Best Science Fiction Film Round 1d: The Matrix (27) vs Snowpiercer (38)

[Chris]

The Matrix
Release Date: March 24, 1999 (Mann Village Theater), March 31, 1999 (United States), April 8, 1999 (Australia)
Directors: The Wachowskis
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Plot: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.



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Snowpiercer
Release Date: 29 July 2013 (Times Square), 1 August 2013 (South Korea)
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Cast: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell
Plot: In a future where a failed climate-change experiment has killed all life except for the lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, a new class system emerges.
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[Spitfire]

Matrix has some great scenes - but was never actually a good film.

 

[Chris]

I'm shocked Matrix was only a 27 seed myself, was very high on my list

 

[Jimmy King]

Both good films, but I’m leaning more towards Matrix.

 

[Keith]

Still not seen Snowpiercer but would be surprised if its on the level of the Matrix.

 

[Comrade Khan]

I'm shocked Matrix was only a 27 seed myself, was very high on my list

27? thats weird id have expected it to be top 5 EASILY...

 

[Marty McFourth]

Still not seen Snowpiercer but would be surprised if its on the level of the Matrix.

It's not, but it's a very good film. Took me a couple of tries to fully get in to it, but my second viewing and I just absoutely loved it. Very engrossing film.

The Matrix is literally one of my most rewatched movies though, so it takes this easily for me.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

Never got into the Matrix, Snowpiercer surprised me.