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Calicaps said:
After years of reading the description and thinking “that’s gonna be really stupid, nevermind,” I finally cave and watched Snowpiercer. Sure enough, really stupid. How is that film rated 94%???
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I'll go you one better: I couldn't finish the film because it was so bad, but I managed to persist with the TV series and watched all 3 seasons.

And I'm not really sure it was any better than the movie. I think it was just a s(low) point in my life when I had nothing better to do or watch!
 
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The Substance blew my mind….very original horror….

PlushMinus said:
I'll go you one better: I couldn't finish the film because it was so bad, but I managed to persist with the TV series and watched all 3 seasons.

And I'm not really sure it was any better than the movie. I think it was just a s(low) point in my life when I had nothing better to do or watch!
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I liked both the movie and the series lol! Seen the movie at least 4-5 times.
 
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I think I watched a season and some of the 2nd for Snowpiercer. Was fairly meh to me. I actually like the movie a lot better.
 
I’m still reeling from The Substance….


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Calicaps said:
After years of reading the description and thinking “that’s gonna be really stupid, nevermind,” I finally cave and watched Snowpiercer. Sure enough, really stupid. How is that film rated 94%???
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I also think that movie is buttcheeks, and have refused to watch the series as a result.

I actually like the concept, but the execution felt so juvenile. Felt like I was watching Maze Runner or some other generic post-apocalyptic teen movie.
 
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Calicaps said:
I'm creeped out just listening to you guys talk about it.

Nope.
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There were quite a few needles injecting / extracting "stuff" which I can do without.

The directing style was interesting, to say the least. Some quite repetitive scenes and a lot of very weird, in your face camera angles. Close ups of the guy eating shrimp were as gross as some of the body horror stuff!

Very strange movie but Demi Moore is a better actress than I thought she was. I like Margaret Qualley from The Leftovers but liked her more in Maid (fun fact: Andie McDowell is her real life mother).
 
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PlushMinus said:
There were quite a few needles injecting / extracting "stuff" which I can do without.

The directing style was interesting, to say the least. Some quite repetitive scenes and a lot of very weird, in your face camera angles. Close ups of the guy eating shrimp were as gross as some of the body horror stuff!

Very strange movie but Demi Moore is a better actress than I thought she was. I like Margaret Qualley from The Leftovers but liked her more in Maid (fun fact: Andie McDowell is her real life mother).
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The Directing was very original, from the pretty scenes, to the ugly, to the grossness of Dennis Quaid’s character, to downright disgusting and revolting. Demi was great and so was Qually. Yowsa….
 
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Calicaps said:
After years of reading the description and thinking “that’s gonna be really stupid, nevermind,” I finally cave and watched Snowpiercer. Sure enough, really stupid. How is that film rated 94%???
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Going out on a limb here: because it's stupid.

Like... the world falls apart when you think about it for a hot minute, but that's not quite the point. It does enough to explain some of the main things you'd question (like food, energy) and kind of skirts the reality of actually doing any of this because riding a train forever around the world is sooooo stupid.

Various cars in the train are so absurd they arguably shouldn't exist at all, much less when you consider that these rich folk are doing the rave thing all the time because... they can, I guess? We simply aren't unpacking the day-to-day of the "wake up, eat, rave for 6 hours, eat again, rave some more" car or the strange ratio of sleeper cars to people because it's stupid. It's a wildly stylized representation of class struggle by pulling virtually everything to an aesthetic extreme, but that's amplified by the understanding that they're all on the exact same train. I know I don't have to explain the concept of class struggle in a film like this since it's kind of heavy handed but I do think it's important to recognize why there's no real nuance (and think that helps the film a little).

It paints in these broad brushes and creates these caricatures of real social elements because despite the premise, this is still basically just an action movie. It's Train to Busan but the zombies aren't turned. The class aspects are very heavy handed but at the end of the day this is just a "get to the other side of the train" movie for most of it and buoyed by the action scenes, so that all kind of tracks for me. There isn't much time to unpack anything with more detail because it'd be missing the point, you just have to connect dots.

You sit back and unpack it and of course train life doesn't add up, and the ending is like "well now what, everybody's just f***ed?" but that might be the point. If this is a pointed analysis of humanity in the 21st century it's kind of admitting from the jump that the train has already left the station and we f***ed it all, which isn't pleasant but is certainly meaningful.
 
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HTFN said:
Going out on a limb here: because it's stupid.

Like... the world falls apart when you think about it for a hot minute, but that's not quite the point. It does enough to explain some of the main things you'd question (like food, energy) and kind of skirts the reality of actually doing any of this because riding a train forever around the world is sooooo stupid.

Various cars in the train are so absurd they arguably shouldn't exist at all, much less when you consider that these rich folk are doing the rave thing all the time because... they can, I guess? We simply aren't unpacking the day-to-day of the "wake up, eat, rave for 6 hours, eat again, rave some more" car or the strange ratio of sleeper cars to people because it's stupid. It's a wildly stylized representation of class struggle by pulling virtually everything to an aesthetic extreme, but that's amplified by the understanding that they're all on the exact same train. I know I don't have to explain the concept of class struggle in a film like this since it's kind of heavy handed but I do think it's important to recognize why there's no real nuance (and think that helps the film a little).

It paints in these broad brushes and creates these caricatures of real social elements because despite the premise, this is still basically just an action movie. It's Train to Busan but the zombies aren't turned. The class aspects are very heavy handed but at the end of the day this is just a "get to the other side of the train" movie for most of it and buoyed by the action scenes, so that all kind of tracks for me. There isn't much time to unpack anything with more detail because it'd be missing the point, you just have to connect dots.

You sit back and unpack it and of course train life doesn't add up, and the ending is like "well now what, everybody's just f***ed?" but that might be the point. If this is a pointed analysis of humanity in the 21st century it's kind of admitting from the jump that the train has already left the station and we f***ed it all, which isn't pleasant but is certainly meaningful.
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I just summed it up with “it’s over the top” and you have very eloquently explained what I meant there. It’s an outrageous movie by design.
 
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