41.   Its early scenes beautifully capture a childhood intuition of a world where bogeymen lurk and angels hover.

42.   Its early scenes of animal slaughter could frighten young children.

43.   Ms. Roth, as the spurned maiden who disguises herself as a boy to pursue Proteus, overdoes the love-stricken posturing of the early scenes.

44.   Paradis possesses the correct hopeful contrast and, once Gabor transforms Adele into his assistant, she gains an ethereal quality missing in early scenes.

45.   Shakur says in one early scene.

46.   Similarly, Luker, who is in exquisite voice, could use a shade more sex appeal in her early scenes.

47.   Such changes include an early scene of a shuttle landing at Starfleet headquarters in San Francisco, whose Golden Gate Bridge gets a whole new look.

48.   Take that early scene between the psychiatrist and Cole, when he has Cole move forward if he says something right, and step back if he was wrong.

49.   That big bike tire from the early scenes turns out to be a gateway into another world.

50.   The breaking point came when the foursome was mapping out the shots for an early scene in which Neeson and Richardson are forced to give Foster an injection.