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Yello Mit
26 Sep 2006, 13:04
It was actually pretty good. Not just because of the hot chicks.
8/10
raikkonen
2 Oct 2006, 16:19
About what I thought it would be. Great cast :D
Sanguinarius
3 Oct 2006, 02:05
I didn't go in expecting shakespeare - I expected over the top fight scenes and some very hot babes.
and I got what I expected. :thumbsu:
GeoffRules12759
4 Oct 2006, 19:26
Yeah....i wont watch this.
Top class film noir.
DOA was certainly on of the best films of 1950, and one of Edmund O'Brien's finest.
From Wikipaedia:
The film begins with a scene called "perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences" by a BBC reviewer[2]. The scene a long, behind-the-back tracking sequence featuring Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) stumbling through a hallway into a police station to report a murder: his own. Disconcertingly, the police almost seem to have been expecting him and already know who he is.
The flashback that follows shows the fallout of Bigelow's decision to take off from his small California hometown where he is an accountant and notary public for a weekend of partying in San Francisco before returning to his life with Paula (Britton), his "confidential secretary" and love interest. After crossing paths at his hotel with a group from a sales convention, Bigelow accompanies them on a night on the town. He ends up at a jazz club, where unknown to him (but not the audience) a man wearing an overcoat, hat, and a distinctive scarf swaps his drink for another. By the next morning, he not only has a hangover – upon visiting two separate medical facilities, he finds that he has swallowed a "luminous toxin" for which there is no antidote (the end credits characterizes it as a "descriptive term for an actual poison"; its luminosity and references to iridium imply a form of radiation poisoning[3]).
With only a short time to live, Bigelow sets out to try to untangle the events behind his imminent demise, interrupted occasionally by phone calls from Paula.
Quotes
Bigelow: I want to report a murder.
Policeman: Who was murdered?
Bigelow: I was.
Policeman: How shall I make out the report on him, Captain?
Police Captain: Better make it 'dead on arrival'.
sandeano
5 Oct 2006, 13:30
:thumbsu:
Nice one, Dry Rot!
raikkonen
5 Oct 2006, 20:48
It was never going to be an award winning movie, its a film based on a computer game, and replicating that they did a great job...for what the film is
Plus, how is this not worth the price of admission: :D
http://www.thatblondegirl.net/Gallery/DOA/doastill9.jpg
delirious1
6 Oct 2006, 03:08
i could of looked at pictures on my computer insted of paying 10 dollars to see that crapfast
jorel6669
6 Oct 2006, 14:26
Unless it has full frontal female nudity, what's the point?