The Usual Suspects
Five villains in New York are rounded up by police in an unconventional manner that worries them. After release, they get together for a spot of revenge, but someone else is controling events.
Now I was shocked to find, some of you youngsters have not watched this film…not heard of it! To me that’s a travesty…your great films of the 90′s were Titanic and The Beach, I mean it’s not even *THAT* old, it’s from 1995.
It’s ranked as number 19 of the top 250 films. If you haven’t seen at least half of these movies, you are missing out..
I personally love this movie and have seen it many many times, you get absorbed by it each time, drawn in and rung out.
Kevin Spacey is a great actor, and this is his best performance ever (his first Oscar), Stephen Baldwin quite possible put in his best performance too, Gabriel Byrne was smouldering and Benicio Del Toro was in this before he was even anyone at all.
It’s one of the most original stories you’ll see as it’s so unique no one could mimic it and get away it without people labelling it a knock-off of =http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814The Usual Suspects[/url].
It’s suitably dark and engaging, intruiging and plays on myths, I still remember the first time I watched it and it rendered me speechless. It’s almost flawlessy scripted, and if you watch it over and over you will still get caught up.
I just wanted to bring this movie up, and say if you haven’t see it, WATCH IT NOW.
It’s actually one of the original DVD’s I have, the 2-disc special edition.
It’s one of the few movies I’d give a 9/10 (nothing is perfect).
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Anything with Kevin Spacey in it is good shit, maybe not “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, but still, Kevin Spacey rocks!
But I have to admit they did a pretty good parody of Usual Suspect in “Scary Movie” haha, got to love that song “Too cool for school”
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Yup, it’s frikkin’ brilliant. Keyser Soze rules!!
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Yeah he is, I love American Beauty too, one of my favourites.
He’s pretty versatile, he’s played a whole range of chars.
Yeah the first Scary Movie was decent, but preferred the original set of spoofs with Naked Gun and Hot Shots
in 1995 i was only 11 ok? so i cant really be blamed for loving ‘my heart will go on’. usual suspects’s still on a decade later though
I rate Usual Suspects in the top 10 for the 90′s, together with Pulp Fiction and Shawshank.
Trainspotting and Goodfellas should be in the top 20; whilst Jackie Brown and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert ought to be in the top 100.
But that’s only what I reckon
How about Memento? That was an instant classic.
I agree, apart from Jackie Brown, it was eagerly anticipated, by me anyway, I watched at the cinema on the day of release…and well it didn’t cut it for me. I don’t rate it.
If we take 90′s though, 98/99 were the killer years for me with break through movies..
Fight Club
Matrix
American Beauty
Saving Private Ryan
American History X
Sixth Sense
Green Mile
Magnolia
Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
Some of the best movies ever made IMHO.
Instant classic for those that understood it, I found a lot of people didn’t ‘get’ it. Was a bit dark and twisted.
I know a couple of people who tried to watch it 2-3 times and just couldn’t follow it LOL
Some films age gracefully, generally those good movies not based on pop culture.
When I watch some movies and realise they are 20 years old, I’m like OMG….(Back to the Future?)
i love this movie. one of the best, i agree. really cool. to those who have not seen it, well, you’re missing out, so go watch it….
I watched this years ago, have very vague memories of it, but i do remember that it’s a lot better than some of the shite they call movies today.
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Christ, i thought i’d accidentally downloaded some kind of spyware or some thing and was getting bollocked for it :\
Hhahahaha, yeah movies today are crap.
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If Memento was dark and twisted, Mullholland Drive must have been downright mutated.
I liked Jackie Brown because of its soundtrack, and I actually found Samuel L. Jackson’s character to be charming in a unique way.
Green Mile was one of the better adaptations of Stephen King, altho The Stand is still my fave King adaptation of all time.
Fight Club was good in the closing 15 minutes or so, but it was worth keeping one’s patience for that one. Private Ryan was brilliant with its opening scenes of the D-Day landing, but towards the end I got extremely annoyed with the interpreter who was more than a shade of yellow
The most memorable movie scene in my mind is still “the worst toilet in Scotland” from Trainspotting.*heheh*
Ah ok, i see. Ta very much.
TITANIC SUCKED BIG TIME.
Usual suspect’s damn the nice. Thanks for reminding. I’ll go watch it again this weekend…. IF i can find the damned CD…
I like em dark, Mullholand drive, Donnie Darko, Pi, Clockwork Orange, Requiem for a Dream etc..
Hands down, it has the best twist ever. I missed the feeling of watching it for the first time.
Mulholland Drive, however was downright Lynch-ified. If it were not for Naomi Watt’s tits, I would not watch it again and again; and still don’t get it.
Good movie…i had seen it a long time ago..A1 movie..highly recommended!
You must be the only other Clockwork Orange Fan I’ve met.
The book was fantastic too (it has the missing chapter that the movie didn’t have at the end … mainly as Kubrik had read the US version of the book which didn’t have that Chapter ).
Burgess is a fine writer. Have you read any of his work?
Bro, maybe if you weren’t distracted it might be possible to figure out the movie, huh?
*mwahahahahaha*
just kidding
I’ve watched it. Bought the DVD to watch it along with Lock Stock, Trainspotting, Snatch and I forgot what else but I love all of them. Heehee. And I’m young so who said youngsters have not heard of it =P
how can movie buffs NOT LIKE Clockwork Orange? geeeeeee..Malcolm McDowell was the bomb.
If you can’t understand MEMENTO, you don’t deserve to watch good movies, or go to the cinema.
my fav movie list?….hmm
memento, pulp fiction, clockwork, oh and Se7en, freaking good stuff. I would put in Lord of The Flies too but i watched it when i was young and kinda had a bad experience w it, appreciate it more when I watched it the second times..
I tend to write about good movie in my blog whenever i can haha.
i rate it definitely in the top 10!! a good one no doubt!!
You know what, you are right.
Now I need to watch it with extra papers on my hand, you know to cover up the boobs. LOL