I am Spartacus!
Kobayashi Maru (spoilers)
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I am Spartacus!
I love that shirt, even though it did spoil me on a few of items I didn't know about. 
I can't identify "The villagers sacrifice a policeman," though.
The twist in The Village, though. I figured that one out from the damn trailer.
The twist in The Village, though. I figured that one out from the damn trailer.
I figured out the Keyser Soze thing pretty much right away. At the end, I was like, "Where's the big shocking twist everyone talks about?"
The Wicker Man. The original one, at least. Never saw the re-make.
^ Same thing in the remake.
God, yes. So bloody boring.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
God, yes. So bloody boring.
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^ It's from...
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The Crying Game. The woman the protagonist was trying to woo turns out to be a shemale.
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I'm glad. It just wouldn't be Star Trek: Enterprise without the ol' NX-01 Enterprise.
That is, until the NX-01-A comes along.
I'm glad. It just wouldn't be Star Trek: Enterprise without the ol' NX-01 Enterprise.
What, you think they started that tradition for Kirk?
No, that would be the remake of "Devil in the Dark" where the horta refuses to eat Vlasic:
"No Dill I"
Yeah, me too. Except, while you probably saw it back in the day, I saw it for the first time pretty recently, so I constantly wonder whether the only reason I was so sure the whole time was that I had read it on the 'net and then forgot about it, but my subconscious tipped me off, or if all the constant remarks of "Kevin Spacey is teh kewlest in that movie" just made my mind zero in on him. Who knows. Either way, it kinda damaged my opinion of Bryan Singer (who I wasn't crazy about anyway), because it's kinda hard to like a movie built around its twist ending when you've seen it coming the whole time.
Oh yes, and to all the hard-working jokesters here, I'd like to apologize for making a serious comment in this thread.
Actually, I was a bit underwhelmed by the final twist in The Usual Suspects. Partly because the first review of the film I heard on NPR had the reviewer call Keyser Soze "the Devil." So, I was expecting a supernatural twist, when the reviewer in reality didn't mean it literally.
I still love the film, but when you go in expecting the supernatural, and all you get is a mindfuck, well that's bound to be slightly unfulfilling.
I still love the film, but when you go in expecting the supernatural, and all you get is a mindfuck, well that's bound to be slightly unfulfilling.
Actually I saw it on TV only a year or two ago, and I'm pretty sure I was never spoiled on it because I'd never paid much attention to the movie before then.
And I don't quite get what the big deal is about Kevin Spacey either.
On that we have full agreement. And might I add that I thought his Lex Luthor was a total joke.
The whole movie falls apart because of it. The Usual Suspects was entertaining when I first saw it as a teenager, but the logic of the movie just disintegrates because of the so-called twist. The middle is just muddled and not well put together, which is actually the problem with a lot of Singer's movies. The middle always seems to drag longer than it should and the beginning seems rushed with the ending either coming too fast or coming too slow. That's my major beef with Singer is that he doesn't seem to have a good sense of pacing. From his X-Men movies to Superman Returns, Singer's films seem a bit lopsided in terms of story distribution.
This is no time to be serious, man!Oh yes, and to all the hard-working jokesters here, I'd like to apologize for making a serious comment in this thread.
Yeah, he was just playing a darker version of Gene Hackman's Lex. It just didn't convey the threat that Luthor can be. Then again, the movies always miss the boat on Luthor's character. I like my Lex to be the smartest man on Earth, a brilliant scientist whose used his inventions to become the richest man in Metropolis who is jealous of Superman because of his huge ego. Someone that can woo you then stab you in the back.
James Marsters' Luthor from the Superman Doomsday DVD is how Luthor should be portrayed. That animated movie got Luthor right. Not only that, but the movie did better with the whole "World Without Superman" that Singer said he was going for in Returns; however, he really didn't give a lot of screen time to that premise.
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