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Joe Pesci in Casino with the guy's head in the vice. And then his own horribly brutal death in the cornfield. The latter actually disturbed me more than the former, although my girlfriend disagrees.

Pvt Mellish in Saving Private Ryan. That one disturbed me the first few times I saw it. As the knife inches closer you can see the realisation of what's about to happen dawn on him, and the way he just shouts 'stop!' over and over (rather than the usual cliched 'please god no' etc) seemed so realistic. Horrible.

I also like the fact that it works on other levels.  Mellish is killed by the German Soldier that they let go earlier in on the film at the behest of the liberal, arty, writer.  So the Holocaust is YOUR fault!

I've never been so grateful as to see Tom Hanks face in that beach landing scene.  You knew that he wasn't going to get horribly killed.

Some of the impact of PSYCHO shower is lessened by the fact that when watched by later generations, they don't know that Janet Leigh was a big star and offing her early on was a big shock. 

[spoiler]Happilly, they pulled a similar trick with Setven Seagal in the stupidly enjoyable [/spoiler] EXECUTIVE DECISION. What starts off looking like it's going to be RAMBO in a plane ends up as a team of geeky guys working together to save the day [spoiler]when Seagal is killed twenty minutes in.[/spoiler]

Don't mean to be pedantic but it's not the soldier they let go earlier. He shows up about ten minutes later, and I believe shoots good ol' Tom (so in that sense, your point still works). But the one who knifes Mellish is a different guy (I used to think they were the same guy too)

It's a fair cop Tordels!

Just want to comment on the art in Flesh - I can see what people are saying about the heavy line but for me James McKay is more than equal to the task. The double spread was full of glorious details (my favourite dino being the Quetzaloatlus wading in the lake) and Gorehead looks frigging ace. Yeah his line work could do with a little refinement here and there, but he's definitely got the skills, and more importantly for me it's just great to see some new talent getting abreak in the prog. Like Matt Timson said too, I'd say he's definitely one to watch.  

Pvt Mellish in Saving Private Ryan. That one disturbed me the first few times I saw it. As the knife inches closer you can see the realisation of what's about to happen dawn on him, and the way he just shouts 'stop!' over and over (rather than the usual cliched 'please god no' etc) seemed so realistic. Horrible.

Actually any of the Omaha landing deaths - the first war film where soldiers just collapsed silently like a puppet that's had it's strings cut rather than protracted death cries.

Good idea Keef, should have thought of that myself.

And Fester - can't believe I didn't think of Cube! Good call.

I'm gonna say Brendan Gleeson in In Bruges - the man acts everyone else off the screen and he does it solely with one eyeball!

Seems my local newsagent stopped stocking it after the big delay in the issues so I haven't got issues #5 or 6, so it looks I'm officially out as it doesn't seem worth busting my hump over - I might look them up on eBay at some point if I get curious.

Exactly the same thing at my end - even if I wanted to continue buying it, I can't find the bloody thing anymore. But I was wavering anyway. Probably just go for the TPBs of Turf and KA2 ar some point down the line.

Excellent idea for a thread. There are too many twats to choose from, but I'll settle for:

Front - Sarah Palin
Middle -Jeremy Clarkson
Rear - Chris Moyles

I enjoyed it as much as Savage, and wouldn't object to another series either.

Slightly odd that they're not tying in more interviews with the floppies. I'm not a massive Shaky fan, but it would have made sense to collect a few of his strips this month, surely?

Thank god they didn't

Gotta come down on the other side of the Maus-indifference fence here. Thought it was a monumental, emotionally shattering story. Read both volumes in a couple of days many years ago and it has stayed with me ever since.

Apocalypse Now.

Me too! Never managed to watch it all the way through - a boring and meandering mess of a film.

NOOO! It's one of the finest war films ever made! Up there with The Thin Red Line and Downfall. But then one man's onions is another's broccoli I suppose

[The Nightmare Before Christmas]

Films - The Nightmare Before Christmas and Chinatown - fall asleep everytime, without fail. They both have a very strange soporific effect on me. Blood Simple used to do the same, but I made it through in the end. It's not even that I dislike any of the above - I'm generally a fan of Tim Burton/stop-motion animation, Jack Nicholson/Polanski/noir and The Coen Brothers. Strange. Like white noise ot something, they just knock me out.

Films I've walked out of the cinema or switched off at home - Transformers (walked out when Bumblebee 'urinated' all over John Turturro), Charlie and the Chocolate factory (just to contradict what I said above), Once (utter garbage), Into the Wild (can't relate to this portrayal of rich american kid burning money then setting off in to the wilderness only to die stupidly on a bus) and Resident Evil: Apocalypse (turned it off after 20 minutes - just terrible).

Books - The Two Towers & American Gods.

TV - yep, Heroes.

Loving the teddy bat guy Markchilly, and am now following your blog. More eerie anthropmorphic portraits please!