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Yes, good point. The filmmakers are guilty of cheating there, and even the twist is… troublesome. Good twists improve what went before, this one trashes it. ‘That thriller with great characters that you just enjoyed? Yeah, didn’t happen, all made up.’
Somehow though, the film remains really entertaining and rewatchable.
The boxes and ropes are not an example of a MacGuffin, even by your own definition.
Very wrong and dumb opinion. Steven Baldwin was perfectly cast in this and delivered a pitch-perfect performance.
The whole cast is excellent and the Suspects complement each other brilliantly.
<blockquote>The script betrays Byrne a bit,making Keaton too much of an enigma,confessing to murder wth a smirk,then unable to put down Berg.</blockquote>
Very good observation, although these inconsistencies could be deliberate, especially since these events all occur in Verbal’s BS story.
Verbal is Soze but the filmmakers weren’t careful enough and made him too young to plausibly be a terrifying legend who slayed his own family long ago, just as they slipped up when they had Verbal tell law enforcement that he recently shot a defenceless man in the head at point blank range… with no reaction from the officer(s) and no consequences for Verbal.
It’s a great film but it’s not perfect.
It’s hard to pin down when it ‘started’ which is why I said ‘6 years or so’.
It feels like roughly 6 years ago I noticed there was a real problem and stopped impulsively going to the cinema without first checking that I was paying to see an actual movie and not some creepy Leftist propaganda.
Well, Belle is French so she would likely be retooled as an Arab.
This big burka shuffles into the castle and the Beast is like ‘..the fuck?’
Utter bullshit. Hollywood has gone insanely woke in the last 6 years or so and everyone knows it, including you. By denying this obvious fact you’re part of the problem, and you can expect more people to call out your cult.
Take your own advice.
The etymological links between ‘Verbal’ and ‘Soze’ are deliberate clues by the filmmakers to link the characters, a subtle hint as to the fact that they are the same person - which they clearly are because the film makes it clear.
Soze’s cigarette holding isn’t Hungarian, I got that wrong, it’s Turkish. From IMDB:
<blockquote>Verbal says "He's supposed to be Turkish" about Keyser Soze. In the final scene of the film, as he is picked up by Kobayashi, he doesn't hold his cigarette between his index finger and middle finger, like most smokers do. Instead, he holds it between his index finger and thumb. This is very common in the middle and eastern regions of Turkey. </blockquote>
We do ‘know what’s fact or fiction’. The information in Verbal’s story which is corroborated by people other than him are facts within the film, as is any event that occurs before and after he is narrating, including the first scene, as are scenes outside of his narration like the whole Agent Baer subplot.
Soze wouldn't strike terror into people like the burn victim, and raise the eyebrows of the FBI if he was some completely fabricated boogieman. He’s real, and he is Verbal’s true identity.
You‘ve clearly invested years in denying this truth on IMDB and now here so I don’t expect you to publicly change your mind. You’re either trolling, or the devil really did convince you that he doesn’t exist.
Utter bullshit. Hollywood has gone insanely woke in the last 6 years or so and everyone knows it, including you. By denying this obvious fact you’re part of the problem, and you can expect more people to call out your cult.
Totally agree. I love the film but these guys had a cool idea for their sophomore effort, as you say, and didn’t think every aspect of it through.
The problem is you get autists on here trying to square the circle caused by these filmmaking errors. Like the guy trying to tell me that Verbal confessing to shooting a man at point blank range in the head to a bunch of cops would have zero legal consequences.
Or those desperate to prove that Verbal isn’t Soze after all… despite the movie shoving countless indicators that he is, running just shy of giving him a fucking name tag.
Yep, Maher is making slow but steady progress in that department. He still hasn’t realised that voting Dem will increase Woke and that Trump is the best antidote. Hopefully he’ll get there before he croaks.
Looping a load of audio into an incomprehensible montage which ends in a staged argument is not ‘THEIR REAL ANSWER’, it’s a troll - it’s a confected performance that they know will piss off the audeince who want to hear their real answers.
Yep, he kills them with his asshole.
I think the ending they went with was better - more serious and sombre in line with the character‘s tragic journey and tone of the film.
The good news? Denzel will be reuniting with Dakota Fanning in The Equalizer 3!
No. Fuck the Woke agenda. When Hollywood stops the Woke propaganda audiences will stop calling it out, and then you won’t have to read about it any more.
Yep, seems that way.
There’s that, and also there was no need for Creasy to give himself up. Just tell The Voice ‘Drop Pita off at this address by this time or I dismember your family’.
Yeah that’s trolling because the audience want to hear their opinions, they know that and they choose to fuck with them instead.
Yeah but then you get De Niro’s stomping scene in The Irishman 🤦🏻♂️
Denzel was already creaking in Eq2, it wasn’t too noticeable because Geriaction has become an acceptable genre ever since Old Man Neeson needed to punish some Arabs. I think Denzel can get away with one more Equalizer, but I don’t want to see some de-aged old coot thumping Mexicans.