Glass Isn't a Very Good Movie - A Spoiler-Rich Vlog
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
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One of the most remarkable things about the film is that it leaves you consistently bewildered about which characters you're supposed to care about, and it's almost impossible to parse who the story is supposed to be about while you're sitting in the theatre. Whole swaths of confusing character behaviour are waved away with sloppy last-minute reveals that play less like reveals and more like excuses.
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Unbreakable was great, Split was bad, Glass was worse.
I'm trying to make sense of The Beast and, given the way Bruce's origin story was handled (Glass killing masses of people until someone walks out), and what you said about this organization that covers up super-heroes being a part of this universe, I suspect the concept of the The Beast is NOT that disassociative identity disorder gave him powers.
It seems far more likely that the conceit of this universe is that 1 in X (where X is big, like 10 thousand or 1 million or so) people are just born with super powers. But most people live and die their whole lives without accessing their powers (the intersection of "people who actually can throw fireballs" and "people who seriously try to throw fireballs" is vanishingly close to zero). Bruce may have gone his whole life without discovering he's super strong because a security guard doesn't often try to bend titanium bars. He would have written off most of his encounters with invulnerability as luck. But Glass kinda forced him to be woke. Kevin, absent his DID, probably wouldn't have tried to climb walls or lift cars, but one of his personalities was crazy enough to tap into the powers he was born with.
Sadly, I probably put more thought into that paragraph than the writer/director did, because he was too busy trying to think of how to tone down his super hero story after the studio didn't give him enough money to include the scenes in his head.
Split wasn't bad.
@@torydespres2207 Your comment might be the most insightful thing in the world, but the massive wall of text is *incredibly* annoying to read. I'm on a 15 inch Macbook. A line of text for a comment is roughly 8 inches long. You have over FIFTY lines of text with no breaks. I tried to read it, but it just blurs together.
Formatting protip: Try making line breaks at each point you enumerate. Instead of having #) in the middle of a line of text, it'll be at the start of a new line, making it clear you're on to a new point/thought and making it easier for the reader to find.
One of the things I DID manage to see in your mass of words is you taking issue with Dan talking about the security footage not being convincing because normal people can do it begin wrong, since normal people can't climb walls like that. Dan specifically mentioned tipping over the car being the thing that he could see being done on Spike. The other footage, all the stuff you enumerated, isn't mentioned in that part of the video. And you ignore the part where he notes that people will doubt the other security footage uploaded as youtube videos are authentic and assume it's somebody doing special effects.
So did you just write all this without actually fully listening to his points because you were in such a rush to prove him wrong, or did you just decide to pretend he made a point you could disprove?
Also, your condescension throughout the wordfall that is your post makes your call for him to approach this in good faith seem extremely disingenuous.
Glad you liked the movie, even if you're kind of a jerk about it. Personally, I hated it. Boring, overly long, and terrible dialogue that confuses the ability to mention that tropes exist with actual analysis and depth.
@@torydespres2207 Not to imply anything, but are you okay? I know I sometimes find it difficult to set out my ideas when I have a strong reaction to something (such as liking a film, or hating a critique, or both). I find that I benefit a lot from stepping away from a comment thread for a day, maybe two. It helps me think a lot clearer and then I can set out my ideas a lot better. Notifications make it tempting to respond to comments asap, but I find that's not good for my reasoning, or for my emotions.
I just want to highlight this bit as an example of why no one should bother reading your entire thing:
"Movies work in three acts, as you know. 1st act ended right when Dr. Staple catches Kevin and David. 2nd Act begins when they enter the hospital and she attempts to indoctrinate them. 2nd Act: Whether they believe or not in themselves and their full potential. 2nd Act ends when all lead characters die realizing they are more than human and BCS (Black Clover Society) drowning out that victory."
This is so plainly wrong as to be comical. While you are correct that the first act ends when David and Kevin are captured, the third act begins at the point where the action moves inevitably towards the conclusion, which would very clearly be the breakout, the point where the characters start quite literally moving to the climax, aka the parking lot. The lines between acts in this film are so obviously delineated that it would be perfect to use when teaching children about three act structure. The only way it could get more obvious is if they inserted actual act breaks like a stage play.
Moreover if you were correct, that the third act begins when the characters die, that would make the third act around five minutes long, and the second act around 95 minutes. I'm hard pressed to see how that isn't damning criticism of the writing in its own right.
