Better than the movie
The movie was dumb fun if you can turn off your brain but the series is better, so far, ep4.
shareI din't see the movie, but for me right now, they jury is still out.
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"The movie was dumb fun if you can turn off your brain"
Well, if you listen to supporters of the movie, it wasn't supposed to be dumb fun that you had to turn your brain off for. It was supposed to be a biting critique of modern society and politics, but alas, it subverted our expectations and no one is really sure what it was supposed to be about.
I know that the whole premise is supposed to be critique of the class system and inequality and blah, blah, whatnot.
The problem is the premise is so ridiculous and the limitations that everything is on a train so restrictive to what story can be told that it requires a turning off of the brain.
As a metaphor it was a bit ham fisted. In the series they explain the tailies are unticketed passengers, stowaways who forced their way onto the train out of desperation, I don't remember if they said that in the movie but it makes sense. While I don't blame the tailies, I would have done the same, the train was not set up to house or feed them which breaks the metaphor as a modern society. Edit, on second thought the tailies are immigrants and it makes more sense that way.
shareThe movie was a sequel of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The TV show isn't.
shareYou got it backwards. How can a something that has more time to expand things have so little to say? And let's not get started on the characters. Not a single good one (maybe except for Jennifer Connelly but she can be one dimensional).
sharei just watched the pilot. i cant stand the acting of the main character.seems miscast.
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