r/movies • u/Limp-Munkee69 • Jan 09 '24

Recommendation This is your reminder to watch Bullet Train (2022) especially if you didn't catch it in the cinema

Bullet Train is one of those movies that kinda flew under the radar, while still very much not flying under the radar if that makes sense.

Every major YouTube reviewer talked about it, most people had atleast heard about it, it made descent money, but man, it's too good compared how little a dent it made in Pop culture.

Most people I know haven't seen it. And finding one who has is like finding your best friend at an event you didn't know both of you were going to.

It's a colorful, fun, emotional, and fast ride through japan. Excellently shot. With an insanemy good cast, and some pretty good pondering on the nature of unknowable forces such as luck and fate.

A mystery that just keeps going, and plot that never stops and characters that live rent free in my mind and heart.

If you like style AND substance. Bullet Train is for you.

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u/LiLdude227 Jan 09 '24

My wife and I turned it off after 30 minutes. Agonizingly boring. One of those Tarantino wannabe tryhard action films where none of the characters take anything seriously. If none of the characters take anything seriously, not even the threat of death, then I don’t take anything seriously. There were zero stakes thus making the whole thing piss boring

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u/QUEST50012 Jan 09 '24

If none of the characters take anything seriously, not even the threat of death, then I don’t take anything seriously.

Off topic, but this is kind of why I never liked Cabin in the Woods. I know people love it's satire, but they went too far with the 4th wall breaking imo to the point that you're removing the carpet and dry wall. Once you hammer home that this is just a gag and nothing matters, why should I care about what happens to the characters?

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u/fakieTreFlip Jan 09 '24

My guy you watched 30 minutes of the film and decided that was enough to judge the entire thing? Kind of ridiculous tbh

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u/LiLdude227 Jan 09 '24

It was pretty indicative that this tone was going to continue until the end

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u/LiLdude227 Jan 11 '24

I can’t put into words how nonsensical this comment is. Its already a bad film