Surprised not to see a thread about this movie yet. Did anyone else see it? What did you think?
It's kind of weird that Kim Jee-woon, Park Chan-wook and Joon-ho Bong all made English language debuts in the same year. I'll just go ahead and say this was the strongest of the three by a fair margin. I saw it opening night here and have been back twice with different people who all liked it. Be sure to go if you heart Korean cinema/Joon-ho Bong. That guy cannot make a bad movie.
Here's the part where I'd post a trailer but I'm against them on principle. Go without reading/watching anything about it. Trust me.
Oh, and it was shot on film, which is always nice to see. I'm glad those guys haven't transitioned to digital yet. Their movies are far too pretty.
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never seen a film by the director. never heard of the movie.
it is playing around my area, don't think i'll get a chance to go see it, though. gonna be out of town for a week and will have alot of work to catch up on. i'll probably have to catch it on bluray or something
Don't forget to not watch the trailer!
And a lot of people probably haven't heard of it because Harvey Winestain outJew'd himself when he Jew'd his Jew-juice all over this absolute Jewel of a movie.
telling me to not watch the trailer makes me want to watch the trailer
Quote"In 2014, an experiment to counteract global warming causes an ice age that kills nearly all life on Earth. The only survivors are the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a massive train, powered by a perpetual-motion engine, that travels on a globe-spanning track. A class system is installed, with the rich passengers who bought tickets inhabiting the front of the train and those who managed to get aboard during boarding inhabiting the tail."
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my brother watched it on the plane and said it was really good
but then again this is the same guy who doesnt like to eat cheese when it's not melted so go figure
it was good
surprisingly brutal in parts with a few unexpected twists and people dying that you wouldnt expect
massive spoiler gripe alert
[spoiler]sort of fell apart towards the end, literally considering the train just kind of explodes and everyone dies, the back train cars get fucking wrekked then thrown off a mountain then crushed so i dont think anyone makes it out.
its like we get a bunch of interesting twists and turns just to have it all completely destroyed and rendered meaningless
are the lone girl and small black kid supposed to repopulate the earth??? not too sure what the ending was supposed to mean. everyone was fighting pettily for survival on the train while life went on outside when no one thought it could?????? [/spoiler]
Quote from: zwimmy on July 21, 2014 05:41 PM
Quote"In 2014, an experiment to counteract global warming causes an ice age that kills nearly all life on Earth. The only survivors are the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a massive train,
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Quote from: soup on July 24, 2014 11:06 PM
[spoiler]sort of fell apart towards the end, literally considering the train just kind of explodes and everyone dies, the back train cars get fucking wrekked then thrown off a mountain then crushed so i dont think anyone makes it out.
its like we get a bunch of interesting twists and turns just to have it all completely destroyed and rendered meaningless
are the lone girl and small black kid supposed to repopulate the earth??? not too sure what the ending was supposed to mean. everyone was fighting pettily for survival on the train while life went on outside when no one thought it could?????? [/spoiler]
You forgot the part where [spoiler]it's only a movie geez. [spoiler]Also the ending was good.[/spoiler][/spoiler]
So yeah basically the whole thing is a metaphor for capitalism and globalization.