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The Usual Suspects (1995)
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"I remember "watching" this movie with my husband back when we first started dating, which means we weren't really watching the movie, because no one really watches the movie when they first start dating:) So, two nights ago he said "why don't we actually watch this." Sure, why not, everyone seems to love it and recommend it like crazy. I think it's at the top of most movie buff's "gotta see it" lists. And I can kind of see why. The characters are great (I pretty much laughed out loud every time Del Toro opened his mouth). The shots are creative and interesting, the dialogue is quick and smart, and the narration is very well designed. I love that we are made to second guess the characters constantly. You think you know who to trust, but the whole time you have this nagging suspicion that things are different than they seem. It's good storytelling really. Anyway, I really enjoyed the film, it was a good experience. But I have to say, i am not sure what the big deal is. It seems like ... "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Mystery
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"The mystery list is another one that seems poorly conceived. Unlike animation, “mystery” may be a genre, but the way it is defined and applied in the AFI list leads to a muddled selection of films.The AFI defines mystery as “a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime”. I'm not convinced that that adequately describes the films on the list, or, even if it does, it is absurdly reductive. Most ironically, the definition seems least appropriate when applied to the list's top selection, Vertigo (1958), which does not actually revolve around the solution of a crime at all, but a domestic mystery, and is really about Scottie's (Jimmy Stewart) inner-demons and obsessions in any event. Similar questions can be raised about other movies on this Top 10. For example, the second film on the list, Chinatown (1974), certainly starts with a mysterious murder, but part of the point of the film is that some “crimes” aren't illegal at all, and may even be facilitated by laws. The plot of T ... "
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The Best Suspense Film of All Time
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"Don't look at those tricky little mavens and say "hey they liked it." You need to look at 1995's academy awrad winning, best picture nomination-earning crime action drama with a different view. View it as the greatest suspense story ever told. The film follows five mob convicts who conveniently end up in a police line up together and the cop who tries to crack the mystery of how they are allc connected. They eventually become entangled in a mass hysteria of drug heists and assasination plots, all while living in fear of a notorious boss. Again don't be fooled by the somewhat familiar synospis either. This movie is beyond any crime film ever created. It's every positive cliche in the movie business: it pushes all the right buttons, it goes there, it's a marvel, it's two thumbs way up. "Suspects" is brilliantly clever. It's funny, well-written and twists you and turns you into an arrray of shock and disbelief. It'll trick you not once, not twice but multiple times and leave your jaw ... "
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An Unusually Good Film
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"I'm usually very wary of films with a "mind-bending twist" at the end of the film, as they tend to be manipulative and misleading throughout, only to be told at the end that what you saw wasn't REALLY what you saw. Another close instance of "bad" filmmaking is when a character wakes up to find out that everything we've just witnessed was a dream. You feel cheated, and it's become a tired cliche when a suitable ending can't be found. Fortunately, this was not the case with The Usual Suspects, and even in subsequent views, the film holds up under close scrutiny and doesn't lose any of its verve. Worthy of all the accolades heaped upon it, DEFINITELY watch this film sometime in your life, preferably before someone ruins it for you. "
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Humiliating Movie Deaths
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"The power of film. You recognize it when you see it. Or feel it. Quotes that stick with you, or a glistening tear rolling down a beautiful cheek. A soaring score that tugs at your heart strings, or a heroic death, a sacrifice that was made for the good of all humankind. Eh. What of the overlooked? The filler parts of the film, meant to amuse, move the story’s plot or suspense along, or to act as comic relief? For every poignant film death forever memorialized on the big screen, an extra, a bad guy or some other lesser character has to take one for the team. The yang to the hero’s yin. The black to the white of your starlet’s blank, emotionless eye. Let us look at some of the unfortunate sacrifices that have been made for the good of the plot, and share a moment of silence for these unfortunates. Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Egyptian guy with the sword.
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Trusting Twists (spoiler warning)
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"Ok, so I just finished watching Swimming Pool which, like other films before it has a twist ending in which you realize that the past 100+ minutes might have been false. I did not enjoy this twist, while with the Usual Suspects (a film which I do still have issues with), you always feel like you are being manipulated, I felt that Swimming Pool doesn't accomplish the same feeling. For those not in the know and don't care about spoilers, Swimming Pool is the tale of an author who can't concentrate on writing, who decides to take a vacation in France, which is interrupted by the sex-loving daughter of her publisher. When the daughter kills a man who won't have sex with her, the story turns into a very similar looking murder mystery than that of the authors books. Unfortunately you realize that the character of the daughter is fake and that for the past hour and a half we have been watching the author write her book. The final twist is what I don't like about this ... "
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Humiliating Movie Deaths
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"The power of film. You recognize it when you see it. Or feel it. Quotes that stick with you, or a glistening tear rolling down a beautiful cheek. A soaring score that tugs at your heart strings, or a heroic death, a sacrifice that was made for the good of all humankind. Eh. What of the overlooked? The filler parts of the film, meant to amuse, move the story’s plot or suspense along, or to act as comic relief? For every poignant film death forever memorialized on the big screen, an extra, a bad guy or some other lesser character has to take one for the team. The yang to the hero’s yin. The black to the white of your starlet’s blank, emotionless eye. Let us look at some of the unfortunate sacrifices that have been made for the good of the plot, and share a moment of silence for these unfortunates. Raiders of the Lost Ark - The Egyptian guy with the sword.
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Usual Suspects
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"The Usual Suspects was on my list of favourite movies of all-time, so I rewatched it. Although it is well-crafted, I thought much less of it the second time around. I—and many others—thought the movie was so clever when it came out, but its essence is disappointingly simple: The entire story is a fiction created by “Verbal” Kint in a policeman’s office. So what do we know “actually” happened. Five guys were in a line up in New York, they went to California, they attacked and burned a vessel in the harbour and only Verbal survived. Everything else was a masterful screen for the fact that Verbal was, far from being a petty con artist, a master criminal who wanted to get at a guy on the boat who was going to testify against him. The problem, I think, is where the cleverness lies. Because one of the cops recognizes a minute too late that Verbal has pulled the names of this characters off the messy bulletin board in the office, we are amazed and ... "
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Usual Suspects Anything but Usual
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"This has to be one of my all time favorite movies. When it first came out I had a job as a projectionist and have seen the film at least 25 times. There is so much depth to the acting, the filming and the entire cinematical piece that it's become a classic to me. My only complaint is that we haven't seen a sequel. "
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