THIS IS WATER, SHE'S GOT MY BACK. I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND BEING SUBMERGED BY HER, SHE TRAPS THE SOULS OF BRUCE WILLIS
My mum asked me to explain what I was laughing at and I was just like, this is gonna take a lot of catch up and she was just, no
Wait, how many souls does Bruce Willis have?
@@Gloomdrake He's got several deepfake souls to fill in for his main
I laughed way too hard at this.
This is a dig on the idiotic writing of the first suicide squad.
To be fair, I think a video of James McAvoy shirtless tipping over a car would go viral, but perhaps for entirely different reasons than the movie proposes
There's also footage of him climbing on walls/ceilings.
The thing is the stuff they did is remarkable sure anyone can dent the out side of a van but to use one punch to dent both the inside and out side is insane, sure four people can tip a car but one lone man wouldn’t without assistance of a contraption ie the example he gave of someone pulling a car with cables on tv, any fool can climb as long as there’s ledges climbing on a flat surface takes years of practice, and lastly both men took down cops in riot gear easily heck one threw them around like they were weightless all in all I’d be surprised if it didn’t go viral.
Yes.
James McAvoy is a glorious human being.
+1000 if he's done up as Tumnus when he does it.
FiddlebirdBlue It’s Zack Snyder’s Narnia!
"Bruce has it in his contract that he only works for one day."
And then we found out that he has had a degenerative brain disorder for years and that his agent has been exploiting him while keeping this all a secret from the pubic and we now feel bad for calling out his bad acting.
He really *did* literally forget how to act. :(
Man, that sucks.
@@joeiechristiansantana9641 It does.
Who cares 🙄
@@JoryKorvid I does, because I am capable of empathy, like most decent human beings.
I didn’t know that. poor guy. I hope he’s able to rest with his family for now on. (Also don’t mind the troll, they’re stuck in 2003 when being unaffected made you cool)
"It was not OK"
The words of a haunted man.
See, I had the opposite opinion, in that it was just “ok.” Very middle of the road.
still better than every generic marvel shit
The horror.... The horror
@@thefebo8987 Dan said he might do an essay on Infinity War sometime. I wish he would.
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This is just being delusional at this point.
Whenever I hear "The Beast" I think of "What We Do In The Shadows", where one of the vampires spends half the movie hyping up this horrible monster called "The Beast" and it eventually turns out that he's being melodramatic and The Beast is just his ex with whom he had a horrible breakup.
To be fair, Viago can be quite infuriating
@@Donnerbalken28Wasn't Vladislav the one who dated her?
Me and nandor are dating (canon)
"There is no meaning; there is only lore," is a great cold open.
Lore is honestly a better character than anyone in this movie.
@@CirianAlani Good point. Good point.
In the grim darkness of the 21st millenium, there is only lore
I've seen too many films since this video came out, to which that sentiment could apply.
I love this format because it makes major motion pictures seem like ludicrous fever dreams.
Implying that most aren't
This! I love this! It's so true!
But this one was.
Last name "Beast", first name "The". I climb well.
M. Night Shymalan NEEDS TO STOP MAKING MOVIES IN AMERICA AND GO WORK IN BOLLYWOOD AND MAKE CRAP THERE
Here comes “the beast.” The man can climb anything.
@@jamesmoseley5428 Of course someone already beat me to that punchline.
@@Facts-Over-Feelings Piss off racist, India doesn't want him either
... Wait, did he get blown up to badly prove a point?
Glass: half empty?
Filmmakers should know better than to name their movies something that easily lends itself to a critic's scathing pun.
HeyItWorked99 full empty
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If this isn't the top comment I will be disappointed in us as a species.
it seems like that's being generous/ More like Glass didn't hold under pressure and so it shattered :P (I'm sure there's a better one :P)
You forgot the M. Night cameo in which he walks up to Bruce Willis and says, “Hey, you look famikiar. Didn’t you used to work security at the old stadium about 19 years ago?”
Was that the actual line?
It's so on-the-nose it hurts
Such a pointless, unnecessary scene.
i completely forgot about that
Tarantino sucks too, just a bit less
@@Talisguy No, but he did write himself into an excuse to say the n-word.
33:22 "This organisation, that all have clover tattoos on their wrists, are secretly hunting down superhumans" When you're doing something secretly, it's important to have edgy branding. If anyone sees two members of the organisation, they could spot that they have identical tattoos and then track down other members. So: Cost/benefit analysis: On the one hand, the tattoos raise security concerns. On the other hand, they're cool.
yeah, just like how cia plants all have fake names that cleverly hint that they are CIA plants. Or how satanic god Penguinz0 is ratting on himself by wearing a white shirt with his black hair
This reminds me of a funny bit of lore you may recall from _Mass Effect._ The "Blue Suns" mercenary group goes to the trouble of removing their tattoos before (covert or semi-illegal) operations and then re-applying them afterwards, splitting the difference between op-sec and coolness.
