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Hated this movie -- poor director

posted 15 years ago by chazzmatt
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I'm on vacation this week and I'm running out of movies I haven't seen. :)

So I went to Blockbuster and looked through the new releases for some diamonds in the rough. I picked up "Snow Angels" -- and the back of the box made it seem like a teen romance drama but also focusing on adult relationships too. So, I was thinking, "OK, something like 'Dreamscape' years ago with Matthew Modine."

I took a chance and ARGHHH -- that is 2 hours I will never get back. Several times we almost just turned it off but I thought, "No, it got two good reviews on the box. Maybe it gets better." It didn't get better. I hate directors who don't know when to trim a scene or even cut a scene.

There were so many slow, boring, depressing scenes. OK, we get it he's a drunk. I don't need to see 10 minutes of the ex-husband stumbling around in a bar, after 5 minutes of him drinking several whiskeys, to get the point. 1 minute of each is enough. Show him drinking, show him stumbling around. Done. Seriously, we actually fast-forwarded through some scenes towards the end that did not advance the narrative at all. You can tell it was a first time director.

Please let it end.

And the end was just what we thought it was going to be, because we heard the gun shots back at the beginning of the movie. That's not a spoiler -- you hear gun shots in the first scene -- the rest of the movie is a flashback.

I recently saw "Personal Effects" with Ashton Kutcher and Michelle Pfieffer and that is another movie where the director didn't know how to trim scenes. That movie could easily be 20 minutes shorter, still tell the story, and BE A BETTER MOVIE. But "Personal Effects" did have some redeeming quality. "Snow Angels" didn't.

[–] tadeu-br 14 years ago

People with comments like these should stick to Transformers.

[–] havenayres 13 years ago

if you rent movies based on the reviews on the box you are more than likely going to end up watching all sorts of movies that aren't your cup of tea jackass. if your attention span isn't strong enough to focus on the story without your brain saying "TOO LONG FASTFORWARD BORED BAD CAN'T WATCH" i'd suggest ritalin and simpler movies.

remember kids if the doorknob is hot jump out the *beep* window

[–] Benicky 12 years ago

You have a reason you do not like this movie and I suspect it is deeper than what you are saying here. Movies are subjective, so you don,t like it. You do not have to disparidge the director.

[–] afik_ootaa 12 years ago

it's simple, if you hate something, just keep it to yourself and don't bother spending your time bashing it to others, while u stress out about how long this movie was and a waste of your time you still have time to talk about it. that seems strange.. the point is, because other people might feel the opposite after watching a movie because movies are subjective. try and really understand something before u decide to share your opinion with others coz it helps. it sure did help me..

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[–] bootblack987 10 years ago

Interesting. As I was watching this, I was thinking this was one of the best directed movies of recent memory. To me, all of the scenes were so quick, we only got to see the most specific, detailed part of each encounter before moving right into a scene with other characters. I started to wonder if the script of the director was doing a better job and now I see that the director co-wrote the screenplay. Man, did he ever out-do himself! There were only a few slow, quiet moments in this movie to me, one that stands out is when Sam Rockwell's character breaks into the drunken dance of two strangers and grabs onto the older man. Heartbreaking!!! And sweet that the older man justs lets him have this comfort. If there were more people like this old man in the world then it would be a much better place.

By the way, could you give examples of movies you feel were well directed if you think this movie is an example of bad directing?

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