Snowpiercer

[bklynred]

I liked this too. I thought it was a rental when I saw it; I'd see it again on the big screen. Not perfect, but interesting concepts and the cast is very cool.

[magazinewhore]

Tried to see it in Chicago this past weekend but it was sold out.

[Deleted]

I saw it on Sunday and I loved it. The entire cast totally brought it, though I do wish that Tilda Swinton wasn't so over-the-top hammy.

[save lilo!]

I am really surprised this movie has a mainstream audience interest. Obviously it has the American cast to support it but it's a little out there for a summer flick and a bit more cerebral than oh, Transformers. I actually don't think I liked it very much but I'm happy it's picking up steam (ha) with a Korean director and two leads attached.

[bklynred]

I hope it's doing well. If I didn't have web access I'd never have heard of it. I haven't seen one US trailer for it.

[Mugsy]

I just saw this on the weekend and don’t get all the fuss. The concept is interesting but kind of silly; I mean, why a perpetually-moving train? Seems like an unnecessary waste of limited resources when the same system could have been set up in one (probably equatorial) location, waiting out the deep freeze.

And it was very Hunger Games with the dirty masses providing small children to replace a train part, while the ridiculously coddled first class passengers lounged around in the spa. Why keep the dirty masses alive at all? Obviously they had no moral reason to do so and had no issues with killing them. Other than providing the required small child every year, they weren’t shown slaving away producing food or whatever for the elite. They just took up space and then they had to make “food” for them too.

The whole thing seemed like a teenage boy’s high school paper in response to “Your assignment is to write a dystopian fable.” Ridiculous classism? Check. Dirty poor people dressed in brown? Silly rich people dressed in bright colours? Check. And interesting concept that actually makes no practical sense? Check. Lots of violence with a variety of interesting weaponry? Check. Cerebral and freakishly calm overlord played by Ed Harris? Check. The only thing missing was gratuitous boobs.

And I don’t get the fuss about Tilda Swinton. She really needed those pointlessly large false teeth for all the scenery chewing. Egads.

And where were the teenage girl and little boy planning to go at the end? To become that polar bear’s next dinner? Because, really, what was it eating for 17 years?

Maybe I’m expecting too much logic from a sci-fi fantasy, but I can accept lots of creative licence if it makes sense within the story. Like I said upthread, this just seemed like a high school creative writing story brought to life on the big screen.