Monthly Movie Club, February 2019 Glass

We'll try it!

So lets all talk about Glass a sequel to the 2000 movie Unbreakable which can be streamed for $2.99 now.

If no one is interested in Glass (or even if it does), we'll try Alita Battle Angel next.

The director M. Night Shyamalan became famous overnight due to The Sixth Sense. He followed with Unbreakable which was also very good. Then he followed with Signs which was less good. Then he made a bunch of mediocre and subpar movies.

The Last Airbender was an iconic critically and fan-acclaimed television series, but the movie failed on pretty much every level.

But Glass was a good movie. I do not believe that this means Mr. Shyamalan has turned a corner but I will give his future movies a chance now...as long as my movie theater keeps doing $5 Tuesdays.

Glass is good. It's a perfect sequel. Not a perfect movie, that is basically impossible, but a perfect sequel is not impossible.

A perfect sequel must do the following. According to the youtube critic Schaffrilla's production
1-Expands the Universe in meaningful ways.
2-Continue the story in a new compelling way.
3-Expand the theme/introduce new themes.
4-Leave a positive impact on the franchise.

If there is a problem with this movie, the problem is that the sequel occurs nineteen years after the first one. We have active forumites who weren't alive when Unbreakable came out.

This movie is also right up my alley. I really like super hero movies, and I like deconstructing literary tropes. Both Unbreakable and Glass deconstruct super hero stories.

I also like movies that bend genres. Both these movies blend superhero stories with modern film noir. You have the dark shadowy cinematography and shifting lights common to noir and the cinematography mixes it organically with screen shots that look like comic panes.

I also like the way they mix colors. There are a lot of gray tones like you see in modern noir but the most important characters usually stand out in large crowds by being the only brightly colored characters in the scene. Standing out like...comic book characters.


I also add that Glass is very good because Samuel Jackson and Bruce Willis are very good though there are plenty of bad movies with good actors. At the risk of causing this thread to derail. Samuel Jackson could not save the Star Wars prequels.

 

Anyway, other people are willing to comment on Unbreakable and Glass, or I can keep ranting if no one replies in a week or two and people keep like bombing this.

 

I have not seen Glass, but I'm planning to see Alita.

 

Fair enough, in fact I started this because I was tired of Star Wars discussions dominating the subforum then I brought it up. My bad.

In any event Samuel Jackson is a very talented actor. He rarely says "no" when offered films, so he is in good and bad movies. Samuel Jackson is known for playing crazy screaming characters but he can do more. In Unbreakable and Glass he is calm, methodical, and very charismatic.

He was probably the best part of the movie, but James McAvoy was good too. I didn't realize Glass was a sequel to Unbreakable and Split. Has anyone watched Split? Split sort of came out during the run of moves when I gave up M. Night Shymalan. Is it worth my time? McAvoy's character was the first movie portrayal of a multiple personality character that I found convincing, but I'm not sure if I like it enough for it to carry an entire movie by itself. In Glass the mutliple personality villain was part of an ensemble.

 

So no one has actually watched Glass but me and @Scolenex.

He never wants to talk about movies with me He hasn't forgiven me for losing that golden ring.

 

We all love you Scalenex, but... I am just not a person who goes to the movies so if a movie isn't on Amazon Prime or BluRay, then I most likely haven't seen it unless it is Star Wars.

 

ATM, I could talk about the last "How to train your Dragon"...