Sucker Punch'", that's cool I guess.  But if you'd recommend that movie to a friend, I kinda want you to get unfriended.  "Dirt worst" is a strong opinion, but let's glance at the movie -

So "prolly rape" is really the crux of everything. I'll be using that term to explain a scene where they can't say it's rape BECAUSE SOMEHOW THIS IS PG-13 but as an adult with eyes and ears, you know rape when rape happens. In the beginning, a man who "prolly rapes" his stepdaughters has one of them committed because he killed the other.  Yup.  Going there early.  He brides the orderly who "prolly rapes" all the other commited girls there to have her lobotomized with the quickness.  So she starts to fantasize about being a prostiture in a brothel. a common setting for "prolly rape".  All the people in this Asylum are present in her dream, and the other girls ally with her to plan an escape before the lobotomy.  So the orderly tells her he's going to sell her virginity to "High Roller", the doctor who performs the labotomy (also, selling your virginity, here an allegory for the lobotomy, even worse that "prolly rape" - that's really rape!).

You even named her Baby Doll man.  Baby Doll?!??!?!?!

So if you're still with me, she does a dance (has sex with a guy) to go into a fantasy, within the fantasy, where her and the other girls are fighting giant mechs in Japan.  HUH?  From that point on, it's just dream fights alluding to "prolly rape" and violence against women without providing any real empowerment, justification, or even a really satisfying conclusion (she's finally "at peace" after SHE GETS LOBOTOMIZED) and one of  the other side characters actually gets away, after the other four are either killed, captured or... well, broken record at this point.  It's visually got some real juice, like the scene they ripped from Final Fantasy, but really it's empty and offensive and would have been an interesting music video ten years ago maybe kinda.

Yup, found a way to work 'Dredd' in here.  GO BUY 'DREDD'!!!!

 This movie made 7 million dollars.  The budget was 82 million, and it made 89 million.  By comparison, 'A Haunted House', which can't be funny, cost 2.5 million and made like 60 million.  Even the sequel, that cost 4 million made 10 million so far.  'Sucker Punch' was an expensive crock.   Numbers show it, reviews show it.  So a director's cut?  OF COURSE!  Now, there have been movies that have done so well on home video, they warrant sequels and additional versions.  The idea that we need more of that, or that somehow the studio messed up what he wanted, a la 'Watchmen', is crazy.  If this movie had been any longer, what would it include?  Prolly rape, I'd wager.  If you see the new cut, and it really does make the movie better,  MISS ME WITH IT.  COMPLETELY.  I'M GOOD OVER HERE.