Evans, you meatball.
So, Snowpiercer. Huh.
I guess I was expecting too hard to be emotionally destroyed, but -- mostly I was super glad and super relieved that the story went to the places it needed to go. It was a pretty fearless script, pretty fearlessly executed. The rot of the engineering extends from top to bottom. Dude, yes. (This, along with Curtis and his arm thing, make me wonder if CEvans got the Winter Soldier script and was like, "I just did this movie.")
Man, let's talk about Chris Evans, shall we? "Chris Evans ate a baby!" may have been exclaimed a bit too delightedly on the sidewalk outside. But consider me duly impressed, dude. He really is quite good.
Tilda Swinton, holy shit. Allison Pill, OMG. Kang-ho Song, dude, you were the BEST. Ah-sung Ko, ohgod, wow.
But yeah -- I went with two people who are the types who want to just immediately start picking things apart as soon as we got out, while I just want to sit on it for a while and mull. The engineering, the way the rear car people thought they had a choice and a chance all along, just. I'm just glad the film went there. I'm glad Minsoo had it figured out (and how to say fuck it and make another way) all along. I hesitate to say it's trickster punk rock to make a film where literally everyone but two minors dies, but -- the two friends were saying Curtis could have saved more people by taking Wilford's offer and doing it his own way, and -- no. That's not the point at all.
That was a hella ballsy movie. I'm so glad we got to see it as it should be; I'm so glad we got to see it at all.
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I guess I was expecting too hard to be emotionally destroyed, but -- mostly I was super glad and super relieved that the story went to the places it needed to go. It was a pretty fearless script, pretty fearlessly executed. The rot of the engineering extends from top to bottom. Dude, yes. (This, along with Curtis and his arm thing, make me wonder if CEvans got the Winter Soldier script and was like, "I just did this movie.")
Man, let's talk about Chris Evans, shall we? "Chris Evans ate a baby!" may have been exclaimed a bit too delightedly on the sidewalk outside. But consider me duly impressed, dude. He really is quite good.
Tilda Swinton, holy shit. Allison Pill, OMG. Kang-ho Song, dude, you were the BEST. Ah-sung Ko, ohgod, wow.
But yeah -- I went with two people who are the types who want to just immediately start picking things apart as soon as we got out, while I just want to sit on it for a while and mull. The engineering, the way the rear car people thought they had a choice and a chance all along, just. I'm just glad the film went there. I'm glad Minsoo had it figured out (and how to say fuck it and make another way) all along. I hesitate to say it's trickster punk rock to make a film where literally everyone but two minors dies, but -- the two friends were saying Curtis could have saved more people by taking Wilford's offer and doing it his own way, and -- no. That's not the point at all.
That was a hella ballsy movie. I'm so glad we got to see it as it should be; I'm so glad we got to see it at all.
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