aren't the first fifteen minutes just Malcolm MacDowell staring into the camera without blinking?
Unless I dismember, he doesn't stop blinking until a ways in. I think he hits up a moloko bar, and maybe indulges in some GBH.
Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking!
Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
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§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 7:31:15 am PDT #5191 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 27, 2004 7:32:42 am PDT #5192 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The article that went with that picture I found said that Bale put back on the 63 pounds he lost for The Machinist in six weeks in order to try out for Batman. And, one would assume, it was muscle weight rather than fat as they didn't cast him as Donutman instead.
The mental image of him going on a 'roid rage while bulking up really shouldn't be funny, but it is.
Nutty - Oct 27, 2004 7:32:55 am PDT #5193 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
my shock and horror at the utter absence of Barry Lyndon
I call myself a movie-lover for having actually sat through both Days of Heaven and 1900. I am sad to report that I have missed the Ryan O'Neal in short pants and fluffy shirtsleeves movie.
I have also never seen The Leopard, The Sweet Smell of Success, or any single Jimmy Cagney movie all the way through.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 27, 2004 7:35:42 am PDT #5194 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My movie-lover certification came after I sat though a broadcast of Angels and Insects late one night. I should have opted for watching paint dry instead.
Sean K - Oct 27, 2004 7:35:56 am PDT #5195 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have missed the Ryan O'Neal in short pants and fluffy shirtsleeves movie.
Also (from what I understand) a hauntingly pretty scene lit entirely by candlelight.
Calli - Oct 27, 2004 7:39:09 am PDT #5196 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I kinda liked Angels and Insects. Not enough to rent it a second time, but enough to have watched it and come away with a general fondness for it.
Glamcookie - Oct 27, 2004 7:42:58 am PDT #5197 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
The first fifteen minutes of A Clockwork Orange involved the rape of a woman using a clown mask . Uh, no thanks.
Betsy HP - Oct 27, 2004 7:45:38 am PDT #5198 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Barry Lyndon is one of the most beautiful movies ever made.
Nutty - Oct 27, 2004 7:59:20 am PDT #5199 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well, so is Days of Heaven, but the latter is (I can say) about as boring a movie as you'll find.
(It was shot almost entirely in the gloaming, and it shows; pity nobody spent that much care on the script.)
Betsy HP - Oct 27, 2004 8:00:17 am PDT #5200 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Days Of Heaven is known in my family as Hours of Hell.
Barry Lyndon made me gasp and cry. I don't remember ever being bored.