Unbreakable film review (2000)- by Double Toasted

Full text transcript of the Unbreakable film review:

We know guys like that, fucking comic book historians, they can go down, down the way of every type of comic of how they can perceive it and how they can treat it as an art form other than dressing like friends. That’s pretty accurate.

We don’t like people, you know, not people like you would like the better if they did that style.

I know certain friends of ours, Martin, actually know Martin does kind of dress. Martin is Mr. Glass. I want to thank everybody for watching last week’s episode, which was Hans Lapper, and thank you for choosing this week’s episode, which is unbreakable. But before we get into all the reviews, go ahead, hit the like button, hit it again. The third time’s the triple like. Go ahead and subscribe to double post.com either down here on YouTube or four, six, nine, nine a month on our website. It’s fantastic. It’s the greatest thing ever. And they should do it. Also go to Ditmars dot com right there, Chris. Right there, everybody. And it’s gone. There’s more. You get all our free audio on SoundCloud, on iTunes podcast, and you don’t have to pay a dime for it. That’s that’s pretty awesome because you can pay 99 cents for one episode. You can be our episode. Give me the full episode of this because Unbreakable is such a movie.

Oh, is it a great movie? It is a bad movie. Find out right now. But with this movie. Yeah, here’s the thing. I as I told you before, I didn’t know this movie existed. Like, this is like it’s almost weird to not know that a movie exists at some point being around the audience and being around the people that I’m around, movie critics and film fans. And if I can fill in media studies graduate, you think I would have heard of this movie, but it completely just went out of my reach, my out of my reach out on my radar. I had no idea this was anything I could imagine that could be based on two things.

One, this came out early in and they Chumba LensCrafters sixth sense went under the radar. It was not what people were expecting and to because someone’s career went so downhill after this film. People are tired of the shtick, especially after films like, you know what, Lady in the Water, what was it happening Last Airbender after after all those films that just got buried? And it was just so say words like, oh, he made that one good movie in 1999. That was it. So I could see that for a mainstream audience, someone is not familiar with, you know, like I can say that word, the intricacies, intricacies, intricacies of film that they would forget about this.

Yeah. And so, you know, people are like, oh, man, not now with with glass coming out. That’s a split coming out was two years ago. That’s right. Leave it there. Oh yeah. Yeah. Go to sixteen point. I released in January 2017. Might as well as the twenty sixteen people are talking about this movie again. Right.

And they all kind of say the same thing because leading up to this episode you kind of mentioned before with the first trailer that we accidentally played that everyone that told me about this movie leading with this week leading up to it, they said the same thing you did. This movie is a deconstruction of the superhero genre. Everybody told me this. Right. And I’m like, OK, red flags, red flags right away. Because one that sounds super Bujji. Of course, everyone. I mean. Well, it sounds like so it sounds like it’s something that is if everybody’s able to say that everyone says the same thing about it, that means it’s too on the nose, which I was totally afraid of, that this movie was going to be something that hammers the point I get. This is a comic book movie.

Yeah. We’re going to go through how everything does it. And I’m over here thinking, oh, because everybody understands this. Everyone describes it as the same thing, that it’s going to be ham fisted, it’s going to be over the top and it’s going to be hell to history for my ass because I like silly shit, you know, I like sure. Shit. And I’m very critical when it comes to things trying to be artsy because I can tell the difference when someone’s trying to be artsy and when someone’s bullshitting, trying to be OK. And so not to sound better or that I’m better than the people because I didn’t know anything about this because obviously I hadn’t seen it yet, but I was concerned. And then the opening scene happened where it starts with those titles. And I was like, oh man, are they really going to do this? Like, are they going to really preach to me about superhero comic books and stuff like that? Because I’m kind of not ready to hear all this nonsense.

Did you drop this baby? Jesus Christ, no.

Well, goddamn, that’s more of a deconstruction of a baby than it was a distraction. I know that’s fucking awful.

