OK, I do know why: Zack Snyder has only really impressed me once, and that was way back on his first film, Dawn of the Dead, one of the better horror remakes in recent years (hint: the best remakes are the ones that take the general outline of the original and fashion a brand new story around it). Watchmen was also well done but stuck so close to the comic book that I have a hard time singling Snyder himself out as worthy of commendation.
What I was expecting out of Sucker Punch was something akin to the stylized, one off appeal of 300, a movie I enjoyed looking at (as opposed to watching) once but have never felt the urge to revisit again. Instead, Sucker Punch is the absolute ultimate in fanboy pandering, which could be a good or bad thing depending on whether you are, in fact, a fanboy or just one of the disgruntled wallflowers that wish the geek brigade would use their newfound power within the zeitgeist to demand better quality, instead of just trading in the intellectualism that made them geeks in the first place for more explosions and PG-13 T&A.
Clearly I am in the bitter, latter category. And yet, I've acknowledged that I'm occasionally down for a mindless action flick, as long as it delivers on some level (ditto for horror and comedy; I'm willing to forgive terrible plotting and characterization as long as they come through on the kills and jokes, respectively). The problem with Sucker Punch is that, while it is indeed mindless, it doesn't really deliver on the action.
