― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
IE how does it resemble Mage more than, say, Star Wars?
Though now that I think about it, Mage and Star Wars are pretty close. Great and well-loved first section, over produced second act which left fans wondering if they'd misjudged the first one, final third never to appear.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 October 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Could be. Still, I loved this movie, it is my favorite of his too, the touching stuff worked, etc. I really like the mood of the film and, even though they are completely different stories, I think that's the mood a good Year One adaptation should have had.
― iodine (iodine), Saturday, 22 October 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to violate the least amount of laws of physics (chap), Saturday, 22 October 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, uh, I haven't read Campbell if you don't count instructions for heating up soup, so I'll have to beg off that portion of the question.
But aside from the admittedly pretty generic premise of a Gentle Everyman type learning that he has been Chosen by Forces to have Mighty Powers because of his Great Warrior Virtue, and some other pretty standard tropes like the enfeebled mentor and mysterious invisible nemesis it's mostly the mood of the two that strikes me as similar. It's true, as Joe points out, that Shammy is basically all about mood (and lame trick endings.) But then there's the whole 'run over by a train' gimmick as a way to expopse the extent of their invulnerability. And the fact that Bruce Unbreakable's vulnerability is the same as the grackleflints' (and the Signs ETs, but I digress.)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 24 October 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link
omg omg omg omg this is going to be a flaming garbage pile and I can't wait
Samuel L. Jackson suits up in purple metallic coat as villain on Glass set https://t.co/afyaPXEnEN— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) November 8, 2017
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
omg what i had no idea this was a thingit's going to be terrible right? loved unbreakable but it was such a classic done-in-one, rest left up to your imagination type movie.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
Bruh, go watch Split. All I'm gonna say.
― Bernard Crunderdunder (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:43 (six years ago) link
There are no good Shyamalan movies
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 9 November 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
I would not expend much energy arguing against your assertion.
― Fresh Toast (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 November 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
After easily figuring out the twist about halfway through The Sixth Sense (I don't think I even knew there was a twist coming before I saw it), I knew that it was a bad idea for this dude to build his career around films with 'shocking' endings.
― Fresh Toast (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 November 2017 16:45 (six years ago) link
Yeah me too. A teenage lifetime of reading comics will set you up for those trashy twists.
At the same time I still didn't guess the twist to Arlington Road, one of the worst movies in the universe.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 10 November 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link