@@zakestersno wonder they didn’t get farther as an outlet: tattoo removal fees
@@pikapuffin368counterpoint: temporary tattoos, applying them like you’re at a child’s birthday party
I know it isn't true, but I'm gonna pretend that it's Amy the cat throwing in those questions and comments from off-camera.
Dan's cat is extremely well versed in film production.
@@Soprie Amy has vastly better screen presence
Dan's cat has evolved after getting the Woke treatment of a 3-part 50 Shades documentary.
I think it was RUclipsr Jenny Nicholson.
I was going to say this.
I feel like it needs to be asked at this point because now it's pretty clearly a trend for almost two decades of his career: what is M. Night's obsession with water? Water was used as a plot device in Unbreakable, was the maguffin that saved the day in Signs, Lady in the Water relied on it heavily, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the entire reason he did The Last Airbender is because Book One of Avatar: The Last Airbender was about the water tribes.
still better than Tarantino's obsession with feet
Water is pretty ubiquitous. Our bodies are mostly water. The planet is mostly water. It's obviously more useful to a visual medium than air and it might just be laziness in reaching for a common image for symbolism. Or maybe he has a fixation, idk.
in his hoax video he claimed he drowned as a child and received divine visions that told him to become a director.
Oh hey, Old takes place on a beach! I think you're on to something.
To be fair that's not inherently a problem. Takashi Kitano - who was at least IMO until the mid 2000s a great director (some people will disagree with me he declined tho it's divisive but anyway) has a strong obsession with the sea. I can't remember what element of his personal life it reflects, but at the end of the day the result is that a lot of his films have either major films by the sea or just happens on a beach for most of the runtime. And... it does result in some very striking visuals.
M. Night Shamalayan shared universe: Bruce Willis's character is a human-alien hybrid of the kind from Signs, which is why he's vulnerable to water.
Has a doomed relationship with a Madam Narf.
Also Samuel L Jackson‘s character used waterbending to create the Happening in order to find super-plants.
I am both impressed and disappointed in the fact that M.Night probably intended or at least endorses that twist...
@@BATCHARRO that's genius
Headcanon accepted!!
Here comes The Beast, the man who can climb anything, wonderful.
*punches a random woman right in the face*
I wish I could give this more thumbs up
Human-beast, Human-beast
He's not smart enough to make a web shooter
Watch out, he'll tip you over!
... well that didn't work...
Seriously tho, if one of his personalities could make a sort of web shooter, he'd be basically cannibal spiderman but without the super strength and spider-sense
Did more then that but ok
What are we, some kind of... The Horde?
I feel like the stuffed banana is staring at you. It's disconcerting.
heiro omg now you made me look at it and I can't stop it's horrifying
It's a stuffed corncob actually. Dan and corn have a very special relationship.
@@mushroomshrub I'd like to think he's smiling proudly at Dan for trashing bad movies
@@mushroomshrub Someday I hope someone will look at me the same way the stuffed corncob looks at Dan
How dare you call my attention to it
"The Beast: The jacked man who can climb anything."
Edit: I finally saw the movie. So the tagline implies the movie is about coming out and revealing your true self to those who do not understand you like X-Men. A great and relevant message to be honest, but this film literally has The Beast flipping cars and murdering people cannibal style. On camera no less given the ending. So the plot basically defeats its own premise. If the footage getting out really created such a cultural impact, the result won't be enlightenment. More likely it will be a mass panic like holy shit we are living in a comic book world where supervillains that can cause mass casualty and turn our streets into war zones based on their whims exist.
倪传历 Beastknot
Theknot and Slipbeast
high jackedman
This is katana. She’s got my back
The Beast: The jacked up jack.
Wait why would Bruce Willis specifically only want to work one day on a film?? Why be an actor at all? Is he ill or something?
In all seriousness, he's probably horribly depressed. Not that armchair diagnoses are valid in any way.
Maybe he only gets given shit parts and he'd like some quality dialogue 🤷♀️ idk
This sounds like something that would necessitate research
At this point, Bruce Willis is pretty much only showing up for a paycheck and to feed his ego
He probably wants to retire but still likes the paycheck more (P.S. Love your work!)
