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Can one of you film nerds who watched Snowpiercer help me out?

The torre... ahem... DVD I watched didn't have subs. In the main, this didn't stop me (kind of) enjoying this deeply fecking weird film. It did ruin the ending though.

What did the Korean security bloke/junkie say when they were sitting down outside the engine room? There was a few flash-backs during his monologue. Him and his daughter looking out the window at what looked like train carriages on a valley floor way down below? A snowflake coming in a window and something else which I can't remember. It went on quite long and was obviously important. Hopefully it will also explain whether he wanted to just blow open the side door for some reason and whether the whole massive avalanche bit was part of his plan or an unfortunate accident.
 
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Pogue Mahone said:
Can one of you film nerds who watched Snowpiercer help me out?

The torre... ahem... DVD I watched didn't have subs. In the main, this didn't stop me (kind of) enjoying this deeply fecking weird film. It did ruin the ending though.

What did the Korean security bloke/junkie say when they were sitting down outside the engine room? There was a few flash-backs during his monologue. Him and his daughter looking out the window at what looked like train carriages on a valley floor way down below? A snowflake coming in a window and something else which I can't remember. It went on quite long and was obviously important. Hopefully it will also explain whether he wanted to just blow open the side door for some reason and whether the whole massive avalanche bit was part of his plan or an unfortunate accident.
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Namgoong suggests they use the collected Kronal, made from explosive chemical waste, to blow open the side of the train, and escape into the outside; Namgoong explains that every year, the train has passed a crashed plane buried in snow, which has become less buried with each passing year, suggesting that the Earth is warming, and that survival outside is now possible. [/SPOLIER]
 
Pogue Mahone said:
Can one of you film nerds who watched Snowpiercer help me out?

The torre... ahem... DVD I watched didn't have subs. In the main, this didn't stop me (kind of) enjoying this deeply fecking weird film. It did ruin the ending though.

What did the Korean security bloke/junkie say when they were sitting down outside the engine room? There was a few flash-backs during his monologue. Him and his daughter looking out the window at what looked like train carriages on a valley floor way down below? A snowflake coming in a window and something else which I can't remember. It went on quite long and was obviously important. Hopefully it will also explain whether he wanted to just blow open the side door for some reason and whether the whole massive avalanche bit was part of his plan or an unfortunate accident.
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I am going to have to re-watch this, I was not that impressed when I saw it,I struggled to follow the story, most who have watched it seem to really like it.
 
Archie Leach said:
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Namgoong suggests they use the collected Kronal, made from explosive chemical waste, to blow open the side of the train, and escape into the outside; Namgoong explains that every year, the train has passed a crashed plane buried in snow, which has become less buried with each passing year, suggesting that the Earth is warming, and that survival outside is now possible. [/SPOLIER]
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Aha. That makes sense. Gracias.
 
Sorkin is great but I always feel the comedy element goes missing big time with his characters. I mean, his characters try too hard to be funny. I think lot of sorkin's work is inspired from Network.
 
Despicable Me is a great, funny movie. 9/10

Despicable 2 is alright, but not nearly as good as the first. 6.5/10

No full reviews - I hate those!

I would recommend these to people who like funny animated movies.
 
Didn't read all the pages in this thread but do people hate the second Thor movie as much as some of my mates. I personally like the movie a lot but most of my mate keep saying it's pretty crap and make fun of it such as saying they didn't have the same excuse as the first Thor movie(time constraint given The avenger movie was already scheduled so they had to hurry up with the first Thor movie).

So just wondering if it's just me being blinded by fanboyism of the movie or my mate aren't talking much sense
 
Bad Grandpa 6/10

I was on a long haul flight and wanted something requiring minimum concentration. Felt like a poor man's Borat. Some scenes you felt were genuine, some were set up but it did provide a few crass laughs.
The storyline felt forced but if you are on a flight or laid on the couch hungover it beats yet more reruns of Storage Wars. The kid is actually quite good in it.
 
Mockney said:
I don't consider BTILC too far from The Room tbf. It's amazingly amateur, only without the excuse of being made by amateurs, with several completely pointless characters and whole scenes where nothing makes sense. It's like it was written by a child and put straight into production without anyone looking at it.

