Very similar themes and plot and ideas of Snowpiercer!
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RolandDeschain1990 — 9 years ago(May 12, 2016 05:55 PM)
There's definitely a connection. Since the novel of High Rise was released decades before Snowpiercer, I'm sure the writer of Snowpiercer had that book in his mind. With the movies, it's the case of the inspired somehow coming ahead of the inspiration. Similar to how John Carter of Mars was stripped mined by seemingly every sci fi movie ever, leaving the movie feeling really trite and cliched.
And this feels to me like if David Cronenberg in the early 90s made Snowpiercer.
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paula-gein — 9 years ago(May 13, 2016 08:31 PM)
And this feels to me like if David Cronenberg in the early 90s made Snowpiercer.
Which is funny because David Cronenberg (who, I'm sure you know, has always cited Ballard as an inspiration and adapted his novel Crash) released Shivers the same year that High Rise was published and there are definitely parallels between the two.
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RolandDeschain1990 — 9 years ago(May 14, 2016 07:46 AM)
Yeah, theres definitely alot of snake eating its own tail going on with this.
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Holiday_Hobo — 9 years ago(May 17, 2016 01:06 AM)
The thing is that Snowpiercer was intelligent, funny, entertaining, and entirely coherent. High-Rise was none of those things. Well actually not entirely true. High-Rise was entertaining. Just not intelligent, funny or coherent.
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filmfancy — 9 years ago(October 05, 2016 05:37 PM)
Snowpiercer is decidedly more compelling and interesting.
Although I thought Snowpiercer got rather silly in the second half, I enjoyed it a lot more than High-Rise. The characters were more interesting and the plot was easier to follow. The characters here all seemed to blend together, especially the 'upper-class' ones. The only ones who stood out for me were Luke Evans and Jeremy Irons.
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thebigmouth — 9 years ago(September 07, 2016 10:40 AM)
I had the same thought and found Snowpiercer to be a far superior film. In a weird way, I think the implausible post-apocalyptic setting of Snowpiercer actually worked in that film's favor. Because the premise was so ludicrous on its face, I was able to suspend disbelief from the start and give myself over completely to the allegory.
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