Bruce Willis' presence in Glass is frequently referenced as either lazy acting or a lack of work ethic, but it's very likely that his recent diagnosis of aphasia sheds a lot of light on a state of health he'd probably been struggling with for years, including during the production of Glass. His lack of screen presence may have been part of accommodating his illness. This doesn't make the movie any better by acknowledging it, but Bruce's diagnosis does make a lot of the criticism of his performance hit differently, even though there's no reasonable way Dan could have known at the time.
I genuinely don't follow, to be honest. In a high paying line of work like acting, surely if he's not medically well enough to act, he would be reasonably able to not take the part and just focus on treatment?
@The Mysterious Plutonian unfortunately contracts are very brutal. And Bruce's name was most of the marketing appeal of this movie. It's kinda sad but he had to do it more or less
@@themysteriousplutonian7955 Another possible explanation is that he simply needs the paycheck. Nick Cage has famously been accepting pretty much everything that comes his way for that very reason.
@@themysteriousplutonian7955It appears that for several years, unclear exactly how many, his agent/handlers were masking his condition even to his loved ones, & signing him up for work according to highest $ for low effort.
@@themysteriousplutonian7955A lot of older actors have these kinds of agreements to do either cheap or short appearances in order to keep their medical benefits active with Screen Actors Guild.
The only person he ever referred to by name and appeared onscreen was Amy so I just have to assume that the female voice from offscreen adding her own commentary was the cat
"But then the footage got out because Mr glass hacked the system and streamed it or whatever"
Twist ending: Turns out the real hero was having a Twitch account all along...
And his account is now suspended for breaking the TOS.
"Mr Shyamalan, I understand that you think you are an auteur, you've convinced yourself you have extraordinary directing skills. I am here to discuss the possibility that you are mistaken."
Can we also talk about the Casey character (girl from Split) and how her motivation makes absolutely no god damn sense? I can understand her feeling sympathy for Kevin. But to be this invested to visit him in the hospital, hold him in your arms while he's dying. This dude kidnapped you, nearly killed and ate you, killed and ate two other girls practically in front of you. Makes no sense...
Stockholm syndrome/trauma bonding
I like how the cost of a low budget film is more money than ill ever see in my life
That's business for you
I'd watch a Floridaman movie.
Honestly Split would have been a thousand times better if it was just McAvoy being a super powered nuisance in Florida.
the movie Venom should’ve been.
It’s the movie we deserve after this tbh
M. Night Shymalan has convinced himself that he’s a good filmmaker, which allows him to manifest the superpower of making terrible films that are still somehow far better than The Last Airbender.
THERE IS NO FILM IN BA SING SAE
He is a good filmmaker. Signs is great. Love Unbreakable. Sixth Sense blew up for good reason. Even Glass is really well made, you just need to be the kind of person who liked Unbreakable. This isn't a Marvel movie.
Michael Eastman I actually like a decent chunk of his filmography. I like the Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, The Village (seriously), The Happening (ironically) and Split. But I think his skill is a lot more limited than he realizes, and his duds are legitimate duds.
Thats fucking funny shy bro lol
He is a good filmmaker he does not play it safe
Wait wait wait wait wait.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is supposed to come with superpowers?
I got cheated.
I feel this way about autism and The Accountant. I wanna use maths to shoot guns better wtf I just got social anxiety and executive dysfunction
Shouldn't that be "We got cheated"?
Well, maybe only ONE of you got cheated! (Sorry)
Brian Seiler boi you know you don’t have that stop all that lying
@@Lildoc911 Thats not exactly how it works man
I love how this movie is so bad that he just glosses over the fact that the three main characters just die at the end so M. is basically setting up a universe and also removed the basis for this universe in one go
It's actually so he can make a movie about them going on ghost adventures
“This was the most M. Night movie ever.”
“Oh! Oh!”
Mmm...I think TLA is was worse. And I’d rather watch Glass than either Signs or Lady in the Water. Signs is better technically, but it’s far less enjoyable.
What a twist
Fun fact, there is actually a super rare condition where your bone density increases to the point that your bones are really hard to break, but as a side-effect, you can't swim because your body becomes more dense than water.
Isn’t your body already more dense than water?
@@cthulhutheendless1587 Kind of, for instance if I fill my lungs then I become neutrally bouyant (damn my inconsistent spelling) with just my face surfaced. Also worth noting that sea water is slightly denser than pure water, and is easier to float in.
ah, the spartan 2 condition
@@00Q722 Actually, even with your lungs empty, you should float at roughly eye-level. Your body's connective tissues average out to be about equally dense to water, so combining that with the voids that are naturally present in a person's body and are filled with air and we're slightly positively buoyant in salt water, or about neutrally buoyant, usually very slightly positive, in fresh water.
