iTunes Exclusive Episode Snowpiercer

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We normally do these...
Ah, to the exclusives.
When we have a movie to review, and this is no exception.
We are today to review the movie Snowpiercer.
By Korean director Junho Bong, who directed the host, the original.
This is...
I believe it's first for you in the English film.
Don't know.
I can't give you that one.
I know the fact checker, but I can't give you 100% on that one.
It is his first English film.
Okay.
Based on a French graphic novel.
Here's basically what happens.
I'll be going to take space in 2014, which kind of sprites me a little bit.
It starts in 2014.
Where global warming is truly a thing.
And there is an experiment done around the world to try to stop it.
And it goes horribly wrong.
And the entire planet goes into sub-artic temperatures.
And everybody dies.
But a certain few who get on this train, called the Snowpiercer,
that constantly moving.
And in one year, it circles at least half the planet.
And later in the film, you actually get to see the train path that this thing takes and where everything is.
Well, it's actually most of the planet goes from North South America and then E.
Europe, Asian, African, all that.
Okay.
So it takes one year to go around the world.
But there's a little bit of a problem because on this train, there is a bit of a class system.
The people who are more affluent and live better live in the front of the train.
And the people who are more destitute and look down upon live in the back of the train.
Including Curtis, played by Captain America himself, Chris Evans.
Also, John Hurt is with him.
Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer.
But then you have, they are the have not.
But then you have the haves.
Till the swim.
Is, is one of the haves.
Allison Pill from the newsroom who you meet later in the film.
And basically, the have nots decide they're sick of being have nots and eating these, uh, protein bars.
That look anything but appetizing.
In the very, very slim, like conditions.
And basically, the, the, the haves basically just have their way with them.
And so they have nots decide they want to be at the front of the train.
Because they, they're entitled to just as much freedoms and luxuries as everybody else.
And for the next two hours and five minutes of your life.
Here we go.
It has been described by friend of the show Jim Bragel as the rate redemption on a train.
And that's about right.
Don't, we're going to start with you.
What did you think about the storyline of the film?
First off, we have to warn the Empire.
Don't take the kids.
This is very, very brutal.
And it was the rate redemption was, too.
That's kind of why I thought that was a good way to describe it.
And it's very gratifying.
There's some scenes I'll make you cringe.
So we have to warn the Empire on that one.
Okay.
I found the story.
I thought walking into it, it'd be a little simplistic.
But then as you go, it gets more and more complicated.
And they spend a little bit of the movie up front kind of building this storyline.
Or you pick up little tidbits.
And this is one of where you really have to watch about everything.
Because just about anything.
You miss something.
You might miss something really big later down the road.
And it's, it addresses the moral dilemma without being preachy.
Which I think is kind of me.
So, so you, they're going to make the big break.
So you know they're going to get some break or whatever else they want to be the movie.
Right.
But you see how brutally and suppressed that last group it is.
And the thing that I said that, which, if you read our written reviews,
Minds on the clubhousepodcast.com.
As mine is, too.
I said, one of my favorite characters, which we'll get in the later.
It's the train.
The train is, actually, the train is a character in the film.
Absolutely.
But we'll get in that a little bit later.
But I like to tell, with each car that they went into in the train,
each compartment.
It built another story.
Yeah.
And it, what's next?
What's next?
You're wondering, what's in the next compartment?
What's in the next compartment?
And in each compartment, you get a better glimpse of how the other half lives.
And keeps on going more and more.
Where has an entail end of the train?
It's all the same.
Yeah.
You know?
So I really like that storyline.
How you got to surprise with each compartment they went into.
So you got a new storyline and a new surprise.
And in between them, there is a, what they call a prison car.
Where they enlist the health of Namgung Meensu, played by King Hussung,
who allegedly designed the original security system in the train.
Yeah.
So it's, having, you know, there's so many layers of the story.
And the way the story is written, everything weaves together really, really nicely.
I never felt that anything was forced.
It was one of those.
There's this scene where, you know, he has this, the, the, the,
Namgung has this daughter with him.
And their price is this pseudo drug that goes through the train.
Yeah.
And there's a point where she just, she kind of, we don't know.
She's Claire Voyager not, we don't know.
She can see the future.
She's just really observant.
There's just one point where she looks at him and goes,
Don't open this gate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you're like, oh, oh.
