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I am about to begin watching "Nervous Ticks," starring Bill Pullman, Julie Brown and Peter Boyle.

"Filmed entirely in real time, NERVOUS TICKS is 90 non-stop minutes of sex, murder and mistaken identity that proves time flies when you're having fun. It all starts when a sweet-natured airline clerk (Bill Pullman) falls for a madcap married woman (Julie Brown). He agrees to flee to Rio with her, but just 90 minutes before their flight, she asks him to take care of something for her: she wants him to kill her husband. Meanwhile, York has picked up a suitcase full of cash, a hired assassin is hot on his trail, two naked women have borrowed his shower, and ... you get the idea."

Wait, I do? I'm guessing York is the Pullman character but honestly I'm at a loss. (The screen caps on the back of the box indicate that there is actually a digital clock superimposed on the upper-right corner of the screen for the entire running time!)

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 May 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

Next up is "Nick of Time"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 May 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

how about real time...
...done in one continuous shot...
...starring Bruce Cmpbell?

― fez (fez), Sunday, 28 May 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

that movie must be pretty bad if it gets 7.0 with a premise like that

― fez (fez), Sunday, 28 May 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

DIdn't Depp do Nick of Time which was also in real time? I seem to remember that being extremely mediocre.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 28 May 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

How can a thread with only four posts repeat itself already?

Nick of Time actually doesn't count due to dream sequences.

Timecode is in real time 4x at once!

― Pete (Pete), Sunday, 28 May 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

No actual clock on the screen :( FALSE ADVERTISING, "NERVOUS TICKS"

This movie is remarkable mainly for the number of social stereotypes it finds time to wedge into the action. Pullman's character meets a) a raving Muslim lady who we later find has planted a bomb on an airplane; b) a nebbishy, chiseling, Jewish couple; c) a threatening, criminal black man; d) a bad-driving yet determinedly cheery asian couple e) a materialistic, psycho housewife ... there are probably more. All foils for Pullman's too-polite, charming everyman.

There are a couple of priceless scenes with Peter Boyle, though.

The previews for this were for a Civil War zombie movie called "The Killing Box" and a heartwarming tale of second-generation Italian small business ownership starring John Turturro ("Mac").

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 May 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

THe more that I think about it, this movie is fucking bizarre. The "two naked women in his shower" turn out to be Nancy Fish, probably about 50 in this movie, and a girl who is probably 18 years old, max., although she looks younger. There's a third woman in the triangle who's in love with the young girl, and hijacks Pullman in his car to roam the streets looking for her. ???

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

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Apart from being funny it shows important things., 5 February 1999
Author: sanya

This is a really great comedy. And apart from being funny it shows something really important to me: a person which is always polite.The task to teach all people to love each other proved to be too difficult to be done in 2 millenniums. So, what we should try to do is be always polite, which is somewhere between what we are and what we must be. Bill Pullman's character's professional unbelievable politeness is a very good example.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 28 May 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah he pulled that off perfectly. It's just too bad he's not a better physical comedian, because like half the movie is him fumbling around and doing things like walking the entire length of the airport, forgetting something, and having to walk all the way back.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

one continuous shot?!!? I thought the only picture to do that was The Russian Ark.

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's not one continuous shot!

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

And Timecode beat Russian Ark by three years, and with FOUR CONTINUOUS SHOTS AT ONCE. (Russian Ark, the first to go directly on to a hard-drive).

Why will no-one give Timecode the props it deserves?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen it.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Well its not so good on the small screen what with it being four films shown at once. But I think it is great!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

The plot of Timecode was pretty silly, but as a viewing experience I found it quite riveting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

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