Álomháború

Az Álomháború olyan, mint egy dekadens musical és egy buta videojáték-adaptáció kombinációja. Egy "valóságban" játszódó narratív vázra épül, amelyből musical számokba (videojáték-szintekbe) ágazódik. A történet váza azonban nem működik, és csak azért van, hogy összetartsa kitérőket a fantasy akciós jelenetekbe. És ezek a jelenetek, amelyekben a hősnők nácikat, nindzsákat, sárkányokat és orkokat a Gyűrűk Ura vagy robotokat az Én, a robot filmekből intéznek el, az első tíz percnél tovább nem működnek, mert csak egy vizuális bemutatás bármilyen innováció nélkül. Tarantino Kill Bill filmjével is vannak hasonlóságok a forgatókönyv felépítésében - de Tarantino "valamivel" jobb forgatókönyvíró, mint Snyder - az ő történetváza egyrészt szilárdabb volt, másrészt az egyes epizodikus kitérők továbbfejlesztették azt. Amiből az Álomháború filmet összeollózták, az öncélú, értelmetlen és nem szól semmiről. Egy popkultúrás összevisszaság, amelynek már papíron is problémás szaga lehetett. (2011.03.24)

I love Zack Snyder in Watchmen and Dawn of the Dead, but I don’t like him in the silly 300. Sucker Punch is much worse than 300, thanks God that I didn’t go to the cinema for it. This is just pointless teenage fantasy that pretends to have a meaning. I’m not able to argue why I think it only pretends so, because this time I couldn’t be bothered to look for it while watching it, and I just don’t want to think about this film any further. Even the action is not that exciting. A fail of biblical proportions. (2011.06.18)

A teenage One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in robotic Ninja underpants. A stupid shooter with a bunch of affected chicks in suspenders, acting as if they are in a cheap American porno, framed by a kind of pseudo-spiritual chatter about the power of man. What really disappoints me is the fact that Zack's visual montages are bombastic, but they completely miss the point – I don't know if it's their non-originality or that they are terrible self-serving, but Sucker Punch seems to me to be a wasteful mess that obscures the complete absence of soul with excess effects. It just confirms that Snyder is an excellent short film maker (although Sucker Punch lags behind the rest of his work in this regard) and that he leads the actors very benevolently – as long as he has solid material in front of the camera, it disappears, but once those revived teenage fantasies ring out, the result is disastrous. One advantage of this nonsense is that Watchmen seems like an even bigger miracle to me. But that's it (I curse myself now that I gave 300 such a low score...). P.S. The unreliable narrator has never been as unreliable as in this film (which takes away all his credit and effect). (2011.03.23)

It's you.. Nazis, zombies, robots, dragons, samurais and a group of beautiful girls against them. In other words, six reasons why Sucker Punch couldn't succeed globally. It has everything you can imagine when you want a big, opulent, bombastic blockbuster and the world couldn't handle such an explosion, because having all those hits in one movie is just too much. Snyder clearly fulfills many fantasies and despite a few reservations, I have to cheer for him. I could do without the somewhat forced contrast between painted fantasies and depressive reality (which ironically, I actually liked more), but in the end, it's because of where the story is heading that the ending almost knocked me off my feet. I won't see such a specific ride not only this year, but never again. And now, grab a katana and Baby Doll can start dancing. (2011.06.18)

Snyder is fantastic with visuals and music (anyone who has seen the brilliant but sadly underrated Watchmen knows this), but for God's sake, never, ever let him write his own scripts! If I were to rate only the composition of shots, the imaginative details, the spectacular slow motion (which, I don't know how Snyder does it, I don't mind it in his case) and the the soundtrack (“Army of Me” by Bjork made me foolishly believe I would love the film), it would be worth a full score. But the decadent pop-cultural, cringeworthy, scripted ballast, which also pretends to convey some higher message, was impossible to digest even with a full brain shutdown. Snyder is a great craftsman, but he needs a permanent whip over him and a humility within himself, which, on the other hand, was not lacking in his almost reverential adaptation of Moore's “Watchmen”. (2011.04.02)