It exists on a spectrum. I have bones that are super dense and hard to break and while I do sink, it's not all the way. I basically become buoyant a few inches under the water. But I can swim (in fact, I used to swim competitively). It just takes more effort.
one thing i have to note: DID is actually caused by trauma (such as abuse) early in life. it's a coping mechanism.
so, although split is a horrible representation of DID and demonizes people with it, the fact that it's caused by abuse is not wrong
Yeah, that's part of the annoying and problematic aspect of its representation. Because it uses the proper name and some elements of it, it seems somewhat credible if you're ignorant to the disorder. If you watched this film and you'd never heard of DID this would be your one association with the term. Then hypothetically when a friend or acquaintance tells you they have it your reaction will be: confusion since you've only seen it in a movie, or fear because it's portrayed as something that makes people randomly dangerous.
DID does come from trauma, but like you say, it demonizes those who are affected by the disorder. Less than 3% of people with DID are **at all dangerous** to anyone but themselves. Using the real terms muddies the waters about the truth in the worst way. If they hadn't called it DID it would still not be great since it would still be a villain with vaguely DID like symptoms in a horror movie (wow so original), but it wouldn't have the same harm that misleadingly calling it DID without doing any research into the actual disorder does.
It would be like making a movie called, "Apathy" where there's a villain who everyone says has depression, and he's sad, and because he has depression he does a murder of completely random people. But he lets one person live because he sees that they have ADHD medication on them so they're "damaged" and "the damaged are the more evolved."
I'm sorry for this rant on your comment,
TLDR; I agree with you, split does demonize people with DID.
And don't forget that OCD is the source of his mom's abusive behaviors.
It also does not give you super powers. And your climbing ability is posible unreleated to it also.
I thought, "Oh Bruce Willis remembered how to act again!"
But no it was just a scene from Unbreakable.
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They should add a line for The Horde talking to Mr. Glass - “... yeah, that’s impressive but there are actors in every community theater across the country that can do this.”
"His super power is that he's an actor"
So like the Mandarin from Iron Man 3? :P
You do know they putt it pretty clear in the movie that the mandarin is in the mcu, and that trevor was just used to blame things on the head of the 10 rings from movie 1.
They flat out States he stole the name
@Heavy Metal Collector jup hired as a misdirect, but they point out they took the name from a guy, and then in hail to the king we see what happens when you use that name in vain
The Mandarin twist was done better and in a much less patronising manner than the twists done here, though.
The Mandarin could spit fire and heal almost any injury and could punch through Iron Man suits. The other guy was not the Mandarin.
@@Matrim42 ..We know
The moral of the story: Never tell Shyamalan that he did a good/great movie.
Because as history shows, unless he's actively trying to prove he can make a good film, when he is left feeling he can do no wrong. He will make movies greatly overestimating his own capabilities.
“This peaks at like Florida Man.”
Can this be a pull quote on the DVD?
Context is important...
All this talk about Bruce Willis not wanting to be there just feels so damn sad now that we know that there may have been other factors keeping him from being engaging...
LMAOOOOOO I lost it when they flashbacked to Mr Glass saying FIRST NAME: MISTER, LAST NAME: GLASS
The man so nice, he named himself twice!
Why? It was intentional to show the viewer where/when we are flashbacked to. The exact moment. Which is probably why such a thud of a line exists, because it gives us a clear point of entry into the flashback.
@@SolveForX It was placed unnecessarily close to the original line. Rule one, respect the audience, no need to remind us of a line that was established less than 20 minutes ago.
The more I learn about the treatment of mental disorders in these movies, the more I know, in my heart of hearts, that if I ever see M. Night Shyamalan, I'm gonna fucking deck him
If you need someone to hold your coat when that time comes, let me know.
He seems so nice man he just likes to make wild movies
He made Dave Batista put those funny little glasses on be real
How about the girl that suddenly develops instant anachronistic Stockholm Syndrom and suddenly is all into the guy that MURDERED (and ate?) her friends. Nah it's ok. She just really needed to touch Mcavoy's sensitive sidCHEST?
Also, was Glass 19 years in there. That was totally unclear to me.
It wasn't just terrible. Like you said it made Unbreakable retroactively a worst movie.
True, but like, I feel like Stockholm syndrome doesn't really apply to a person who is made of of people who didnt WANT to go along with . She was appealing mostly to the innocent personalities, not the Beast.
