Snowpiercer is a perfect example of why I really like tv shows and films from overseas. I just like a WTF quality to some of the movies I watch.
I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning.
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le nubian - Jul 21, 2014 9:50:44 am PDT #27399 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Scrappy - Jul 21, 2014 10:01:43 am PDT #27400 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I really dug it, and got sign of life from the Polar Bear. I also assumed they'd raid the train to help set up their new lives.
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2014 10:04:50 am PDT #27401 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I just like a WTF quality to some of the movies I watch.
The movie did have a big heaping of The Wacky. I enjoyed it the most when it got weird and surreal, I admit. Like the whole bit with the Fish in the Axe-Battle car, which made me laugh and laugh (especially when Curtis slipped on the fish and fell on his ass, which was THE BEST). The shoe on the head! The gorgeous aquarium car and the WTFness of the sushi bar. The rave! The gun-totting hugely pregnant schoolmarm! The ridiculous awesomeness of the terminator dude who just REFUSED TO DIE.
The political allegory was super-sledgehammer-y though, and I liked more when it felt more like a satire. There were parts of the movie that also felt like a fable. Well, it had a quest narrative, of sorts. Instead of following the yellow brick road to meet the Oz, they had to pass through a bunch of train cars to get to the Sacred Engine, and when they got there, it wasn't quite what they were expecting.
EpicTangent - Jul 21, 2014 10:10:43 am PDT #27402 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I haven't seen Snowpiercer , don't know if I will, due to Issues. So I'm reading the whitefont to be sufficiently forewarned. Whether I see the movie or not though, in my head it now ends with Man-Eating Penguins. And that's Awesome.
Steph L. - Jul 21, 2014 10:12:31 am PDT #27403 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I am Epic, although in my head it ends with penguins eating Captain America. Which is...odd.
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2014 10:17:31 am PDT #27404 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, I had one question. Near the end, the other kid, not Timmy down in the well, but the freckled Irish-looking one with the red curls, goes into some kind of a capsule or a vehicle and takes off by himself. Any guess in what's going on with that?
Tom Scola - Jul 21, 2014 10:20:50 am PDT #27405 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
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Dana - Jul 21, 2014 10:24:10 am PDT #27406 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Vonnie, I thought he was just going to his job, whatever that was.
Jessica - Jul 21, 2014 10:36:07 am PDT #27407 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I thought the same thing as Dana. That his job was "In case of emergency, get in this incredibly small compartment and do a thing that will almost certainly end in your death but might save the train."
This movie makes me want to reread Wool (or maybe finally get around to starting Shift), and then rewatch all of BSG, and the Matrix trilogy.
Vonnie K - Jul 21, 2014 10:38:25 am PDT #27408 of 30000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I was wondering if that was a sequel-bait, then was like, "what sequel? There is no longer a train, nor any people left except these two!"