On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:46:42 -0800, the renowned RainLover
wrote:

I was just curious. I suspect that the readers here aren't the
regular art house, movie-going crowd here, but I'm wondering if anyone
else saw "The Machinist"?

This post is more about artsy-fartsy crap, but since the movie *IS*
about a machinist, and since a person gets his arm ripped off in a
machine, I figure it's "on topic" enough.

It's been haunting me for over a week now.


THANKS!!

James, Seattle

I enjoyed it, but many (including the better half) would not have. The
ending was perhaps a bit *too* neat, but it was generally worth the
reduced Tuesday entry fee (and free parking on Bloor for the 10pm show
at the Cumberland). I don't go out to the movies that often (maybe a
few times a year) and the concession prices always amaze me ($15 for
two cokes and popcorns?). Anyway, sort of along the lines of
Hitchcock, Night Gallery and Twilight Zone.

You go insane after about 10 days totally without sleep, so the one
year claim was not credible, but people often *say* things like that.
Bales certainly made himself look anorexic and demented- I hope he
didn't cause himself serious physical harm with that severe weight
loss.

The occupation was relevant only in that they wanted a grimy and
dangerous blue-collar male-only work environment for part of the
story. Reminds me of another book/movie where someone loses their hand
on a car assembly line-- one of Hailey's ones? 'Wheels' perhaps. And
another where someone is murdered in a paint room (filmed in the old
Checker Motors factory in Kalamazoo MI) "Blue Collar". The machines
didn't look like what they said they were to me, and that sort of took
away from the whole thing rather than enhancing it.


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Spehro Pefhany
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