This mothered before Ocean’s 8 could even auntie

@sheedarpasta6377

2 ай бұрын

Spot on

@jtm881

2 ай бұрын

Real👏

@ces7423

2 ай бұрын

chrewly 😌

@Yoshimitsu4prez

2 ай бұрын

What 😭

@slaymil

2 ай бұрын

Well yes!

Sucker Punch, Charlie's Angels and Jennifer's Body...the trifecta of movies made especially for the phrase "the girls who get it get it and the girls who don't don't and if you don't get it I feel sorry for you" NO, I will not elaborate

@goldenoceans14

2 ай бұрын

SO TRUE BESTIE

@leavesandwhiskers

2 ай бұрын

you don't need to elaborate, because the girls who get it get it and the girls who don't don't and if they don't get it I feel sorry for them ✨

@XxKawaiiCookies

2 ай бұрын

Almost finished the trifecta. Time to watch Charlie’s Angels

@NyikoDoris

2 ай бұрын

@@XxKawaiiCookies be careful…Lucy Liu in that movie turned me bisexual 😔✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

@NyikoDoris

2 ай бұрын

@@leavesandwhiskers EXACTLLLYYYYY

snyder tweeting about this video is literally everything

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

What did blud say?

@lilacbubble3589

2 ай бұрын

@@Winter-Alpha-OmegaI’m cryinggggg at this rn

@erukei_

2 ай бұрын

"In honor of the 13th anniversary of Sucker Punch, check this out, because Mike's right, it's so movie."

@kris.........

2 ай бұрын

​@@erukei_fucking beautiful

@MatthewTheWanderer

2 ай бұрын

@@erukei_ That's awesome!

also on another note- if y’all have not ever looked up the PROP DESIGN in this movie, you are missing out. baby dolls gun and sword are so detailed and really are personalized to her character. they have little charms on them and it’s just so good. the attention to detail with design is so under appreciated.

@CherryGumdrops707

2 ай бұрын

TWIN BESTIE

@sybill123ful

2 ай бұрын

@@CherryGumdrops707 i never see anyone w this pic anymore what a serve

@mccrackenz

2 ай бұрын

yesss i had so many plans to recreate her weapons when i was still a teenager and believed i would have money someday 😂 it's still on the lottery list

@sybill123ful

2 ай бұрын

@@mccrackenz the delusion in me is still thinks that the actual props will be sold again and not for thousands like they were 😅 and the even deeper delusion in me is convinced i’d be able to afford them lmaooo

@kawaRCC

2 ай бұрын

I remember looking up their weapon designs and being really impressed. The charms for Babydoll were a great touch.

People bash this movie for exploiting women but I'm like....that's the point? These women ARE exploited in a mental hospital so much so the main character easily fantasizes it as a brothel and the whole film revolves around her emotionally empowering herself and others to weave an escape plan and free themselves from their mistreatment. The movie is feminist at its core but the majority see skimpy outfits and women in suggestive situations they can't escape and immediately get mad.

@rowannnnnnnnn

2 ай бұрын

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY, HOLY HECK

@violeta373

2 ай бұрын

i remember seeing this movie as a kid and really enjoying it, understanding a deeper meaning but not able to explain it. definitely gotta rewatch now

@LovesickMelody6661

2 ай бұрын

YESSSSS!!! was looking for this comment!

@eilir_adron

2 ай бұрын

omg it was actually my little brother who pointed this out to me lol it's still one of his favorite movies ever and he owns a copy of it

@emmacent7737

2 ай бұрын

Feminism is dead

“Release the Snyder cut” is a sentence I never thought I’d hear Michael’s microphone say

@funty420

2 ай бұрын

and MEAN it

@yanniesays

2 ай бұрын

Michael's microphone 🤣

@NyikoDoris

2 ай бұрын

@@yanniesays Michaela‘s Megaphone if you will🤭

@nijohn12

2 ай бұрын

@@yanniesays his government name LMFAO

@whoops8412

2 ай бұрын

Not going to lie… The pop culture surrounding “Quiet on Set” with Dan Schneider…. Makes the “Release the Snyder cut” sound TERRIBLE. Thank goodness for the spelling in the comment section saying Snyder and not Schneider

Sucker punch is what every live action anime wants to be.

@22centipede

2 ай бұрын

It really was giving feisty anime gals with fu*ed up backstories tea

@AfianySnow29802

2 ай бұрын

😑

@missserenity1090

25 күн бұрын

True, except One Piece, that one is actually good.

hearing that emily browning allegedly had 3 layers of falsies on is what has stayed with me forever. she's one of the actresses of all time... main slayer indeed

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

What's a falsie?

@miniyupi3766

2 ай бұрын

@@Winter-Alpha-Omega a false set of eyelashes. its essentially make up. You use special glue to attach a strip of eyelashes to make your lashes appear thicker/longer. Wearing 3 stacked onop of eachother would feel quite heavy on the lids and be rather uncomfortable. Maybe they wanted her to look extra doll like

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

@@miniyupi3766 It's weird, because I'm a guy and my eyelashes are thick as f*ck. My mum says they look like those of a giraffe 😂

@pagingdrbitchcraft

2 ай бұрын

@@Winter-Alpha-Omega Men notoriously have great lashes while we stack falsies on top of each other 😅 *hiss*

@johnnypopstar

2 ай бұрын

@@Winter-Alpha-Omega In the UK as a guy and absent any other context "falsies" made me think "false teeth" and boy was that a confusing few seconds. Three layers of false teeth?!

