This film is fantastic.
>>220895818yea, was good. i remember one guy i knew was mad that it 'just ended there' and didn't have a 'third act' or whatever where there was a big spectacular fight. i lost all respected for that guy. he was to be fair very dorky
Yeah, great soundtrack as well. Too bad the sequels didn't hold up in comparison
>>220895818>they alive, dammit>issa miracle
This was truly the most realistic superhero movie.
Shyamalan nailed the framing that conveys the comic book inspiration while still complimenting film as a medium.Complete contrast with Ang Lee's Hulk which tried to do 1-for-1 comic book frames that just made it a mess to actually watch as a film.
>>220895993Ang Lee's Hulk is nowhere near as good as Unbreakable, but it's still better than many give it credit for. A bit all over the place and too in your face with its style, but its emotional highs really soar.
the text saying Glass was arrested and put into a mental institution is dumb. Should have left that out.
>>220895993Also, goddamn, that's such a great shot. The film is just filled with brilliance like that. It's crazy how early Shyamalan peaked.
>>220896044Oh yeah, it's miles better than when Marvel tried to do a Hulk movie or most of the slop pushed.
>>220895818IT IS VERISTIC; THE SEQUELS ARE FANTASTIC.
>>220895818Actually better than The Sixth Sense
>>220895818>>220896178I still can't comprehend how Shamalyama dingdong started out with great movies and then quickly went full retard.Did he just steal shit from someone but then had to come up with his own shit once successful?
>>220896178Yes, very much so. Only women and men who are spiritually women prefer Sixth Sense over Unbreakable.
>Glass just ends teasing a final fight but everyone loses at the end because of some secret anti superhero Illuminati group kills them all out of nowheregay
>>220896216Easy. When he first started he had a handler to tell him "this is retarded don't do this". After he got his first few hits he fired that handler. Also he was known as the what a twist guy but probably didn't want to do twists anymore but was pressured
>>220896216He hit three homeruns in a row, Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs, bought a little bit too much into his own hype, made a film that was okay but below par by his established standard with The Village, couldn't handle the criticism, made a truly baffling vanity piece with Lady In The Water, completely killed his own credibility, and never fully recovered.
>>220895818a 10/10. The little kid was annoying as fuck and every one of his scenes sucked
When dunn tries out his intuition in the train station is pure hype.
>>220896273M. Night accidentally wrote himself into Signs as Merrill.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6Yq_opJzw
>>220896313Split and Old are fucking greatBoth on small budgets too
>>220895818>>220895898It's THE modern superhero movie. Elijah's line about "every fable is based on some truth" that's just a ridiculous cliche, right? Wrong. He's talking about forms of communication. Comic books have this sense of wonder and power that transports you to another world, but it's really this world. it's really a way to unlock the wonder within people. Unbreakable is a liturgy that takes that comicbook gaze and turns it back on the real world, on this disappointed man and his shitty wife and kid. It makes him see the importance of his choices, then it makes him great. The superpowers shown are dubiously supernatural, note the scene of him missing intuition on Shyamalan himself. In addition to so many other virtues, it's a great Christian film where real life is holy and man has a relationship with the divine. M. Night figured out how to make Superman reflect the story of Jesus.
>>220895818>jamboy shilling a movie made by another jamboyKEK
I agree, the movie is good
>>220895864The ending is amazing filter.Orange Man fight is peak. No flashy nonsense, it's a simple showcase of David's unbreakable strength along with his weakness in the pool and being helped by the kids he came to rescue.Him carrying Audrey up to their bedroom as he is able to at last find fulfillment in his life is also amazing along with the Mr. Glass reveal. There is nothing superfluous.>>220896178This. It's a film that appreciates with rewatching as opposed to being built on le big twist.
>>220896216>Shamalyama dingdong started out with great moviesThat is because someone else directed them and Shlymadingding took credit. This DEI crap didn't start in the 2010s.
>>220896335Na, kid was fantastic. The last scene with him and his father confessing being the hero on the papers is unadultered kino. Keeping the secret between them, creating a unbreakable bond of father-son. Plus he has this sad aura about him, this tragedy in his eyes that is rare in kids. Just a fantastic movie all around.
>>220896402Never seen Old, but Split was really good. He definitely still displays glimmers of brilliance, but he's just so inconsistent, which is what I mean by him never fully recovering. He was on top of the world in the late 90s and early 00s, but now whenever he makes something good, it's always met with "hey, that new Shyamalan film is actually not that bad". His image changed from young genius to unpredictable wild card, and that's among the people who actually still has any goodwill towards him.
