We’re pumped for it.
It had a good weekend, making about $40 million. That is apparently quite a bit more than it cost to make.
Good for MNS. Tired of hearing the bleating about how many chances he’s gonna get…despite JUST making an acclaimed movie.
Me too, I wasn’t interested in the plot of Split (modern audiences obsession with kidnapping split personality creeps boggles my mind) so gave it a pass years a go, but when I found out Glass was the THIRD in the series I had to see what was the second movie.
And the ‘Shyamalan twist’ is…wait for it…it’s the sequel to Unbreakable. :smack:
I actually rather liked the movie. I can see how the ending would annoy some people, and it was certainly out of left field (although I wouldn’t call it a “twist”), but I thought it was a decent way to wrap up the trilogy without baiting for more sequels.
I’m sure I’m definitely in the minority on this, but I really enjoyed the way the movie was shot. I think the constant close-ups heightened the drama a lot and I felt myself on the edge of my seat a majority of the movie.
Okay, not great. Close to a good movie, but somehow the MNS style falls flat again.
In defense of his writing, I feel compelled to point out that he’s an even worse actor.
Is Glass half empty or half full? I plan on seeing it.
I didn’t like this. It was boring. The plot was illogical in many places (apparently this hospital has only three employees). The reveal was interesting but also made little sense. They made a lot of effort finally got what they wanted but did nothing to hide what happened (trying to be vague for spoiler reasons).
I would have liked an Unbreakable 2 and not this (it was cool they brought back the same actor that played his son though).
I enjoyed the movie while I watched it, but certainly there were flaws. That this mental hospital seemed to have only three employees was one. This spoiler-filled article talks about that and four other questions raised by the movie. (Like why was the Osaka Tower built up as the site for the climatic battle but was just a red herring in the end. The article speculates that perhaps budget issues made them change the ending. Or whether it made sense for Bruce Willis’ character to die by drowning in a puddle.)
Havent seen it but finally read the summary cause it was getting hard to avoid the spoilers.
I like what I read. The denouement sounds very 70’s. Over 10000 years is just silly. Make it 2000 and the audience will assume Jesus was one. If they’d left out the ‘happy’ part of the ending it WOULD have been a 70’s film ending.
It could have been better. M. Night Shyamalan’s style I think is the reason for the cracks in Glass.
Just saw on Screen Rant that MNS personally financed Glass.
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Congratulations MNS on saving up some $35 Frigging Million dollars over your career (or $20 million if we arnt talking advertising.) That’s quite a feat, I would think.
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Given that Glass is bumping $200 million worldwide, congratulations on your massive return.
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Fuck everyone on Twitter who says stupid shit like “Why does MNS keep getting chances??”
Have you ever woken up from a dream that you thought would make the awesome basis for story, and you needed to write it down, only to realize once you woke up more that it really made no sense in real life?
That’s what this movie felt like to me. A fever dream that went straight down to paper with no edits.
It had potential, but the writing needed to be considerably tightened up to be able to pass muster and not insult the audience’s intelligence.
I don’t really know what he was intending to do here as a storyteller. SPOILERS AHEAD
Does he really think killing off the main characters in highly unsatisfying ways going to interest us in a spinoff? Or is he just cleaning up his old stories and giving them closure in a (imo) unsatisfying way?
I also HAVE to know the process that went into spending probably 10s of thousands of dollars coming up with that ficticious skyscraper and then never using it as a set piece, using a parking lot instead. Did something happen there behind the senes or was that just a really expensive red herring.
A red herring. Shyamalan financed the film with his own money and wrote the screenplay - he knew from minute one there was no way the skyscraper bit was going to happen.
This was the second-most disappointing series ending in recent years (Hearne’s Iron Druid ended even worse).
Very late to the party, but I finally saw Glass.
Well, it was actually pretty good for the most part, but it is obvious again that M. Night can not control himself sometimes. The final 20-25 minutes were hugely disappointing. Not because they don’t go to that skyscraper(I find it almost awesome they didn’t go there), but because the three lead supernatural people all get killed in boring ways and way too quickly.
Even in the weak ending, there were many effective things. James McAvoy was hugely compelling when he was killed off. This was much more a Split sequel than an Unbreakable sequel. I was OK with that in the end.
Anyway, it was a pretty good movie that fell apart at the end because M. Night can’t allow himself to make a satisfying ending sometimes. Split was perfect, probably his best(or second best) movie. A true return to form. This movie was neat, better than the horrible things he was making recently, but still kind of a failure.
Unbreakable Split Glass. It was a great trilogy. How many years was it spread over? 20 years? That’s insane. And brilliant.
13 months later and I finally got to it.
Not as bad as I was expecting. The ending was really a downer, but I appreciate it. After watching all the Marvel movies, if superheroes really existed, I think I’d want them locked up, too. Lest someone drop a city on me as collateral damage.
But seriously - Dr Staple puts all those cameras up to watch Elijah, because she suspects he is leaving his cell, and yet, it seems no one actually watched them! Because he got out all the time.
For someone like Staple who truly knows that the three are in fact “super”, her security wouldn’t contain a determined unpowered human. You don’t have doors that can be opened from the inside, and you don’t have both cell doors open at the same time.
It was necessary for the end, but it was bothering me even before that.