@@poego6045 Hm interesting point. But I don't think that it's realistic for a third person to acknowledge to that level a "multiple personality disorder" as an observer. So it'd be a stretch for her to allocate liability in such a way. Especially when trauma is involved. (Too much analysis? :D :P )
Yeah makes no sense. Casey and Kevin never had a thing in Split and then all of a sudden they click in glass.
Φάνης Κουσουρής The film is, in part, her origin story. She’s beginning to understand her powers.
Those other girls were never Casey's friends, they were random girls she didn't relate to that she knew from one of her classes. She almost immediately in Split, came to realize that these personalities were each REAL people of their own, though they may be limited, but the 9 year old Hedwig was as real as any 9 year old boy when that personality took over.
Her meeting the Beast gave her the confidence and power in herself to turn her abusive uncle in to the police and believe in herself. She felt closer to Kevin and his personalities than any other person on earth, I think. When she was told that he was caught, she was excited to talk to him (them).
yeah im only 45 seconds in so i don't know if you'll mention this, but if people could stop making movies about DID when they know literally nothing about it, it would be fucking great. I have two friends with DID and they literally have to be like "closeted" about it way more than i have to hide my anxiety disorder and adhd, and even more than my family member has to hide his schizoaffective disorder. Movies aren't kind to folks with schizoid-type disorders either, but whoa man are they horrible to people with DID.
DID is so rare that nobody knows two people who have it. What's less rare, is a psychologist who is obsessed with DID, and diagnoses it left and right. Do your friends have the same therapist?
Ming Mongo what I believe to be a more common explanation in this age of interconnectivity is that she means that she has two online friends. It is a common thing to connect online with those with a similar diagnosis for commiseration and advice. In that case it’s actually perfectly reasonable that two people with DID meet and then incidentally also become friends with someone else and introduce them to an existing friend. Skepticism is healthy, but is not always warranted. I have commonly mentioned information from online friends without specifically stating the ways in which I became friends with them or got the information.
@@ernststravoblofeld no. it's not as rare as people would like to believe because a lot of psychologists don't actually believe in it because they haven't actually read the literature on it. They met online and bonded over it and fell in love and got married. Why are you so suspicious of other peoples diagnoses?
@@CplAnguadaEarth i'm not a she, but thanks for assuming my pronouns based on my name. I actually knew one of them personally first and then i met the other one when he introduced me to him. they did meet online though.
@@fernvalemusic269 I've seen this myself. Two people I know were diagnosed. In reality, neither had any symptoms of DID. One was bipolar, and the other was just pissed off about having a shitty life. It happens. A psychologist gets something stuck in their head, and starts seeing it everywhere. That's how we got the Satanic Panic in the 80s.
Expect a video essay on this film in the near future?
A few months after it reach blu-ray/streaming? Depends how long he needs to make it.
LaNoLaCola I hope it’s longer than his Suicide Squad video.
Ty_ teynium I hope it becomes a mini series of video essays to include the other shyamalan films a la the Fifty Shades essays
He's working on The Snowman right now. I guess it's sooner or later he will be taking on Shyamalan.
@@ty_teynium But he nearly fake-drank himself to death!
Also hilarious that Philly would be stunned by a dude flipping a car. That just sounds like he’s an Eagles fan and the Birds have won.
David Dunn's issue with water is a little more than merely 'normal with respect to needing to breathe'. His bones and muscles are very dense, and as a result he can't swim or float at all. Water really is kinda his kryptonite, because he isn't just *able* to drown, he's *very likely* to drown if he gets into deep water and doesn't have a quick exit available.
Edit: This is the explanation given in Unbreakable. I think it's the scene where David tells Elijah about almost drowning as a child. David theorizes that David's bones and muscles are denser than normal, which makes him strong and resilient but also too dense to swim.
So the same as most people who can't swim?
Like a puddle?
Not really? Most people float without any effort on their part. You don't have to actively swim to keep your face basically at the surface of the water. Drownings happen not because people can't swim, but because they get into a state where they can't lift their head to breathe (exhaustion, hypothermia, drunk, knocked out, etc), they're being held under by an external force (a root, heavy clothes, strong current, etc), or because they panic and inhale water.
David, by contrast, doesn't float. He sinks like a rock, and even if he did the right swimming movements, he wouldn't be able to swim, he'd just go straight down.
I am of course speaking from the perspective of the original Unbreakable and not with respect to whatever idiotic things they did in Glass, which I've never seen.