I was you know, I read the first thing right here talking about 35 pages and twenty four hundred twenty four illustrations and the average comic book and they have thirty thousand comic books. And this Wikipedia page. Yeah, this is a comic book movie. I get it. That’s what I was worried about, was like, oh shit, here we go. I’m going to tell me everything. And then it opens in this long one shot of a woman giving birth in a you know, like a convenience store. That’s right. At Sears or something like that. And and then all of a sudden I’m feeling bad because I’m like, oh, shit, this baby has broken arms and legs. This is totally not cool. It’s actually pretty intense when you think about it, you know, kind of open.

Yeah. That immediately grabs your attention and just how how it builds to especially how the guys like interacting with the kid. He’s like, yeah, what did you drop this baby. Yeah. And that’s happened. Yeah. You know, and then when he says that it’s broken all its limbs, it’s just oh it just it grips you and you just feel kind of. I always felt really. Nosheen opening scene just it sets you on edge perfectly and that’s why it’s like, OK, what’s going to happen next if you’re going to break a baby’s arms and legs.

Yeah, putting shot, that means, OK, there’s going to be some shit that happens which does.

But, you know, there was something that was kind of the one thing that I didn’t know about this movie going in from the week I found out this movie existed. Was that in in the new movie Glass that was named Mr. Guy was Mr. Glass. It was about Samuel Jackson and how he is super brittle. Now, I didn’t know disease is a bone disease where he is. He doesn’t make the right proteins or whatever. So his bones are super brittle. But I also just didn’t know that that Bruce Willis was super strong. I didn’t know that that was the premise of the movie. I just was like, OK, this guy’s in a wheelchair.

Just obviously just breaking himself all the time. Yeah, I had no idea. So even though I knew that about it, yeah. I knew nothing else. So going in, learning about Bruce Willis, I was like, OK, well he’s just a dude up mean this point. He’s just the dude completely blind. I was completely blind going into this.

And so watching this, you know, you see a little girl, you know, on the train, you know, seeing him in between the chair or whatever have you. And this is also another super long shot where someone puts the camera in the perspective of the child. Looking back and forth between Bruce Willis talking to this like NFL scout lady. And my first impression of this guy, like this guy’s a piece of shit a little bit because he takes off his wedding ring, puts it away, and then he’s trying to chat up this this this hot little thing, you know?

Sure. What I love about this opening scene is that despite the title, Bruce Wilson’s character, David Dunn, is a broken man. Oh, he is. He is shattered literally where I mean, yeah, he has that brief interaction. A little girl. He has a smile and he tries to flirt with this person and it goes completely, you know, wrong. And you could tell he’s just he’s so depressed. He puts his wedding ring back on. He wants to disappear from the world. You could tell something’s immediately wrong with him emotionally.

Everyone’s dead, everyone’s dead. And it’s it’s an awful crash. But what’s really tragic about it is the way that we find out that everyone’s dead. And it’s a moment in the hospital where he’s being checked up on and they’re helping another guy who may have a chance to survive but really won’t make it in the emergency room in the Philadelphia City Hospital, a serious accident.

Are you certain you were in the passenger car on? Because it seems in a few minutes that you officially be the only survivor of this train wreck and into.

Because she didn’t break one bone. And it’s fucked up to see a scene like that where it’s like, oh, man, that’s dope, he survived, he’s a superhero. But then you look at the cost of it and it’s just, oh, sure, my God. Like all these families waiting for their loved ones to come out of the hospital room and none of them are going to be satisfied.

Well, Jim, before when you have that initial shot where it’s just like him in the distance, did you see the guy’s chest trying to breathe? And everything you learn is half his fucking face has been crushed in sense, right? Yeah. And you can you can tell I mean, you can see and he’s just staring off blankly at that guy the entire time, not looking at the doctor. He’s just seen that guy. Yeah. And he’s again, he is a broken person. He is so cut off from where he is right now because he doesn’t want to be reminded of what he is the entire time because he’s afraid of that. And that’s. So you think he’s known this entire time? Oh, my God. He’s he’s denied it the entire time and he has to constantly remind. And it’s like, look, he’s you know, he’s having these these callbacks to it. He knows the fact that he survived. And I think, you know, and he says, like, why did I? Because he’s just denying it. He doesn’t want to accept it until eventually certain things happen.

