Snowpiercer

[mtrycrafts]

It's a fantasy, like warp drive or transformers or superheros. Nobody really needs to know why Superman can fly or just what the heck kryptonite is.

A few of those can be accepted as they are off world things, super heroes can be mutations, etc. This planet totally covered with ice, not even sure that ever happened during any of the real ice ages, then a RR built on top of it, just hard to fantasize. But, maybe, this is on another planet? That we tried to expand to? That may be a better story line for me. That's it, it is off world.

 

[shadyJ]

Honestly, I will take a train that can never stop on an ice planet over super heroes any day. The train on an ice planet a setting for an allegory, but superheroes are just an juvenile fantasy. The train setting is there to serve a point, but superheroes are usually no more than puerile wish-fulfillment (some exceptions, of course, like Watchmen).

 

[mtrycrafts]

... The train setting is there to serve a point, ...

Then help me out to see that point that I have missed.
By the way, it is in a small theater here so I will wait for it on disc. I guess it is a very independent production to be there.

 

[zhimbo]

Saw it last night. Holy Crap. I *loved* it, but I wouldn't give it an unconditional recommendation. It's bleak, there are some awkward bits, it goes on a bit long. No, it doesn't make a damn bit of sense. It's more like a fairy-tale - as violent as the *old*, before-they-got-cleaned-up fairy tales. I laughed *a lot*, though, and most of the time with the film, occasionally at it.

I want to see it again, though. It's inventive, it's cleverly shot, you can read it as an allegory about class and human history or just enjoy the absolute dementedness of it all.

One of the characters is named "Gilliam". I can only assume that's a little nod to Terry Gilliam.

 

[Markwinstanley]

Most of time I prefer to watch movies in theater but this time i watched Snowpiercer at home due to my busy schedule. I enjoyed this movie a lot because of my fav......Chris Evans however cinema is cinema and house is house.

 

[skizzerflake]

Saw it last night. Holy Crap. I *loved* it, but I wouldn't give it an unconditional recommendation. It's bleak, there are some awkward bits, it goes on a bit long. No, it doesn't make a damn bit of sense. It's more like a fairy-tale - as violent as the *old*, before-they-got-cleaned-up fairy tales. I laughed *a lot*, though, and most of the time with the film, occasionally at it.

I want to see it again, though. It's inventive, it's cleverly shot, you can read it as an allegory about class and human history or just enjoy the absolute dementedness of it all.

One of the characters is named "Gilliam". I can only assume that's a little nod to Terry Gilliam.

I thought that much of the setup didn't make much sense, but it didn't matter; the fantasized setting was the equivalent to a far away planet, tiny island, mythic kingdom or whatever else provides a stage for the class drama that plays out. Even Shakespeare wasn't above using that sort of device to tell a story, like in The Tempest.