When mike picks up that mic, you know it’s time to listen

@Mia-iv6pm

2 ай бұрын

universal law

@sadeasinadu1335

2 ай бұрын

Oh honey we stay ready

@sheedarpasta6377

2 ай бұрын

Rule of nature

@penidk

2 ай бұрын

🫡

@aspartameindustry

2 ай бұрын

Never seen this movie and I have no idea what's going on but I listen

Baby doll said that guardian angels could be 3 things: an old man, a girl, and a kid. They were all of sweet peas angels to help her escape. Baby doll helped get her out, The kid didn't do much but maybe he was a sign that she was on the right path, and the old man lied to get the cops away from her

@zzzpiral

2 ай бұрын

WHATTTTTTTT

@egorpozdnyakov8812

2 ай бұрын

IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW

@egorpozdnyakov8812

2 ай бұрын

I guess the main critique for the movie now is that it’s too hectic for a viewer to realistically get all those parallels and nuances on the first watch.

@supersucks

2 ай бұрын

@@egorpozdnyakov8812 this movie wasn’t received properly because the world wasn’t ready for alternate realities happening at the same time or movies with many parallels. back then the mainstream wasn’t used to multiverses/AUs/parallels. Alternatively now most movies use that premise, i.e. EEAAO, Marvel, DC

@Callisto171

2 ай бұрын

​@egorpozdnyakov8812 another reason why I love the movie as someone who rewatches things to infinity. But yes, you are right. My friends had me to explain what was going on otherwise I don't think they would have been that patient to rewatch it again.

“I wanna eat it” was so out of pocket I bust out laughing in the middle of the university library and so many ppl stared.

@User-rm7ir

2 ай бұрын

That wasn't what I was expecting him to say AT ALL, my tea came out of my nose 😂

@wassupkevin

2 ай бұрын

Wait. When did he say it? 😭

@adelinagllareva349

2 ай бұрын

17:35 ! @@wassupkevin

@cinque.mp4

2 ай бұрын

@@wassupkevin on 17:35

@abbeyBominable123

2 ай бұрын

I thought he said "and now we're eating"

I work as a stripper and it would interest many of u to know that the clubs play bjork army of me for stage dances!! I swear to god the influence this movie STILL has…

@peach_ringz_4evz

2 ай бұрын

Oh my god love this

@mikesmic

2 ай бұрын

Waittttttt

@roadworkahead8967

2 ай бұрын

The sound track was super super iconic one of my all time favorite movie soundtracks

@hyfrosie

2 ай бұрын

I legit came to the comments to say this too! I swear this movie subconsciously inspired my decision to become a dancer.

@vivilovr

2 ай бұрын

motherrr

sucker punch is also a beautiful commentary on the origins of the ballet. being pimped out is actually what original ballerinas had to do to survive and fund their dance studios. it’s like if fran bow was black swan- absolutely insane

@berobero686

2 ай бұрын

Dancing troupes and sex work gone hand in hand for long time and many cultures. Beautiful people that knew what to do with their body always gathered attention of this kind, consensual or not

@4651adri

2 ай бұрын

Work? More like exploitation. Consent is irrelevant if there's no desire. That's what draws the line between s ex and r ape.

@pagingdrbitchcraft

2 ай бұрын

Get out! That’s *wild* 😆 Thank you in advance for my descent down this rabbit hole.

@MatthewTheWanderer

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like geishas.

@mxknifefight

2 ай бұрын

@@MatthewTheWanderer every culture has their own term and elaborate customs for how they systematically pressured women into selling their bodies to survive

Bro, I cannot even tell you how grateful I am you chose this film to talk about. SO IMPACTFUL for the little girlies and NO ONE got it. The woman in media of the early 2000s-2010s were literally robbed of their flowers. This shit was a masterpiece then and still is now, much like Jennifer’s Body- we will not forget the initial reception, but we appreciate that it can become a cult classic. Thank you for covering this perfection with perfection 💚

@blipe992

2 ай бұрын

It feels a little much to compare Jennifer's Body, a movie directed by a woman, that actually is a feminist and was misunderstood to... Snyder's attempt at empowerment, where all but one girl survives, also considering the role of women in all his other movies, Princess Weekes video about it is a really great video on the balance of enjoying and also being fair to what the film actually does

@cthulhuhoops

2 ай бұрын

JENNIFER'S BODY AND SUCKERPUNCH SIT AT THE SAME LUNCH TABLE

@maddieb.4282

Ай бұрын

“We’ll never forget 😢😢😢” babe I mean it’s a mid budget action movie, you aren’t marching with the freedom fighters

I don't know if anyone has mentioned it, but the original script is available online. I have been obsessed with this movie for years and collected all the tidbits about what was in the original cut, reading the script was pretty revelatory. It's much more cohesive than even the extended version and it's more of an emotional gut punch. I really recommend reading it.

