I think you're making a mistake. What I think your doing is the equivalent of saying "Stephanie Meyers wasn't writing a bad book about vampires, she was writing a parody of a bad book about vampires". Perhaps that was Meyers intention, but without giving a knowing wink or hint to indicate it is a satire to the audience, there is no reason for me the reader to believe that is true.
I didn't spot any such hints, and if you saw a clue to it being a satire in the movie I'd like to know what it is.
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There were a few lines here and there. Could have been suggested more obviously though, I admit. Still, there were a few lampshades here and there.
I agree - I love thinking a lot during movies and this fit me so well. Younger/otaku/fetishist audiences may not really get the full layers of this film, but I'm glad I did, and I may want to rewatch it to fully get it thoroughly, because the ending didn't really get through my head. In a way, it does kinda differentiate the audience as well - the people who go there for the scantily dressed girls, the people expecting it to be an action film but got disappointed, and then there are people who do get art films, perhaps there are more groups than this and I usually hate generalizing but this is how I felt it to be.
However, I wouldn't call it a parody/satire thing, it could be derived from Male Gaze (I have not watched that movie) to make it for the females.
If you want a good art movie about a traumatised girl entering a mental institution who fantasises about massacring the staff, look no further than : ''I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay''
. Despite being a rom com, it has far better action, far better characterisation, and a far more interesting premise. Watch that.
I like thinking a lot during movies, and that's why I didn't like this movie. It was nothing but Zack Snyder shouting in my ear "YOU GET IT?!" for two hours. "GET IT?! It's a brothel because the girls are being sexually exploited in the bedlam house!" "Yeah, Zack, I got—" "GET IT?! I'm not exploiting the exploitative outfits because you're supposed to feel bad for being attracted to them!" "Who said I was attracted to them? In order to make me feel bad for being attracted to them, you kinda have to make them attractive fir—" "GET IT?! It's a female empowerment movie!" "Maybe if you look past the fact that all the girls in this movie are sexually exploited and then reduced to vegetables/killed. Or that the only one who escapes is also the boring one who receives no characterization. Then yeah, maybe then it's a female empowerment movie—if you ignore the plot."
The action was dull, the acting was dull, the plot was dull, the lighting was dull and Zack Snyder is dull. This was his chance to win me over after the triple whammy of missing the point on Dawn of the Dead and Watchmen (and making the point of 300 boring to Classics nerds and gay military fetishists). He failed. I'm not watching Superman—not if a guy who makes this movie wants to make a movie about a superhero who needs Grant Morrison to write him correctly.
My mileage does vary quite a bit, but here's what it comes down to: if you're going to justify or mock the action and outfits with your subtext, wouldn't it be better to have some action or outfits to justify/mock?
You not being sexually attracted to the cast members doesn't make it a bad film.
Yes, it was a bit heavy handed at times, the music didn't quite sync and the acting was bland. The action scenes were cliche at times, and the marketing of it as a purely mindless action flick didn't help.
If you look a bit closer, you see something more like a strange hybrid of Alice in Wonderland, 300, The Matrix, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Inception and Shutter Island: A stylised action film with a heavy dose of subtext and a whole lot of Mind Screw.
Possibly the biggest flaw was trying to put both the drama and action elements in the one film without making them both perfect. As such, the film falls short of what it could have potentially been. But that doesn't make it bad.
What tibieryo was trying to say is that Snyder states that we are class A bastards for being attracted to the girls, but for many of us the girls are little more than animated cadavers because they lack proper characterisation and development making it hard for us to sympathize with and be attracted to them, so Snyder's Great Plan ultimately fails (if that was his intent from the start, I have my doubts).
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Polarising, but well worth the watch.
YMMV quite a bit, but Sucker Punch is possibly my new favourite film.
Anyone watching this for the fanservice/action alone has missed out on so much of what makes this a great film. Sucker Punch is a film with layers, and to fully appreciate this brilliance, you'll need to think. A lot. It's something that won't appeal to a lot of people, and I just count myself lucky that this film suits my personality and imagination enough for me to truly love it.
Put simply, the movie is a parody/satire/thing of Male Gaze. That insane action-fantasy-fanservice thing you're watching? That's the film analogy for Babydoll's dance: something so emptily attractive or erotic that it sucks you in. That's what the asylum staff are seeing!
The whole movie is like this- deep layers and meanings that justify or mock the shallow action. This is an art film that manages to be as entertaining as all hell when it wants to be. Go see it as soon as you get the chance.