So so when he’s trying to recollect. Yeah, I was in a situation like, man, what the fuck was that last time I got sick, you know, and and it kind of gets you where it’s like, man, it’s good to even realize that he is as healthy as he is. And I like that little reveal how he himself is even questioning like, OK, well, that’s kind of weird. When was the last time he’s just never thought about that kind of thing. Right. And you go from that simple question to a flashback that fades black and goes into a flashback to the 70s West Philadelphia, born and raised. And it goes to Mr. Glass as a kid who’s cooped up in his room, avoiding the outside world, avoiding getting another bone broken. And at a certain point I’d be like, yeah, I’m sick of this shit.

I don’t wanna go outside. Sure. Every time I fall down, I break my clavicle like I’m not OK with that. So, yeah.

So she was like, yeah, well if you, if you go outside say well she says like well you could fall in the wave from the chair to the TV room and break your ass if God wills it. So it’s like OK, it was a little bit of religious element in there. But he goes outside and his mom kind of goads him outside to get this gift than the gift ends up being a comic book. And she says, well, every time you come outside, you know, and have the risk of falling and breaking your ass, you get a free comic book because she bought a bunch of them. And at a certain point, you know, he creates a love and he’ll even an obsession with comic books, something a lot of people we know can associate with. I mean, I know a lot of grown men that was into the spider and cried. That’s like I don’t know, that’s the for me that you can do it. I’m not saying I’m not JULlETTE in this shit. It’s like you’re not married. If you cried is just something I wouldn’t do. I wasn’t as invested.

Yeah. And the most passionate of Toasties I will say like I love this, this whole scene, like his origin story him as a youth and him realizing what his destiny is. The one my big criticism of this movie, and it’s really only one, is that some of the camerawork that someone does, it’s very weird to me, like he has a thing where it starts. Are you looking from the camera like like the the the comics upside down. It slowly spins and still upside down the entire time. It’s got a little disorienting for me. Maybe it’s a personal thing. Yeah. It’s like that’s kind of weird.

What you get though, is that Mr. Glass I’m just gonna call Mr. Glass easier. Was the name price price? Yeah. He takes this obsession with comic books very seriously. He’s able to make a career out of it. And and he sees comics as a true art form, as a continuation of legend, a way to continue legends, if you will, passed down from generations before that just ended up being bastardized by the commercial commercialism. But he believes that he’s found a real life superhero because he’s looking for a person who has survived a great tragedy, catastrophic accident. He’s trying to find an origin story, if you will, in the news. And it sounds and it sounds as crazy as you think it is coming from a guy who surround himself not only with old timey comic books, but with hieroglyphics.

This is from Fritz Campion’s own library. Oh, my kid’s going to go berserk. And one of us has made a gross error and wasted the other person’s valuable time. And this is a piece of art.

I’ll certainly argue that you’ve never taken it 75 percent.

That’s not certain at all, is it? I believe comics are last night to an ancient way of passing on history.

There is a sole survivor and he is miraculously unharmed. The kind of person.

These stories are about what exactly is it that you do work at the University Stadium security guard.

So Bruce Willis is like, this guy’s fucking crazy and you think about it. Yeah, this guy is fucking crazy because, I mean, we know guys like that fucking comic book historian. They can go down down the way of every type of comic of how they can perceive it and how they can treat it as an art form other than dressing like friends. That’s pretty accurate.

We don’t like but you know, people like you would like the better if they did that style.

I know certain friends of ours, Martin, actually know Martin does kind of dress. Martin is Mr. Glass. You know, it gets him puzzled. He’s just like, OK, well, this guy asks, I’ve never been sick. I’m not sure if I had ever been sick, but this guy thinks that I’m a superhero. And you could tell, even though he’s kind of kind of what’s the word kind of passive about it. It’s like whatever. This guy’s crazy. You see that it’s eating at a very well. It’s like, OK, yeah.