But I, I, I wanted it.
I'll keep going.
I'm sorry.
No, you're good.
No.
I just, I loved the story of this film.
I truly, truly did because it's, it takes the, the old concept of rising up and kind of puts a new little spin on it.
I will tell you this.
There's a lot of main characters that you think will survive that may or may not.
You know, I don't know if it's on a game with thrones level.
But yeah.
There's, there's a, there's, there's, there's a lot of good twists and turns to where you just go,
Oh, that's unfortunate.
And there's these questions you have that the movie doesn't bring up that you make.
And in your head, but still the movie answered it.
Absolutely.
And also answers some questions you didn't even know you had until the show.
Yeah.
That's one thing I like about the storyline is the more and more you got the more questions you answered.
And still they gave you more questions as you went along too.
But when you get the very end, you get most of those questions, but there are a lot of surprises at the end.
Yeah.
And there's you're not to come in.
And there's one question that you're asking the whole film like, what about this?
What about this?
What about this?
And you think the movie's about to end in your life?
We still haven't.
Oh, there it is.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Well, I mean, I really love the storyline on this.
It's more than just a brutal mashup and everything like that.
It keeps building and building and building, which I really enjoyed.
The performance is Chris Evans, you know, Captain America himself.
Yeah.
Also, it was the human torture one point.
Great job by him.
Showed a lot of range in this film, a lot of emotion.
Octavia Spencer.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oscar Award winner.
I'm not mistaken.
Octavia?
Yeah.
Did she not believe she won?
Okay.
For the help.
She wasn't that for sure.
I don't know if she went up and let me check here in one second here.
But like to also, there's some icons.
Ed Harris, John Hurt.
John Hurt is.
Oh, hello.
And upset.
Both of them have small roles, but incredibly incredibly important roles in the film.
Yeah.
She went best supporting actresses.
She did.
She plays a young lady whose son is taking from her.
By the halves.
And she goes on the mission with him.
Says, I'm not I'm going with you.
Yeah.
I've to get my, you know, a lot of these parents that lost her kids and you don't know why.
They're going, I'm going to face death trying to get my, you know, child back.
Yeah.
Also great performances from Vlad even off in Adrian has Kovic as
Franco, the elder and Franco, the younger, the two heavies.
Oh, yeah.
You know, don't really say much in the film, but they're very, very effective.
Yeah.
Visually, I thought the film was great.
Oh, yeah.
It's just the way the director frames everything.
Like you, you don't ever feel like you're missing something.
It's not overdone.
It's not understated.
He hits it on the head with, you know, the use of, you know, when they hit the tunnel.
Or, you know, it's, I never thought, oh, that's too much.
They're all that could be more, like everything's dead on.
And I'd barely sing each car, give you a new world, the new compartment.
You know, that's what I say.
The train is, I think the best characterness is the train.
Because each time you open, you get something new, you get something new.
And you can, it answers some questions, give me some more questions.
I mean, you have to answer this stuff you never thought about.
And you never know what's keeps on going and going.
It's surprise after surprise after surprise at this thing.
And I find tell the Swinton very creepy.
Oh, yeah.
But she did incredible.
But she was, she's always, she's always amazing.
And this film is no exception where she plays kind of the liaison between the people in the front of the train, the people the back of the train.
And she's just creepy enough that you want a puncher.
Yeah.
But not creepy enough that she overdosed it.
Yeah.
You know, you understand why she does what she does.
Doesn't make it right.
But you understand.
Yeah.
And there's a lot of understandings.
It's kind of like the get-in-ay and good with the bad.
And there's a lot of scenes where it's like these people have been suppressed in this car for 17 years.
And you kind of see why.
You know, why?
And that's one thing we need to mention, too, is that the most of the place, sorry, takes place 17 years after the big catastrophe.
Yeah.
I was just wondering for 17 years, you know.
And so I found that to be really interesting.
I thought, Jamie Bell bit a very good job.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I thought he did very good on the acting.
I didn't see any performances.
The one who played the little boy of Octavia was,
I was sorry.
Mark Anthony Reese.
Yeah.
You know, he wasn't in there too long, but still he did the good partner, which I really enjoyed on him.
It was a very, very good film.
I very much enjoyed it.
The fight choreography was ridiculous.
It just, in real life.
Oh, yeah.
Very real.
