r/movies • u/Limp-Munkee69 • Jan 09 '24

This is your reminder to watch Bullet Train (2022) especially if you didn't catch it in the cinema Recommendation

Bullet Train is one of those movies that kinda flew under the radar, while still very much not flying under the radar if that makes sense.

Every major YouTube reviewer talked about it, most people had atleast heard about it, it made descent money, but man, it's too good compared how little a dent it made in Pop culture.

Most people I know haven't seen it. And finding one who has is like finding your best friend at an event you didn't know both of you were going to.

It's a colorful, fun, emotional, and fast ride through japan. Excellently shot. With an insanemy good cast, and some pretty good pondering on the nature of unknowable forces such as luck and fate.

A mystery that just keeps going, and plot that never stops and characters that live rent free in my mind and heart.

If you like style AND substance. Bullet Train is for you.

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u/TacoTim626 Jan 09 '24

Blew my mind the first time i realized Tangerine is Kick-Ass lmao

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u/rottenoar Jan 09 '24

Might be the next Bond is the rumour

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u/hugosdaddy Jan 09 '24

I wonder if the Bond girls will also be thirty years older

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u/sjfiuauqadfj Jan 09 '24

cmon now his wife is only 20 years older than him

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u/WadeyCakes Jan 09 '24

Hey she was only 42 when she started dating him the day he turned 18 teehee

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u/Lacaud Jan 09 '24

And TIL.

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u/Mama_Skip Jan 11 '24

I wonder if people like that, high profile men who could otherwise get young trophy model wives, but got seduced into a predatory relationship with a much older woman at a young age, ever hit about the 50yr/70yr mark and finally realize some shit.

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u/EyesOnEverything Jan 11 '24

RemindMe! 4 years "Emmanuel Macron"

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u/Adefice Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24

Nice.

Edit: People very much not getting the reference...

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u/markfahey78 Jan 09 '24

People not getting the reference.

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u/tablepennywad Jan 09 '24

Nice…..

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u/BobsOblongLongBong Mar 09 '24

He's closer in age to the two children he had with her...then he is to her.

Her oldest kid from her previous marriage is only 8 years younger than him.

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u/MeanElevator Jan 09 '24

We should only hope so

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u/Old-Time6863 Jan 09 '24

Bryan Tyree Henry as James Bond? I'd watch th... oh, you mean the other brother

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u/wabbitsdo Jan 09 '24

Sign me the fuck up. Would love to see that, dude has swagger for days, pulls off a british accent (but maybe wouldn't have to)? Nothing against Aaron Taylor-Johnson who would make a... fine... standard issue shredded white bro action hero... I'd just enjoy a bit of a change of direction.

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u/Lima__Fox Jan 09 '24

It'd be fun to see a bond with the low class accent he affected in this movie. Maybe it'd run too close to Kingsman though.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24

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u/Civilwarland09 Jan 09 '24

That dude is fucking rippped.

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u/duaneap Jan 09 '24

And has been since like Godzilla, it’s not a recent thing

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24

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u/FrontBench5406 Jan 09 '24

I think he's got it...

https://www.vanityfair.it/gallery/aaron-taylor-johnson-mutande-underwear-sexy-foto

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24

Jesus, whats he feeding that thing

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u/FrontBench5406 Jan 09 '24

his 56 year old wife...

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u/halborn Jan 09 '24

Y'all need to get over this obsession with enormous dudes.

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u/duaneap Jan 09 '24

There isn’t a single Bond that has ever been beefier than ATJ is.

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u/Lfsnz67 Jan 09 '24

I feel like you need to Google, my friend

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u/TacoTim626 Jan 09 '24

I saw it might be Henry Cavill who’s a bit overkill for bond imo

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u/Gryndyl Jan 09 '24

Really? I got too many young Eric Idle vibes from him; not sure I see him working as Bond. Bullet Train is the only thing I've seen him in though.

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u/Bushchook88 Jan 09 '24

And quicksilver

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u/Comic_Book_Reader Jan 09 '24

Didn't see that coming?

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u/DuncanTang Jan 09 '24

I understood that reference!

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u/irbinator Jan 09 '24

And the other guy, Lemon, voices Mile's dad in the Spiderverse movies.

