Sucker Punch vs Limitless

Out of these two movies, Sucker Punch clearly was more promoted.  It appeals to a wide range of audience because guys like tits and ass fighting off anything that comes their way.  And for the girls Vanessa Hudgens is in it.  One thing that you should pay more attention to is this one promo because it makes more sense than out of any of the trailers.  I love how it says "you will be unprepared" because that's exactly what you feel.

As for Limitless the plot is-obviously-more constructed.  No, you don't watch any robot fighting action, but what you get is an interesting scenario that later gets a little too out of hand.  Neither of them make any sense, but if I had to go with which one is more realistic, it would have to be Sucker Punch.  Doesn't mean it's any better though.

Now how the hell could a movie about burlesque, fake names, girls fighting off steampunk Nazis and dragons be more realistic than a movie based on a medical theory be more realistic?  To be fair the main character goes insane through irony.  She accidentally kills her sister after trying to save her then is sent to a mental hospital and makes up her own fantasy world within another fantasy world.  After enough time spent in her own fantasy, she believes it and needs to get out.  

The main problem I had with this movie was how it tried to be too many genres at the same time.  While it had a good excuse to have so many random fantasy worlds within the movie, it wasn't executed correctly.  There were a few things that I did like about it, but if I had to redo this whole production, personally I would just take out the whole main story about how she was really sent to a mental hospital and instead was placed in a brothel.  It was like watching a movie that was a flashback within a flashback.  Only Inception did a good job of layering like this so many times, and Sucker Punch to me was trying to mimic that effect with resulted in failure.

Limitless was way more interesting to watch.  The plot surrounds the idea of a pill that can unlock a human's mind to 100% potential versus the average 20%, which the average mind does normally.  Bradley Cooper did a good job with what he had to work with although the movie itself wasn't really that great (to me it was a little above average however).  While the movie was based on NZT-48 (the name of the drug), you get to see how this drug consumed the main character's life.

It was thrilling, but the ending does fool with your intension on how it was supposed to end.  Many events within the storyline makes the drug more and more inhuman and unholy when it plays around with peoples' emotions and their actions.  But instead of the expected, this had to end somehow, you will learn how the main character succeeds in keeping it all: the drugs, the love of his life, and a really fantastic job while normally everyone knows that this is impossible.

But after seeing Sucker Punch, my appreciation for Limitless was greatly enhanced.  I probably would have rather seen Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2 if I knew how completely random Punch was when I went to go see it last night.  But in the mean time I will just wait for the last Harry Potter to come out.  Or Fast Five.  Or Conan.