People unknowingly love the movie because of the impeccable rail infrastructure and the urban city design of the North Pole.
When I visited Italy with my brothers and grandparents back in like 2006 this movie was playing on the plane both ways, alongside that Tim Burton Willy Wonka movie. So just hearing about it makes me remember being on a plane for 12 hours, unable to really see the uncanny valley shit that everyone was complaining about because I was watching it on a six inch screen before such screens were HD. Now when I look up clips of it the soulless husks that wander around this train of the damned can be spotted a mile off. There is a hollowness in their eyes and their expressions, and I expect Tom Hanks to unhinge his jaw and reveal a yawning chasm that creates a vacuum of wind that sucks in all the children, who crumple like paper, crisp and bloodless, as they spiral down his gullet.
In a roundabout way this film inspired a song, too. Internet comedian Asterios Kokkinos was in an improv sketch where he, posing as the Polar Express conductor, is incapable of fear, worry, or pain, as he is a digital cyber demon who kidnaps children. The sketch: Asterios is a digital cyber demon The song: "Digital Cyber Demon" by Elay Arson. It's pretty badass.
I was going to make a YTP of the movie and call it "The Solar Express".
So now I keep thinking its the "Solar Express".
