Just wondering if, after Sam Fuller got fired from the film as director, if the producers kept any of the footage he shot for the finished film or had Barry Shear re-shoot everything from scratch.
Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
In the imdb notes, it says Fuller clashed w/Richard Harris. I nearly changed the channel three minutes into the movie because I thought it was going to be a 2-hour slide show. At first I thought they did the freeze-frame beginning from Wild Bunch influence, then wondered if it was some early '70s technological limitation of placing titles only on still images. It's a pretty ridiculous start to a movie to have three minutes of blurry, still shots while dialogue and sound effects are going on normally.
Then again, this is a very flawed movie.
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At least I'm glad to learn it was deliberate. At first I thought my copy was a defective one. But still it looks more like they didn't have the choice and couldn't use other shots than freeze frames.
shareI thought the same thing too that something was wrong with the DVD.
Well, most people are idiots with bad taste...so there!