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These are chemical clocks, and they're found in every known being that has two or more cells and in some that only have one cell.
And so, in this way we know that they are working on their own internal clocks, rather than somehow sensing the day outside.
It's not just the actors that are bad, but also the fact that the camera person taped the wall and the clocks for about 5 minutes at a time.
This COULD be due to the fact that the pacing of the project is way too rushed(as noted in previous postings)- this film clocks in 45 minutes shorter than the film version- the difference owing to the pauses for dramatic effect, which apparently is necessary to propagate the appropriate MOOD for the story.
This movie only clocks in at 72 minutes, but it feels like an eternity.
Oh, I thought of one other good point about this cheese, it clocks in at just over an hour although it still wears out its welcome long before then.
The opportunity to have made what could have been a decent movie disappears the moment Nicole Eggbert clocks the alien in a bar within 30 seconds, whilst the Police, Military and Joe public don't cotton on that the woman drinking coffee, dosn't use the cup handle and wears four jumpers at once.
Condensing the gigantic W. Somerset Maugham novel down to a movie that clocks in at under an hour and a half seemed like a disaster waiting to happen.
think it clocks in at under 95 minutes
Hires Karloff AND Lugosi, buttresses them with a couple pug-ugly manservants and a truly goofy romantic-interest duo, and puts them to work: running through this outrageous modernist mansion built on a WWI bunker (they have electric clocks!), performing satanic rites and playing the organ, murdering (and stuffing) wives and daughters, settling ownership of virgins with a nice game of chess, fainting a lot, flaying each other alive, listening to stupid ass cops with feathers argue over whose home town is prettier, plus a line that EVERYONE should have implanted in their brains: "Supernatural - perhaps.
Another point worth mentioning is that this is NOT a short film, it clocks in a just over an hour, a little longer in the original Japanese version (72 minutes) and I think this is it's biggest problem, it stretches an already thin concept beyond breaking point.
The movie clocks off at 68 (!!) minutes, but that's o.k:
PEYTON PLACE clocks in at 2 hours and 37 mins., but could have been longer.
After that, the watch seller would adjust all the clocks he sees to the Paris time.
This film has everything: murdering mad monks, evil clocks, crucifix murders, car chases, corpse-bothering, maximilian schell and rachel leigh cook as satan!
At one point in the film an ENDLESS series of wind-up alarm clocks ring; an ear-splitting annoyance that goes on for almost a full minute as Lily frantically tries to shut it off.
At the end of this scene, and about TEN alarm clocks, I wanted to chain Malle to a grandfather's clock and throw HIM out the window!
As a British television miniseries, Framed clocks in at around four hours; the American version on the other hand was somehow edited down to a crispy two hour TV-feature.
Though the film clocks in at sixty-three or so minutes FACELESS MAN plods along at a snail's pace.
Especially the last fight which clocks in at over five minutes.
No problem for Nick, though, he clocks her a couple of times, (the camera cuts discreetly when Lora takes it on the chin) and down she goes.
Well, this movie is worse as it is BAD and clocks in atjust under 2 hours.
As Europe defines what it stands for, let us also consider an audacious yet practical idea: synchronization of Europe’s political clocks, so that all of Europe’s national elections are held within the same year – or even the same month.
But, while they could figure out the former by watching the sun, clocks were not accurate on ships at sea, so they were unable to track the time elsewhere.
The poet Jose Angel Valente might call this a desire “…to wait for History to wind the clocks and return us to the time in which we would wish everything could start.”
Yet even she is hesitant about having the entire country change its clocks twice per year, especially if the main motivation relates to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Now, with the introduction of FFP-mandated time clocks, workers can punch in and record their hours, ensuring that at least they will receive the state’s minimum wage.
The 1990’s produced a demeaning narrative of women waiting in frustration as their “biological clocks” ticked, cursing themselves for putting career first at the expense of finding Mr. Right and having children.
I've had it divided into twenty-four hours like Italian clocks, since neither day nor night, sun nor moon, exist for me, but only this artificial light that I import into the depths of the seas!
Time was in abeyance on the ship's clocks.
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