OK so he finally gets to play in a football game where whatever it is he does did not matter or have any impact on the game at all.
The team really did not need him since they won without him.
Mr. Holland's Opus
Throughout the movie he keeps talking about his frustrations at not being able to finish composing his symphony piece.
Then when we finally get to hear it, well, my garbage disposal, tornado sirens and nails on a chalkboard combined makes better music than he did.
Everyone else gets to share their contentious opinion, but I don't? Here's my prior posted rebuttal:
I'll preface this with the admission that we have nearly 30 years of hindsight on this movie, yet as soon as one applies a bit of logic and reason to pull at its threads, the whole narrative unravels.
First off, the events recounted in the film amount to maybe one step up from the "It was all a dream" ending, effectively amounting to nothing of consequence. If the story bears no consequence, then why does it matter? There's no true mystery, and the misdirection as a result is unfulfilling.
Another element that I grow ever more appreciative of the more I see it pulled off is identifiable motives. Why does the crook sing like a songbird to the cop? He's not under duress or any obligation to spill the tea. Why does the cop listen and also believe the crook's story - especially when the crook describes events that he did not witness and has no reason to know about from the other characters? These titular Usual Suspects aren't friends and don't even particularly trust one another, so it's already a pretty big suspension of disbelief that they would know much about each other's personal lives, let alone care enough to reminisce.
There's also the late stage coincidence that's a bit too tidy and lucky, which is that sketch getting faxed in at the most fortunate/unfortunate moment. What if that fax had come in midway through the story instead of at the end? How is the crook going to talk his way out of that complication? That to me is more intriguing than the movie as is because it ratchets up the suspense and forces the story in a different direction.
I grant that the cast is stellar and the overall production creates an effective noir-like mood, but the story is basically a dressed-up version of that time you got called into the school principal's office and had to make up a bunch of malarkey on the spot about how it was all the other kid's fault.
In terms of Stephen Baldwin's most notable work, Bio-Dome (1996) is a movie that holds up better under multiple viewings. Think about it.
It's a free country (for now) so everyone is entitled to their opinion...even if it's terrible.
But a real film connoisseur would have the good sense to preface such an opinion with something like...I know this is regarded a classic script by most people, but it's not my cup of tea.
And as for why Verbal/Keyser talked to Agent Kujan, most viewers understand afterwards that it's the equivalent of a cat toying with a mouse.
You're definitely an army of one when it comes to this classic.
The Usual Suspects ended beautifully with Keyser Soza pulling the rug over Chaz Palminteri's eyes with an entire story concocted of things that just happened to be lying in his office, including the Kobiashimaru which just happened to be the stamp underneath Paliminteri's coffee cup.. 😂 It does make me wonder how bad he got heckled for allowing this to happen and Kevin Spacey getting away??
...the story is basically a dressed-up version of that time you got called into the school principal's office and had to make up a bunch of malarkey on the spot about how it was all the other kid's fault.
Fox pressured that the 'good' guys should win, so the ending was changed. Otherwise, we prolly would have got the ending we wanted. Well, that's what I've read in the past.