Quiz: Movie "twist" endings

[sweetnpetite]

Ahh! Mutt! A fellow thespian! Hail and well met!

I actually liked Michael Keaton as Batman, although probably it had more to do with Kim Basinger and Jack Nicholson.

Not to hijack the thread even more, but can anyone explain what it is about Jack Nicholson that is sexy? He's not physically attractive, he seems cantankerous - I don't quite get it. Ladies? A little help?

I thought Micheal Keaton was perfect as batman. (MK is almost a character acter in my opinion and not necesarily movie star gorgeous in the usual sense although he does clean up rather nicely)

George Cloony seems perfect for Bruce Wayne, but all wrong for batman. Chris O'Donnel was even worse casting (but when isn't he?)

Val Kilmer, suprisingly better than expected. (Val Kilmer sounds like a superhero already.) Liked him best in Willow. Definatly a 'movie star' moreso than an actor.

I think Keanu Reeves is more of an actor than people give him credit for. Oh well.

 

[R. Richard]

Twist endings
You scored 6 out of a possible 10


Thus was pretty much sheer guesswork. I am really more of a boogaloo guy than a twist guy.

 

[The Mutt]

I thought Micheal Keaton was perfect as batman. (MK is almost a character acter in my opinion and not necesarily movie star gorgeous in the usual sense although he does clean up rather nicely)

George Cloony seems perfect for Bruce Wayne, but all wrong for batman. Chris O'Donnel was even worse casting (but when isn't he?)

Val Kilmer, suprisingly better than expected. (Val Kilmer sounds like a superhero already.) Liked him best in Willow. Definatly a 'movie star' moreso than an actor.

I think Keanu Reeves is more of an actor than people give him credit for. Oh well.

Kilmer was may favorite of the Batmen. I'm really looking forward to Christian Bale.
Keaunueu ain't bad, but he is NOT John Constantine. Constantine is blond, British, dissolute and brilliant. Whoa!

 

[Huckleman2000]

Can anyone explain why people seem to find Julia Roberts so sexy? She's got a lower lip where her upper lip should be and a nose like a two-car garage.
Guys? Little help?

Hi, Huckleman! I'm 6'5" 230, so it's villians and monsters for me, tho I did get to play Macbeth.

OH, I'm really envious! That is an awesome psychological thriller! So many good roles... I was the one in college losing his hair, so I played the drunken Porter (Knock! Knock! Knock! Aye, here's a knocking, indeed!....) Then, later in the show, I got to don tights and carry a branch across the stage as part of the Birnum Wood, ROFL!

No one writes 'em like that anymore!

As for Julia Roberts, four words: those lips, my cock.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Back onto twist endings:

I don't remember exactly what happened at the end of The Stunt Man, a 1980s film with Peter O'Toole (my favorite actor), but I remember that it was a total mind-fuck of a movie. I don't see it at my local Blockbuster, but I would highly recommend it to anyone who's into wild plot twists that make you question things - of course, it's been a long time since I saw it, so I can't guarantee, but I know it really affected me after I saw it, and I've never seen it around since then.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

Twist endings
You scored 8 out of a possible 10
You've seen more twists than an Olympic gymnastics judge. But what you've just done wasn't a quiz at all. It was a cat. An alien cat. A half-robot alien cat. In a woman's body. Called Keyser Soze. And you can kill it by throwing water at it. And ... it's your own father.


I missed the Third Man and the Village One (neither of which I have seen so it makes sense I didn't know them.)

 

[The Mutt]

Back onto twist endings:

I don't remember exactly what happened at the end of The Stunt Man, a 1980s film with Peter O'Toole (my favorite actor), but I remember that it was a total mind-fuck of a movie. I don't see it at my local Blockbuster, but I would highly recommend it to anyone who's into wild plot twists that make you question things - of course, it's been a long time since I saw it, so I can't guarantee, but I know it really affected me after I saw it, and I've never seen it around since then.

