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While at the Royal Ball, Cinderella loses track of time and the clock strikes midnight, so she runs out of the palace and loses her glass slipper.
If I watch a movie and don't once look at my watch or clock to see how much longer it will be running or when I hope that the last scene wasn't the end of the movie, it's got to be pretty good.
When the clock strikes midnight, she runs home, leaving behind one of her glass slippers.
In a serious chess game where World Chess Champion victory is one way to immortality, the chess clock ticks, match time ends to conclude the next day.
Chalie gets sent back to Earth 'cause he winded up his life clock where he gets into even more mischief with his best friend, Itchy and a little orphan girl, Anne-Marie.
As special efx have a ever more grip on todays films, some times to find a real gem , you gotta turn the clock back to the time when the writers and directors really had to use their heads to create really good ghost stories.
I watched the clock, hoping it would end soon.
Who can forget Lime's words spoken from the top of Vienna's ferris wheel about being paid for stopping those "dots below" (people) from moving or his Italy & Renaissance v Switzerland & cuckoo clock comparison.
You cannot find many movies of this genre that are worth seeing, usually because either the screenplay isn't that good or the actors performance is bad.luckily, in this movie everything works like a clock.Peter Ustinov gives us another great performance as he did in "EVIL UNDER THE SUN".The rest of the cast are not bad but some could have been a little bit better.
I kept looking at the clock praying that time would somehow move faster.
I kept looking at the clock, wondering when a werewolf would actually show up.
Ellen Barkin, who has a face that would stop a clock, is her usual foul mouthed self in playing the woman playing the boss, highly unlikely in the corporate world.
His trouble is that you can set a clock by his punctual rounds, and that one of his deliveries coincides with the arrival of the armored car at the bank next door.
There is a crazy scene where a man goes to sleep and all these crazy things start coming into the bed room, and he looks at the clock and it appears a few hours have gone by.
With hammy acting and posturing substituting for emotional expression, what little plot development there is, gets padded by longeurs which, whilst evidently intended to convey some kind of "significance", merely provoke a yawn and a glance at the clock.
this film also showed how both sides thought the other was stupid, the Native's believed the Jesuits God was the clock and didn't understand the whole concept or for instance when the Black robe was lost and the Native's were directing him- they didn't understand how or why these foreign people didn't know anything about working with the land.
Viewed this film which was called "A Friendship to Die For", and through out the entire picture you noticed a clock in quite a few scenes and I wondered why, now I find out the picture was really called "Tick Tock" and it makes more sense.
There seemed to always be a rush against the clock in this film about two females who were great friends and had a wonderful deep love for each other which was boiling over and over.
A few good ideas are thrown in, but aside from one schoolroom sequence and the foolproof "brick wall" ending, it's desperately dull and under characterised stuff that feels like it was made by a wage slave reluctantly punching a time clock every day.
The kids began to chant "summer" as the clock slowly counted down to 3 PM.
Similarities between the two movies are that they are both shot completely in black and white, there are main character monologues (both including passages about "When I was young...")and both movies clock in under the 90 minute mark.
With his sanity barely in check as it is (notice the loud, ticking clock sound a la REPULSION, an obvious influence), Marcos finally snaps when a lecherous taxi driver attacks him and his girlfriend Paola (Emma Cohen).
I found myself yawning and looking at the clock.
Oh I wish I could escape from sleep during this movie as it's so dull and slowly filmed that you constantly watch the clock till it's going to end.
The horrific acting on everyone's part is annoying and keeps you from being able to get into the story without looking at the clock every few minutes.
Demme has a great eye for people like Dummar, a dreamer whose clock for realizing his dreams is winding down.
It didn't take all that long for me to start watching the clock with regularity during this film, so I would have to say that it is fairly dull as well.
He, & his accomplice (Michael Henderson), drive off to a wood where they bury Frances alive in a wooden coffin, she has about 24 hours worth of air left & the clock is ticking... Detective Madeline Foster (Maura Tierney) & her partner Jesse (Paul Calderon) are called onto the task force to find Frances & apprehend her kidnappers.
With the curtains drawn, at Two 0 clock in the morning.
Nearby meanwhile, a determined scientist works against the clock to drill through the earth's crust and bring forth what he claims will be a fabulous new source of energy for all mankind.
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