He’s making a point about, you know, him being unbreakable. But then me, I survived this crash and it was sad that that, you know, that accident caused you to lose your ability to play football.

I think, you know, Elijah’s character is the first one to finally confront him with this. He’s never been really confronted with this before in this way, like everyone else is like, oh, you’re the star football player all. You’re a good security guard. But no one, just like you have superpowers. And when he finally someone does that to him, it’s bring all this back and where he’s fine looking at his past. And, you know, I think he’s just as you said before, he suppressed this for so long. He’s known about it, I think the entire time. He just doesn’t want to go there because I think he’s scared and because he is he has been so separated from selfies, he’s rejected everything that he won in his life that would make him happy and that potentially to do something that would give him some sort of fulfillment. He’s he’s always so apprehensive about that. Right.

And what’s interesting is that they’ll bring up this accident over and over again, over and over and over again throughout the movie. And the fact that he couldn’t play after, you know, they’re very vague about that. They didn’t say, OK, broke, he broke his spine or he broke his foot or is throwing rotation. It wasn’t the same. He just whatever couldn’t do it anymore. You see him working at the stadium. I think the Philadelphia Eagles Stadium would ever have college football, college football. So I don’t know what team it is. But he works security and he’s interrupted by Mr. Glass trying to come in using a bootleg ticket. And Mr. Glass is trying to explain to him that, yeah, no, I’m telling you, you’re a superhero. You are a superhero, and you better believe it because.

I break, you don’t, and I and even though you’re not sure, even though there’s some variables out there, you need to know that you need to explore this, because I need to make sure I find the superhero because he’s so obsessed with comic books.

And you think, man, this guy is just weird. He’s like, I mean, not to be crude or anything weird fucking cripple, dude, just like, hey, you’re my superhero. I’m going to follow you at fucking work. It’s insane.

Yeah. No, I mean that you need a character who is very odd for this film to to establish the science fiction element of it, because everyone else, for the most part, it’s very normal. You encounter some other characters who are odd, but there’s a reason why they are much later in the third act. But you need that element in there to introduce this type of stuff, to get audiences used to it the entire time. That’s the importance of simple Jack character before the ending with him. This is this this is where I think he is most best served in introducing this very, very foreign concept to mainstream answers that don’t know anything about this. Right.

I’m going to play the clip.

Why is it do you think that of all the professions in the world you chose to touch? All right.

How do you know that guy you bumped was carrying a weapon, got a.

Picture of a silver gun with a black grip, characters in comics are often attributed special powers, invisibility, X-ray vision, things of that sort. It’s an exaggeration of the truth. Oh, fuck. God damn. Stares, mother fucker.

Just the doctors have said that it is not nothing rated PG 13, if you want to get one.

That’s in other words. That’s true. But outside the courtroom, I think they should be rated R o. He should look around. Definitely, yeah. Again, that nauseousness just came back, just like in the beginning. The movie when you when you hear when he has broken bones as a baby. Yeah. Well, not only that, but like he it seems like he’s doing this out of almost like a crazy earnestine, like I need to find out if he has the gun with the black handle and the silver.

I had this all this revolved around my life for so long. I need to have this be real for myself. And I will risk injury, life and limb literally.

Right. And that was the thing, because this doesn’t prove a goddamn thing. Sure. Towards him, you know, having some sort of buoyancy or clairvoyance, as you were saying. But like, he’s really to throw it all out there, like he’s really going for it. He knows that he can fall apart like just like his fucking cane right there. And, you know, it’s almost like his intentions were noble, which is a kind of a great thing for a character. They will eventually become something else, which I get into. But but but at this point in the movie, you’re like, oh, man. Well, this guy, he really believes this. And he’s really trying to it’s almost from a fanboy perspective as opposed to like a nefarious perspective as to start he’s he’s invested and therefore we are invested and he has his Ernestas is where is he?