You didn't feel like it was choreographed.
You felt like, you know, all hell just broke loose in this deal.
And it did.
And the thing I liked is when you're going through and you see these fight scenes, it's sad.
Not one person comes through and can take out 50 people by themselves.
You get casualties left and right on both sides of this.
Absolutely.
By the people who are trying to revolt, I come to revolters in my written review.
It versus the like the enforcement security trying to keep them back.
And you see losses both sides.
It's not this little, you know, we're going to get through this.
This is going to be a happy go lucky thing.
No, there are some losses.
You know, not to be spoiled or anything like that, but there's going to be some losses through this film.
It's, and when you get to, you get to the resolution of the film.
So much is explained.
It just, and you think, well, okay, it's going to be one of these long drawn out speeches where
it, it is a long speech, but it's not real drawn out.
It has the speech that is given.
And I don't want to say who gives it in the way.
Yeah, you know, but it's necessary for you to understand all sides of the thing.
Exactly.
And it gives you that, you know, you can't have good with a bad.
And it makes you think actually about humanity.
Yeah.
And why stuff happens in why this is this way and why this is that way.
And you may not agree with it, but you understand the point.
Which I thought was very incredible on that.
Which is part of the strength of the storytelling of this film.
Like, there was never a time where I was like, uh, what?
Like, I was always like, okay, this is where we are.
This is what we're doing.
And then as the film goes on, it fills in holes that you didn't even know where they are.
That all of a sudden, oh, yeah, this is why this isn't.
You're just like, you know what?
I didn't even thought about that.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
So acting, I thought was spot on though.
Everything, everything about it.
I can't really care and find anything.
And even though it's, it is about what 206 actually told us was 206.
It didn't seem like 206 in it never liked.
Mm-hmm.
It went by really good, a very good flow, a good action.
It starts off with really telling you story based, but not too long.
And then you get the action, you get some understanding, you get some humanity.
You think it more action, more humanity.
It's just that continuing rolling around process, which I think was put in perfect
There by the direction.
All right.
So let's get to the final analysis.
The way we do a final analysis on this particular show.
We don't give you stars or letters or whatever because we like to be creative.
It's a two-prong question.
Question number one is, would you see this film again?
The answer is, no, then we're done here.
But the answer is, yes, the question becomes, how would you be willing to see it again?
Would you be willing to pay for price?
Would you go to a Twilight Show?
Would you go to a Matt Nay?
Would you go to an early morning?
Would you see it in a second run?
Would you wait for it on Blu-ray or DVD?
Or would you wait for it on table?
So, Don, I posed the question to you.
Would you see this film again?
And give me a little time on this one.
Sure.
First off, definitely yes.
Do you know why?
Because I liked after seeing it.
I'd like to start from the beginning and understand, you know,
you could see the stuff at the beginning, no one in the end result.
And you could understand why this was in the movie.
That was in the movie.
And that's one reason why I definitely would like to see it again.
I would probably put this as a Twilight for me.
Now, this is not going to be everybody's movie.
But if you want what I called and review a quote wild ride for a movie.
Okay.
Where you get some comedy, you get some action, you get humanity, you get brutality.
You, I would definitely recommend this as a theater easily.
But there's going to be some people who just will not like this movie.
That is because of the brutality and stuff like that.
So, but if you don't mind, if you like some brutality,
a twist, some thinking, some humanity and stuff,
definitely see this flip, make time.
I would see this film again.
But my second answer is kind of a two-part answer.
Okay.
Answer number one is if you haven't seen it,
I would see it in a theater.
The bigger the screen, the better.
If, for me to watch it again,
I would like to watch it at home.
I'd like to get the blue ray and kind of watch it at home.
Kind of away from everything and be able to really kind of focus on it.
Kind of like I did with the Ray Redemption.
I love that film.
Yeah.
But I'm glad I saw it at home.
Even I watched it again.
I watched it with Chad because I wanted to watch his reaction to it because I knew what was coming.
But I wanted to see him react to it.
It's definitely worth the time.
Go see this film.
We both really enjoyed it.
Thanks again to our friends at L.I. Integral Marketing.
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Incredible job.
Some of our best friends in the entire world they take care of us.
But go check out this film.
Have a good time.
I would say have a good time, but you'll enjoy it very, very much.
Especially if you're into the action, because there's plenty of it.
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