That's the thing, the first movie supposed to be this grounded superhero with realistic powers, it didn't feel like a morning cartoon, it made superheroes look like real people, his worst flaw was his lack of connection to his family, his kryptonite was a crippling fear of water, it was darker and felt real as a result
now this "he can't swim because of his bones and muscles are heavy" is the most unrealistic and cartoon excuse and it takes away from the first movie themes, he couldn't swim because of physiological reasons not physical
I thought it was Ok until the last third of the movie, which felt like falling on my face into a puddle.
Take my hand!! Take my hand!!!
Well, nothing is closer to the spirit of Unbreakable than a bad cop out ending.
"I thought it was ok until the last third of the movie" is the universal M Night Shyamalan experience, really.
Let's hope M. Night's love life isn't like your comment.
Although it would explain his movies.....
@@thomas0comer except avatar. That film from minute 1 until credits is just terrible.
Aww man, this video is haunted by a off-screen ghostie.
2spook4me.
It's just copying the Glass "aesthetic"
3spook5me
@@TurbopropPuppy Oh no, the ghostium is getting stronger. We Need some Lady Ghostbusters in here STAT!
@@gabes1733 ... you might be right about that. Well but also evilly played Mister Folding Face.
@@GreatgoatonFire first name mister last name folding face
M. Night, the personification of duality:
- on one hand, the Sixth Sense, on the other hand, the Last Airbender
- on one hand, Unbreakable, on the other hand, Glass
- on one hand, apparently a friendly, thoughtful, not unintelligent guy that tries to explore interesting concepts and ideas through the medium of film, on the other hand a self-important, pretentious tosspot that without a shred of irony made himself a messiah-like figure and a critic the antagonist in "Lady in the Water"
the real twist is the quality of his movies, always twisting from one end to the other!
I can't believe Dan left out that the security camera POV's all have cgi James McAvoy and Bruce Willis but they're not colour matched to their surroundings or the change of camera quality at all. So It's like a sims 3 model was just green screened in to an Empty scene
“Cool, I love Rooster Teeth” 😂😂
That Shama thinks acting is a supernatural power might be the hardest self-own he's managed so far.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Cube was a great and super cheap bottle movie.
I'm skipping anything Shyamalan in cinemas ever since I sat through The Village in the cinema and started questioning my life choices halfway through.
Cube is also genuinely subversive, especially regarding representation of mental illness.
I still stand by The Village.
Eva Weiand The Village is brilliant. So is Cube. Splice, from the same director as Cube, is also brilliant. Just putting that out there.
Christopher Meade Splice was a thematic mess. The tonal whiplash is enough to break your neck.
Eva Weiand I honestly don’t get the hate for The Village. Yeah, the twist is silly and largely unnecessary, but it’s also incidental to the actual story, which was pretty compelling.
The last movie I can recall being THIS dumb while being equally smug about it’s “cleverness” was Split...
Shyamalan is back, baby!
I think it's more reminiscent of Lady in the Water. But at least Shyamalan didn't cast himself as the savior of the world.
Shayamalan is on the very far end of the Ability vs Ego chart.
Split was pretty good, actually
@@winterc.2476 in what way
@@AnEnemySpy456 i mean, yeah, the technicalities were pretty alright, and it was a coherent story, but the way m night handled DiD was so disrespectful and damaging it wasnt even laughable, it just hurt to watch
Florida Man: not the hero we needed, but the hero we deserved.
"He can climb..."
Can it be??? Finally The Man Who Can Climb Anything!
I wish my DID gave me super abilities, instead of just disability.
Well, you do get to feel shitty in some ways we'll never be able to understand or appreciate? A friend of a friend has something similar. Never have I heard someone describe --their condition- _anything_ -followed by- _as,_ "you can't understand" and questioned it so little or so much.
Like I never thought "Whee! How many walls can I climb and how fast?" but shit dammit isn't that also a really tasteless joke?
excuse me, what is a "DID"
Edit: its dissociative identity disorder, sorry I am not American so I've never before heard the term in English or its abbreviation
Been watching a lot of DID videos lately, especially from people reacting to this movie and I'm just so sorry that Shyamalan has taken your disability and done such a damaging movie out of it.
Well, you're super annoying, so there's that.
So Shyamalan is back to his usual form I see.
Why is anybody still letting this guy make movies?
Back on his bullshit
MammaApa sucks but true
Not quite. Glass is not unintentionally funny.
He never left
My takeaway from ‘Glass’ was that Mr. Shyamalan fundamentally misunderstood his characters and that he had great contempt for both his characters and his audience. Infuriating.
