I'm sad because I complained about a bad movie and no-one agreed with me.
IT WAS AWFUL OKAY
Snowpiercer? Hell yeah, that was painful to watch. It was a bit interesting at first, but only briefly. As soon as they left the caboose (which was already a bizarre mass of overacted tropes) things just got so silly. Which doesn't go well with grim. And they made it so grim!
I'm almost positive they saw the first Hunger Games movie and were like "How can we capitalize on this... uh... steampunk is trendy right now, yeah? So train. Okay throw in a mysterious asian or two and get shooting. Oh, and make it even more over the top. No, keep going. It doesn't have to be at all believable, just dark."
you know
hunger games kinda ripped off like, two fucking movies
soooooo
Also, I never saw it, but I've heard far too mixed reviews to give a proper opinion.
Even if Hunger Games ripped off two movies (I haven't yet seen The Running Man so I can't comment on that, although Battle Royal seems like a vague inspiration at most), it was still a good movie in its own right. As in, it had well-written characters and was enjoyable to watch.
Hell, even that Divergent movie, I didn't hate it because it was a blatant Hunger Games ripoff, I hated it because it was awful.
@Rolan7: Huh, I hadn't really thought of the 'Hunger Games cash-in' angle. I guess that could explain how that thing got made.
It pisses me off more than your average bad movie, though, because it had a really cool (no pun intended) setting. So much money poured into set design, props, costumes, so much potential, and then the writers just came along and took a huge steaming dump over it all. The synopsis got my hopes up that it was gonna be awesome.
I just watched the second Hunger Games movie the other week, I was really surprised by how good it was (apart from the sudden ending). Particularly when you consider how little effort that usually goes into making movies for that denomination. I was very pleasantly surprised.
I personally loved the first one but didn't enjoy the follow-up quite much- though perhaps that was just 'second album syndrome' or whatever.
The third one is back to being great, though.