My inner hermit has been asserting himself recently, so I decided to see some recent sci-fi movies that some reviewers regard as "underrated". Unfortunately, the first two movies I picked do not deserve greater renown, except perhaps as case studies in how not to make a movie.
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Mr Nobody - Beautiful visuals, great actors, but if it has a plot, it was shattered into a thousand pieces and superglued back together by six year olds. I'm cool with a cold open that thrusts the viewer into a new world filled with characters doing inexplicable things, but I do want to see a plot that ties things together eventually. I checked out at the 20 minute mark, but apparently the whole movie is 2.5 hours of jump cuts.
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Snowpiercer - What a dumb movie. I thought the premise was dumb before I even saw it, but I was persuaded to see it by the 95% Fresh ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, and the fact that I had a dream set in the movie. Apparently the dream was intended as a warning not to see this movie.
Here's the premise: the world has descended into a new ice age that has killed all life on earth. The only remaining life is the crew aboard a supertrain (the "Snowpiercer") that has continuously circled the globe for the last 17 years. The train is strictly stratified into economic classes, with lower classes in the back, and upper classes in the front. Fed up with poor living conditions, the lower classes in the last car stage a revolution to take over the train.
Can you immediately think of a whole lot of reasons why the premise is implausible? Yeah, well, the movie doesn't even try to make its premise seem plausible, and flings off a whole bunch of other implausibilities as it hurtles toward its conclusion.
This review is much better than the movie, if you'd like more details on how stupid this movie is:
https://infinitefreetime.com/2014/08/05/snowpiercer-i-hated-hated-hated-hated-hated-this-movie/
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Mr Nobody - Beautiful visuals, great actors, but if it has a plot, it was shattered into a thousand pieces and superglued back together by six year olds. I'm cool with a cold open that thrusts the viewer into a new world filled with characters doing inexplicable things, but I do want to see a plot that ties things together eventually. I checked out at the 20 minute mark, but apparently the whole movie is 2.5 hours of jump cuts.
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Snowpiercer - What a dumb movie. I thought the premise was dumb before I even saw it, but I was persuaded to see it by the 95% Fresh ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, and the fact that I had a dream set in the movie. Apparently the dream was intended as a warning not to see this movie.
Here's the premise: the world has descended into a new ice age that has killed all life on earth. The only remaining life is the crew aboard a supertrain (the "Snowpiercer") that has continuously circled the globe for the last 17 years. The train is strictly stratified into economic classes, with lower classes in the back, and upper classes in the front. Fed up with poor living conditions, the lower classes in the last car stage a revolution to take over the train.
Can you immediately think of a whole lot of reasons why the premise is implausible? Yeah, well, the movie doesn't even try to make its premise seem plausible, and flings off a whole bunch of other implausibilities as it hurtles toward its conclusion.
This review is much better than the movie, if you'd like more details on how stupid this movie is:
https://infinitefreetime.com/2014/08/05/snowpiercer-i-hated-hated-hated-hated-hated-this-movie/