Snowpiercer

i thought it was decent. not as great as rotten tomatoes and other critics made it out to be.

 

Yeah me to.

 

We use different books.

 

Is 3 borderline average as well?

 

Let me put the whole list for everyone's benefit and keep in mind that I am never wrong!

1 = Extremely bad; the kind of film its makers should consider suicide
2 = Awful. Bad, but with few redeeming qualities.
3 = So bad is good. The kind of stinker that serves as a dish to make fun of.
4 = Guilty pleasures. The movies everybody criticizes, but deep down are ok.
5 = so-so mediocre. Had potential to be better, but the makers blew it.
6 = Average. Watchable. One viewing affairs, to be forgotten as soon is over
7 = Borderline average. Okay, but has mistakes, usually at the end, that fails.
8 = Good. Repeat viewing qualities.
9 = very, very good
10 = a masterpiece

 

Stop defending yourself you're making it worse.

 

Defending myself? I am just explaining my score system from MY BOOK.

thus spoke Panchy, the Infallible prsssssssssssssssss

 

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So 4 is better than 5?

 

Nope.
4 is a generally regarded failed movie that you trash in public, but secretly you purchase the Blu-ray through Amazon.

 

Where did you copy/paste this from?

 

My PC Word Pad. This freaking Fightbeat forum reply box is a headache to write anything longer than a sentence.

 

That's a terrible scale

The difference between "very good" and "a masterpiece" is one fucking number, yet there are two whole digits required to bridge the gap between "so-so mediocre" and "borderline average" ??

Using YOUR rating system, I give YOU a rating of "1"​ ... You know what to do, now

 

Solid movie. A lot of themes going on. Evans is a really good actor. Surprisingly good.

 

6/10.

On my scale, 6 is the highest mark a movie can get without being considered for purchase.

It's a fine film but I wouldn't watch it again.

 

Some of you guys just don't have good taste. This movie is a masterpiece.

 

yeah tilda Swinton performance excellent

first movie I've seen captain america in outside of the marvel movies and I thought he was good.

the scene where the train carriage door opens and all those guys are there in their eyeless balaclavas, gutting fish - fucking brilliant.

the dystopian satire stuff got a bit too hackneyed in the second half for me. propaganda, education as social conditioning, a personality cult, a society based on gross inequality, bla bla bla - it's all been done 50 times before.

 

Wouldn't it be a refreshing twist to watch a scifi film with this scenario where at the end the elite crowd, being smarter and having better resources, just beat the shit out of the hero rebels ad further impose submission to the poor majority crowd?

 

yeah. i'm watching a TV show kinda like that right now. it's called "United States of America, 2016-2017".

 

LOL

 

I enjoyed it more upon further viewings than my initital score of 7.5/10.

I think it's a sci-fi classic.

 

Is it any good? on what channel it airs?

 

at this point in history, your country is a joke, mate. simple as. your elected leader is on social media shitposting about nuclear war and fighting with sportsmen. whatever injustices there are in the overall trend of world history, over the past year the greatest travesty, the most retrograde steps, have taken place in your country.

 

what did i miss? the re-election of merkel in germany? the catalonians organising an illegal referendum? the war in yemen, which one of my students is writing a dissertation about? the upcoming 19th congress here in China? - which world events make US politics 2016-17 look anything other than an embarrassment?

he tweeted about war with North Korea, which would be nuclear war. we felt the tremor where i am, here in china, when they tested that last big blast.

well done: your government's economic policy is outperforming the great depression. other aspects of its policy are, like i said, an embarrassment to western civiilisation.

 

if we're actually disagreeing here, then i guess we'll have to agree to disagree

 

This isn't exactly aomething to be proud of:

Muslims in China told to hand over their Qurans or face 'harsh punishments'

 

nope. also prohibited them from giving certain names to kids, and what kind of beards they can and can't have.

in addition to the official things reported in the news, there's probably all kinds of unofficial discirimination against muslims up in xinjiang. rule of law is weak here, and chinese haven't received multicultural education, so most of them quite naturally act on ethnic/religious stereotypes in a way that'd be considered unacceptably prejudiced in western countries.