It was poised to strike and melt the polar ice caps, causing a global flood.Goldmember reminded Dr.Evil that he had the ultimate insurance policy - Austin Power""s father - who was then led to the sub""s brig by Mini-Me.Now, I want to tell you, madam, that with this insurance policy you are provided for your little ones and for your old age, which will be here in a couple of weeks now - if I""m any judge of horse flesh.Unbelievably, both films did not win any Oscar awards.The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)(with seven Oscars) andSayonara (1957)(with four Oscars) went away with many of the major awards.Out of step, out of place and desperately out of time...Suddenly a new West had emerged.Suddenly it was sundown for nine men.Suddenly their day was over.Suddenly, the sky was bathed in blood...Nine men who came too late and stayed too long...Born too late for their own imes.Uncommonly significant for ours.The much-imitated, influential film is book-ended by wo extraordinary sequences, both massacres.The gang of desperadoes are first assaulted in the film""s opening ambush following a failed bank robbery in a Texas border town, and then brutally destroyed in the film""s conclusion - as united comrades in a selfless, redemptive act - by a savage and vindictive Mexican warlord after a double-crossing arms deal.