With Bong’s latest sci-fi film, Mickey 17, slated to premiere next year, now is as perfect a time as any to revisit the director’s first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. Snowpiercer is a gripping and hallucinatory sci-fi thriller, packed with exhilarating moments of action and desperation as the haves and the have-nots of humanity’s last bastion of survival duke it out for the fate of the future. With the help of Namgoong Minsoo (Song Kang-ho), a security specialist exiled to the back of the train, and his clairvoyant daughter Yona (Go Ah-sung), Curtis and his rebellion must battle against the train’s army of security soldiers to reach the front and kill the Snowpiercer’s conductor, Wilford (Ed Harris). Evans stars as Curtis Everett, a member of the Snowpiercer’s underclass, who mounts a revolt to overthrow the train’s oppressive upper class in order to create a better life for everyone else. Set in the not-so-distant future, Bong’s film follows the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a massive circumnavigational train and the last refuge for humanity following a climate catastrophe. Why not see the summer off by watching one of the great summer blockbusters? SnowpiercerĬast: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swintonįall is right around the corner, and what better way to brace for the chilly weather than to watch Bong Joon-ho’s dystopian climate apocalypse thriller starring Chris “America’s Ass” Evans? Adapted from Peter Benchley’s novel of the same name, Spielberg’s film eschews the first two-thirds of the source material in favor of an original story about institutional corruption in the face of impending danger (a resonant theme with the then-recent Watergate scandal), building to the film’s climactic third act, which more strictly hews to Benchley’s book.Īrguably the quintessential summer horror blockbuster of American cinema, Jaws cemented Spielberg’s breakthrough as one of the preeminent directors of his generation, a fact that would be later proven by a string of similar era-defining movies, like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T.
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Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster sent shockwaves through American audiences back in 1975 by asking them one simple question: What if the greatest serial killer was nature itself? Set in the fictional New England resort town of Amity Island, Jaws centers on a police chief (Roy Scheider), a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss), and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), who band together to take on a malicious great white shark terrorizing beachgoers over the Fourth of July weekend. Summer may be over, but fear of man-eating sharks is evergreen. Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
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