Russell rescues it as anything even passably watchable all on his own.
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You need a good fecking kicking for opinions like this.
 
Noah - the worst film I've seen all year. It wasn't too surprising, to be honest; the last time Aronofsky tried to be all transcendent we were served with the abomination that is The Fountain. Awful casting choices, too. What the shit was the point in Shem? Was he being paid on a word-by-word basis? And I'm pretty sure he said, "You mad?", and all I could think of was memes. Emma Watson was horrendous in The Bling Ring, but managed to outdo herself in the bland-expressionless stakes.

Apparently the film is meant to be about environmentalism, but I didn't get any of that. Noah constantly reasserted that the flood was happening because we are 'bad', not because we're ruining the environment. Back then, Man didn't have the resources nor the ability to damage the environment so it was a shite allusion to contemporary ills.

The film was entirely incoherent. Just an absolute mess. And to top it off, it didn't even look nice. The 'creation' scene was a generic time lapse kind of affair. You know, this is before industrialisation, the closest to Nature mankind has ever been and he can't even make it look good.

And don't even get me started on the shit rock Transformers. What the hell was the creative process behind their invention? Awful.

1/10. The 1 for Ray Winstone, who was alright.
 
People don't like Network and Big Trouble In Little China, the thread's lost its mind.

LIKE THE SAME THINGS I LIKE
 
Grinner said:
Actually I hated the neon. I thought it was the caucasian who was made out as the idiot of the film.
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It's a novelty film for people with an 80s nostalgia fetish, sure, I can get why people like it, but objectively it's really, really awful, surely? Is that the point? Perhaps I just wasn't in the mood for a "so bad it's good" film, but I genuinely felt it was terrible. The plot, the acting, the characters. Terrible. The investigative journalist character is possibly one of the worst characters in the history of cinema. If Russell wasn't in it, it'd be borderline unwatchable.
 
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R.N7 said:
..absolutely terrible yet trumpeted by people in their 30's with 80's nostalgia.
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Tbf that's not far from what I think of Star Wars too, which is admittedly a far more controversial opinion. Though at least that is an exceptionally well made film with an understandable reason behind the love for it. Bits of Big Trouble actually looked semi-incompetent.
 
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Thor Dark World : 6/10 - Average comic book film really, solid plot but nothing special, no standout performances. Thoroughly enjoyable if you like these type of films and Natalie Portman plays a decent part again. Overall feels like a pretty unnecessary sequel, some good links of dialogue in with the Avengers.
 
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - I had high expectations of this movie and they were, largely, met. I think the first Captain America was one of the better Marvel films so this one had something to live up to, which it did. It's an entertaining film with a plot that isn't, at least in the superhero world, completely ridiculous. There were some awkward bits, particularly the appearance by Gary Shandling. After seeing Don Jon, Scarlett's voice grates on me a bit. She's more involved in this film than she is in any of the others and provides contrast to Captain America. 8/10

My favorite part was also a spoiler:

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:lol: Also, Agents of Shield ensured that his death had no real impact since it was blatantly not permanent.

In case you missed it:
 
Event 15
decent film, very well acted but had a twist that I saw coming a mile off and it was too hard to believe that the female actress' character was an army captain. She has a panic attack when the lift gets stuck, constantly throws hissy fits then has another panic attack when she sees blood. Apart from that, a well crafted low budget film, much better than I expected 6/10
 
Rubber

Maybe the craziest film I have ever watched.
Aboubt a tire that learns, sleeps, recreates, dreams, and even has flashbacks to his previous inanimate incarnation on an actual car.
The film starts daft and carries on getting dafter.
I actually really liked the film.

6/10
 
Lords of London.

I got this film , thinking it would be a low budget ganster film set in London.
Well it was not what I expected, it was basicly about a Man that wakes up in Italy and doesn't know why or how.
Glen Murphy as the man was excellent, Ray Winston was very good as the nasty bastard Dad.
There is a plot twist, that I got very early but did not spoil the film, well worth a watch.

7.5/10
 
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