Comments on: Review: Director’s Cut Of Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is Visionary & Thrilling

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

This is a good film but I hope Harvey Weinstein goes with The Immigrant to the Oscars.

By: KIN

KIN — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

Train(steam locomotive) – running around the world – metaphor of capitalism.

By: Rodolfo Biagi

Rodolfo Biagi — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

I just watched it. While it was tense and excellently made, it falls beneath all of Bong's previous films.

As for why the reviews were so good.. well, first, the film is impressive. It's made properly with sincerity and passion. And it IS enjoyable. Second, we just never want Bong to make a film that is less than amazing. He is one of the finest filmmakers of all time. And we are very protective over him.

I don't mind suspending my disbelief. It comes naturally to me. So I didn't notice most of what Hachiko speaks of. However, Hachiko does have some good points. But Hachiko says 'why a train?' Well, a train because that is, we are led to believe, what Ed grew up being fascinated with.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

Wow. Hachiko missed the forest by squabbling over some small shrubs.

Some very irrelevant points you have there.

By: JOHN

JOHN — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

I totally disagree with Hachiko's comment.
I saw the movie last year, and I think it's a masterpiece.

By: JNB

JNB — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

I totally agree with Hachiko's comment.

I saw the film when it was released in France last year and I don't understand how it can get so many good reviews. I respect everyone's opinion but it just doesn't work for me. Too many things just don't make sense. Great director, great cast but definitely a huge disappointment for me.

By: Hachiko

Hachiko — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

I did a hasty search for reviews on the movie when I was about to go see it. Didn't even really look at the trailer properly. Most of the reviews told it's great. But when I finally got to see it I found it to be a complete garbage. If this is a masterpiece as people say it is then it must be one of those abstract art pieces where you just stare at them and can't make any sense of it. There are a lot of unanswered questions. Many of the things don't make any sense at all – why train and not a more efficient way, trains need to be maintained properly and not on the run; how could they sustain all that population; how didn't the aquarium just break down with all those bumpy moments; the tracks need maintenance and they would just freeze over blah blah, if they're by mountainside there are bound to be landslides, snowslides (what we saw in the movie happen tbh); why he had to stick his own arm in the mechanism – why not the arm of a chair or something else, heck, the arm of the bad guy if he just wants things to get gory; if they had bullets why not use them to halt them after the axe shit went down, no need to let things get out of hand… there are so many things I can't make sense of. Often it seemed to be a parody/comedy of something. But what baffles me most – how does it get so many good reviews.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

I think you liked it a little bit more than me. I saw it when it came out in Korea and I would rate it somewhere from B+ to A-. I thought it really started to hit its stride once its satiric edge became really explicit with the special compartmentalization of the train: classroom, sushi, nightclub, sauna, etc. And that really started with Alison Pill as the schoolteacher, in what I thought was the best scene in the film, and I hope that's not one that's going to be heavily cut for North America as rumoured. Honestly, I don't know how anything could be cut out, the movie is pretty much all plot progression.

And why a train? I thought they answered that. One thing I didn't quite like was the end, which felt a little too much like meeting The Architect in The Matrix Reloaded, but I liked the casting of the villain as Randian style hero, obsession with trains intact.

By: nadia

nadia — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

Seeing it tomorrow, can't wait.

By: Dan S

Dan S — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:45:52 +0000

Harvey Weinstein may be to Bong Joon-Ho what Sidney Sheinberg was to Terry Gilliam.