Comments on: Review: MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:15:20 +0000

Yeah, if I hadn’t known the logic of the ending, I’d have been in a WTF state. That said, clear something up for me. Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen/read MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN:

It’s been years since I read the original story, but weren’t the mutants in it classier? Weren’t they an organized civilization living underground that the rest of the world just didn’t know about? Or did I just wish they were?

In the movie they look like unintelligent demons with an anti-evolutionary gnarl of pointless needle teeth. I’d of loved the movie a lot more if the creatures under the earth seemed capable of organizing the meat train and their secret hold over mankind. Instead they just looked like monsters-of-the-week that stumbled off the 7 year old set of “Buffy”.

By: crackerjunx

crackerjunx — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:46:08 +0000

Peter i did enjoy and was openly and in a nanoseconds increment celebrating that bloodletting scene watching the dangling face in the blood as a flash of genius. to be completly honest since i dont have a 60 inch Godlike tv to watch movies it didnt look as bad as i suspect it did on yours. If thats any consolation lol. My biggest disappointment and i still really like it,One blonde womans eye blinking sans a body was just lovely, was the terrible terrible ending. With Steph sitting beside me saying what just happened. I dont understand. If i hadnt have read the story i wouldnt have been able to explain anything that was not nonsensical as much so as could possibly be anyway i mean it is clive barker. i suspect he and i would get on quite well however. I love how his beasts always get fed.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:29:44 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:14:56 +0000

Brian, quick, you’re a lawyer, trademark that for me.

Sean, if I recall correctly Comcast owns FEARnet, but I believe they license it to other cable carriers as well. No satellite, though. You may dig the movie more than I did. I didn’t hate it by any means, but yeah, it wouldn’t have been worth a trek to an outskirt theater, me thinks.

Matt, hah, at least someone got the reference. Don’t worry, Kitamura’s work here is far less goofy Matrix ripoff.

By: Matt W

Matt W — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:49:47 +0000

My interest faded when the Gamecube Metal Gear Solid connection was brought up…

But hell, Oct 30th, a free viewing. I can’t miss out on that…

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:15:13 +0000

Is fearNET only available for comcast people?

And, this sucks, I scoured the listings for a theatre that played this and was totally bummed because I couldn’t find it. Kind of sad to find out it apparently wasn’t worth all that effort.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:57:14 +0000

I’m sorry, I couldn’t get past “rainbow insurance.” Probably the funniest thing ever written.