Maybe you have to be a New Yorker to appreciate this but
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SpecialAgentScully — 20 years ago(September 25, 2005 02:01 PM)
Ya, the subway looks pretty filthy there. Is that how it actually is? How can it be so dirty, when other cities manage to have much cleaner ones? London, Paris, Toronto, Washington D.C., etc., etc., etc. all have cleaner subways how??
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SpecialAgentScully — 20 years ago(September 30, 2005 03:55 PM)
Okay, but what does crime have to do with removing dirt from the subway system?!? I'm not talking about graffiti, I'm just talking about dirt, dust, garbage, and debris blown about by the wind down there. The subway system could set aside a portion of its profits to hire some people to sweep out the stations. I think part of the problem is allowing passengers to eat/drink on the platforms and in the cars (carriages). NYC allows that, correct? That's how much of the garbage gets there. This is not allowed on the Washington, D.C. 'Metro' system and that's why it's much cleaner.
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mochaduck — 20 years ago(October 30, 2005 04:17 PM)
You're allowed to eat/drink on the Montreal and Toronto subways, but they're still pretty darned clean. Maybe we're just more prone to using garbage cans and recycling bins instead of littering than New York
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SpecialAgentScully — 20 years ago(November 20, 2005 02:08 PM)
Do Montreal and Toronto have garbage cans in their subway stations? Just curious. I think New York took theirs out because people could plant bombs in them. Washington took their garbage cans out of the stations after 9-11, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars putting bomb-proof garbage cans in there. Maybe NYC doesn't have the $$$ for that, but then they should forbid eating & drinking.
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Rocketer — 19 years ago(December 29, 2006 07:43 AM)
Remember that this movie was released 20 years ago. The NYC subways in the 70s and 80s were pretty gruesome. In the Rudy Giuliani era the subways (and a lot of other institutions) improved greatly. Under his successor Bloomberg the trend has continued. The graffiti is only a fraction of what it used to be.
They're still crowded as hell, and on a steamy day in August, almost as hot (on some lines, at least).
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richard6 — 12 years ago(September 03, 2013 03:42 PM)
The New York subway scene at the end of this fine film was an original well scripted, well-acted and great cinematographic ending. It is one of the most climatically romantic scenes I have seen in a film. It contained emotion and sensitivity mixed with comedy. This finale scene completed tremendously what could have easily been the standard teary cheerless ending. I adore the scene every time I watch this film.
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amyflower — 19 years ago(December 31, 2006 05:28 AM)
Ok, I'm confused, I just watched this again after many, many years (off the finally-released (and very average quality) DVD) and was certain that in the subway scene Linda K plaintively wailed out "Crocodile!!!". Why? Because they edited the film in the office next to where I used to work (Victoria Street, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia) back in the mid-'80s and I recall hearing that wail over and over and over and over and over and over again through the not-thick-enough walls.
So, has the film been tampered with for DVD, or is my ageing brain going faulty? Or did they just torture us with a scene that didn't even make the final cut???
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luvtrav — 19 years ago(February 22, 2007 11:05 PM)
I'm going to add another question in here.
Yes, I love the ending of this movie as well. I just watched it today after a long time of not seeing it. I realized the guy in the subway at the end (beard, red bandanna, not the construction worker) looks very familiar. His voice is making me nuts, I know I have seen him in other stuff before. And while it seems to me that he is a crucial part of this movie, I don't see him in the credits here on imdb.
Can anyone tell me who this guy is and what other movies he is in???
I'm surprised it was written by a fellow Australian, to be honest O_O