Okay, let me just say that after reading about Winston Churchill, I do not want to be Winston Churchill, I just want to be able to speak my original words like him.
So I had to decide on whether to blog about The Fighter, or Sucker Punch. Earlier today I was in a bad mood and I thought trashing Sucker Punch would lift my spirits, but then I thought The Fighter has been out for longer and deserves the blog, whereas Sucker Punch has been out for less than a week and was not even half as good as The Fighter. It was a really hard decision, so I did what anyone with a blog named For Movie Lovers would do, I decided to blog on them both at the same time.
This will be my first time blogging on difference/comparison in movies, so bare with me. Not only is comparing movies something I'd usually advice against, these two movies have almost nothing in common, one's a modernized Rocky, and the other a teenage guys dream after falling asleep to too much video games.
Okay, so I'll go ahead and start by informing that The Fighter is about a boxer who is trying to get a name for himself but is struggling due to lack of proper training and good management. Sucker Punch is about a girl in an Mental Hospital who is fantasizing about being a prostitute who dreams about being a warrior fighting Nazi robots.
One thing that the two movies do have in common is that both of the main characters' goal is to escape. He trying to escape a life of nothing, and she is trying to escape coming in contact with a High Roller. Don't get the impression I thought Sucker Punch was a pointless waste of time, Sucker Punch is a movie that is mildly entertaining and a great way to make other movies look good. I'm also not saying Sucker Punch is one of the worst movies ever, I'm just mad about the whole thing cause I spent 10 and a half dollars on it when I should've done my research to avoid it all together till the dollar theater.
Now The Fighter on the other hand, was a boxing movie: pause, I just have to point out that in my opinion movies about boxing, alien invasions, or Jane Austen type romantic stories are all categories that have the same premise but are done by directors differently with certain twists and turns that make them original. Okay The Fighter was a boxing movie that was only partly about boxing. The audience has to decide why they're watching it, my take on the film was that it was not made for people to only go and see Marky Mark without a shirt hitting people in the face over and over again. It was to show a story of a very interesting but messed up family.
The other thing a watcher must do with this film is to decide who the main character is, obviously most that see it are going to automatically think Mark is the main character, but as I watched it, I saw Christian Bale's character act and knew he was the main character. The movie was about him, his drug problem, and his recovery. Mark's storyline was alongside of that effecting his brother in different ways that changed him for the better.
This is also somewhat similar to Sucker Punch in the way that Sucker's Punches main character turns out to not be the point of the movie. The whole point of the movie is so that she can escape (or at least that is what the audience is shown) but in the end it wasn't about her, it was about a fellow prostitute that she needed to help. My favorite thing about the movie is that it open with a dark screen and a voice saying "Everyone has a guardian angel, they appear in ways we can never realize, and their forms change all the time" That was paraphrased but essentially that's what it said, and just like a well written essay, this thesis is revived again at the end of the movie as the main character realizes she is the guardian angel and that she was meant to be at the hospital to help her friend escape.
$10.50 is a lot to spend on a movie you don't get too much out of, but if you were to ever see it, I believe Sucker Punch has value to one not looking for action, and to one who is.
$0.00 is not a lot to spend on a very good movie, and I hope you will get the chance to watch and observe The Fighter like I did.
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