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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Mon Jan 21, 2019, 05:35 AM Jan 2019

Why the bad reviews for "Glass"? I liked it. (Little bit spoilers.)

"Glass" was actually a pretty good movie.

The only downside I see is that the middle chapter, with the psychiatrist-sessions, was too rushed. It would take many more sessions with a patient to get this far into his mind.

Okay, it wasn't a typical superhero-movie, but that's because it wasn't supposed to be a superhero-movie about superheroes fighting supervillains. It was a thriller, a drama, from the very beginning to the very end.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/m-night-shyamalans-glass-is-a-big-middle-finger-to-his-superhero-fans

Glass disappoints so brazenly, squandering all its momentum and promise, that I keep wondering if it’s done on purpose. This is a movie in which a climactic moment hinges on a pothole. Most of it takes place indoors. Not a single building gets smashed, and the villain’s elderly mom explains to everyone what a “showdown” is—and then said showdown doesn’t happen.

Oh boo-hoo.

So it’s strange that in Glass, he seems to forget what makes superhero stories (his included) endure. It’s not just the powers or the who-would-win. It’s also how people who choose to be good inspire us, and what those who choose evil tell us about ourselves.

Somebody is unhappy that Hollywood didn't press the feel-good buttons for his mind.

How dare Shyamalan make a story about superheroes that is different from the stories we are used to???

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Why the bad reviews for "Glass"? I liked it. (Little bit spoilers.) (Original Post) DetlefK Jan 2019 OP

Meh. Unbreakable (the first of the series) was pretty terrible, too. Dr Hobbitstein Jan 2019 #1

I liked it. pressbox69 Feb 2019 #2

"New Mutants" DetlefK Feb 2019 #3

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)

1. Meh. Unbreakable (the first of the series) was pretty terrible, too.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 09:24 AM

Jan 2019

I haven't liked anything MNS put out aside from Sixth Sense. He tries to hard for his "twist".

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)

2. I liked it.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Feb 13, 2019, 03:33 AM

Feb 2019

The whole movie is a twist on super heroes. Pretty clever to keep showing the magazine cover with the word MARVEL on it. Saw a trailer for an upcoming X-Men movie that looks more horror than super hero.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

3. "New Mutants"

Reply to pressbox69 (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 13, 2019, 05:36 AM

Feb 2019

It's made by 20th Century Fox. Funny thing is: Marvel can't use the word "mutant" in their movies.

Also, I'm very curious about the character Cannonball in that movie. In the comics, he's such a happy, goofy and chipper guy, until he fucks up big-time during a hostage-situation and has a mental break-down and becomes depressed and masochistic. (IIRC he eventually gets better though through therapy and friends.)

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