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Movie Review: Sucker Punch |
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Written by Steve
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Sunday, 27 March 2011 06:25 |
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If Zack Snyder were a comic book creator, his books would consist entirely of splash pages. That worked pretty well for 300, which is based on a comic book told almost entirely in splash pages by Frank Miller, who is one of the most talented visual storytelllers of all time. When he’s not working from a story that’s already told well mostly through visuals, Snyder’s work more closely resembles Todd McFarlane or Rob Liefeld--great splash pages, but the stuff in between kind of sucks and doesn’t necessarily make sense. In Watchmen, Snyder did a great job of recreating many of Dave Gibbons’ most iconic panels from the book, but failed story-wise. In Sucker Punch, Snyder didn’t have original stories by either Miller or Alan Moore to tie his cool visuals together, and it shows.
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