Quester, June Thomas had the exact same question! (I don't know the answer. It was a very strange character beat.)
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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!
Gack, my whitefont!! Put it back,put it back!
I took it as both. Because if there's an apex predator, then there's a food chain - polar bear implies seals implies fish implies plants, so it might be possible for humanity to survive. Except not, because they're probably going to be eaten by the polar bear.