A guy gets shot directly in the frontal lobe and still lives enough to ask a dog for a paw? Come on!
Once I saw this, the whole movie lost it's flare. Even though it was pretty good overall.
If it wasn't for that one scene I would recommend this movie to my friends, but now it's just 'meh'.
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this movie was supposed to be over the top.
Oh COME ON! a) it's a movie, b) loads of scenes 'played for laughs' as has already been said. What about the Amish guy taking a drag of his cigarette whilst blood gushes from the cut throat AND surviving! This is a great, future cult, film. Definitely Tarantinoesque with shades of In Bruges thrown in. "Put your hands up", "No". Sam Rockwell totally steals this film - great acting all round but he's brilliant! Go, see, enjoy!! (ps this posted from France - where it's just arrived)
shareDefinitely Tarantinoesque
I recently read about how it's (fairly) common to survive a bullet injury to the brain if it only affects one hemisphere. To assure death, one has to fire across, for example, the frontal lobes, destroying both sides.
@El Jefe: Actually, that is not true. I was a resident in an ER in California and there was a patient that attempted suicide. Shot himself in the side of the head and it tunneled right through both frontal lobes. He lived and stayed perfectly healthy (except for the fact that he was now a vegetable). When I assisted, he had been alive for a couple of weeks, but some overlooked skull fragments had caused an abscess, so the surgeon had to remove them and clean out the wound. As long as you do not hit the medulla oblongata (which controls essential functions like breathing and heartbeat), you can possibly survive. It is even possible to have thought processes, reasoning, and speech left intact. It really depends on which parts of the brain are affected.
shareThe writer also wrote In Bruges where a guy falls multiple stories off of a tower, and lives for a little bit afterwards. Maybe it's just his thing? I don't know.
shareExcept that one's inexcusable, even though I find it hilarious. After being shot in the foot, neck, bleeding out for awhile, jumping off an 80 metre tall building and STILL living, he'd surely be dead.
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In At Close Range Sean Penn's character was shot multiple times.. IN REAL LIFE the guy was shot 9 times, twice in the head!... and went to confront his father afterwards, as well as testify against him in court... a true story! read a book that covered the details... the brain is actually weird like that... many people with traumatic brain injuries are wide awake and aware for a while...
shareReally? The movie is supposed to be a bit campy and silly. It's part of its charm.
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Here I thought this was going to be about the whole racist hospital murder scene that felt a little too dark for a character we're supposed to laugh at. But yeah, the paw thing was stupid, I guess.
shareWTF was racist about it?
shareNothing about the murder itself was racist...
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