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When comparing it to "Run, Lola, Run" you have to keep in mind that "Dangan Ranna" was made some years before and was shown on German TV as early as 1997...so it's more probable that it served as inspiration for Tom Tykwer's movie, and not the other way around.
There's only one way to get justice served for the killing of his brother and to fix things so "this ain't a-ever gonna happen again to anyone": recreate the chase and settle the contest hot-rodder style to the death.
The lights along the middle of the road cut the road in half, and the tiny gate to the tiny settlement followed by the tiny and few cubbyholes that served as the establishments that made up what seemed to be the entire town.
I watched this movie with my dad when it came out and having served in Korea he had great admiration for the man.
Main theme in this Dirty Harry is that revenge is a dish best served cold.
He is humorous and holds his own, but he is better served as a supporting actor.
We know what has just happened; it's just not served up in front of us, then rubbed in our faces, as it would be today with contemporary blood and gore dressing.
I figured it was another "You Got Served" type of movie with some nice dance moves and horrid acting.
The fact that it has a lower rating than You Got Served is absolutely ridiculous.
The 350 acre site served so many with all the benefits of contact with natures offerings.
For the most part, it really served to distract from the overall plot and just seemed "tacked on"--like a plot device instead of a real honest-to-goodness romance.
Attenborough would have served his topic better by focusing on Biko's rise to prominence instead of beginning where Biko befriended Woods.
Boat crashing into his balcony served him right.
As usual the storyline needn't detain us though for the record it was based on a play, Shore Leave, that also served as the basis for a Broadway Musical, Hit The Deck.
But smaller plot elements introduce tension in every scene--between Widmark and the police captain, between the bad guys played by Palance and Mostel, between Palance and a dying plague-stricken man whom Palance mistakenly believes is the subject of a manhunt because he has smuggled in some valuable commodity, between Widmark and his wife, and with the underlying question of whether the public is better served by informing them of the danger or hiding the situation to avoid a full-scale panic.
One by one he stalks his classmates who include an innocent blind girl, a horny fat guy, the high school beauty, the king of all preps and even the ugly old lunch lady who served up slops to all the kids during highschool.
Certainly this vehicle gives him play to develop his moods and attitudes which served him so well when it came time for him to work as Captain Queeg in "The Caine Mutiny" (1954).
Michael Rafiel's relationship as well as how he met Verity Hunt has been changed also to an untasty dish served cold.
I suspect it simply served the budget.
This "film" served no other purpose than to create deep hatred and resentment.
An incident involving a black man who is holed up in a shack with his native American woman escalates after the man is killed by the town constable, a Mexican who had served in the US Cavalry chasing Apaches.
The film does not contain much dialogue but it's pretty bad when it occurs with male characters saying things like "you got yourself a great little broad there" after Jade has just served the drinks!
Things for people that have served in the British army have changed since and I am sure that this film played a part albeit minor.
My dream was not realized in the military, but in the civilian sector, and I "served" almost 30 years in ER's across this country.
This monkey nudity only served to make the primate more "human" so I can understand it's inclusion in the film.
Boring low-budget baloney served as veteran actor Cameron Mitchell's sad cinematic swan song.
That served as no impediment to the success of "Dona Flor and her Husbands", although in that case Sonya Braga's beauty was a big help.
Now, thirty years later, it is a fairly stylish soft blue film, which is served beautifully by its soundtrack and somehow by photography, which remains charming and announces the David Hamilton style of Bilitis.
Matthew Perry had only a couple funny scenes, the rest of the movie he just served as straight man for Farley, who honestly didn't need him--- he could've made this movie work on his own without Perry's help.
The stage play and Bergman film were set in Sweden; for tax purposes the movie was filmed in Vienna, thus losing Sweden's "perpetual sunset" which served as the story's sexual metaphor.
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