# Snowpiercer is the best Post Apocalyptic film I've seen in a long time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039 "2014-11-08T02:54:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/1 "2014-11-08T02:54:40Z")
[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/snowpiercer/](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/mobile/m/snowpiercer/) and for once RottenTomatoes agrees with me. Check it out if you get a chance. It’s on Netflix right now. I was surprisingly impressed. I need to check out the director’s other films because I really really like this one.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/2 "2014-11-08T03:06:18Z")
I liked it, too.[We discussed it quite a bit when it was out.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=727080) ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/3 "2014-11-08T05:21:47Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I liked it, too.[We discussed it quite a bit when it was out.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=727080) Well darn. I am a dollar short as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/4 "2014-11-08T05:24:31Z")
I enjoyed it, especially the visuals, but it requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/5 "2014-11-08T07:20:57Z")
IMHO all good sci-fi flicks should require suspension of disbelief. I want to enjoy my movies not over analyze them ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/6 "2014-11-08T07:41:43Z")
I thought it was terrible, even as just a loose theatrical allegory. I don’t mean to thread shit, I ask earnestly, what did you enjoy about I particularly? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/7 "2014-11-08T08:13:27Z")
It was a well-acted, brilliantly-directed movie that deserved a much better script. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/8 "2014-11-08T13:28:34Z")
I thought it was an excellent movie that failed in its final act. I loved everything up to: - learning Chris Evans ate people - that he ate his friend’s mother - that Yona and Timmy alone survive and we are supposed to consider it hopeful that they see a Polar Bear. They are obviously screwed. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/9 "2014-11-08T14:15:15Z")
Yeah, I really enjoyed it until the engine room. Then any complexity or interest in Curtis’s choices was removed and replaced with anvils. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/10 "2014-11-08T14:27:07Z")
I liked the allegory. Each car gets progressively crazier and more WTF!–which is exactly how it is in the real world, where the lives of poor people are more understandable than the lives of the super rich and powerful. Even though I was able to suspend disbelief throughout 99% of the movie, the one thing that bugged the shit out of me was the girl and the little boy dressed in custom-made Eskimo suits. And yeah, that polar bear. WTF had it and its prey been eating for the past 16 years? Maybe this just shows that nature isn’t immune to craziness either. I also liked that there was no romance in this movie, nor any pretty damsel-in-distress. ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/11 "2014-11-08T14:33:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I thought it was an excellent movie that failed in its final act. I loved everything up to: > > - learning Chris Evans ate people I disagree. This was the only part of the movie I enjoyed. “I know what babies taste like” is my ringtone. For whatever reason, mostly because I thought the allegory was so ham-fisted and eye-rolling, I deeply loathed every moment of this movie. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/12 "2014-11-08T15:46:30Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam;17883942]I thought it was terrible, even as just a loose theatrical allegory. I don’t mean to thread shit, I ask earnestly, what did you enjoy about I particularly? [/QUOTE] I appreciated the way The director was able to take an absolutely ridiculous concept and put it into a fairly well paced movie. I especially love the actors. They took the most ridiculous lines and made them believable to me. And the little touches of humor in there where it was completely inappropriate we’re also extremely entertaining. The action sequences were ok, but it was the way the actors took what they had and made it into something brilliant when this movie could have gone in a completely different and awful direction was impressive. And I have to say that’s probably a lot to do with the director himself and his careful choice of cast, special effects, and subject matter. Also the fact that the drug that everyone is supposed to be hooked on looked like green playdough tickled me to death. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/13 "2014-11-08T15:52:08Z")
> [@Maaloth](#): > > I thought it was an excellent movie that failed in its final act. I loved everything up to: > > - learning Chris Evans ate people > - that he ate his friend’s mother > - that Yona and Timmy alone survive and we are supposed to consider it hopeful that they see a Polar Bear. They are obviously screwed. when he said that " I know babies taste best", I just about lost my s\*\*\*. That was freaking hilarious. and of course they’re hopeful when they see a polar bear, the polar bears eating something, and polar bears are edible, and the polar bear is surviving in whatever weather is now prevalent on earth, so life is possible and humans have the nack, like cockroaches, of making it in just about any environment on earth. so either the human race will survive, in some small harsh inhospitable way or will be slaughtered by a polar bear! Either way it’ll be exciting. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/14 "2014-11-09T00:03:25Z")
> [@monstro](#): > > I liked the allegory. Each car gets progressively crazier and more WTF!–which is exactly how it is in the real world, where the lives of poor people are more understandable than the lives of the super rich and powerful. > > Even though I was able to suspend disbelief throughout 99% of the movie, the one thing that bugged the shit out of me was the girl and the little boy dressed in custom-made Eskimo suits. And yeah, that polar bear. WTF had it and its prey been eating for the past 16 years? Maybe this just shows that nature isn’t immune to craziness either. > > I also liked that there was no romance in this movie, nor any pretty damsel-in-distress. I thought the polar bear meant, as the saying goes, “Life finds a way.” So Yona and the little boy might be screwed but there’s hope yet for the human race. I really liked the movie. It wasn’t perfect but it was interesting and entertaining, Tilda Swinton was great as usual, and Chris Evans looked fantastic with that beard and should never shave his face again. ---
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/15 "2014-11-09T00:41:17Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I thought it was an excellent movie that failed in its final act. I loved everything up to: > > - learning Chris Evans ate people > - that he ate his friend’s mother > - that Yona and Timmy alone survive and we are supposed to consider it hopeful that they see a Polar Bear. They are obviously screwed. Ditto one every point! Plus, there were long, lagging periods where you would think the back enders would be attacked seeing as they couldn’t really blend in, but nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/16 "2014-11-09T02:09:01Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > I need to check out the director’s other films because I really really like this one.😃 _The Host_ is pretty good–mainly for the interesting monster design and effects, though the plot kind of meanders and it’s political statements are cartoonishly simple-minded (not unlike _Snowpiercer_ in some regards). ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/17 "2014-11-09T21:12:35Z")
I just saw this on Netflix today. Why was Tilda Swinton’s character referred to as “Mr.” several times? ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/18 "2014-11-09T22:49:33Z")
What was the point of being on that train? What benefit did it serve? For me, this movie was like a train wreck, I couldn’t stop watching. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/19 "2014-11-09T22:57:53Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > What was the point of being on that train? What benefit did it serve? The benefit of being a trite & tortured metaphor for humanity, class and the future. And the fuckers got John Hurt to give people the impression that Thatcher was the equivalent of Stalin/Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039/20 "2014-11-10T03:00:40Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I just saw this on Netflix today. Why was Tilda Swinton’s character referred to as “Mr.” several times? From IMDB: > [@](#): > > Bong Joon-ho first wrote the part of Mason with John C. Reilly in mind, but then adapted the character for Tilda Swinton. He even intentionally left lines of Mason being referred to in the masculine-form in the script, which show up in the movie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snowpiercer-is-the-best-post-apocalyptic-film-ive-seen-in-a-long-time/704039.md?page=2)