Oh no, a plot fail, now you’ve ruined the movie for me.
That’s because rich people have both the capital and the control of distribution to make movies and get them distributed–and more importantly, not distribute “Red” SF.
What movie was that?
Minister Mason specifically said sushi was only available in January & July, and they’d just crossed Yekaterina Bridge making it New Year’s Day; that was 1st sushi of the year they were eating.
Come on. Don’t you understand how difficult it is to keep these pathetic savages from killing each other? I’m so depressed I can barely enjoy my Kobe steak in luxury space station habitat.
I started watching it tonight. I got about an (half) hour in and I still have six or eight (three) hours to go! This may take a while.
Thanks to Showtime’s Free Preview week, I sat through a few minutes (far too many, actually) of this. I paid too much. Trying to make sense of What The Fuck I Just Saw, looked up this thread. Look, I don’t much care about allegories and metaphors, just want a movie that isn’t Nonsensical Old Bullshit.
Accurate review, right here.
I just watched the trailer from post #4. Looks stupid to me, but according to the youtube comments… this is the greatest movie EVER!
I agree with most of the praise and the criticism in this thread… and I really liked the movie.
The hardest pill for me to swallow was the sequence of train cars and the stark differentiation between them. It felt like a video game where you go from zone to zone: ooh, it’s the desert zone! Now the forest zone! Now the nighttime zone! Now the volcano zone! (or following in the sci-fi tradition of mono-climate planets).
That said, I didn’t find that this movie asked me to stretch my suspension of disbelief any more than a Marvel movie (or other sci-fi/superhero franchise du jour).
Yeah, “Everyone lives on a train” isn’t much more of a conceptual stretch than, “Every Klingon is a Warrior”. Sure, societies can’t actually function like that, but they can be useful to make a point via art.
I had the impression this was 100% the point, to look cool. It is not nuanced futurology.
You’ll be happy to know there’s also a Snowpiercer TV series, 3 seasons so far and possibly a 4th.
Haven’t read other responses, I have a hard time reading right now. I will simply answer the OP’s question. No, it can not possibly be less stupid than it sounds. Interestingly it also can not be any stupider than it sounds, Hope I’m not hurting the feelings of anyone who for unexplainable reasons liked the concept in any way.
OP asked this 8 years ago. Timely.
Looks like someone just watched it. We all must do more to prevent that.
I loved it. Was it realistic? No, of course not. But criticism of stuff like this always amazes me. Was Jurassic Park realistic? 2001 Space Odyssey? The list is endless.
The way to enjoy most Sci-fy is to give in to the conceit, and just enjoy it for what it is. It’s not a documentary.
Different strokes, eh?
I was an original reader of the thread, but didn’t have anything to say beyond what others had, and better.
But since it’s back and won’t go away, I’ll throw my opinion in the ring.
It’s an absurd premise, which in some ways works to make the equally, if not MORE absurd social values in the train more palatable. I’m so busy poking holes in the WTF of the premise that I’m slightly less flabbergasted by the premise of having the supplies to support the top without actually trying to remedy the world or train situation other than the classic ‘Sacrifice of the Innocents’ trope.
That being said, it’s no better / worse than other ludicrous concepts of similar movies. Heck I love watching Equilibrium and it’s gun kata even though it makes just as little sense conceptually.
So put me in the “it’s fine for it’s genre, but stupid by analysis” category.
I found the movie both silly and self-important, which is a combination that very rarely works. It didn’t work here.
My problem was compared to those movies mentioned they felt like documentaries in comparison. A made up movie world has to have some sort of internal logic that allows suspension of disbelief. This stupid movie isn’t well written enough for that.
Exactly right. I can easily enjoy a silly movie.
Just wait till these folks start watching the show…
“I know that babies taste best.”