Howard Hughes at the Picture Show (Snowpiercer !)

[greygirlbeast]

Wake the fuck up, Beast.

Sunny and warm outside. Shadowy and hot inside. One day I will no longer be a prisoner of this House in this city in this strange realm of this sunset country.

Yesterday, I played hooky, and we made the 2:30 p.m. matinée of Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer (2013; Seolgungnyeolcha), based on Jacques Lob's* graphic novel, Le

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[setsuled]

it's certainly one of the best SF films of the last decade. It just...shines.

I agree.

And it's just fucking brilliant, in the most terrible way, weaving black comedy and superb acting and stunning visuals.

Yes. And action sequences, real ones, not blurry close-ups, people actually engaged in dangerous looking choreography.

I love the subtle complexity of the writing, how little things like Curtis' shame about having two arms aren't explained when he first mentions them. So many things that don't really seem significant turn out to be enormously important later.

Tilda Swinton (in a delightfully demented, show-stealing Margaret Thatcher riff)

She was so wonderful, like a big, cruel, spoiled child.

Poor Chris Evans does his best to keep up with the so much talent, and if the film has any flaw at all it's simply that Evans, who plays the main character, is overshadowed by....well, everything. But, on the other hand, it may have been intentional, as it helps us live of the existential shock and sheer horror that Curtis Everett

[greygirlbeast]

Yes. And action sequences, real ones, not blurry close-ups, people actually engaged in dangerous looking choreography.

Yes.

So many things that don't really seem significant turn out to be enormously important later.

If only more authors of both screenplays and prose fiction grasped the importance of this.

he kinds of fades into the foreground.

NIce turn of phrase.

I don't like to eat anything that makes noise in the theatre--I had pizza a couple weeks ago, which wasn't so bad.

I just have this admittedly weird aversion to eating or drinking in a theater.

[setsuled]

If only more authors of both screenplays and prose fiction grasped the importance of this.

And movie studio executives. When I read about Harvey Weinstein's demand for opening and closing monologues for Snowpiercer I couldn't help thinking of the voice over narration forced on Blade Runner.

I just have this admittedly weird aversion to eating or drinking in a theater.

I was in a place with tables and a wait staff inside the theatre. It was a slightly different experience--I might not have been game if it'd been something like Citizen Kane, but since it was only Edge of To-morrow, I didn't mind so much. Or maybe it was the gin martini I was also having.

[greygirlbeast]

When I read about Harvey Weinstein's demand for opening and closing monologues for Snowpiercer I couldn't help thinking of the voice over narration forced on Blade Runner.

The movie was so amazing, I actually can't recall those. I know there was a bit of explanatory, prologue sort of text at the beginning, but no voice over. And I don't recall anything of that sort at the end.

I was in a place with tables and a wait staff inside the theatre. It was a slightly different experience

Ah, I haven't been to that sort of theater, the kind that serves food and drinks and whatnot, since the mid-nineties. I always found people eating, and the smells of any food but popcorn, horribly distracting.

Also, I'd like to talk with you about possible TSW RP.

[everville340]

You must see this film, though it's received virtually no distribution in the US.

Hopefully it will be somewhat nearby where the Little Blue Coffin (decades-old Metro) can travel, as it sounds engagingly thought-provoking...which is always a welcome respite at the box office.

I don't know which is more curious, the bathroom 'oddities' themselves or why they can be found in the bathroom!

[greygirlbeast]

I don't know which is more curious, the bathroom 'oddities' themselves or why they can be found in the bathroom!

It's a sort of cabinet...

[witchchild]

I was fortunate enough to be able to see it this past weekend. One of my friends, who loves to go to the movies, was keeping her eyes peeled for it. We figured it was the one week it'd be here, and we got in. The awesome parts were a) it was in one of the two small screening rooms and b) there were several other people there to see it. I also had not considered the parallels to La Divina Commedia but now that you mention it, I can see it right away.

I've also heard there were complaints about the editing of the film but I didn't find much of any problem with it. There was only one event at the end I haven't figured out and may need the graphic novel to understand. Not going to post it here because spoilers.

Also interesting synchronicity as I should have Beasts of the Southern Wild waiting for me when I get home today.

[greygirlbeast]

I also had not considered the parallels to La Divina Commedia but now that you mention it, I can see it right away.

I keep finding parallels with other works, which, to me, is always a sign of brilliance.

Also interesting synchronicity as I should have Beasts of the Southern Wild waiting for me when I get home today.

I adored that film.

[ashlyme]

This looks fucking brilliant. Good shot of Hurt, too. Sadly it doesn't have a Brit distributor yet.

...Hang on, those aren't drawers for library index cards, surely? It's what they look like.

[greygirlbeast]

...Hang on, those aren't drawers for library index cards, surely? It's what they look like.

Nope.

[greygirlbeast]

I haven't seen Beasts of the Southern Wild yet

Then you simply must.