Solid Snake

Watching it again right now. Cuz I bought. 8 bucks is great for this.

This fucking movie is all kinds of awesome. I love the ridiculous of it. Bong Joon Ho has a very cool and slightly off type of tones to his films. Something that goes out of the material but more w/ him. Same could be said by his fellow filmmakers in South Korea.

The cast is everywhere. Literally. So many actors that would never be together in any other film but they're brought together to make a community. Essentially what any social culture is. A variety of people. Some alike and some very different. It feels more real. If an America would have done this, or one under a major studio, you'd see more of a isolated physical visual of the people involved. Meaning... they'd match up and it's nothing unique, a cookie cutter community. But here the variety is awesome. So many actors we know. Hell... Mike Yanagita from Fargo is in here. The cast is really amazing for the variety. Evans leads this w/ a great great sense of what the person has to do to win. His choices here, Curtis' actions, are sometimes very very cruel and emotionally self inflicting to himself to win the game. This world, and reality in general, needs cruel cruel sacrifices to move forward for the better. I really want to see more Evans having roles like this. I know he's after them but the guy is a great actor that may be underrated cuz he's Captain America, which has it's own levels to merit too. Swinton...is fucking amazing playing this ridiculous character of hers. Pill is fun too. I love her look. So different and attractive to me been a fan since Scott Pilgrim.

The premise of Snowpiercer is really far out. But it takes it seriously. That's what makes it a great film for the nature of it. It's not our world. Their world veered off in a way that ours hasn't/didn't. These alternate worlds work like that. We can't take the film to be our world. Their world did something different. And that's ok cuz it takes it as fact and rolls w/ it.

It's a damn good apocalyptic film. Does a lot of things differently while also bringing things that are cherished in those worlds. Bong Joon Ho really doesn't repeat himself w/ world building, does he? They all look different.

I don't see what you got from it. I think the film presented the reality really well. It's a crazy concept of a future but it works it and takes it for truth.

Tuan Jim

FWIW, this is a pretty nifty breakdown of some of the designs in this flick:



(great youtube channel btw!)

Solid Snake

Maybe chrome is acting up for me but all I see is a blank white area where the video should be. I see the link when I quote you though.

Here's the embed for ya:

<iframe width="660" height="415" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X05TDsoSg2Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

And yes... it's a great channel.

Tuan Jim

Yeah, I dunno, first time I've tried embedding YT vids...might be my firefox settings.

Thanks for tweaking it.

Solid Snake

If you go the site. Click share and pick the embed one.

I've seen the yt bit for links. Did you do it on your phone?

HN

when using the YT tags, you just need the value after ?v= instead of the whole youtube url between the tags.. in your video above, it'd be just X05TDsoSg2Y