>>220896497I agree. Such a beautiful scene. So much said, without a word of dialogue.
>>220895878>Too bad the sequels didn't hold up in comparisonsplit was pretty good, that twist in the end made some people (including me) go "oh shit"glass was trash tho
>>220896402Old was based on a really fucking good French-Swiss comic called Sandcastle, it's more art-housey but it ends on a complete downer Really good I highly recommend it
>>220896431... Orange Man ... bad?
>>220895818It’s one of my favorite comic book movies and it’s not even a comic book.
>>220895993>>220896072I love the overhead shot in the bench press scene. It’s subtle and very fucking cool.
>>220896072he was referred to as the next spielberg for a few years there. 6th sense was a genuine cultural event
>>220895818I havent seen this movie since it came out. Really should rewatch it, and watch the sequels as well.
>>220896246>bruce willis is drowned in a puddleseriously downer ending, especially after the amazing ending of unbreakable. i havent watched it a second time because of tthat
>>220896431I don’t know exactly why, but that scene always makes me emotional. It’s not just the music, which is also powerful; it’s the imagery, something about how David just sets to patiently, implacably, inexorably winning. It’s like watching cosmic justice unfold in real time right before your eyes - good triumphing over evil not in some extravagant light show, but through simple endurance. The hero has arrived, the slayer, and evil’s going to lose because it can’t so much as scratch him.
>>220896497Absolutely amazing scene.
>>220895993>Complete contrast with Ang Lee's Hulk which tried to do 1-for-1 comic book frames that just made it a mess to actually watch as a film.shut your whore mouth
>>220896418Very Chestertonian post. Well done.
>>220897407I was so angry after watching that. I will never watch it again.
I haven't seen it but I liked Split because it didn't come off as a superpower movie -- is this one similar
>>220897998>I haven't seen itFucking why not? Also its going to be somewhat lessened because you kind of already know the twist. A huge part of the movie is that no one knows he's superman because he doesn't believe in it.It is good though.
>>220895993weird that either that jeet was really talented and stopped or sosomeone else made this flick
>>220898075> huge part of the movie is that no one knows he's superman because he doesn't believe in it.That's funny because I didn't even know that. The movie's old and supernatural and I saw a black guy as a main character so I passed on it.
>>220898249>The movie's old and supernatural and I saw a black guy as a main character so I passed on it.kek
Saw it in the theater with my high school gf. AMC 20 Torrance.
I think its absolutely insane that a man can make a movie like this, where nearly every aspect of it is just oozing talent. How its shot, framed, acted, scored, etc. Nearly a perfect film. Then few years later makes utter shlock shitfest after shitfest.
>>220899228it's almost like making a masterpiece isn't easy
>>220896178Agreed. Shamaaaan's best and my favorite in the genre.
>>220898818Saw it on TV with my prison bf. ADX Florence.
>>220899228I wonder if great painters and sculptors had a similar drop off from their primes, or is it different because film has so many moving parts.
>>220899228The whole popular cult of the artist is toxic to greatness. Renaissance masters worked for aristocratic patrons and just happened to pass their work on to posterity and the general public, it's one of the more interesting arguments for keeping rich people around. A George Lucas or M. Night Shyamalan can't seize the torch of greatness and then put it back down to re-focus on their craft, they'd have to bug out like Salinger and it's impossible with movies. Your art must continue at a pace and to expectations generated by a dangerous mass of low human nature.
>>220895818I enjoyed the movie, to the point where I paid more than I ought to for a DVD copy. The soundtrack is amazing. I think the pacing's a little slow, but that could just be me getting filtered. I'm not sure if the film would be improved if the pace were faster, though. Which is weird, I guess - feeling like it's too slow but not being sure if speeding things up would make it better.>>220897491>It’s not just the music, which is also powerfulNot to discount any of the other parts of the film, but I cannot compliment the music in this film enough. >>220899228>Then few years later makes utter shlock shitfest after shitfest.There's a /pol/ joke in there somewhere but I don't want to catch a 3 day for making it.>>220897232No, that's a character's "name" - it derives from the character wearing orange coveralls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRmNUxAVYs
>>220895898The greatestThe most fantastic The gold standard The best everEtc
>>220896561Its so amazing
>>220896044Nothing is nowhere near as good as Unbreakable
>>220896072Its the most brilliant movie ever created. Every scene, ever second, is sheer brilliance. People don't realize how good this movie is. Once you see this ever other movie looks like straw
>>220895878Its so good. Its the only media I've ever paid to download and it's pretty much all I listen to
>>220896431>>220896178Sixth Sense is great for showing to people who somehow don't know the twist (my wife... I know). It's also great if you haven't seen it in a few years and don't remember every beat. Other than that yeah Unbreakable is better.Anyone know how M. Night managed to direct so many early kinos and then shit the bed?
