I loved Unbreakable. Loved it! So much I even bought the DVD. 
Lorie
I couldn’t agree more with the sentiments expressed in this thread.
If I pay to rent a movie, or to see it in a theater, I damn well expect to enjoy it. If I don’t enjoy a movie, by gum, people are going to hear about it. After all, I shelled out for it, and it is my right as a consumer to be entertained by whatever I spend money on.
There are universally-agreed-upon standards as to what makes a good movie. The movie industry should take care to eliminate any movie that will not be adored by every viewer, and it’s criminal that they fail to do so.
If I watch a movie that I do not like, I have wasted my time, I have wasted my money, and I have wasted a piece of my very soul. After that movie is over, I’m not the same person I was before the opening credits. If it is a bad movie, than I am diminished as a human being.
Not to mention the cost to society: the resources used in the production and distribution of the movie, the infrastructure involved in showing the movie at a theater (heating/cooling, electricity, employment of ushers, etc.) the aforementioned price of a CD which could have been used for a DVD that everyone would enjoy . . .
I commend the Dopers who have made fun of the director’s name. After all, if he didn’t want his name made fun of, he shouldn’t have a silly foreign name to begin with, and, if for some reason he can’t change his name to a normal-sounding one, he should take special care not to make movies that won’t be universally enjoyed by everyone in the world.
Podkayne, that was a lovely bit of sarcasm. At least I hope it was sarcasm…
I however have no such skills, so I must conclude the folks that didn’t enjoy Unbreakable have serious attention span problems. If an elegantly presented, thought-provoking 90-minute film throws you into a fit, I suggest consulting a shrink.
My only beef with Unbreakable is the decision to cut the extra footage on the DVD. As the film is essentially a long character development piece, I didn’t understand why they cut neat chunks of character development. The film didn’t feel long to me - it felt a tad short. From the director’s comments he seemed to imply several times (‘we’ felt…) that it was not his decision alone.
Yes, it ended suddenly, but that is consistent with its overall feel as an introduction. If anything, it’s amazing how strongly it stands by itself given its ‘Act I’ construction.
I agree 100%. Problem is Unbreakable was none of those things.
My most sincere apologies :rolleyes: if anyone got offended since I couldn’t remember the directors name.
For the record, I truly enjoyed his The Sixth Sense but was more than a little disapointed with his next “movie.”
In the voice of that little wrinkly Simpsons charcter-
“You took 2 hours of my life and I want it baaaaaaaaack”.
Podkayne: Hee hee!
I’m of two minds regarding Unbreakable. I think it’s definitely an experiment, and I have to raise my eyebrows at everybody who complains that Hollywood keeps throwing us the same old crap, and then when something comes along that defies expectations, they don’t like that either.
While watching it, I was certainly having trouble with it; halfway through, I was thinking, “Am I supposed to be taking this seriously, or what?” It’s a major leap of disbelief to go where the movie asks you to go, no question.
I do think the movie is based on a fundamental miscalculation. To wit, most comic books use these fantastic settings to explore allegorical issues. X-Men is only the most obvious example, of course. In other words, since it’s hard to look at difficult questions head on, it becomes easier to think about them if they’re tweaked, transplated into a different setting. (Naturally, comic books aren’t the only medium that does this.)
Unbreakable, on the other hand, takes this storytelling device as its core premise. The fantastic stuff we don’t think about in other comic books? Unbreakable looks directly at it.
Some people hate comic books, and naturally will hate Unbreakable by extension. Some people enjoy comic books, but find their credulity challenged by taking seriously the very aspect of comic books that doesn’t bear much thought. (I fall into this group.) Some people enjoy comic books, and are fascinated by the idea of considering something they never really thought about before.
So: Unbreakable is a unique and audacious experiment. It doesn’t work for all viewers. For others, it works very well. There is no objective judgment of its quality beyond that.