Glass - Review Thread

I'm getting dragged to Unbreakable v Split: Dawn of WHAT A TWIST this weekend. Pray for me.

My expectations have definitely been tempered a bit. 

Why?

I thought the ending was fine. Everything leading up to the ending is bullshit. It's the Village not the Happening.

Strongest entry of the trilogy. The ending was somewhat like Ex-Machina where you ask "what could happen next" and get to explore a world of possibilities. I know Shyamalan's penchant for twists, and yet I was still surprised. I am done watching it, and yet still can't stop thinking about it. One of the better movies I've seen in some time.

8/10

lol, y'all. I heard the ending was incredibly divisive, I'm just on the side that liked it. It worked for me, and I like the idea of the remaining characters forming a possible Oracle-like network for the other supers that are out there. The only other possibility, really, was that David lives and does some kind of all-points bulletin call for all existing heroes to come forth, but that seems cheesy to me.

I mean.... Put me in the dug it crowd. I enjoyed the action scenes I liked the twists and I think it was a great third act overall.

Some cheesy lines here and there and some things that weren't exactly explained is just movie magic for me here, the drubbing it took from critics helped me lower my expectations a bit but it still delivered for me.

And blessed be the Dolby screens. I don't wanna see a movie without em anymore.

Solid 7/10 for me.

Big kick in the nuts to revisit Unbreakable in prep for Glass, discover I really like that movie, only to despise what Shyamalan had in store for these characters in chapter three.

So I kind of hated this movie. The first hour or so (maybe more) is relentlessly boring, with scene after scene in the same location going in circles with nothing really going on. Then, there's one genuinely engaging scene which hearkened back to the strengths of Unbreakable that I really liked, then the film settles into action climax mood. I really didn't want a big punch-out for this series, but if they were to go that route, they needed a lot more production value and creativity because the climax here is mostly laughable. Indeed, the film's low-budget is consistently felt, but that bothered me a lot less than the dull story which nosedives into nonsensical territory with a ridiculously overblown ending that seems to completely lose sight of what Unbreakable was about, namely the characters. What was a story about two lonely people finding (and losing) each other has become a big superhero universe, but at the expense of the emotional core that engaged me in the first place. I guess I didn't see the ending coming, so points for that, but it feels completely mismanaged and the motivation of the involved characters is questionable to say the least.

In addition to the one scene I liked a lot, I also still really like Sam Jackson's performance as Mister Glass and generally just find this character interesting. All told, I guess I shouldn't be disappointed given I don't think much of Split either, but the uniqueness of this trilogy really had me hoping this would be something special.

D

The movie is fascinating in that it seems completely stupid for the first hour and a half, then the twist happens which gives a decent explanation for what came before while revealing it to have actually been stupid for completely different reasons.

Just watched it last night. 

What a dumpster fire this movie is. I heard the bad reviews... But didn't think it could come close to how much they butchered the last half hour. 

The sad part is I really Love Un-breakable and Split. 

So it's even more disappointing... I was hoping since I missed it in Theatres id end liking it more without having to pay... Nope


3/10