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When I saw the signs read HEROES and VILLAGES, as well as a building David walks by having the words END in the windows, I immediately thought the ending would be the camera zooming out to reveal the entire movie was taking place in an actual comic book.
In the Sword of Truth books (which go crazy) Death incarnates itself as various things. One time, it's a chicken. Another time, a puddle. I literally read that book 10 years ago and I still talk about the "Puddle of Death" as a high point of bad writing. Good to see M. Night bringing it to film.
I'm loving these podcasts, Mathew. You and your guests have a very interesting perspective,and I enjoy when you break down a movies genre's(or director's) history over the last 20 years. Please keep these coming!
Huh, while critics are split on this movie, you guys are unbreakable. Well, with Shyamalan, there will always be some broken glass in the movie industry.
In Unbreakable it's stated that Elijah Price was born in 1961, in real life Samuel L. Jackson was born in 1948 so his character was always meant to be much younger than he actually was.
I do get the three leaf clover thing -- because there are three; the mastermind, the hero, and the villain. It could be a triangle, it could have been any other tri-symbol. It's still stupid, but I at least get it.
firefly4f4 M Night explained it in an interview. He explained the prominence of the three leaf clover (represented by the normal human being) versus the four leaf clover (the superhumans), basically showing that the “three leaf clovers” don’t want a world filled with “four leaf clovers” I guess. It’s pretentious as fuck but it kinda makes sense.
21:32 - yes, so much of this. No comic book store ever separates villain stories from heroes. And also, Mr. Glass I guess never read Catwoman, Spawn, Venom comics? There have been MANY successful villain comics.
It took me a while to get through this episode, but I'm glad I did! I feel like the podcast angle works very well for you; you've got that encyclopedia of knowledge to help focus your topics and guide the guests. I'm really glad you're on iTunes now, which will make it easier for me to follow. Keep it up!! :)
Split is flawed, but I really love it. The acting performances are fantastic, and while the movie isn't exactly a charming portrayal of mental illness, the plot utilized in a very engaging way.
What's up with M Night and water. It's not that scary. He even made a TV docudrama years ago about how all his movies are about water and how he had some childhood traumatic experience that made him scared of glasses of water. Does anybody remember seeing that?
@@alienboy1322 I know. It's called *The Buried secrets of M Night Shyamalan* it's on RU-vid. That's what I'm talking about. It's a TV movie docudrama. Check it out it's very interesting.
The issue with Dunn's death wasn't the fact that he got drowned in a small puddle (You can easily justify it by saying that it's realistic), but it was how sudden it was, as well as how underwhelmingly it was presented. Instead of milking it, it is just presented in a very quick fashion. Combined with the reveals that the story is throwing at you, as well as Kevin's death scene, the moment has barely any impact.
I heard that Night financed the movie all by himself, he probably didn't want to go bankrupt in case of a bomb. I think it's a good decision of him to make small character movies again, still traumatized by The Last Airbender
Both this film and Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom have the same structural issue. A big event that should be the focal point of the entire film is relegated to a quickly paced first act, whilst the rest of the film focuses on a smaller, less interesting scenario.
This is the type of movie that can trick you into thinking it's clever until you think about it for 30 seconds. The film itself calls out that the feats these two perform as not really that out of the ordinary -- basic strong man and parkour stuff. Yet, the videos that supposedly reveal the existence of super humans to the world... show basic strong man and parkour stuff in the parking lot of a mental hospital. SERIOUSLY??? I can look on RU-vid and find videos that are as if not MORE impressive than anything these guys do. So how the heck are THOSE videos supposed to convince anyone that those two are super -- and that's IF you actually believe the fight isn't faked or staged?
Also, since when did David actually believe he was a super hero? Wasn't the entire point of Unbreakable -- up to and including talking his son OUT OF SHOOTING HIM -- that he thought he was mostly just a normal guy who was kinda strong and had good intuition? When did he actually start believing he was super? Couldn't his response to Paulson be, "Yeah, that's exactly what I've been telling my son for all these years!" and then... you know, he gets prosecuted for being a vigilante. Done.
@@alienboy1322 That there's nothing in those security camera videos that should convince anybody that David and Kevin actually had superpowers. I said as much right in my post.
@@firefly4f4 What about Kevin crawling on the wall? Wouldn't all of that stuff combined make people at least a bit suspicious? Also, what if immediately after that got leaked, several other people revealed to the public that they also had superpowers? It would be much harder to explain away. I'm not even much of a fan of this film, but this complaint is stupid and should not be passed around, otherwise it'll be given more importance than the far more noteworthy problems. On a side note, I fucking despise this trend of trying to take an emotional and important scene in a film and debunking it by saying that it's illogical. You know the (objectively false) complaint with Titanic that Jack and Rose could have fit on that door? That's the mindset that it came from. I'm not saying that films should be illogical, but can people not suspend their disbelief and get into the emotion of the scene?
Really like the new show. Keep up the good work. As a suggestion, I would be interested to see video's discussing movie news [e.g. Danny Boyle and Bond]
Glass has some problems but I don't agree that many people called it a Bad Movie. Personally it was good enough for me. I liked it more than Split (I am not a huge Fan of Split) but it comes not even close to be as amazing as Unbreakable. The Ending of Glass in particular really, really frustrates me. I hated half of the Ending but I loved the other half. The Movie is a 7/10 for me.
I mean, he has Jason Blum producing his movies now. I think what happens is Jason gives them a budget, and allowed him to do whatever he wants with that money.
The big issue with the structure is that the entire film is just a buildup to an anti-climax. There should have been more substance and more going on in the lead up. Maybe have a lot of twists and turns all throughout?
The only thing about Glass I didn't like was the ending, specifically the twist involving the doctor. I felt that they killed a potentially good idea by showing that the characters' powers are real when it's suggested throughout that it could possibly all be in their heads. At least keep it ambiguous.
Funny that Unbreakable cost 75 mil and made 248 mil, but Disney didn't think that was enough for a sequel, while X-Men also cost 75 mil, made 296 mil, and of course got a sequel. I found Split to be a bit too much like I was watching James McAvoy's Showreel, that'd he made to show to casting directors. No longer takes advice from others and self-funds his films? So rather than following Spielberg's career trajectory he followed George Lucas's? If you were surprised at Shyamalan scripting Stuart Little, he also claims he wrote She's All That. Although the credited writer denies that. A former Miramax exec has claimed both writers contributed their own material to the filmed script.
28:51: Spencer Treat Clark HAS been keeping up as an actor, but you're right that it's not by much. 7 Single Episode appearances on crime cheese, a 5 or so episode spot on SHIELD, a recurring role on that pointless series version of Animal Kingdom and a bunch of go nowhere indie and horror productions. And I'd guess this is M Night trying to do something KIND OF like Alex Vincent returning to Andy Barclay, but we'll never really know, with M Night's ego being what it is.
The problem is as soon as someone gets an ego, they stop trying and just put out crap. So MNS is talented, he just needs to be reminded that he needs to put in effort. I also hate it when a secret society has every member have the same tattoo. Kind of a dead give away.
Another point that does not make sense is what Todd says about the comic book sequences. Whilst Casey's bit is not needed, Joseph's makes him then discover that Kevin's father was on the same train as his dad.
Man U must really hate shymalan films, I loved this film , I consider this and unbreakable a superhero , but I really. Wish shymalan would make more films like this, I think it would probably make an impact in his career, without shit like the village and the happening.
