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Bama Bird
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Okay, obvious spoiler alert...
For Usual Suspects, it's kind of like SS. You go in knowing there's a twist, the entire movie is based on one guy's recollection in an office and that guy just so happens to be Kevin Spacey. All of these things wouldn't be present when watching in 1995, but watching in 2012? Yeah.
What gave SS away to me was the dinner scene with the wife. Her demeanor made no sense as presented, no reason why she was 'mad' or even an explanation as to why she was cold with Bruce Willis. And then you notice that she hasn't said a word to him since the opening scene... and then you notice no one else has but the boy who can see ghosts.
I wouldn't have picked up on it if I hadn't been previously aware of the twist
Fight Club has so much going on and they have Tyler interacting with other characters, interacting with Norton physically, etc. It's near impossible to notice anything's off in the same way that US and SS had.
The Prestige offers so many potential points of twist, even going into the metaphysical but the actual twist is so stupidly simple that viewers abandon that kind of explanation long before Tesla shows up.
For Usual Suspects, it's kind of like SS. You go in knowing there's a twist, the entire movie is based on one guy's recollection in an office and that guy just so happens to be Kevin Spacey. All of these things wouldn't be present when watching in 1995, but watching in 2012? Yeah.
What gave SS away to me was the dinner scene with the wife. Her demeanor made no sense as presented, no reason why she was 'mad' or even an explanation as to why she was cold with Bruce Willis. And then you notice that she hasn't said a word to him since the opening scene... and then you notice no one else has but the boy who can see ghosts.
I wouldn't have picked up on it if I hadn't been previously aware of the twist
Fight Club has so much going on and they have Tyler interacting with other characters, interacting with Norton physically, etc. It's near impossible to notice anything's off in the same way that US and SS had.
The Prestige offers so many potential points of twist, even going into the metaphysical but the actual twist is so stupidly simple that viewers abandon that kind of explanation long before Tesla shows up.
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Even you and the other person in this thread who said y'all guessed it both had outside hints about the movie that fed the twist to you.
I was 7 when Sixth Sense came out, obviously didn't see it then but by the time I did, the twist was very well known even just through overhearing and passive conversations.
Even if you weren't aware of what the twist exactly was, most were absolutely aware of the existence of a twist. At that point, it's not difficult to notice Bruce Willis only talks to HJO after the opening scene.
I'd put Usual Suspects, Fight Club and The Prestige in the same category, (where everyone knows there is a twist even if they don't know what, exactly). Fight Club and Prestige handle it WAY better than Sixth Sense and Usual Suspects
re: Apparently we had 3,000 days but now our time is almost up
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/9/26 at 8:13 pm to Huey Lewis
Photos are pretty /x/-coded.... probably just going to post the n word and btfo
re: List of Places Donald Trump Was At During 9/11
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/9/26 at 11:49 am to ChineseBandit58
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I wonder what democrats are going to do when trump is out of office?
A whole lot of "[GOP candidate] is so much like Hitler even Donald Trump looks moderate"
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Senators, governor, lawyers , wannabe lawyers are going nuts here in Louisiana
This has way more to do with it than the players themselves. Landry is way too personally involved with LSU football and if the entire state government is going to lawfare every call that goes against them, it's easier to just not deal with it.
My personal view is that it's about fn time someone starts reining-in the cfb anarchy... if it has to be the SEC and if LSU has to be the victim, so be it. I don't want it to happen and ultimately they will back down, but the SEC would eventually get over it in a way LSU would not.
re: Are all of you ready for the end of the SEC?
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/8/26 at 6:03 pm to Tigahs24Seven
You guys really need to stop being so goddamn dramatic about everything.
re: 3 Lindsay Clancy jurors speak out in new NBC10 Boston interview (Updated)
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/8/26 at 5:54 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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I'm going to wager more than likely, based on how she said this, that he never said he had reasonable doubts and that is her injecting herself into his opinions and is taking any doubts whatsoever as "reasonable doubt".
There is a 0% chance a woman would do something like make up someone else's positions based entirely on assumptions (/s)
re: Was Foosball ever really that much fun?
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/8/26 at 12:13 pm to LSU Coyote
I loved it. We had one at church and my friends and I would play at least 2 hours every Wed night in the summer. Once busted my finger open on the handles though... sometimes it got too intense
re: SEC Can't Survive Without LSU
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/8/26 at 12:05 pm to volinktown
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Lsu to SEC is like... Ohio state to big10
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When oklahoma left big12, it's conference downgraded.
When Oklahoma (and Texas) left the Big 12, it took both of them, the Big 12 had only its 6 worst original members remaining. The rest was filled with C-USA teams. That's why it collapsed, not because one team left. In reality, 5 teams left.
