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The film calls to mind the kind of thing Sucker Punch was satirizing, offering Potts a few moments of action but completely shortchanging her as a character with her own agency.
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In one of the movie's better running gags, she proves it again and again when she delivers a vicious sucker punch to the throat of anyone foolish enough to threaten her well-being.
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It's no surprise all this could lead to Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman clashing swords in the comic-book-and-videogame-inspired movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), or Emily Browning facing a giant samurai in "Sucker Punch" (2011).
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Chief cheerleader in this self-serving effort has been Steve Eisman, a prominent short seller who contends that for-profit colleges, much like subprime lenders, sucker the poor and uneducated into borrowing more money than they could ever pay back.
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In a sharper movie (and let's shoot for the moon here -- Barbara Stanwyck as the con woman in "The Lady Eve"), Diana would play Bateman's smug executive for a sucker and take him for everything he's got.
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And while I am a sucker for reality television, I never got into the whole Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Khloe and Lamar, Kim and Kourtney Take New York, Miami and whatever other city they bring their drama, neuroses and self-promotion too.
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All things considered, the odd hump on the bottom right edge doesn't seem as dramatic in the reals as it does in press photos, which we'd say is a good thing -- particularly considering the latest talk that we'll see this sucker launch all over the world over the next few months.
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