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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > SNOWPIERCER: protein bars on a train.
 
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Ferrinus
Jun 19, 2003

i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world

Van Dis posted:

Hi Vermain it's Laws. Snowpiercer did not give any of us any reason to like any of the main characters. It treated scenes like a video game with canned dialogue and boringly pornographic violence that was not in any way shocking or subversive so it can't even claim to have been tongue in cheek or satirical. So I couldn't get into it because it gave me nothing to identify with or enjoy. Waste of time imo.

edit as to how to make characters likeable idk I'm not a director but other movies seem to do it pretty well and I bet a better written script could have gone a long way to that end!

Yes, it did. The main characters were underdogs whose exploitation by the train's ruling class was showcased really luridly. That guy made grubby little drawings in hopes of helping his friends to feel better and that lady lost her kid. Maybe it didn't do it for you, I don't know, but it's kind of weird to claim that the movie didn't give you someone to root for or anything.

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