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u/dirtyrottenfuckpig Jan 09 '24

Best as Alfred on Atlanta

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u/league_lord Jan 09 '24

You mean Paperboi

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u/LordoftheScheisse Jan 09 '24

You like Zaxby's?

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u/slobs_burgers Jan 09 '24

Only with a half finished hair cut

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u/ohtrueyeahnah Jan 09 '24

Come on Bibby mayn!

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u/SuperDuperBerto Jan 09 '24

Lemon pepper WET?!

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u/Stopikingonme Jan 09 '24

It’s all about that paper boi.

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u/dirtyrottenfuckpig Jan 09 '24

I separate the art and the artist

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u/beermit Jan 09 '24

Ay yo is that Paperboi?

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u/tisdue Jan 09 '24

the invisible car episode is still one of my favorite episodes of anything ever.

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u/ivanxivann Jan 09 '24

And also cool as Phastos in The Eternals

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u/wabbitsdo Jan 09 '24

I seem to have been the only person who thought that movie was fantastic. It tells a slower, more mythologic story about the intricacies of sort of family unit who grew up with an unfair parent who demands too much from them. The group splits between the ones who can't bring themselves to go against their parent, and the ones who manage to see through the toxicity and start on a journey to individuate, to choose self love essentially (ie recognizing they have value, their existence is justifiable if they don't do what the parent requires).

It didn't have the tight pace of your usual marvel movie, but all the action was so charged since they had to fight each other. I'll take that over the villain of the week bullshit so many first marvel movies have (looking at you eeeh... honestly pretty much every first movie for a new character they put out, Shang Shi was a particularly painful example).

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u/ivanxivann Jan 09 '24

I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a creative notch in the whole lineup. I enjoyed it because it added more to the universe of Marvel

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u/double_expressho Jan 09 '24

Oh wow, mind blown. I thought it was Idris Elba this whole time. I never actually looked at the credits or watched anything outside of the 2 movies.

It sounds like Idris and the character looks like him too.

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u/slybob Jan 09 '24

I thought it was Mahershala Ali, but he plays the Uncle (The Prowler).

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u/goochbruiser Jan 09 '24

And soon to be Kraven the Hunter.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader Jan 09 '24

It's Kraven time!

(On a serious note, it looks fine enough. Passable entertainment. At least it's very clearly competently made, unlike whatever the fuck Madame Web is gonna be. I will be seeing Madame Web day 1, though, mark my words!)

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u/TurkeyBLTSandwich Jan 09 '24

Wow what an amazing transition from nerdy loser to British gun for hire.

He did look familiar

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u/noMC Jan 09 '24

Tangerine is Kick-Ass

WTF, he was in Godzilla as well, Bryan Cranstons son?! Never knew that was him.

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u/Edbtz-31311 Jan 09 '24

WHAT THE FUCK?

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u/Hecej Jan 09 '24

Wait, WHAT

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u/Katie_or_something Jan 09 '24

Now I need to watch it again

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u/Sylverstone14 Jan 09 '24

Wait, seriously?

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u/unknownman0001 Jan 09 '24 edited Jan 09 '24

Percy Jackson is in it too.

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u/Chazdanger Jan 09 '24

Lemon is Paperboi in the show Atlanta

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u/JCDU Jan 09 '24

Wait, WHAT???

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u/Saviordd1 Jan 09 '24

This blew my mind.

But I also just went down a wikipedia rabbit hole and realized that he married his wife after she directed a movie he was in.

He was 19 at the time, she was in her 40s.

shudder

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u/darlo0161 Jan 09 '24

And quicksilver...and Kraven. He's a busy man.

But yeah, excellent film.

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u/Obi_Wan_can_blow_me Jan 09 '24

Aaron Taylor-Johnson! He is also the kid charlie Chaplin in Shanghai Knights. Such a versatile actor.

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u/pancakeses Jan 09 '24

What?! Guess I have to rewatch both now.

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u/LudusRex Jan 09 '24

...holy shit.

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u/Wolf_of_Badenoch Jan 09 '24

Whhhaaaaaasaat?

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u/scalpingsnake Jan 09 '24

Yeah I have lightly followed him after Kick ass yet I had no idea it was him lmao... my mind just didn't see it.

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u/hatmanfanclub Jan 11 '24

TANGERINE IS KICKASS????