@LuciarafficornxD

2 ай бұрын

Ive tried to find this online but no success haha, do you have a link to the original script? x

@nic558

2 ай бұрын

Do you have the link perhaps? I’ve looked for over an hour

@janesyh6261

2 ай бұрын

drive.google.com/file/d/1xIRPD20LZV3Jqus6aqq_lq6HQldTRey6/view

@vanesaalderete5158

Ай бұрын

@@LuciarafficornxD drive.google.com/file/d/1xIRPD20LZV3Jqus6aqq_lq6HQldTRey6/view

@vanesaalderete5158

Ай бұрын

@@nic558 drive.google.com/file/d/1xIRPD20LZV3Jqus6aqq_lq6HQldTRey6/view

Did anyone else notice that all the battles from the 3rd reality are genres usually associated (and gatekept) by men?: “Samurai” movies, WW# movies, LOTR-esque fantasy movies, and then I would consider that last one like “I, Robot” futuristic technology movies

@cthulhuhoops

2 ай бұрын

Movies in genres that exclude or minimise women as much as possible, at that!

@mrdasgehtsienichtsan2020

2 ай бұрын

...any intresting exceptions to that? Id like to broaden my horizon

@atlf3357

2 ай бұрын

omfg I can’t believe I didn’t pick up on this

@chakr.a

Ай бұрын

WAIT

This movie is iconic in ways that cannot be expressed. Rewatched it dozens of times as a kid and probably my queer awakening lmao

@melvinthebravefish9788

2 ай бұрын

I think this was a lot of people's queer awakening. Rightfully so

@monochromicornthetuna4256

2 ай бұрын

Same! I was so shocked when I saw this video because I thought I'd dreamt up this movie on account of no one around me knowing it😭

@Musicanimedork01

2 ай бұрын

Saaaame

@spaceravine8751

2 ай бұрын

I watched this prolly two or three times as a kid and i barely remember it, it was like a fever dream! The biggest thing i remember is that i loved it so so much, especially the main character. I wanted to be her sooo bad plssss 😭😭

@sophie-nb6km

2 ай бұрын

omg me too

15:20 The integration of "Army of Me" into the movie is impeccably crafted. It serves as a powerful anthem, urging one to stand up for themselves, yet it cleverly allows pauses to punctuate moments of dialogue, accentuating Baby Doll's inner struggle as she fights for her life. Then, as Björk's piercing scream cuts through, accompanied by the escalating raw intensity of the industrial beats, it vividly underscores the surrealism of the situation, starkly reminding viewers of the film's fantastical realm. It's a sonic embodiment of the protagonist's furious desire to break free from the confines of her reality, urging us to join her in defiance against the oppressive forces at play.

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

I love Björk.

"When we're all born, Saturn's somewhere" NOT THE ETERNAL SUNSHINE REFERENCE

obsessed with mike just sitting in front of his regular filming set up instead of just being … at his set up 😭😭

@mikesmic

2 ай бұрын

I have to keep people guessing!!!!

@hockeygrrlmuse

2 ай бұрын

The second reality of it all

@supersucks

2 ай бұрын

never let them know your next move

@hannahlewis65

2 ай бұрын

he wanted to show off his legos!!

Oscar Isaac's mustache fathered so severely, so destructively that it ripped a hole in the space time continuum

@panpan4757

2 ай бұрын

he could rip my hole

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes I wish I could send money to people like you, who write these types of absolutely creative, incredible, whimsical comments.

@Icarebcudo

2 ай бұрын

@@Winter-Alpha-Omega ask for their Venmo

As a CPTSD girly who heavily dissociated in her youth I ate this movie up when it came out. It’s still one of my faves to this day and will defend it with my life. Love love love this deep dive

@relaxfriend9461

2 күн бұрын

ME

I have always loved Sucker Punch. My introvert, anxiety-ridden self had the courage to cosplay as Baby Doll for a convention and I got so many compliments and girls wanting photos with me saying how much they loved the movie. We understood it. Thank you for making this video. Sucker Punch is so underrated and misunderstood.

suckerpunch feels like the evil twin of burlesque 2010

@Musicanimedork01

2 ай бұрын

I feel like burlesque is the evil twin 😂

@mrsbluekiwi111

2 ай бұрын

wow those are both my comfort movies lol

@RumoHasIt

2 ай бұрын

I LOLd at this, thankew

@zandikhetwayo7444

2 ай бұрын

The best movies to ever movie

@strega0

2 ай бұрын

REAL

Sucker Punch is clever and underrated. Emily Browning is a certified perfect actress to play such deranged characters in film.

@aphroditemercury937

2 ай бұрын

^All true... Have you seen 'Sleeping Beauty'? So weird... Maximum excellent... She is incredible...

@frances9975

2 ай бұрын

I just watched "Class of 07", she is a really good comedic access as well and her real accent is slay

@LordAsturgis

2 ай бұрын

She can sing too.

