And now I’ll return to my Sergio Leone film festival. I’m finishing Once Upon A Time in America- the four hour version - right now. Oh what a director! #hatm

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Title Card

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Final Thoughts: The Usual Suspects could be a modern classic or a giant fraud - it depends on who you ask. Five criminals are set up, four are killed. The survivor, brilliantly played by Kevin Spacey, tells the cops quite the tale. Is it the truth? Hard to say, choose for yourself. #hatm

Scary Movie ripped off this ending so well. #hatm

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And here's where Singer and McQuarrie pull the rug out from underneath us - in a brilliantly written surprise twist ending that no one saw coming. #hatm

And that kids is why he won his first Oscar. He was totally convincing. #hatm

Now this movie really gets going - the main characters are all gone except Verbal - and Spacey is giving the performance of his career convincing us of what's going on. #hatm

Is it Soze? All we see is a shadow! Very noir. #hatm

Why would anyone stack a full barrel like that? They're extremely heavy! #hatm

Snipers wear something over their heads to reduce their profile - which explains why this guy nearly spots Stephen Baldwin. #hatm

This film was nominated for two Academy Awards and won both: Supporting Actor for Kevin Spacey, and Original Screenplay. #hatm

Ill say this: this is an imaginatively shot and cut movie. But it always makes you wonder what is real and what isn't. Good moving making. #hatm

This, kids, is the power of the narrative. #hatm

This is what I imagine my school permanent file looks like. They knew everything. Everything. #hatm

Well that briefcase snap was unusually loud. #hatm

Pete Postlewaite - wonderful British character actor. We saw him in Jurassic Park. I remember him best as Sergeant Hakeswill from the Sharpe TV series. #hatm

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Only in the movies would one person shoot two people like that. #hatm

Flatiron Building, once the tallest building in the world and still one of the most iconic in NYC. West 23rd, 5th Ave, and Broadway. #hatm

I just can't look at images of the Twin Towers. 25 years later - next month - and it still brings back terrible memories for me. #hatm

I have been to that a exact spot at La Guardia. #hatm

True Story: a Hungarian soldier was captured by the Soviets in 1945. They imprisoned him for 55 years because they didn't understand a word he had said. He received a hero's welcome upon his repatriation to Hungary. #hatm

Giancarlo Esposito. Is there anything he hasn't been in? Same with Dan Hedaya. #hatm

I know that putting all 5 of the suspects into the same cell makes for a great acting opportunity, but it is a huge problem for the prosecution! Now they can concoct a story between them. #hatm

Wikipedia says that Al Pacino turned down the role that Chazz Palminteri took. He said it was one of his biggest regrets - he didn't want to play another cop after making Heat. #hatm

We previously saw Suzy Amis in Titanic. #hatm

Wow has Benicio Del Toro changed! He looks so different even from when he made Traffic just a few years after this. #hatm

"The Usual Suspects" is of course a line from Casablanca. #hatm should do that one someday.

Casablanca: Round Up The Usual Suspects

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John Ottman both edited and composed this movie, like he would for Singer when he made his Superman movie. #hatm

What a cast in this movie! Seriously, all experienced and dedicated actors and actresses. We've seen many before, like Dan Hedaya. #hatm

Okay: Kevin Spacey is reading the clues off the bulletin board in the police detective's office!!! :) #hatm

I had a Sergio Leone film festival this weekend: Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Duck you Sucker, and Once Upon a Time in America. #hatm

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