Is he still kind of charming again when he is monologuing? We listen to those monologues and we like them.

It’s at this point where you have these dynamics of opinion on how your opinion, Mr. Glass, your opinion on Bruce Willis, whatever they may be, whether you know this is real or not, because I mean, I guess when you’re watching this movie for the first time, not knowing anything about it to the year 2000, you’re like, well, is this a superhero movie or is this guy just exceptionally lucky or strong? Is this guy psycho? Those questions are still in the play. This is not, by definition, a superhero movie yet. Right? That’s kind of the part of the twist that you get that we know now being in the present.

But you have that kind of idea weighing on you when this next part comes to fruition, because he’s starting to think, OK, well, do I have X-ray vision, too? So he tries that out a little bit. And then the movie itself goes, nope, there’s a superhero movie because it just goes all in. And it manifests in one of the strangest series of scenes that I’ve seen in which you would call a superhero movie.

737 crashes on takeoff when I can, so now I’m going to stop it there, because fucking M. Night Shyamalan is theories.

Do you know what the significance of everything I’ve read after the movie came out? All right. So apparently this lady and the little kid is James McAvoy and his mom from from Split’s, Kevin’s cousin. I just haven’t seen the movie. The whole is Kevin, though. It was the horde. That’s what they call hard or it’s like the little do I put it down at the end there. You’re goddamn right. You put a D at the end of the hall, man of many names, singers.

So seriously, dissecting this film is such a mature way.

You have to look at that fucking weirdo kid. He has weird personalities. But what I read also about that movie was that that lady beat the shit out of them because she was able to see and and so did having twenty five personalities was throwing her shit off. But like, that’s just straight. Yeah, well just having a reaction is like even if that wasn’t the case, I mean yeah you reckoned it but having something in there where it’s like wow, you heard the screams of the child through her body. That’s fucking weird. One of those kind of leaving it alone.

There’s another scene that’s very similar to this. I’m sure you’re going to show it. What I like about this is that’s very similar to Superman, where Superman, he has all these incredible powers, but he can also hear all the suffering in the world all the time. But he has to cut himself off from because he knows he can’t save everyone. And I think this is that type of scene with Bruce Willis. You know, there was a kid nearly drowned in that pool stuff.

Just an ordinary man. No, you’re not. What the hell are you doing? Oh, my God. He’ll die. Joseph, Joseph, listen to what you’re up to get scared because I thought we were just starting to be friends for real. And they don’t shoot each other, do they, Audrey? And no shooting friends.

Joseph, I followed the guy in the camouflage jacket.

Fucking Joseph. Fuck, dude, that is a great actor in that scene. I mean, just. Yeah, job. But I was too busy figuring out, like one to not make any white shooter jokes. And two, because I don’t wanna hear those comments, but two, oh, it was like, wait, what’s this? I mean, I understand the kid is impressionable, but for fuck’s sake, I’m going to shoot my dad to prove he’s a superhero. That’s that’s a weird turn for this movie to make.

I feel I think it’s just how broken this family is. How. Yeah. I mean, the family is not unbreakable. I mean, we didn’t really mention how his his relationship with his wife is just in shambles. Right. You know, and the fact that he went to New York because he wants to get a job and he’s going to just leave. Yeah, he really has no connection with his son. Like he said, like we’re friends finally. Right. But he is he is so distant from his son. Well, he even says this is like, don’t I just.

Well, he’s actually when he’s talking to the counselor, he’s like, yeah, my wife deals with son related things like not even like money. You related things just like anything with my son she deals with. Yeah. Which is like, damn dude. Like that’s your kid.

And that’s the thing again, he sees so cuffy that one day he’s like, I think we’re finally, you know, we’re finally friends. Yeah. Jesus Christ. This is, this is, this is the state that he is in and his son has for first time, he has that emotional connection with his father. It is so extreme, based on Elijah’s negative influence that he has this moment where it’s like, no, you are sitting here, I’m going to prove it to you because he’s still in denial of it. I mean, you say it’s extreme. I just think it’s kind of this is just natural because this kid is so cut off from his mother, from everything else he’s getting. He’s getting in fights in school. He needs something. This is what he finally believes in. And he goes to these great lengths to prove it. And, yeah, it’s it’s awful. And what you just see them lay in the ground just like Jesus Christ, right. I think it’s amazing.