This movie just has some kind of allure to it, the whole aesthetic, badass female characters, EVERYTHING. It also felt like a bit of a fever dream movie, but in a good way.

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

To me, everything feels so stylised. It's like if one of my dreams got turned into a film. For example, Emilia looks like a doll the whole movie with the platinum hair and the huge doe eyelashes. Everything has this filter that makes it look sexy and alluring, yet dangerous and corrupt in the brothel reality. The opening sequence comes across as something straight from a horror movie. The fight scenes look like video games. Etc.

@pixility5612

2 ай бұрын

@@Winter-Alpha-Omega Agreed, I am sad this movie wasn’t more popular, I personally thought it was pretty good.

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

@@pixility5612 Yep, should've been more popular. Maybe the world was not ready for it.

@Pheonixess

2 ай бұрын

I remember I watched it in theaters because the trailer looked so sick and music bangin'. But I also remember it being "it's alright..." or even better described as "so movie" but learning there was extended cut makes me feel like I missed out, and makes sense why I thought it ended pretty oddly. But now i've been enlightened and agree. RELEASE THE SNYDER CUT!

sigh...the poor reception of this movie will never not make my blood boil. it's the most movie. i used to obsessively rewatch it and to this day it still holds so well both in terms of story telling and visuals.

@rmj8905

2 ай бұрын

I don't get how Scott Pilgrim was praised but this was considered bad.

Suckerpunch invented girlboss feminism

@celeritas2-810

2 ай бұрын

500th

@FlorianSantos

2 ай бұрын

It doesn't work in English so I'll say it in Portuguese: LAVE SUA BOCA PRA FALAR DE SUCKER PUNCH!!!!!!!!

@4651adri

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's not feminism.

@bullymaguireisdead

Ай бұрын

legally blonde and this movie are on two ends of the same spectrum

this movie was stylish as HELL and for all its flaws in the plot/themes level, it was such a ride visually and audio wise. kind of a guilty pleasure movie to me

This video makes me feel so seen. I watched it at a sleepover when I was like 12, it really had an impact on my friend group. We felt empowered by it in a way that's hard to explain. It didn't feel like women were being objectified by the camera, it felt like the camera was exposing how women in vulnerable positions are objectified. Those are two different things. The fact that so many people didn't see that at the time isn't surprising though.

i can’t believe zack snyder knows about this video

@Knives.424e

2 ай бұрын

HE KNOWS??? Link pls omggg

@LivPC

29 күн бұрын

​@@Knives.424ehe tweeted about it, yeah

Sucker Punch is my comfort movie. When that "You have all the weapons you need. Now fight." line drops, I'm ready to exist again.

@rayne4246

2 ай бұрын

Bro this movie stuck in my head since the day I saw it so much that I was able to remember the title and thumbnail detail by detail as soon as I saw it on Netflix. I'm still looking for the directors cut tho cuz that was the version I watched first

Back when this movie came out my friends and I (who loved it) always described it as, "Either a dumb movie made by a smart person, or a smart movie made by a dumb person" and I still stand by that

@petrify4814

2 ай бұрын

Zach Snyder thinks Rorschach is Superman so I agree

@jtroxler8

2 ай бұрын

I'd wager the latter.

@barbaravs1814

2 ай бұрын

​@@petrify4814?? When did he say that

@ndo533

2 ай бұрын

​@@barbaravs1814he never said that. It's just usual clowns who fail at media literacy

@barbaravs1814

2 ай бұрын

@@ndo533 I know, that's why I asked for proof bc people love to believe anything shitty about Snyder and it's insane.

also the fact that Babydolls's katana is engraved with the illustration of her entire journey up to the lobotomy 🤯

i will never forgive the world for not fighting harder for this movie, i love it sm

i have watched this movie countless times and am only now realizing I've been watching the theatrical cut, this is a CRIME

@lilithium3940

2 ай бұрын

NOOOOOOOO 😂

@leelllseamus5464

2 ай бұрын

Same

@DumiNihi

2 ай бұрын

Same😂

@Val-zu5hz

2 ай бұрын

I've seen the end scene with the high roller, but NOT the more explicit framing of him, or ANY scene with an actual dance performance!! 😱

@jennayisartsay

2 ай бұрын

The extended is SO good aaaa. I liked the theatrical when I first saw it, but the extended cut adds SO much context, story, and ties up some plot holes, I LOVE it

Also **SPOILER** when John Hamm lobotomizes her, I think it's a metaphor for the high-roller r*ping her; he says he wants her to want him, then is kind of disgusted when it flips and he says "did you see the way she looked at me?" as if he's done the deed and is like "why don't you look happy you just had sex!" after he's taken the last possible thing she has. I do think it's a pretty important scene to have cut from the final

@kezia8027

2 ай бұрын

I hadn't even considered that! But truly that is a VERY convincing perspective, and makes honestly so much sense both for the themes/movie as a whole, and for the character.

@Ganymedia9

2 ай бұрын

This makes so much sense!!! I was so confused as to why he said that.

