How long did it take you to figure out Kevin Spacey was Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects?

[taterguy]

Poll question: How long did it take you to figure out Kevin Spacey was Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects?

[Duer 157099]

1. Other. I had to watch it a 2nd time

LOL. I've since seen it at least a half dozen times and love it each time.

[nolabear]

2. SPOILER, Man!

I mean, I've seen it a bunch of times but that's one of the great pleasures of the movie. Rosebud was the sled, by the way, and Soylent Green is people.

[taterguy]

4. Sorry

[petronius]

3. Oh, wow, now I get it! It did seem kind of strange that Kobayashi would give

Verbal a ride like that at the end - it totally makes sense now! :)

[taterguy]

5. You're welcome

[petronius]

6. Something else the bugs me: Luke and Leia, are they related in some way?

:shrug:

[taterguy]

7. Luke and Leia who?

[Xipe Totec]

8. The Star waifs nt

[InvisibleTouch]

9. Okay, I did read it on DU months before I ever saw the movie...

...but I'm not really upset about it. Still a great film!

[jobycom]

10. I suspected pretty quickly.

They tip it off at the very beginning that it's someone Gabriel Brynes knows. Then in the lineup when Verbal repeats the "Give me the keys, you cock sucker," it seemed pretty obvious. I guess I wasn't sure until the end, but I was watching for it, and there seemed like a lot of clues.

Then there was "The Sixth Sense." About a third of the way into the movie I asked my wife "Why do I get the feeling he didn't survive that shooting?"

Never saw Fight Club coming, though. Or "No Way Out."

[Biker13]

12. "No Way Out"...

and "Usual Suspects" are two movies you can only enjoy fully if you don't know the ending! I had never seen "Usual Suspects" until Biker13 turned me on to it, and I was floored! I did the same to him with "No Way Out".I LOVE movies like this!

Biker13's Old Lady

[jobycom]

14. yeah, I love those types, too, when they completely fool me.

Problem with me is that I don't see a lot of movies first run, so I hear people saying "The ending will blow you away," so I look for signs of the twist ending. You can usually figure them out of you know to expect something like that. I remember when "Shattered" came out, with Tom Berenger. So much was made of the "surprise ending" that it was hard to miss what was coming. If you don't know there is going to be a surprise, it's harder to spot it.

Then again, I look for surprise endings in movies without them. I keep expecting the wife or husband or best friend to be the bad guy in just about everything I watch. I've been made cynical by Hollywood. :)

[Kat45]

16. Yes! "No Way Out" blew me away, times two! (SPOILER)

The fact that he was Yuri was quite a shock. But for me, the fact that there WAS a Yuri was also a shock. (I don't know, but I assume that a number of people might think there was a Yuri, but have been surprised that it was him. I thought that the idea of a Yuri was bullshit, and I was just as shocked that there was one.)

The Usual Suspects--absolutely! One of my all time favorite films! I saw it the day it came out, then several times thereafter. And of course I have the DVD.

I love those kinds of movies too, and I usually end up feeling stupid because I don't figure it out. I have a friend who is really good at figuring these movies out: he did it for both the Sixth Sense and Shutter Island.

[Iggo]

11. I was that movie's target audience.

I bought it hook, line, and sinker all the way to the end of the movie when I was all like "Wha...? What the...? OooOOOOoooh!"

(I was totally fooled by the one where the kid sees dead people, too.)

[joeybee12]

13. I picked 1/3 in...but I knew earlier, or it seemed to me that's where it

was heading.

[Rob H.]

15. Was pretty sure when Verbal started smoking in Kujan's office

We lived in Iran briefly when I was a kid, and I've only ever seen Middle Eastern men hold a cigarette that way.

[Kat45]

17. That movie alone brought me back to the theaters.

I hadn't gone to the movies in a long time, but when I saw that one, it reminded me of just how good a movie can be. I started paying attention to movies again (not that very many films are that good). I went to see it the first day it came out. When I was on vacation in Montreal, I saw a show on the TV in our motel room that was about that movie, I think the making of the movie or something. From watching that show, I was fascinated by the movie and I just HAD to see it. It came out about a week later, and I went the first day. I loved it so much that I couldn't stop raving about it and I was personally responsible for a number of people seeing it. Out of all those people, only one had figured out the identity of Keyser Soze. Everyone loved it, except one person who couldn't get past the language in it and refused to continue watching. (We had a big fight over it.)

[ncrainbowgrrl]

18. Got it almost immediately.

Said it in a whisper to my mom- who was sitting next to me. She whispered back "no way." So, I said it to my dad, again, sotto voce. He gave me a :wtf: look.

Guess who was right? :D

[siligut]

19. Felt sorry for his pitiful character all the way through.

Kevin Spacey's portrayal of the gimp was so convincing and pitiful.

[LynneSin]

20. I love "Usual Suspects" because I didn't figure it out until the end.

Compared to "The Six Sense" which I figured out about halfway thru the movie.

[applegrove]

21. I usually figure out the movie early however in Soze's case I didn't have a clue

until the end of the film.

[slay]

22. How long did it take you to spoil the movie in an unavoidable topic line?

bummer.. guess i don't need to bother watching it now.. thnx a lot.. :(

[WinkyDink]

23. WTH????? I have yet to SEE this movie!! WORST. OP. EVER.

I have been waiting for a time when it's on TV and I have nothing else going on.
But you have now RUINED THE MOVIE.

[taterguy]

25. The alert button is your friend

[WinkyDink]

26. Horse, barn, door.

[taterguy]

28. My mistake. Kevin Bacon portrays Keyser Soze in the Usual Suspects

I always get those two confused.

Sorry about that.

:shrug:

[WinkyDink]

24. In the same spirit: The policeman isn't ("Mousetrap"); Leonard Vole did it ("Witness for the

Prosecution").
Well, never mind; it's inside the post now.

[travelingtypist]

27. Not till the end on Usual Suspects.

I was also completely shocked by the reveal in The Crying Game.

[KT2000]

29. Why? Why?

I just played that for a friend who had not seen it yet.
There are still people who haven't seen the movie yet. We should not spoil the surprise.