Previously posted on blog and written by B. Demeter
This is it, the end of the marathon! 31 days of neglecting family, friends, and personal hygiene to bring you fifteen top-notch shitty scary movie reviews.
Now, I have reached the end of the line. Time to set up in the victory formation, hike the ball, take a knee and call it a season. I’m not in it for fame or glory so I am going to ride this out with an easy one. For my final review I watched Snowpiercer.
I referenced this film in my “The Colony” review as the supposed superior climate apocalypse movie. At the time of that review, I hadn’t seen Snowpiercer so I could not confirm if it was in fact good. But now that I watched it I can definitively say it is fucking fantastic!
I don’t know if I’ve watched a movie this good in a while. I started watching it late at night with the intention of getting halfway through it and watching the rest another time. However, this movie is the film version of the book you just can’t put down. It is an intense movie with an awesome graphic novel based story. I could not stop watching.
So what’s the plot? Humanity doomed itself by seeding the atmosphere with chemicals to combat climate change. Turns out the chemicals shifted the earth in the wrong direction and brought on a new ice age. The surviving members of humanity are on a perpetually moving train that has been moving around the world for the past 18 years. The train is segregated with the rich up front and the poor in back. The people in the back have had enough with how they are treated and decide to revolt.
The movie follows the progress of the gang as they make their way to the front of the train and the engine. They are sometimes met with heavy resistance and other times met with no force at all. The train gets more opulent the closer they get to the front. There is a deeper message in there, but I didn’t really care because it is a gorgeous film regardless.
Captain America himself, Chris Evans, plays the lead role and he does a wonderful job. Tilda Swinton plays an upper class emissary and steals the movie every single second she is on screen. There were other actors that I recognized and they all performed well but Chris and Tilda really stood out.
God, I really can’t say enough good things about this movie. It has a weird release strategy where it came out in theaters and on-demand the same day. There wasn’t much marketing that I can remember seeing. It did not do well financially, but numerous podcasts that I listen to highly recommended it and they weren’t wrong. Snowpiercer is a must see movie.
See ya’ll next year!
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