@EmmaOffensiv

2 ай бұрын

i ageee BUT he also says “it’s as if she wanted me to do it” so maybe he realized he actually never wanted her to want him. he wanted to overpower her and take her free will from her, and she refused to even give that to him, instead HE was HER pawn instead of the other way around

@EmmaOffensiv

2 ай бұрын

Which is the case for almost all rapists, it’s not about the sexual gratification it’s all about power and diminishing their victims making them an object and not a human capable of controlling what happens to them.

@Mshagy02

2 ай бұрын

@@EmmaOffensiv you're so spot on

Absolutely howling at "it's very gray, grimy...which could describe some of you, yes"

I've been defending this movie since 2014 ty for your service

Crazy that my motherquakeomoeter on my mantle was going off the cunter scale and I had to check for iconic activity and found a magnitude 9 serve happening in real time

@nikfiendluvr666

2 ай бұрын

yeah

Michael Microphone calls and the gworls answer

Thank you for starting this video with the reminder that ‘portrayal of something in fiction is not an endorsement of that thing’ because oh man is that a lesson that too many people have yet to learn.

Babydoll wants the lobotomy so she doesn't have to remember that she accidentally killed her sister. She wants it because it means she will be free in her own mind, free to think what she wants and go where she wants and nobody can stop her or hurt her anymore.

"potential spoilers" babe you're describing every single scene in detail, I think we're ok with spoilers

I find the point of view to be of the filmmakers to the audience themselves. Like, the movie tells a story of the abuse these girls suffered, but uses alternate realities to keep the creepy men in the audience entertained, until they have to experience the consequences of said abuse. When changing the setting is not enough, the movie subs the girls acting out their plan to the crazy fights. Then, they change protagonists: the cute school girl sacrifices herself to save Sweet Pea, who spent the whole movie skeptical of the plan, not having as big of a role or being as likeable as her now dead sister. And were back to reality where shes free, while our main character ends up lobotomized. Sucker punch forces the audience to watch a movie they would hate, while disguising it as something that caters to them. Its indeed the moviest movie to ever movie.

@cyzs

2 ай бұрын

yess the message was there, now rewatching as adult i see. sweet pea in the second reality' opening scene saying how boring to the audience is a story about a lobotomized girl let's make it commercial. mr snyder had some things to say about what studios want to see in movies and what his audience want too.

@biptari

2 ай бұрын

you can almost say that for said audience, the movie was a sucker punch...

@katie-allen

2 ай бұрын

Yes this feels like a helpful layer to figuring it out. It’s not the whole of the explanation as to ~what~ is happening, but it explains ~why~

@seanskatesalot

2 ай бұрын

This it it. I love seeing people criticise this movie while it's directly outing them and they can't even see the sucker punch even after it's hit them ​@@biptari

This movie was dominating mentally ill hot girlboss discourse while Gen Z Sanrio girls were getting their first piercing at Claires, truly a cultural benchmark🤭🎀💕

@momochi5325

2 ай бұрын

This comment deserves an award LMAOOO

@annoyingkid48

2 ай бұрын

we get it, you’re oldddd (●￣(工)￣●)

@Jamesjulene

2 ай бұрын

Why is this comment so specifically correct?

@hberror404

2 ай бұрын

Period

@YukiLeiu

2 ай бұрын

when you were both 😅

There's another layer: Zack is talking about the state of the art. Sucker Punch is a meta story that talks about the action genre, the industry of "blockbusters" and how women are a part of it. All his movies have another layer. "300" is about narratives, post-truth; Watchmen is about the superheroes genre, but released years before the fatigue; BvS is a commentary on US politics and also dives into modern mythologies. The ammount of layers are limitless.

@maddieb.4282

Ай бұрын

I’d highly recommend check out Big Joel’s video analyzing the politics of 300, it’s pretty revelatory

@maddieb.4282

Ай бұрын

And Watchmen is NOTTTTTT about the GENRE of superhero films. It’s making societal commentary that’s much bigger and deeper than critiquing Marvel’s sweatshop productions that didn’t even exist yet

@Sobreversivo

Ай бұрын

@@maddieb.4282 It was not. It IS. Snyder said it himself as if Watchmen was transported by a time machine to the past. But, yep, Watchmen talks about genre as well beyond the political layer. I'll check it out, thanks.

this video is fucking zack snyder approved!!!!!!!!!!

I read the title and immediately, out loud, said, “It iiiiiiiiis😭”

One thing I need to comment on about this movie is the first fight scene against the giant samurais. As a young teen who played a lot of video games when the movie came out, it always stuck to me how perfectly this scene captured the essence of an action game's tutorial. First you learn the bases of melee combat and how to parry/dodge. Then you learn how to use projectiles and deal with them. And then to finish the tutorial you unleash a powerful seemingly one hit kill move. It's how it's done in games like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry and to me it's proof that this movie has something it wants to comment on because it knows its source material (i.e broadly what geek culture was at the time) really well.

@chakr.a

2 ай бұрын

Oh GAGGED

@ndo533

2 ай бұрын

Yea. Definitely intentional.

