O great repository of Snowfeels, I am completely freaked out by Snowpiercer and have yet to see it. Watching the feelings go by on your feed leaves me wondering if I will be sane and functional after a big screen viewing, for it is (or was, haven’t checked lately;) playing in a theater near me.

copperbadge:

I never watched horror films, which you could legit bill Snowpiercer as, until I was an adult, really until I was in grad school. Part of it was that I was worried the films would somehow irrevocably change me or traumatize me, so I totally get you. And the movie did mess up a part of my head for a few days, but it wore off. I’ve streamed it a lot, so I’ve seen it a lot, and at this point I can appreciate the complexity of it and the weird illogic of it without fearing the content.

I think it’s great to see it on the big screen but if you’re worried about it, wait till it leaves cinemas and I’ll stream it again, in a small format so that you can navigate away if you need to. You won’t miss a life-changing experience if you don’t see it on the big screen.

Here are the things I’ve told people:

Yes, there is violence. There is some visual gore. There is a bit of body horror, but nothing visually graphic. There is no sexual violence (there’s no sex at all). There is drug use, but it’s relatively brief. And all of this is overshadowed by both the essential dystopia and the literary content.

I don’t usually go for dystopias so Snowpiercer is a really strange exception, but in a way I don’t know that it is dystopian so much as it is a terrible, Brothers Grimm style fairy tale about oppression and revolution.

FYI, it came out on demand over the weekend. It’s on DirecTV, iTunes and (Amazon) among others – check your local provider if you need to control your video experience (like I often do).

If you can though, totally see it on the big screen. Show that VOD isn’t a theater killer as well as support the artist choices of the director and cast.

starboarding:

_{but not so all of its parts.}

Just a reminder that Snowpiercer is still in theaters (expanding to another 100 this weekend) and is now also on VOD. It’s definitely on iTunes and DirecTV if that’s your bag.

(Big screen is amazing tho, if you can swing it).

Snowpiercer Statistics

copperbadge:

Transformers: Age of Extinction, #1 at the box office this past week, averaged $23.6K per cinema, playing at 4233 cinemas.[1]

Snowpiercer, which did not make the top twenty, averaged $20.2K per cinema, playing at 8.[2]

If Snowpiercer had released in, say, 3750 locations, as 22 Jump Street (#2 at the box office this past week) did, and its average was the same, it would have grossed over $70M.

Now, there’s no knowing that the average would have been the same, since if only eight cinemas are playing it, everyone’s gonna cram their asses into those eight cinemas. But say it had a decent level of publicity, the way any normal Hollywood film would, and grossed half per cinema what it did. It still would have grossed $34M, double 22 Jump Street’s intake ($15.8M) for the week. That’s right: Snowpiercer, making half what it did per cinema this past week, would have made twice what 22 Jump Street made.

And that’s after pirate copies circulated the US for almost a year because we couldn’t get the real thing on the big screen.

Chug along, little train, chug along…

SNOWPIERCER | June 27, 2014

copperbadge:

tehnakki:

ellidfics:

madmaudlingoes:

theladyscribe:

From acclaimed director Bong Joon Ho (Memories of Murder, The Host), and executive producer Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy), a new sci-fi action classic with a powerhouse international cast.

GUYS. THE LIST FOR THEATERS PLAYING SNOWPIERCER STARTING THIS UPCOMING WEEKEND HAS GOTTEN EXPONENTIALLY BIGGER SINCE THE LAST TIME I LOOKED AT IT.

PERSON WHO WAS IN NC WHOSE USERNAME I CAN’T REMEMBER: IT IS GOING TO BE IN CHARLOTTE AND CONCORD MILLS. ALSO GREENSBORO. I HOPE YOU GET TO SEE IT.

BLOOMINGTON! I CAN GO TO THERE!

I guess this is what happens when a film gets a rave review from the New York Times, then makes almost as much per screen as Transformers.

FOr people wondering why I made a one-day round-trip to NYC to see this film NOW YOU CAN most likely EXPERIENCE THE MAJESTY TOO!

VIVE LA BONG JOON-HO!

If you can, please do go see it. It’s a great movie. Here is the NYT review

SNOWPIERCER | June 27, 2014

All this is to say, it looks like The Weinstein Company doesn’t think all that many people want to see Snowpiercer. They don’t think a weirdo dystopian movie with a South Korean director and partially Korean dialogue where one of the main actors (the always excellent Song Kang-ho) is mostly unknown to American audiences and Chris Evans slips on a fish has mainstream appeal. Prove them wrong. Snowpiercer comes out next Friday, June 27th. If you can, if it it’s playing near you, see this movie. Pay to see this movie. Take your friends, take your family, take your pet fish. Stand up for original sci-fi that’s not Transformers 4 or, yes, Captain America 3. And see a damn fine movie in the process.

Review: Run, Don’t Walk, to See Snowpiercer, The Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade So Far (via themarysue)

The subhead is “Chris Evans Slips on a Fish.” I ❤ you, The Mary Sue.

(via katrinastratford)