Well, I mean, I’m not not saying I was in captivity because I was watching. Now, when I finally went to that next step to the next, you ask maybe. Oh, yeah. Oh, I think it just jumped was just like, all right. We’re kind of feeling it now. He thinks it is. Oh, I got a gun. I’ve loaded. I’m a shoot. My dad, like, I didn’t think he was there yet with his delusion. He was lying. He’s a superhero and he’s always not always known.

And so the first thing that Mr. Glass does is he goes, you know what, your superhero go around, touch some people. And so he goes into the middle of the train station. Norvelle that and he has all these super extra senses and this every person he touches is apparently a criminal because that lady young kleptomaniac is a racist guy that breaks a bottle over.

A black woman said, oh my God, that’s awful. And then we got to fucking Gillette commercial with the guys like Hey girl, you sleeping. And he closes the door and does awful, awful things there.

And I’m like, well, those are the three people in that one spot that he’s just like, oh, shit. Steeler race, race, racist, racist, hate, hate crime. Bravia and a rapist like this is awful.

But again, what I love about this scene is and by the way, the score they have this one it’s all playing is beautiful. I mean, just has his arms outstretched. It just how it shot is amazing. Again, film like weird shots and you have to get some beautiful shots. Right. But he can’t respond all those things. Yeah. Just like Superman because he sees all the suffering. But he’s like, I have to just you got to I have to go for this one thing which I know I can’t help these people the most. That’s why I choose that moment when you just see right there, we have to stop this crime.

I have to stop the injustice in the world. And so he actually does his due diligence and tracks down. I don’t even know how he does it if you only get visions of the inside, but he’s able to track down where this this crime is happening.

You know what, the scariest thing is to not know your place in this world quite. Not a mistake.

What are these? Oh, we never saw them again. That was the only movie ever, ever. Until tomorrow.

And then Bruce Willis gets to be a robot. But no, I mean, so here is the thing. First problem. OK, so so the janitor guy or whatever have you the guy in the orange jumpsuit, he’s, you know, clearly cruel. He’s he’s killed the guy. Yeah. Whatever. He’s a murder. So he’s like, all right, I’m going to push him off the balcony on top of the pool. Not even in the pool on top of the pool. Doesn’t know that’s his weakness. But then he’s like, all right, cool, I’m a drink beer and spit on her like, wouldn’t you go finish the job?

Wouldn’t you make sure that that guy is dead because that guy just saw you commit all those crimes? Yeah. Like, wouldn’t you want to make sure that guy was dead?

Well, I mean, with this kind of guy, we don’t know what his MO modes of operandi are, you know?

I mean, the thing he left that dead body in the basement or the attic or wherever. Yeah. That’s not going anywhere. Sure. I mean, they had bodies in that water. I know he’s not going anywhere, you know, I guess he’s drowning. He got he got caught in that cover for which, by the way, that’s what he’s terrified. That is pretty terrifying. It’s like, oh, man, that shit, you’re underwater. So he’s like he’s he’s fine. He’s dead. I guess so. No, I mean, you kind of in this type is going to go with it. You’re not wrong. Maybe the guy’s extremely common again. He’s a psychopath. Yeah. Maybe he’s not that smart.

Now, here’s the here’s the part where I’m like, oh, man. Another one of those convenience things. So it shows Mr. Glass committing all these acts of terrorism, says one in Mexico, says a couple of other ones in different parts of the world. Right. Yeah, but isn’t it kind of convenient that the superhero would be in the same town he’s in in Philadelphia and that just kind of like pure luck, happenstance type of thing?

