3. TIL Harvey Weinstein insisted on cuts to a film and when the director refused, r...

TIL Harvey Weinstein insisted on cuts to a film and when the director refused, reduced the release to only 8 theaters nationwide. The film went on to 95% Fresh rating and dozens of critics' annual top 10 lists. The film: "Snowpiercer"

Come on, this is your list? You're trying so hard you're practically grasping at straws. Is your imagination that limited? Is your attention to the plot hanging by a thread?

Your first point about the Irish accent is just laughably pointless and petty. Hilarious how you trash this movie based on things like that...

The second point is both petty and shows your weak or just lazy imagination, in a film where you're supposed to accept there's technology capable of creating a never failing engine.

Your next point about the cart with the axes and the fish also shows how limited your imagination and reasoning are. Could it be that the cart doesn't ALWAYS house axed madmen? I WONDER!

Again, your point about the chair yet again lacks imagination. And more importantly, I just went back to that scene and you can't conclusively claim that he sits on a defined "chair", the kid just placed his ass and a wall of tech happened to be behind his back. Does that qualify as a chair to you? And even if it was a "chair" of sorts, it could've been for some kind of robotic device, think manufacturing-type robot that "sat" in that space and needed to be placed there in case of emergency, a "plan b" in case there was a problem.

The cow point, another petty complaint, I have no idea how you even noticed it. Again, with some imagination fueled by given facts about the nature of that world, you could come up with an explanation.

And now the point about the children running away from the gunshots bothers you? So what if the movie didn't EXPLICITLY show where the kids went to? Was the plot about them or about Chris Evans and his gang? Such pettiness, and you take yourself so seriously while posting this crap.

I didn't even understand your point about the tickets.

And finally, your last point assumes a bunch of things with barely any knowledge of how things went down there. Only a vague account of Evans' character was given, so you can't really know how things specifically went down there.

You're a lazy petty guy, and I'm sad that you have this many upvotes. Blaming the movie for your own shortcomings and your own negativity.

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