What wuz the most recent movie(s) you have seen?

[j7wild]

The Snowman (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758810/



This is based on a best selling thriller novel by a Norwegian author.

I have never read the book but from researching it online, it's a well reviewed top notch thriller and it's also an entry in a series of crime novels starring the same character that's in this movie: Harry Hole, an alcoholic police inspector.

Well if everything that's written about the book it's based on is true, this movie doesn't even come close to its original source.

There are 3 persons listed in the screenwriting credit and it seems that each one wrote a screenplay pertaining to a different aspect of the movie: 1 part is the ongoing investigation going back years of missing women, another part is Inspector Harry Hole's relationship with his enstranged son, another part is anything that screenwriter who had a hand in it decided to add to the story and seemingly he didn't check with the other 2 screenwriters to make sure his part flowed with the rest and had continuity.

Then it also seems 3 different unit directors shot the different scenes from the 3 different screenplays.

There are characters that show up one minute never to be seen again.

There are scenes of someone going into a building and you never seen that someone before and after and nothing was ever followed up on it: Who was that person? Why did they go into that building? Who was the person in the building that opened the door to let them in? How does that fits into the story and does it have any relation to the missing women?

Then there seems to be parts missing. One minute you see one of the main character standing somewhere looking at something in the snow (which was not shown) and then in the next scene that same character is in a car driving off.

Okay, I don't need to see everything that happens like they walking from where they were standing to the car to seeing them opening the car door with a key and then getting into it and then starting the car, etc, etc but where were they where they standing at, what were they doing there, and what happened between the time they stood there and they drove off.

Furthermore, for a thriller about a serial killer leaving clues, with a snowman after each killing, this movie has no tension, no suspense, no grab you by the chin to keep you interested and when we finally get to the final act, it's just felt thrown in at random because someone in the production crew said: hey, let's wrap it up.

This is a Norway-UK-USA production and you can tell, produced by Martin Scorsese, directed by acclaimed Norwegian director famous for 2008's "Let the Right One In", starring a talented cast including Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Chloë Sevigny, James D'Arcy, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Swedish actor Jonas Karlsson.

But they are not given much to do or work with onscreen.

Digital Spy website just named this one of the 10 worse films of 2017.

Rotten Tomatoes has many negative reviews including these that pretty much express the same sentiments I have about it:

Choppy, incoherent and dull, The Snowman is one of the worst films of the year.

Not a single scene works as anything more than a total waste of good film.

Even Fassbender's typically intense and well-schooled performance can't elevate this muddled mess from the mundane.

[The Snowman] is two hours of uninterrupted, snow-caked boredom.

Doesn't anyone take any pride in their work anymore?

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