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The Snowman was so disappointing.
Yo, for real... I was so hyped for this movie too. Huge fan of all the Harry Hole books. Huge fan of Fassbender. But this movie was such a piece of shit.
Yeah I read some interviews with the director Tomas Alfredson and apparently they pretty much screwed up their production and started running out of time. He said they had to cut chunks out of the script from the book which is what led to the movie feeling all over the place/just thrown together. Shame too because it has a great premise and they had a cast of great actors on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowman_(2017_film)In response to the negative critical reviews, Alfredson blamed the short filming schedule in which 10–15% of the screenplay was not shot during principal photography. This led to huge narrative problems when editing commenced:
"Our shoot time in Norway was way too short, we didn't get the whole story with us and when we started cutting we discovered that a lot was missing. It's like when you're making a big jigsaw puzzle and a few pieces are missing so you don't see the whole picture."
Alfredson also revealed he had a lack of time to prep the film properly:
"It happened very abruptly, suddenly we got notice that we had the money and could start the shoot in London."
What a shame. Let The Right One In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy were both really good.