The Stuntman was a really enjoyable film, but I felt like the twists were not supported by what came before. Fun, but afterwards you go, "huh?"
Ya know, Huckleman, I used to think guys like Yul Brynner had it bad, being stuck playing the same role forever. But I could play Macbeth every night for the rest of my life and never get tired of it.
But I would love to be able to play Willie Loman and Felix Ungar, too. And that ain't gonna happen.
And Othello. God, I would love to play that role, but that will never happen in this day and age.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

9 out of 10 because I haven't seen Third Man, didn't plan on seeing Third Man, and still don't plan on seeing Third Man.

For twist endings though, you have to do psych horror. Such movies as Jacob's Ladder bring the twistiness to an art form. Also, I love Ringu and its english translation The Ring for finally bringing a genuine new twist to the old repeated ghost story.

I love twist endings in general though. My first books were youth horror books chock filled with substandard plot twists at the end.

My first writings imitated this. Later I learned that twist endings weren't as much fun as twist stories.

 

[Huckleman2000]

The Stuntman was a really enjoyable film, but I felt like the twists were not supported by what came before. Fun, but afterwards you go, "huh?"
Ya know, Huckleman, I used to think guys like Yul Brynner had it bad, being stuck playing the same role forever. But I could play Macbeth every night for the rest of my life and never get tired of it.
But I would love to be able to play Willie Loman and Felix Ungar, too. And that ain't gonna happen.
And Othello. God, I would love to play that role, but that will never happen in this day and age.

I got to play Felix in summer stock one year, in my early 20s (I still had a bit of hair, then). It was fun, but I think the best scenes are the ones with the poker buddies. Vinnie and Speed get some killer lines!

I hear ya about Willie Loman. Until the day when an ethnic-looking guy can play the American everyman, I'm hosed.

And Othello - I'd blame Ted Danson and Whoopie Goldberg for that one.

 

[The Mutt]

I got to play Felix in summer stock one year, in my early 20s (I still had a bit of hair, then). It was fun, but I think the best scenes are the ones with the poker buddies. Vinnie and Speed get some killer lines!

I hear ya about Willie Loman. Until the day when an ethnic-looking guy can play the American everyman, I'm hosed.

And Othello - I'd blame Ted Danson and Whoopie Goldberg for that one.

I heard that Patrick Stewart played Othello in a "reverse cast" production. He was the only white guy. But I can't find any info about it, even on the internet.
But the role of all roles is, of course, Cyrano.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I heard that Patrick Stewart played Othello in a "reverse cast" production. He was the only white guy. But I can't find any info about it, even on the internet. . .

I believe that was a stage production, Mutt. At least it was, the last time I heard about it.


Interview: The Journal Arts : August 10th, 1997

<exerpt> . . . But before that, Stewart will tackle the title role in Shakespeare's Othello at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington this fall.

''It was the first Shakespearean role I ever wanted to play,'' he said. ''I first read it when I was 14. For some reason, I had an immediate emotional connection with this man. I knew what was going on with this man.

''When I was young, taking Shakespeare classes, I was always trying to find actors to play Iago or Desdemona, to my Othello, because I always assumed, when I grew up, I would get to play the role.

''Well, by the time I was ready to play it, it was no longer appropriate for a white actor to put on black face and pretend to be an African Moor. And rightly so. I had to put aside my hopes that the one role I most wanted to play would never be mine.

''And then, about four years ago, while working on something else, I conceived of a way to do it. Reverse the negative. Make the rest of the cast black and Othello white.

''So what we will have is a white, British mercenary soldier, in a black American society.

''I knew I would have to do this production in America. There is no where else that this could be done.''

. . . I had to put aside my hopes that the one role I most wanted to play would never be mine. . . .

If that isn’t a typo, it as good an example of how a man hides from himself that his ambition has not been dampened, as I have ever observed.