I mean I mean, well, he tried all these things all over the world and and the one that landed one guy down the street. That’s one thing about comics, man. They do tend to be convenient. I guess that’s the thing. And it’s like the what as he says, like, you know, typically the hero and the villain were lifelong friends and they and they’ve known each other for a while. So it kind of makes it weird guy in his mind, their friends. But you know what? I’m a go ahead. Let’s you start with the review. You know, when I watch this movie again, it really just made me appreciate everything that did. Again, this film was ahead of its time. It’s it’s a total deconstruction of superhero tale. The performances are fantastic. I mean, you know, Samuel Jackson is great as the villain. This is, I think, probably one of the last times Bruce Willis actually gave a shit in a role like, oh, just melancholy. He is how broken he is. Now, in some of my criticisms, I think some of the camera works a little wonky, you know, but for the most part, that doesn’t happen too often. But the wife is, I think, explored just enough. It’s more of a background thing by something to add to his character. But yeah, overall, I still think this movie is brilliant. It’s probably my favorite Night Shyamalan movies. No, I love this movie. In the more I think about I was thinking, I’m gonna give this a high, full price. But it’s looking at these scenes talking about this. It’s appreciation for the comic book genre. This is better than sex male.

Yeah, I got that feeling. Yeah. Yeah, I got some. I really liked it and it made me cry. It made me cry.

Made me water. I’d like to see what just has his hands out like that, touching all those people, realizing that he can’t go after he has to go after this one thing and he’s upset about it but he knows like I can only save one, save one one thing after mirror in regards to everybody’s criticism, including yours, is that this is a movie that I feel really is ahead of its time.

I mean, you really have to think hard about the state of superhero movies that would end up coming after this.

Actually, not even more so after this, because we have so many. But before this, we mentioned at the top of the show, what was it about the Batman’s, Tim Burton, Batman’s, the 90s, Batman’s Blade, the Superman movies in the 70s, 80s, the Crowe Steel X-Men being made probably at the same time as this. Those are all different variants of silly. At some point. At some point, it takes a property that you kind of know from the comic book pages and makes them and takes them seriously to a certain extent laughs them. And the last of a certain points about the, you know, the yellow spandex type jokes that they make, you know, but here with really no other property or fandom to go off of, it’s almost refreshing to see something original like this. This is one of those times we’re going back and watching a movie that establishes certain elements or translatable elements or tropes, if you will, is actually better than seeing the derivatives of it. Yes. Where the derivatives have something that they have to connect with, like Iron Man can’t be this because Iron Man has to connect to Iron Man, the actual cartoon. It’s real here. This movie has no loyalties to tie to, so it’s able to make its own story to tell it in a way that is engaging and fun. And now you have the trilogy where it’s split and and glass. But that’s now that’s that’s what they made now because they have to make the money. This didn’t need to make the money. This was a young guy, a young director that was hungry, had an idea that was passionate about this and made something that was really good.

The only real downside to this, in my opinion, is the ending is pretty telegraphed for me. And at times, you know, I just. Quite simply, wasn’t invested in the whole failing marriage subplot, there’s reason for it, there’s payoffs within it. But it just wasn’t my cup of tea and I can’t blame the movie for that. That’s just me. Other than that, this is a guy who sold me a little higher, but it’s still a full price. I was going to give a low price. That’s good. I was going to go a little full price, but you kind of brought it up for me just in your explanation.

No, I mean, meet me back in the day when I first saw this, when I was very young, didn’t appreciate I didn’t like this movie. Oh, it wasn’t until years later I was like, oh, shit. Wow. This is this is actually I had to be more mature. I had to be smarter to really understand what I was doing. And so I understand people not maybe liking this, you know, at first. But I think with you know, with multiple viewings you get a more appreciation for. Right.

And I’ve only seen this the two times. Yeah. So, yeah. But you know what? That’s it for the reviews. So go do all the things I told you at the top of the video and we’ll see you next week. We don’t have anything planned next week because nothing’s coming out. But February is coming and we’ll have some things for that. So go ahead and say bye to everybody.

Say bye to everybody. Everybody. Everybody knows about everybody. Cause if I told you so much.