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.

Holy CRAP: [link]

That's just... amazing.

Well, that was superfun.

Lim is ridiculously talented. I cannot even imagine the amount of work that must have gone into making that vid. And the timing and the musicality! I think my favourite bit is the middle section with Natasha and Peggy kicking ass to the rhythm of tap-dancing.

Back to Snowpiercer. Genevieve Valentine puts into words the reason why I liked this movie so much: [link]

Though the linked piece is more about the function of a particular image than the entire film, which I thought was a marvelously unsubtle parable that worked beautifully in its details and in the sheer variety of tones it took, so that you're unsettled not so much by the trappings of the world but by the fact that the journey through the train often juxtaposes wrenching horror with grimly gleeful comedy. For a movie as direct as this is, the variety of tones offers some interesting latitude for the viewer to determine what it's trying to say.

The linked piece was about the fish, which was one of my favourite random beats in the movie.

Epic vid! Great music choice, fantastic motion and energy, wowza! Fun, indeed. Lots of Tony love there, but movie!Stark is just such a theatrical guy and RDJ imbued the character with so much grace and poise.

It did make me pause and wonder if Jane contributed more than just "OMG, hot dude!" (I know that science geekery/genius is hard to translate in a visually interesting manner).

And I didn't even catch that the taiko had changed to tapdancing, so very cool. (Especially when including the dude tapdancing almost literally as he's electrocuted).

I loved the repeated visuals of Ironman pushing the turbines/scenes, that was fun, and just all of the followed-through motion from left to right and top to bottom.

And the fact that there were custom made Marvel logos with new words, holy bejeebus.

Eh. Maybe I'm pre-migrainey today, because all that vid did was give me a headache. I had to turn it off after 30 seconds.