9. Whiteout
The reason this places so low on the list is because it is a movie essentially no one saw. Featuring Kate Beckinsale, it is a book that was known for its amazing use of white and negative space as actual art. They pulled this off by making the story about trying to solve murders in Antarctica during a blizzard. Hence all the white.
What the creators of the film didn’t understand was, while white on an art panel really works, having most of your movie covered with snowfall does not an interesting movie make. The story was there, but visually, something was lost between the two mediums. What worked really well on paper did not work nearly as well on film.
Still, it was adapted from comics and no one knows, so it has its place here.
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