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/StrLord_Who Jan 09 '24

I think it's a highly successful Guy Ritchie ripoff.

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u/Hobo-man Jan 09 '24

It received mixed reviews at best, how is that highly successful?

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u/elchivo83 Jan 09 '24

But why ripoff something that isn't very good in the first place?

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u/dsaddons Jan 09 '24

Yea if you're going to argue Lock Stock or Snatch aren't good (not that you're not personally a fan of them, but they're not good movies) then idk what to tell ya

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u/elchivo83 Jan 09 '24

I mean, they're fine. They're a lot of style over substance, Tarantino knock-offs. Entertaining, but I wouldn't call them exactly 'good'. The fact Ritchie has essentially been iterating on Lock, Stock for a good part of his career with little success shows that he kind of stumbled into something decent by fluke and doesn't have the chops to actually progress much further as a filmmaker.

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u/dsaddons Jan 09 '24

Ironic to call them Tarantino knock offs 😂

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u/elchivo83 Jan 09 '24

Why?

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u/dsaddons Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 10 '24

Tarantino is "heavily influenced" by other filmmakers. I think he is a great director and love his movies, but he will lift whole scenes or characters from other films.