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seriousficSo I went to the theater to see Sucker Punch (still haven't figured out why it's called Sucker Punch. After all, if twelve of your fellow Commie terrorist robot slaves have just been blown up, sliced apart, and shot by a group of hallucinating mental patients/sex workers/...Power Rangers? Then surely the punch you get should not come as a surprise). And I noticed this in the lobby.
1. While an ideal way to hide the piss-poor animation, I can't help but notice this exact pose is ripped off from the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle poster. And it can't be a parody, because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to parody something after eight years.
2. Cheech and Chong are listed in the credits. Not Cheech Marin and the other guy. Cheech and Chong. So... did the characters from an series of stoner films spring to life and suddenly decide to get jobs in the children's entertainment industry? Because that seems like a much more interesting story than a sequel to a rip-off of the sequels of Shrek.
ETA: Also saw the Captain America trailer. It's really been a while since I've been this jazzed. Did you see the Red Skull? They did that all with make-up and just used CGI to take out his nose. Why is that so awesome to me? And aren't you glad they're not having a whole team of superhero Invaders and are just doing a bunch of other soldiers helping Cap out? A year ago, this smelled like a clusterfuck, and now it's doing trailers that are 75% D.J. Qualls and we're loving it.
1. While an ideal way to hide the piss-poor animation, I can't help but notice this exact pose is ripped off from the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle poster. And it can't be a parody, because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to parody something after eight years.
2. Cheech and Chong are listed in the credits. Not Cheech Marin and the other guy. Cheech and Chong. So... did the characters from an series of stoner films spring to life and suddenly decide to get jobs in the children's entertainment industry? Because that seems like a much more interesting story than a sequel to a rip-off of the sequels of Shrek.
ETA: Also saw the Captain America trailer. It's really been a while since I've been this jazzed. Did you see the Red Skull? They did that all with make-up and just used CGI to take out his nose. Why is that so awesome to me? And aren't you glad they're not having a whole team of superhero Invaders and are just doing a bunch of other soldiers helping Cap out? A year ago, this smelled like a clusterfuck, and now it's doing trailers that are 75% D.J. Qualls and we're loving it.
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Date: 2011-03-26 01:04 pm (UTC)And horrible character designs.
>I can't help but notice this exact pose is ripped off from the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle poster. And it can't be a parody, because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to parody something after eight years.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/
Of course, that falls under an amendment to the law for pop-culture artifacts that people remember more than six months after they came out. Like that trendy Kill Bill jumpsuit Granny seems to be wearing, which was itself a reference to the Bruce Lee tracksuit in Game of Death. 2x Reference Combo!
>So... did the characters from an series of stoner films spring to life and suddenly decide to get jobs in the children's entertainment industry?
Incidentally, that "be prepared" goat from the first one? With the best musical number in the entire film? Played by a Gospel singer. They're not exactly going for a consistent theme in casting here.