I saw Transsiberian last night, and after I got home it was a while before I wanted to try to go to sleep.

 

It's a complex, suspenseful story with a sufficient amount of gruesomeness for most people. Technically it's a very well-made film, too. The train is an integral part of the story in the sense of participants being brought together with noplace to escape, and the railroad shots are good, but it's not a train-geek movie.

 

I saw it at Cinema Center, the local art-house venue. A lot of the older male patrons there are grumpy old Philistines whose wives make them come along when they'd rather be at home watching ESPN, or maybe something featuring boobs while the wife is out doing artsy stuff, and some tend to numb themselves with alcohol beforehand and then can't keep their mouths shut. Every once in a while I have to shush one of them, a fairly safe thing to do in the theater because those old bastards' poor night vision isn't exactly enhanced by alcohol. Besides, sometimes afterward I'll hear a wife whisper, "See?"

 

Tonight there was some dumba$$ a couple of rows down who was laughing at inappropriate times (which could have been any time -- there is absolutely nothing remotely funny in the film). It was loud enough to be distracting, and I could see that other people were turning their heads in his direction. Finally when he did it, I said rather loudly, "SHUT UP! There's nothing funny about it!" Not another peep out of him.

 

A lot of the older male patrons there are grumpy old Philistines whose wives make them come along when they'd rather be at home watching ESPN, or maybe something featuring boobs while the wife is out doing artsy stuff, and some tend to numb themselves with alcohol beforehand and then can't keep their mouths shut.

 

Hahahahahah

So...we aren't talking about the orchestra? ;)

 

Nope. For some info and a link to trailers, click here

 

Combine strikingly bleak visuals, drama, suspense, murder and Russian intrigue, involving people brought together on a train ride. My brain is still trying to sort out what happened, and I may go back for another dose.

So...we aren't talking about the orchestra? ;)

 

Nope.

 

Blast. I was going to drag the TSO discussion off-topic to the members' sweet old metal band Savatage.