Snowpiercer (rented from Amazon!) was more and less upsetting than I had expected, based on comments here and elsewhere. Since I saw it in my living room, I think the violence was less intense than they would have been in a theater. But the rest of it...damn. Chris Evans has some serious acting chops.
(I will say, I was
relieved at the final reveal of what they did with the kids, because the movie had prepped me to expect something much much worse. I was certain the "steaks" in first class had come from steerage, especially when Chris Evans very obviously refused to take a bite. The fact that they were only forcing five year-olds to work inside an engine 24 hours a day until they died from starvation and/or exhaustion seemed pretty reasonable in comparison to what I was worried about.)
I keep coming back to one thing that stuck out to me, why did Mason take out her teeth?
Quester, June Thomas had the exact same question! (I don't know the answer. It was a very strange character beat.)
I have to disagree with:
the only bad CGI was the food vat.
because I thought the
polar bear
looked pretty obviously cartoonish as well.
In retrospect, the bit with
the room full of axes
makes sense, given that
it was all a setup,
but in the moment all I could think of was
this scene from Galaxy Quest
I thought all the CGI was really bad. Every time they looked out the window it looked like a cartoon to me. The only thing I couldn't decide was whether or not that was on purpose.
At the end did anyone else think
"Oh, look they survived and now they're going to get eaten by a polar bear."
Just me?
I am seeing
Snowpiercer
tonight just so I can read all this freaking whitefont.
I thought that was the point of the end, sj.
In retrospect,
the bit with the room full of axes makes sense, given that it was all a setup,
but in the moment all I could think of was this scene from Galaxy Quest
That would be the one where you can see they re-dubbed Sigourney Weaver's original line?
Just spent some time envisioining Snowpiercer with Sigourney Weaver in Tilda Swinton's role. Bit of a mental fuckery.
ita, I think some people took the point as being
yay there is life left on Earth!