>>220900237>>220900252>>220900265>>220900283>>220900291Stop false flagging, we're trying to have a serious discussion about the film asshole. No one is shilling a 30 year old joint
>>220895878>>220900291>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npiqTujiH4It's perfect
>>220897544It does have some kino scenes like gif related which does the best at capturing the comic vibe while looking good on film unlike the multi frame shots
>>220900594Pic related instead since the gif wouldn't uploadStill hold Unbreakable as by and far the best superhero film but Ang Lee's Hulk does have soul
>>220900505>>220896388kinographiehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKtzEuI3P7Y
>>220900203>A George Lucas or M. Night Shyamalan can't seize the torch of greatness and then put it back down to re-focus on their craft, they'd have to bug out like Salinger and it's impossible with movies.I don't understand what you mean by bug out. I don't know about Salinger. Your post sounds smart but I don't quite understand it. Please elaborate.
>>220900205>I enjoyed the movie, to the point where I paid more than I ought to for a DVD copy. The soundtrack is amazing.They let you name your price, and you named higher?
>>220896418>, it's a great Christian film where real life is holy and man has a relationship with the divine. M. Night figured out how to make Superman reflect the story of Jesus.M Night wasn't a Christian though. He was a Hindu taught at a Christian school.
>>220901466NTA but for true kino it's the value one places in it for oneself as opposed to special edition sloppa or whatever
>>220901466No. The place I bought it from was selling it for an inflated price. I paid it because I wasn't sure if I'd ever see it again somewhere else. And this was back before the Amazon days.
>>220901441The catcher in the rye author famously used his money to isolate from other people after his work became popular. He kept writing IIRC
>>220901515and?
>>220895818It's good
>>220896178Unbreakable is my all time favorite film, but I think Sixth Sense is a very tight and good story even when you know the twist. The scene where Coal overcomes his fear and talks to the ghost is both terrifying and inspiring.
>>220896313I had a friend once say that Shamalan can only make small stories, and I think that was correct. 6th Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs are all very small scale stories that barely affect characters outside of the main characters and their families. I wish he'd keep to smaller, lower staked, plots.
>>220899228he ran out of ideas. Simple as that. It all went downhill with the ending of The Village. The twist should have been there was no twist and everything about the monsters was real.
The Next Spielberg
>>220895818Watched the whole trilogy recently underrated as fuck. Best superpower kino possibly ever.
>Sixth Sensekino>Unbreakablekino>Signsgood>The Villagegood until the ending>Lady in the Watershit>The Happeninglol>Last Airbendershit>After Earthshit>The Visitbad>Splitgood>Glassbad>Oldbad>Knock at the Cabinokay>Trapshit
>>220897637Thanks anon, I didn't know about him. What a treat
>>220901832That un-twist would have been possibly his best feat of filmmaking.
>>220901823>Shamalan can only make small storiesThat's true for Eggers too. He fell off after The Lighthouse.
A friend of mine even wrote a book that took a lot of inspiration from the themes/vibes of Unbreakable. He was a good friend.There's a scene in this book where teenagers are forced to run on a treadmill for 12 hours straight. The MC is one of them, and he thinks he's going to call it quits within the first hour. But then he keeps going...and going... Very inspired by the benchpress scene from this film (and King's The Long Walk)
>>220902880If pic related is it, I'll check it out.>He was a good friend.Hopefully meaning you two just aren't friends anymore as opposed to him being dead or whatever. No offense.
>>220902946A former apprentice named Darth Impersinus killed him
>Be le unbreakable man>Hit by dementiaSounds breakable and cucked to me
>>220902273I think Old is better than Cabin but i agree on the rest.
>>220903210Can we talk about how the character Dunn has brain fog and forgetfulness? No one knew at the time right?
>>220896437even if what you are saying is true movies are stories and the story of sixth sense was written by shamyaassslaning
>>220896370*inhales*KINOOOOO!
>>220903210>>220903307He didn't believe in himself.
I want to fuck his untalented daughter
