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Why have all these blatant clues pointing to an epic twist in which Verbal is Soze after all, even sealing it with the idea that ‘the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist’… only for that to be bullshit?
What’s the movie saying? ‘Ha-ha, made you suspend disbelief, dummy!’ Fiction is pointless bullshit. Made you waste two hours 🤣’?
Verbal is Soze unless I hear a <i>very</i> compelling reason otherwise.
Those are semi-famous crime bosses, but are they ‘legends’? Seems like a stretch.
Also, a Hungarian dude attempting an American accent ain’t gonna sound like Kevin Spacey 🤣
I really like the film but at the same time it’s quite frustrating.
A good twist should improve what went before, but the Usual Suspects twist trashes what came before. ‘You know that really cool crime thriller you just watched? It was 90% bullshit. Fooled ya!’
I can’t work out if the filmmakers are making an interesting point about the power of storytelling, or if they just didn’t know how to end their screenplay and decided on a variation of ‘it was all a dream’.
And yeah, it seems very implausible that you can confess to cold blooded murder to a cop and there be zero consequences, ‘immunity’ or not.
So you can confess to an agent that you murdered someone in cold blood and nothing happens because you have ‘total immunity’?
At the very least you’d think the agent would react to that information.
Thanks.
‘The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist’
Looks like some people are still convinced.
Well the burn victim describes ‘Keyser Soze’ to the artist who draws Verbal, and then we see that Verbal transforms into the limp-less, gold cigarette-lighter using smoothie (who holds his cigarette in the Hungarian style with his thumb and forefinger) that the movie is telling us is Keyser Soze.
If that’s true then why was the burn victim petrified to death of ‘Keyser Soze!’ Even the Fed is startled to hear that this man claims to have seen Keyser Soze in the flesh and immediately goes about trying to identify him, so clearly he is some kind of legendary criminal boogie-man outside of Verbal’s story.
Yes, and Verbal Kint is American and 35ish, hence my post.
I wanted to pay to see WIAW but apparently you have to subscribe to The Daily Wire - is that actually true? It’s not legit available anywhere without paying a monthly subscription? If so, how was the film so successful?
In the end I was forced to torrent it. Shame.
Since I’ve learned that there was an earlier scene where Chigurh checked his boot to make sure Carson Wells’ blood didn’t spread onto it, I’m now even more confident that he kills her.
If I remember correctly then anyone who encounters Chigurh ends up dead, unless they call the coin toss right. Carla refuses to call, so she’s a goner.
Even the iMac he uses in the ‘internet cafe’ at the end rubs my nostalgia gland.
Good advice.
If you see a tat, wear a sack.
Agreed. Fake boobs are a turn-off.
Natural tits come in all shapes and sizes and should be embraced. If a woman has been severely short-changed and is literally flat-chested then fine, get some tits. Same goes for a woman with deformed or damaged waps.
But most boob jobs are unnecessary, unattractive once you’ve got to actually see and interact with them, and point to a vain and shallow personality.
There is <i>no</i> substitute for big naturals.
How long? 7 years as it turned out. BUMPED.
It sounds like this Rob Gonsalves character loves porn and is eager to label art that strafes near the porn world but doesn’t actively celebrate it as ‘conservative’. Fact is 8MM has a story to tell about the search for a dead girl killed in a snuff film, it’s not going to waste time glamourising porn, it’s going straight for the dark and dirty end of that universe.
His complaints about the villains are also misguided. We learn that Mr Christian commissioned the snuff film ‘because he could’ - he was extremely wealthy and powerful and wanted to flex his power levels. He can click his fingers and someone dies. The fact that he wanted this in the form of a snuff film suggests he was also deeply perverse and completely lacking in morals, perhaps corrupted by power itself (like Epstein and the visitors to his island). This is an Andrew Kevin Walker script and, as with Seven, the big bad is ‘Christian’, so there’s a little dig at corrupted organised religion in there too.
Eddie found an unsuspecting girl from his ‘talent agency’ to be snuffed ‘for the money’, so his motivation is greed. Interestingly he says the murder ‘made him sick’ but he was curious to see someone ‘get done’.
Machine practically spells it out - ‘There's no mystery. Things I do, I do them <b>because I like them! Because I want to!</b>’
Dino Velvet is a passionate filmmaker in the hardcore fetish arena and, like Eddie, took this job for the money.
Finally there’s Mr Longdale the attorney, who pocketed most of the million dollar ‘budget’ of the film for himself. Again, motivated by pure greed and a gaping absence of morals.
Keep wailing, wokist 🤣
Good. If you’re not making wokies wail then you’re doing something wrong.
Unlike the Oscars, sounds like the BAFTAs still has some credibility after all…
She’s ‘professionally Asian’ and not a lot else. To be fair she was hilarious in Payback.
The Shout Factory blu ray release a few years ago is… good enough. It’s great to finally have it in HD although the picture quality is pretty ropey. This is a lavishly shot Schumacher film and deserves much better (hopefully a 4K release??) but here it is, and the extras are pretty good, with some new interviews with Schumacher shortly before his death.
It didn’t have much to say about regular porn, its focus was on depraved fetish stuff and the ultimate - snuff.
If anything it taunted the prudes at the MPAA who insisted on some cuts for an R rating, and it seemed to stir up controversy in America at the time. I think Joel Schumacher enjoyed shoving porn in the face of mainstream American culture, as his similar-looking contemporary Paul Verhoeven had been doing for years.