SNOWPIERCER, a (mostly) English-language film by Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother) starring Tilda Swinton, Song Kang-ho and some other people

"barking dogs never bite" is v great and hilarious if u can find it

that's a weird-ass movie.

exactly why i loved it!

i should revisit it. i remember liking it but also finding it too manic.

CGI effects in this are surprisingly bad.

Don't get the hype overall. Some cool ideas/visuals/acting (in patches), but fairly disappointing.

theatre at Universal Studios has it but y'all are making me wonder whether it's worth wasting the extra 20 minutes to get out of the parking lot to see this

It's not awful, and unlike most SF movies it has actual interesting ambitions that it tries to fulfil, but it's pretty flawed.

w/ mr. morrison. fun, nice looking (great design, lighting, character casting, etc.), intermittently gripping, but the whole thing ultimately felt rather pointless. didn't help that the film's peak wasn't the laborious and overdetermined climax, but rather the colorfully absurd ascent through first class that preceded it. favorite bongs are still barking dogs and memories of murder.

Just saw this, hadn't even really heard of it but the bf chucked it on during a lazy weekend. Very korean-film pacing, in that I guess I found some of the fight scenes overly long (is it that and the non-subtitled korean speeches that got cut?). I had trouble suspending disbelief which is my fault, but cmon, that aquarium? The fuck did that fit in a train car?

Also, where the hell did all those sides of meat and chickens (and the eggs, come to think of it) come from? I didnt see them go through any cars with live animals.

In the comic there are 1001 cars. Who has time to show them all?

Yeah I did wonder if thats all it was, but then again I also wondered why the bloody thing hadnt derailed months before it actually did.

I enjoyed the film, really. I liked the way it just jumped right into the story without handholding explanation. And I didnt know it was based on a comic (thought it was a novel!) so now I must look out for that.

This was very good, I thought.

P.S. This movie is available to watch as a streaming rental, if you are into that sort of thing.

this was pretty good. there were some dumb plot holes that could have been dealt with without too much fuss. but as an action-film allegory it was pretty top notch.

btw the film has very little to do w/ the comic other than the very basic premise.

the more i think about this film the less i liked it.
sounds like they're trying to explain the very limited release as a plan to get major critical attention and then go VOD:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-snowpiercer-vod-and-the-future-of-film-distribution-20140710-story.html

i thought the limited release was effectively punishment for bong prevailing and getting his cut. the article quotes a studio guy as saying this isn't true, but i wouldn't be so sure.

this is a movie that really benefits from the /scale/ of a cinema, btw.

I would have thought the big screen would expose the paucity of the CG effects, but maybe they scale up well

especially the feeble train ramming through snowfalls stuff at the end

Yeh the CGI in that last trainwreck (heh) part did look a little...cartoonish?

(I watched it in 1040 HD on a v large TV)

yeah it wasn't the best CGI, but it all transpires so fast I didn't really scrutinize it.

Thinking about my complaints, I suspect part of it is my expectations were raised by all the recut foofaw so that I had some idea this was going to be a Blade Runner-style masterpiece mangled by a scared, money-centric studio, when in fact it was just an above-average SF action movie

yup

Still an interesting premise all that said!

lol you guys know studios demand recuts of about everything, let alone foreign films. sometimes the recuts are... better

lol why would you assume we don't know that

wow -- Tilda Swinton is fitfully entertaining w/out being much good, is she?

if you're constantly worried about everything having to be "tasteful", yeah

who sez I am? I love Bong's movies.

Oh I really want to see this.

Coming from the director of Memories Of Murder, The Host and Mother - how the fuck can anybody not be disappointed with this half arsed, bodge-job of a movie?

I like all four of them, sorry fella

xp i am also haunted by that question. I think in comparison to most any other big budget scifi dystopia fantasy that's come out this year, this is good enough. compared to anything bong's done, it's utterly disposable.

It disappointed me -- his worst film. Chris Evans is a large part of the problem.

I liked it enough, but thought the pacing and over long fight scenes were not great.

any ideas how i can see this in the UK?

its leaked fwiw

i think i just glanced at a torrent that said Korean DVD

subbed?

its in english and yeah it leaked a few months ago iirc

Weinstein will also be releasing "Snowpiercer" in several hundred theaters in the UK, which has less sophisticated VOD apparatus

“Snowpiercer wouldn’t, really, be worth writing about at all, except that a number of prominent critics… seem inexplicably convinced of its virtues.”

http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/babies-taste-best#

I enjoyed this well enough. A few big plotholes and inexplicable moments (what was the Andrew kid doing at the end? Why would gilliam be in cahoots with Wilford?) And the jumps in tone were indeed jarring too but it was watchable and I never got bored. Thought the soundtrack was especially good too.

Just saw this and thought it was great. Euro as FUCK, tho, with the premise being a post-apoc class system based on a train.

Didn't realize until an IMBD lookup that the Korean father/daughter team was the same pair as the The Host.

Disappointed that the Weinstein Bros didn't open the film wider; this is destined to be the other scifi flick of 2014 tht you have to evangelize to all your friends to see.

what's the first?

Edge of Tomorrow

^^^yeah saw that last night and was really srsly surprised/impressed

I still need to, thanks for the reminder

i went into it knowing that it starred cruise and had a groundhog's day premise and that was about it

Watched the first half of this last night before falling asleep. Do I need to watch the second half?