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.

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.

I am Epic, although in my head it ends with penguins eating Captain America. Which is...odd.

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?

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Vonnie, I thought he was just going to his job, whatever that was.

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.

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!"

Yep.

Vonnie, I agree with the stuff you liked! Even though it used a lot of familiar tropes, it had enough weirdness (and structural strengths) to make it different.

I didn't think it was grimdark despite the subject matter and the violence.

A friend said it was the most bleak movie she'd ever seen, and I got that impression from some of the comments here, but I agree with you. Didn't feel like bleakity bleak bleak to me.

the Matrix trilogy.

As we know, the future is full of rave scenes.

If the future doesn't have raves with tons of hot half-naked people in it, I don't see the point of going there.