Looking at the trailer, this movie recembles Fargo in some strange way. Maybe it´s just the snow landscape.
shareFirst thing I thought too - the poster, the snow, the Kenosha tagline...
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A lot of people are saying it's just the scenery, but I'm afraid the similarity goes much deeper than that. Yes, the scenery is essentially identical (try to differentiate a mid-winter Wisconsin from a mid-winter North Dakota. The only difference is the accents). This would be forgivable if there weren't also such striking similarities between the two leads. At it's core, Fargo is a story about an irresponsible lying swindler who gets in deep financial doo-doo, tries to pull off a ridiculous caper that will take care of all his past debts, and has it royally blow up in his face. It's a story about what happens when you spend your life lying and decieving peole and accuring massive debts in the process. That is PRECISELY what seems to be happening in Thin Ice.
shareMovie looks to be heavily inspired by Fargo. Let's just hope it isn't a copycat.
shareI have yet to watch Fargo (I have it recorded to my DVR to watch) but watching the trailer, the first thing I thought of was Fargo.
shareSeriously, does it matter? You will either get "caught up in this, and love it" or you'll sit back and try an compare it to FARGO. Wrong to compare anything. This is different. Great acting, and you'll find the ending quite intoxicating, in that it'll have you riding home and wondering "all kinds of scenarios" .. the reasons for what happened will haunt you for days. So, my advice, from So. California (no snow, no cold, icy lakes) is to enjoy each moment of this movie. Otherwise, Greg Kinnear and Alan Arkin wouldn't be in it.
shareIt's "Fargo Lite." And quite good, particularly the setting and the pitch-perfect performances.
shareI live about 10 minutes from Kenosha and nothing in that clip resembles Kenosha whatsoever. It is a much, much more developed area. It basically looks like something from Fargo with a random northern small, but not too small you haven't heard of it, city tossed in for name only.
shareProbably doesn't help that the two movies were basically filmed in the same place. A lot of this movie was shot in Hopkins MN, which is just a hop-skip-and-a-jump-dair from St. Louis Park/Northeast Minneapolis, where a lot of "Fargo" was shot.
sharethat is the first thought that came to my mind with the trailer. recycled movie
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It felt a bit like Fargo mixed with bits of Lucky Number Slevin...
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