No one wants this to happen but in a MAD situation, LSU loses every time especially because they'd be completely radioactive in the event they do get booted. Extremely unlikely to happen but you're being delusional and it's not helping
re: Good, bad, and the ugly (ECU Edition)
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/8/26 at 11:56 am to Diego Ricardo
Returned from the wildness late last night... had antenna tv but no service.
Anyway, Russell looked ready. Had some jitters early on but he knows where the ball needs to go AND he's actually capable of getting it there. That's something we haven't had since BY.
OL is something I'm still concerned about against better competition
Defense came to play from the whistle unlike last year's opener. Just ECU, I get that, but they were in great positions the whole game, very solid tackling, etc. Just things that have been declining over the years did seem to improve
But jfc guys I can't take the dumb penalties. It absolutely kills me inside. Illegal procedure on a play you've had 8 months to come up with? Good god. The DOGs, the last-second subs like no one has any idea what's going on. How does that even happen these days?
Solid game though
Anyway, Russell looked ready. Had some jitters early on but he knows where the ball needs to go AND he's actually capable of getting it there. That's something we haven't had since BY.
OL is something I'm still concerned about against better competition
Defense came to play from the whistle unlike last year's opener. Just ECU, I get that, but they were in great positions the whole game, very solid tackling, etc. Just things that have been declining over the years did seem to improve
But jfc guys I can't take the dumb penalties. It absolutely kills me inside. Illegal procedure on a play you've had 8 months to come up with? Good god. The DOGs, the last-second subs like no one has any idea what's going on. How does that even happen these days?
Solid game though
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No more Florida. They can’t support what they have.
Tbf not even half of MLB cities can actually support their teams and I don't see any other proposed city being any better.
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When was the last time SEC membership was necessary to play in a college football championship?
That would be a valid point if other conferences weren't even more pissed at this whole thing than the SEC even. LSU would be playing SWAC teams for several years at least
SEC is going overboard, but LSU is being completely on-brand delusional about their leverage
re: SEC amends federal lawsuit, seeking authority to expel LSU from the SEC
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/8/26 at 11:24 am to joshnorris14
The only way I support expulsion is if Mizzou is forced to leave too. I feel like that could get a lot of bipartisan support
re: Biggest Melts in this boards History
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/3/26 at 7:47 am to deathvalleyfreak43
1/9/12. Everything on this board is an extension of 1/9, even now.
Turn on any random ESPN show and it's blacker than 2004 BET
re: anyone have any tubi suggestions. preferably a psychological horror movie
Posted by Bama Bird on 9/1/26 at 8:27 pm to Tigerpride18
Probably a bit different than what you're looking for but close enough to mention We Need to Talk About Kevin. Personally I think it's one of the better films made this century (maybe top 15) but it can be polarizing
re: Hard to believe we play in 5 days, not even excited.
Posted by Bama Bird on 8/31/26 at 3:41 pm to CFB_Fanatic
The portal has been 1000x worse than NIL in itself and At least 40-50% of college football is a bunch of influencer wannabes who can barely read transferring over and over again to avoid any kind of accountability beyond collecting a check. It's like an entire league of Terrell Owenses
No one in national leadership has yet figured out that cfb fandom is about the teams, not the players. CFB fans are brought up watching guys play for 2 maybe 3 years and then they move on. If cfb went to all walk ons tomorrow, with only students who legitimately made their way in, we'd all still be watching. Meanwhile, if you put all of the current cfb players in a D-league instead, it'd pull about the same ratings as AAA baseball.
Players need CFB more than CFB needs them and we have to stop acting like it's the opposite.
No one in national leadership has yet figured out that cfb fandom is about the teams, not the players. CFB fans are brought up watching guys play for 2 maybe 3 years and then they move on. If cfb went to all walk ons tomorrow, with only students who legitimately made their way in, we'd all still be watching. Meanwhile, if you put all of the current cfb players in a D-league instead, it'd pull about the same ratings as AAA baseball.
Players need CFB more than CFB needs them and we have to stop acting like it's the opposite.
re: What is the funniest comment you’ve ever seen on TD?
Posted by Bama Bird on 8/29/26 at 1:40 pm to Gerry Laval
There was once a very testy debate on here about whether every human life is worth more than every dog's life and it happened to coincide with Lil Wayne's health issues.
The result was a thread about whether you will kill your own dog to save Lil Wayne. He recovered, so maybe someone took one for the team. Idk.
The result was a thread about whether you will kill your own dog to save Lil Wayne. He recovered, so maybe someone took one for the team. Idk.
Imagine if this had been Mr. Feeny's last role
re: Keelon Russell has been named the starting QB for the 2026 season
Posted by Bama Bird on 8/22/26 at 11:46 am to East Coast Band
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Why did I actually enjoy Sabans cat and mouse games more when he would never name a starter weeks in advance?
Tbh, more than once Saban's qb half-assery ended up with us being stuck with the worse option
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