A friend gave me the movie to borrow the other night on DVD and, boy, was that movie BAD.
I laughed more than anything else, I mean, who could take that movie seriously? I thought it was a comedy. Seriously. Especially the fight seen towards the end with the man in the orange coat. What a riot!
It wasnt until I was watching the second disk with all the deleted scenes and interviews with the writer/director did I realise that he was trying to make another scary movie, similiar to The Sixth Sense.
Well, it was no where close, unless you count the formula in which M. Night Shyamalan copied from his other movies, in where you don’t know the whole story until the very end.
If you could sue yourself for stealing intellectual ideas he ought to.
Gotta disagree with you there, bud. I thought it was superb. I thought the acting was terrific, the idea was intriguing and the twist was stunning. I’ll post a proper review of it after I’ve had some dinner.
Hey thats cool. To each their own. I just thought there were plot holes big enought to drive a train thru.
I mean, Sam Jackson and Bruce just so happen to both live in the same city, right? Okay.
Then there is the fact that Bruce never realized that he had never been sick until someone leaves a note on his car? C’mon!?
Finally, at the very end of the movie Bruce is thrown from the balcony and just happens to land in a pool, when water is his only weakness!?
There are parts that are funny, like when Bruce and his some start to lift weights together, and parts that are funny but werent meant to be, for example when Sam Jackson goes on about comic books being modern day heiroglyphics, meant to pass down legends of real people doing real things. GAFAW!
One thing that I did like, however, were the great camera angles that were used in some parts of the movie. Reflections in mirrors or on televisons were used to tell some parts of the story, and even some scenes that were shown upside down to illistrate a point.
Also, Bruce Willis was always “framed” when he was in shot - by tunnels, doorways, etc - like a character framed by a comic book panel.
And the way that the camera kept zig-zagging between characters when they were having a conversation - like reading dialogue balloons in a comic book.
… I agree with Gomez. This was a great film.
BuddhaDog I have to agree with you completly the movie was one of the dullest I’ve ever seen. I only went to see it because they said it was gunna be better than the sixth sense, which is was’nt.
I mean nothing happened until at the end. It was a twenty minute film padded out into well over an hour.
And just when it got good, when they revealed the twist at the end, the film finished!
For the first time ever I resented having to pay to watch. That film robbed me of 2 hour of my life that I want bach, now please
BuddhaDog I have to agree with you completly the movie was one of the dullest I’ve ever seen. I only went to see it because they said it was gunna be better than the sixth sense, which is was’nt.
I mean nothing happened until at the end. It was a twenty minute film padded out into well over an hour.
And just when it got good, when they revealed the twist at the end, the film finished!
For the first time ever I resented having to pay to watch. That film robbed me of 2 hour of my life that I want back, now please
BuddhaDog I have to agree with you completly the movie was one of the dullest I’ve ever seen. I only went to see it because they said it was gunna be better than the sixth sense, which is was’nt.
I mean nothing happened until at the end. It was a twenty minute film padded out into well over an hour.
And just when it got good, when they revealed the twist at the end, the film finished!
For the first time ever I resented having to pay to watch. That film robbed me of 2 hours of my life that I want back, now please
No plot hole there either. Actually had you never been sick before in your life you might not think twice about it unless someone brought it up.
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I don’t see a plot hole here either. Actually the pool thing reminded me of all those death traps the heroes find themselves faced with in comic books. Remember in that issue of the Amazing Spider-Man #33 where he is trapped under heavy weights and the room is filling with water? Now that’s entertainment!!
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Well, Sam’s character was a little on the nuts side. The whole movie was about the origin of a modern day superhero. What comic book doesn’t have a decent out of cheese?
Y’know, you get college students who write their theses about that very subject. Why is his point invalid? Because they’re “comic books”? They’re a dismissable medium of artwork? Why do you feel the notion of comic books having real worth and value is laughable?
Plot hole was the wrong word to use. You are correct. Perhaps there were too many coincidences that were pertinent to the denouement in this story. One (or two) Macguffin(s) is fine and dandy, but this movie had way too many.
SPOOFE
Education has value. Gold and Silver have value. Comic books have as much value as Marc McGwire’s 70th homerun ball. Its worth is solely dependant on the valuer, and not the product itself.
The movie would have been at least OK if Jackson’s character escaped at the end, or better yet was never at the final scene physically but on a webcast or something. What kind of criminal mastermind lets himself be caught?
Okay, I enjoyed the movie, but OH PLEASE! If I had never been sick, I’d KNOW it. After all, a person who has never been sick would not be very sympathetic towards a sick person. Your throat hurts? Tough. Besides what is this “hurts” thing of which you speak? They would have no comprehension of what it is like to be sick, so they wouldn’t know what people are talkin about when saying they are sick. Unless he was a total idiot, this notion would have occurred to him long before he had become an adult and someone had to leave a note on his car to make him think about it. In fact, I didn’t get sick for the last year (until I got a cold last week) and I knew it.
However, I did manage do ignore this weak plot device (not exactly a plot "hole’) long enough to enjoy the rest of the movie.
The movie is funny, but I think the OP is missing the joke. I think the intention was to make a realism film with elements of comic book cliches throughout. Sam Jackson’s over-the-top performance really pissed me off until I realized he was doing it on purpose. He is meant to be a criminal mastermind in the tradition of great comic book criminal masterminds, and therefore overplayed.
I wasn’t a huge fan of this movie either, but I do find a certain mount of genius in the balance it makes between the real world and a comic book world. Just when you think Sam Jackson is a deranged man who believes he lives in a comic book world, you realize that the whole movie takes place in a comic book world. The coincidences, the discovery of his hidden weakness at the end, the absolutely ridiculous persona and methods of the man in the orange jumpsuit…hell, the fact that the man is WEARING an orange jumpsuit…it’s all comic book stuff.
I didn’t enjoy it that much either, but you have to appreciate the idea. And the twist was pretty decent.
For my 2 cents, I’m one of the few that loved this movie. I thought it was great and was intrigued from beginning to end. I even bought the friggin DVD. I just thought a “real life” superman character was an interesting concept and I wasn’t disappointed in the least. Of course, it helps that Bruce Willis is a hottie.
Put me in the fan category, too. Pretty much for exactly the reasons SuperLorie mentioned. Even totally ignoring the plot, Shyamalan (Hey, I just checked, and I spelled that right! On my first try) does so many incredibly interesting things with his camera and visual iconography it totally makes the movie.
Yeah, certain concertos of the master can really calm you down at a time like this. May I suggest you listen to his 4th Brandenberg Concerto, or perhaps the Goldberg Variations?
After managing to learn absolutely nothing about this film, I just watched this the other night, and ten minutes into it I was convinced it was a comedy, and was very pleased and amused with it.
You’re saying it’s not a comedy? Come on! It’s a hilarious film.
That fight scene at the end was a wonderful piece of stunt work, all done in one take, with Bruce’s double fighting just as hard to keep his face off-screen as he is fighting the big-ass psycho. It’s engaging, and it’s absurd. That equals “funny” to me.
I think the problem is you kids haven’t watched enough Alfred Hitchcock to know what real comedy is. Try watching Rear Window as a humor piece sometime and you’ll see what I mean. Unbreakable falls squarely into the same bin, and it’s a nice film, too.
