[ SECRET POST #3210 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3210 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Snowpiercer

[dratinis]

I enjoyed, but mostly in a "so bad it's good" way. I thought it was way too over the top, though I really liked Tilda Swinton's performance.

Re: Snowpiercer

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. I thought it was stylized but the performances seemed pretty solid to me.

Re: Snowpiercer

[sarillia]

That's how I was too. I liked how so much seemed just a bit off. It really added to the atmosphere for me. I love that kind of thing in general though so I could be reaching to see it where other people are more rightly seeing bad acting. Who knows.

Re: Snowpiercer

[dratinis]

It wasn't so much bad acting - I actually thought the all actors did a good job, I just particularly enjoyed Tilda's performance - it was more the content of the movie of itself, if that makes any sense? Like I said in a comment below, Snowpiercer had been hyped up as a a biting social commentary, and it didn't come across that way to me.

Re: Snowpiercer

[sarillia]

I can understand that. Some people have a habit of trying to turn any kind of dystopian thing into some incredibly relevant and chilling commentary on society. Can't they just be entertaining?

Re: Snowpiercer

[dratinis]

Some people have a habit of trying to turn any kind of dystopian thing into some incredibly relevant and chilling commentary on society.

Pretty much this! I guess it's because, at least in Western literature, there's been a running tradition of using dystopian settings to warn about [insert subject here]. It's definitely annoying, though. Some things should just be entertaining.

Re: Snowpiercer

[dratinis]

To be fair, the movie had been hyped in my corner of the world as a biting social commentary so I went in expecting that! In my experience, I like movies a lot more when I go in not knowing or expecting anything.

Re: Snowpiercer

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
I can see that. Expectation can really ruin a movie/show/book. There are several things I've watched/read that if I'd known nothing about them, I might've enjoyed them but they weren't what I was expecting so I didn't.

I feel like Crimson Peak (which I have not yet seen) is going to suffer from that. It sounds like it does have legitimate issues but a lot of the reviewers have said they weren't scared, but from what I've heard, it's not meant to be scary. I think the promos haven't helped it, making people think it's going to be a scary ghost story, so they'll be disappointed where they might not be otherwise.

Re: Snowpiercer

[dratinis]

I had NO idea what I was getting myself into when I watched Crimson Peak, other than the fact that I love del Toro's stuff. I think that definitely helped, otherwise I'd probably be very disappointed.

And it's weird to think that people were expecting something scary? A lot of del Toro's work excels in creating a dark, mysterious atmosphere with the occasional bloody scene, and I've never found it to be frightening. Then again, I also haven't seen any of the promo for it, so it's not fair of me to talk about being baffled at people's expectations.

Re: Snowpiercer

[(Anonymous)]

You should look up the trailers then. From what I hear, they basically put all the ghosts scenes in there, and gave a very bad impression of what the movie would be. But then it sounds like it would be a hard movie to market. I think that's true of a lot of del Toro's movies.

Re: Snowpiercer

[cbrachyrhynchos]

The movie says what it is in the first 10 minutes! A gothic story, with ghosts, not a ghost story.

Re: Snowpiercer

[(Anonymous)]

And yet, if you bought the ticket thinking it would be a ghost story, you will then be disappointed.