When this movie came out I was a “working girl” at 19, and dealing with mountains of trauma. This movie spoke to me deeply, and even then I could clearly see it was a commentary on oversexualization of women. People take things at face value and never look deeper!!!

Came back after the Zack Snyder mention!!! Congrats Mike!!!! SLAYED

@Winter-Alpha-Omega

2 ай бұрын

What did he say?

@SteeephR

2 ай бұрын

@@Winter-Alpha-Omega Snyder tweeted out "In honor of the 13th anniversary of Sucker Punch, check this out, because Mike’s right, it’s so movie." then linking it to this vid.

Stop It omg. I love this film it's so underrated. The costumes and makeup are gorgeous and Emily browning can sing, act, fight and dance.

@seattlecryptid

2 ай бұрын

Love her in American Gods as Laura Moon.

@BlindZubat

2 ай бұрын

She is my favorite actress.

i think that when a girl dies in the second reality, they’re being lobotomized in the real world. that’s what happens to babydoll so it would make sense for the rest of them and gorski probably had signed off on them so it wasn’t an issue, which is why blue only got in trouble for babydoll. as far as the kid and old man i think that was just a way to try to tie the fake realities to the real world even though it didn’t really make sense, kind of an extension of the guardian angel thing

@shainaelise2694

2 ай бұрын

!!!!!!!!

This is me realizing I’ve luckily only ever seen the extended cut, I was worried that I had been missing out 😭

THIS MOVIE IS SO FUCKING GOOD. when i was at some really low, awful points in my mental health journey, this movie really left a mark on me, especially those final words. idc what people can critique about it, to me it was fantastic.

I also wrote a film analysis on this in high school and, while written by a high schooler, also basically resulted in “most criticism of this film hates it for being misogynistic and gratuitous, but in reality is a commentary on those exact things and makes the statement that women are so much more than what we widdle them down to and celebrates that in spite of what box men, and men in power, force them into”.

@TacticusPrime

2 ай бұрын

Was that a pun on whittle down?

@tonystonem9614

2 ай бұрын

it was made by Zack Snyder its exactly what it is 💀 trying to imagine that man was giving commentary on how women are treated is laughable, this is a take that women who love the movie invented to cope, its your interpretation its not what that man meant. Thinking ppl who criticised the movies obvious flaws “missed the point” is mad goofy and very far removed from reality

@4651adri

2 ай бұрын

​@@tonystonem9614spot on.

@infinitedm5396

2 ай бұрын

​@@tonystonem9614what's so funny about this take is that there are literal interviews (even shown in this video!!) that back up these interpretations. It was always intended as a deeper reflection on women and the men who use them.

@maddieb.4282

Ай бұрын

@@infinitedm5396it is valid to critique movies where you feel their commentary isn’t effective enough to outweigh problematic content. Remember the movie Cuties and all the scandal around it? Obviously that film was meant to critique the abuse and exploitation of children but the content was the type to put the child actors at risk and was highly suspicious to people for that reason. Just because you view this film as your feminist manifesto doesn’t mean there’s not validity in other people’s opinions. You didn’t make the movie- they’re not criticizing YOU. You don’t have to be defensive

They took a shit in the mother toilet and refused to flush and it shows.

@combat_chameleon

2 ай бұрын

girl what

@DiamondStripzXO

2 ай бұрын

@@combat_chameleon DONATELLA VAESACE💜

@sophie6503

2 ай бұрын

Not the tweet reference

@m00nrac00n

2 ай бұрын

They had a box of wigs and steampunk corsets, an actress who can do a cartwheel and a dream. Zach Snyder said "Feminism? When I tell you, what I am about to tell you, you will be told my opinion".

i agree one thousand percent that those movie plot descriptions are all technically true but also NOT and incomplete at the same time!!! i also loved the extended cut of this (that extra 17 minutes MAKE A DIFFERENCE) and have watched it several times, it IS such a movie!

i think Babydoll IS Sweetpea and Rocket is Babydoll’s sister that she killed in the beginning. the part at the beginning is the reason why Sweetpea is there and NONE of the other girls are real/just other patients at the hospital that Sweetpea has made up this friendship with to cope. That’s why when the three of them die there’s no repercussions in the 1st reality because Rocket had already died, and the friendship and camaraderie with other girls was imaginary/Sweetpea doesn’t know what happened to them and can only assume (Imagine) the worst

I'm so happy to feel justified finally in my love for this film. Also fun fact my husband is ex military and when they storm the castle he has said they were using perfect military procedures and moves. Something he said never happens in films about the real military. So someone was paying attention to detail.

@tonystonem9614

2 ай бұрын

So your husband killed ppl?

