This mothered before Ocean’s 8 could even auntie

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

snyder tweeting about this video is literally everything

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

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

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

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

“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.

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. (Edit: to the angry people in the comments thank you for proving my point ❤️)

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…

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.

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

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

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

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 💚

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

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

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

i can’t believe zack snyder knows about this video

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Suckerpunch invented girlboss feminism

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

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.

suckerpunch feels like the evil twin of burlesque 2010

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!!!

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

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

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.

Michael Microphone calls and the gworls answer

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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🤭🎀💕

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

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

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.

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”.

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 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 💁🏻❤️

Moment of appreciation for the lego cat in the background

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

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 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 😂

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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”

i love it when mike mics

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.🙌🏽

The soundtrack for this film was so good. The cover of 'Sing Me To Sleep' filled my little emo heart with so much joy.

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.)

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)

“Movies that film bros hate because they can’t imagine a movie isn’t for them or about them” is my favourite genre of movie. ❤

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!!!!!

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!!

I absolutely love this movie and I am so glad you covered it. The overlapping realities were such a cool way to tell the story, and the fight scenes were incredible.

I was so obsessed with this movie in my first couple years of high school. Everything about it I love, the visuals, the action scenes, the casting and especially the soundtrack which I listened to 24/7. This film will always hold a special place in my heart and will defend it until I stop breathing

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 😭

Sooo... Here is my theory about Blue killing the girls in the second world but we don't know what happened in the first because no one talked about it ; It's an unreliable narrator, that we know for sure. For me, the narrator is Sweet Pea who sees Baby Doll as her angel. She narrates everything "correctly" about what Baby Doll (the stabbing, fire, etc) because she doesn't see it as a bad thing, it's not traumatic for Sweet Pea. It's a good thing that helped her escap. Her sister death tho I think it's way more... Imaginary ? Deep ? Like, her sister is not physically dead but mentaly dead. When the cook tried to assault Rocket, she said that "Baby Doll SAVED her" as if she might have died (not saying that it wasn't horrible, but just talking about the choice of words) and the one who killed Rocket is the cook, the one who tried to assault her and looked at her weirdly when Rocket was showing Baby Doll around. My theory is that in the first world, Rocket was r-word by the cook, which resulted in her being mentaly dead, giving up on life. Becoming a vegetable. Same with Blondie and Amber but with Blue. The scene when Blue kills them, he tries to force himself onto Baby Doll and she stabs him telling him that he will never have her. The last time we see Blue, he tries to kiss Baby Doll but doesn't succeed because she set herself free before he could have a chance of touching her. So I think he abused Blondie and Amber to the point of them giving up on escaping, just accepting to stay behind and this is why Baby Doll said that Sweet Pea was the only one who could be saved, because she was the only one "untouched" by the other, who still has a chance to live without being traumatized by everything. Just a theory, a commentary on abuse on Girls in a place where they can't escape and are used by others. Like the first song says "Some of them want to abuse you".

literal chills throughout the whole video, thank you for doing this service

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!

Sucker Punch is like the American live-action version of Kill La Kill

I'm SOOOO happy to see a review of this movie that absolutely loves, and appreciates this movie for exactly what it is. Not only is it a movie of movies, but the commentary is very well done. And everything going on within her (sweetpea) head is so wild and I love everything about it!

THANK YOU I'VE BEEN SAYING THAT FOR YEARS !!!

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).