Moment of appreciation for the lego cat in the background

I never knew there was an extended cut!!! I MUST find this extended cut asap! Thank you Mike for this incredible deep dive. You, yourself, are a diva and the guardian angel we all need 💁🏻❤️

sitting and watching while cradling my physical DVD, blu-ray and CD, and my 3D printed charms from babydoll's gun. i love this movie. thank you for your service

I remember being fully convinced this movie was a comic adaptation, its stun

Mikes Mic saying “it’s so movie” is the same vibe of Harry Styles saying “my favorite part about the movie is that it feels like a REAL movie”

i LOVED sucker punch when i saw it in theatres. it was odd to me how so many people hated it, i was obsessed for months lol but i was also a 16yr old grunge chick, it was literally like a feature length movie about my aesthetic 😂

this movie meant so much to me as a closeted gay in middle school like i was obsessed with this movie and no one understood me

I loved this movie when it came out it was so slay, but then it was so poorly reviewed i felt embarrassed for liking it. I’m glad to see somebody else thought it was a serve.

@juliarangelr

2 ай бұрын

i was a teen girl when it came out and it was so important to me!! showing how sisterhood and female friendships are a necessity for survival

@jeccalou9894

2 ай бұрын

NEVER feel bad for liking the things you like (as long as it's not hurting others). In the grand scheme of things, no one else matters, and the things that bring you happiness are worth every moment spent on it because we're all insignificant ants floating on a giant rock around an infinite universe just trying to survive until tomorrow. Like what speaks to you, and fuck the haters.

@joemish4540

2 ай бұрын

​@@jeccalou9894 well said

@AlexGarcia-fu9kp

2 ай бұрын

i remember looking up what the ending meant and finding out so many people disliked it. i was so shocked. this movie and burlesque were always in rotation

i love it when mike mics

I'm really interested in the theory that Babydoll is Sweet Pea's Tyler Durden/Ferris Bueller

i have loved this movie since it came out and i STILL have people look at me like i have two heads when i say i love it. truly the most movie ever, it changed me so irreversibly i have tattoos inspired by it

in my memory I know sucker punch as “vanessa hudgen’s first movie post high school musical that my older sister really wanted to see but our mom wouldn’t let her and she’d remind me of it every time we’d see the poster of it in the Walmart poster carousel”

mike has been killing it lately with the lesbian millennial/early gen z audience flicks!!! before i knew i was gay i knew that sucker punch and pitch perfect had "something special" (it was the women.)

@Musicanimedork01

2 ай бұрын

Have you perhaps seen "Catwoman" (2004)

@dia8183

2 ай бұрын

@@Musicanimedork01 not yet but i've been meaning to! i was a bit too young to see it when it came out

@Musicanimedork01

2 ай бұрын

@@dia8183 I was too but in like 2011 some random movie channel decided to play it on repeat every night and I just kept watching it over and over and over

@EmeraldAshesAudio

15 күн бұрын

I feel personally attacked by this comment, lmao. My little egg self watching the trailers like "I'm not into Action, but I really wanna see this?"

i loved this movie growing up, total guilty pleasure and escapist fantasy😂😂 it released around the time i was really into Alice Madness Returns and both ticked very specific aesthetic and angst boxes in my little developing teen brain. I love the concept of a girl dissociating into a fantasy world creatively reflecting her present issues and environment in life and where she is allowed to process her anxieties and fears in brutal & violent fashion. It just slays and i am obsessed with it even at 26yrs old

Just went and bought this and watched it with my boyfriend. The only thing we could say was “camp”. This movie is INSANE.

1. When I saw the thumbnail, I immediately ran to the nearest mic and gAGGGGGGED 2. Sucker Punch dreamed so Inception and Tenet could run 3. This movie… now I understand the shrines dedicated to Mr Synder himself. 4. This video summary & analysis… there must be an Oscar for this!!!!!

Also fun fact, Emma Stone was lined up to be in Sucker Punch but dropped out for Easy A

@CallMeMeepMeIfYouWannaReachMe

2 ай бұрын

Which character was she potentially going to be?

@Daniel-kw8ns

2 ай бұрын

@@CallMeMeepMeIfYouWannaReachMe​​⁠she was going to be Amber. Amanda Seyfried was also in line to play Babydoll.

@CallMeMeepMeIfYouWannaReachMe

2 ай бұрын

@@Daniel-kw8ns I think Emma would've been a good Amber but Amanda for Babydoll is iffy. I can see it going both ways. I'm happy with the cast we got in the end

This movie is one of those movies to be where it's so on point with its satire/ social commentary that general audiences couldn't see the layers and simply took it at surface value. It's a movie that people learn to appreciate when they rewatch it, or go back with a new perspective. Those who watched it once and wrote it off as a 'sexy girl popcorn movie' will probably never change their minds on this.

One of my favorite parts that hardly gets mentioned is that the final outfit baby doll has in the 2nd world is an inverse of her outfit of the 3rd world, like that was their final battle as well to get the key and escape.

just want to point out that this was filmed a little before/at the same time as inception and nolan and snyder are friends and were already working on other projects together. All im saying is everyone hypes the inception reality/dream level thing but Suckerpunch kinda did it first (even tho the release date was later than inception)

please never stop doing the olivia wilde reaction it gives me so much life 😭😭

@ames_elaine

2 ай бұрын

is it a mike's mic video w/out an olivia wilde nodding reference???

I just realized that I've only ever watched the extended cut. This was one of my fav movies as a child and I still love it till this day.

This was the ONE movie I sneaked out to watch past my bedtime. I finished watching it at like 3 am and that movie changed me

RELEASE THE SNYDER CUT!!! I cannot express how excited I am for the cultural resurgence of Sucker Punch!! I neeeed WB to give Snyder his reunion reshoots so he can give us the badass hot women scifi movie musical we DESERVE!!

"Yes, Magnets, come on Disclosure" was for ME

I saw this film with a friend and a four pack of Sofia Coppola canned rose (with matching pink straws), and we crushed them and it was my favorite film of 2011 by a MILE. By a MARATHON. By 26.2 thigh chafing, nipple bleeding, nearly entirely CGI action sequences. I adored what it did from the start, and I will be INSUFFERABLE about it for the rest of my life.

Congrats on hitting 1 Million subscribers with this beautiful Sucker Punch video. I ❤️ this movie and I hope Zack can release his Directors Cut of the movie someday once the licensing is up on the blu-ray in few years. Also Zack talked about this movie awhile ago even wanting to shoot additional scenes for the movie with the girls again for the movie if they are available for it and having maybe a commentary with him/girls for the 4K blu-ray release as well.🙌🏽

Unexpected Essay Incoming: The complicated relationship between sweet pea, rocket and their mother, as well as the repeating theme of sister killing sister (both babydoll and sweet pea accidentally cause / were part of their sisters’ deaths) is so interesting and I wonder if it’s related to the 3rd fantasy world storyline. Having to kill the dragon baby and then the mother after she attacks them - also keeping in mind fighting and killing enemies in this world translates to dancing in the 3nd fantasy world and taking back your power / working through your issues in the real world suggests the guilt and trauma from that experience is something babydoll/sweet pea had to come to terms with, which was explored and worked through during that scene in order to be ‘free’ and heal. She also essentially gives the dragon a lobotomy (foreshadowing). Also in the animated short the knights and goblins are fighting over the dragon; the goblins worship the dragon in a religious way while the humans, seeing something more powerful than them as a threat believe they have to kill the dragon. This acts as a sort of 4th fantasy world and the way the goblin = evil stereotype is reversed and the fact this is never touched on in the theatrical release is a reminder that men are the real villains (blue, the high roller / doctor, the step-father) and the sexualised appearance of the girls is a defensive tool and commentary on that very male gaze perpetrated by the villains!

Suckerpunch is one of my favorite movies of all time and I am THRILLED that you made a video about it. I similarly haven’t stopped thinking about it for the past 13 years, bc the first time I saw it I was 13, on a plane, growing out my bangs, experimenting with bad eyeliner and realizing I was queer (also saw The Runaways for the first time on this flight) and I cannot express how perfectly timed my experience of this movie was. Def pulling out my Blu-ray the second I finish this video.

i watched this movie as a teen, in theaters, twice in one day. i had two best friends who hated each other so i had to lie to the second friend that i had not yet seen it. i have kept this secret for over a decade.

I remember seeing Sucker Punch in theatres, people were walking out. My ex bf left me alone to go see Scott Pilgrim in a different screen room. I stayed because I thought it was amazing. I cried like a baaaabbyyyy when Rocket died.

THANK YOU FOR THIS. All these years I've yet to see a reviewer notice that the story of Baby Doll was told by Sweet Pea, as shown in the beginning with Sweet Pea acting as Baby Doll in the theater, and every other friendly NPCs in the third realities are acted by the bus driver and the other occupants seen by Sweet Pea when she escaped because she don't know many people in the outside world other than those in that bus who in her mind, are the only ones on her side.

Mike filming all of his videos from 17 different angles in the same room is so funny to me 😭

just saw the zack snyder tweet. hello???!!! omg

Omg I thought I was the only one who remembered and looooved this movie

_Such_ an underrated movie. Of course, it wasn't perfect (mostly a victim of some unfortunate editing choices that muddled the story a bit), but the stylistic experimentation was incredible, the music was _perfect,_ and the extended cut ending _significantly_ elevates the narrative of the film.

15:28 Michael I have urgent news. The Sucker Punch Remix of Army of Me is indeed on spotify. You can find it under the dedicated Sucker Punch soundtrack compilation. Awful subheading to that though, it may not be available in Australia because it's currently greyed out for me when I look at the album (and I'm also Aussie).

@mireilleryan-nicholls7730

2 ай бұрын

it's on spotify if u search for 'army of me - sucker punch remix' (in aus!)

@user-pt1re4qp1r

2 ай бұрын

@@mireilleryan-nicholls7730 I just checked and it's true. It sounds a bit different from the version I remember from Sucker Punch, but it goes imbecilically hard, so I won't question it too much. Thank you for solving what could have been an Apollyon class disaster. Edit: It is indeed different. The riff appears in both versions, but the one on spotify that's not under the Sucker Punch soundtrack starts with that riff rather than the slow bassy buildup. There must be some way of getting the real Sucker Punch version though because my dad has it on his computer in really high quality.

WE NEED LOST S2

OKAY can you add a cheeky segment to these videos of "how far do we have to get for this movie to pass the Bechtel test, if at all"