My takeaway was that Shyamalan absolutely cannot direct an action scene. Like, he has no concept of the elements or how they fit together, and has no desire to learn. I’m not talking about that he’s trying to be Jackie Chan (as a director/fight coordinator) but doesn’t have the skill, I mean he’s doesn’t even realize there’s such a thing as an action scene that is different than other types of scenes. Thinking back to The Last Airbender…
The first thing I thought when they got to the hospital was Joel McHale shouting that they were doing a bottle episode.
AtomicBananaPress or Abed declaring that it's a bottle episode in a library. 😂
aaaaaaaaaah, Community ♡
@@theanonymousman8325 i was abt to say lol, ”do you know what this is” ”yep.” ”shut up abed” jeff m night abed me watching this movie
Dan mentioning Splice unearthed some long-forgotten Splice trauma in me
The comments about Bruce Willis are kinda sad now that we know he’s been struggling with an aphasia for years
I thought it would have been cool if at the end of the movie, theres a fat guy in a bar and suddenly hes talking to David Dunn, Elijah and Horde and they wonder aloud and say " how come only you notice us?" and we turn to see that the fat guy is Cole Sear and he says "will you guys stop bothering me before the Clover People know I have super powers too."
Audience applause, 6th Sense 2 in production for 2020.
You know what would be a better sequel to Unbreakable? The Trial of Mister Glass. Like, no way that didn't become a massive media spectacle, with David Dunn becoming a painfully public figure. There are these three massive tragedies that take the lives of hundreds of people and suddenly it turns out that they were all crimes committed by a single mass murderer, as exposed by a mild-mannered security guard? Dunn would suddenly be at the center of a media shitstorm and it would destroy his life. He would be found out as the man who rescued those two young women from the orange-suited rapist right before the end of the movie. His marriage would end (because it was built on an edifice of lies and he salvaged it in Unbreakable by adding another lie to the pile), his kid would be even more traumatized, and a bunch of ordinary civilians, relatives of victims or survivors of Price's atrocity, would probably start buying in to the "superhero" narrative, copycat vigilantes would pop up, and it would just be a clusterfuck. So now Dunn has to testify at Price's trial but what he really needs to do is bring his life, his family, and his city back from the brink.
Like, Unbreakable is supposedly a stealth superhero movie, but it really isn't? It's a superhero-narratives-are-bad movie. The twist at the end isn't just about Price's villainy, it's the reveal that the whole story is a sham, manufactured on purpose by a fanatical mass-murderer. It's about two traumatized men and their very bad coping strategies. So the sequel should take that and raise the stakes of it. Instead of two men and their bad coping strategy, a whole CITY and it's bad coping strategy.
4 years on, this is an underrated comment. That would be such a cool movie, and a genre deconstruction beyond even Watchmen. A good writer could even blend it into a twist that it's a deconstruction of the courtroom drama.
What an amazing comment lost to the sands of time
I'm going to synch up the soundtrack to Koyaanisqatsi while Dan craps on this movie, for the total-body "Glass" experience.
Is the ending of Koyaanisqatsi an analogy of the marketing campaign for Glass culminating in its release?
Oh god I had just managed to forget about Koyaanisqatsi...
Regarding the Budget stuff at the start: James McAvoy surely also gets a pretty premium salary by this point. (Rightfully so)
Yes but he'll work for less for right project. Willis and Jackson are far less willing to take pay cuts.
M Night pays for these movies out of pocket, which also probably explains a few things.
He has to get a really high budget due the "unionized" personality that is himself. Lots of mouths to feed.
McAvoy is madly low-rent for how good he is. Rumour I heard was that he did Atomic Blonde for next to nothing. Weird how his passion projects are kinda lame. Crazy Scotsman
Without him playing the "villain" in Split (could be argued he was the protagonist) the movie would have flopped. There isn't many good actors who would take a pay cut and play 15 personalities for a movie.
Re-watching this video after bruce willis entourage admitted that his illness affected his play at that time feels... different. Points are still valid, just cannot feels like he didn't "not care" now
The lack of care is still a thing... It's just we now know to attribute it to his handlers.
Last name: Ever First name: Greatest
Like a sprain ankle boy I ain’t nothing to play with
started out local, but thanks to all the haters
The "epic end fight" sounds like a video you would find on some semi news site with the title: high hobo tips over police car!
It basically is.
Massive Beast crossover? Beast Wars.
Great show
I have taken classes on psychological abnormalities. According to my professor and data I have read, roughly 96% of all cases of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is caused by continuous sexual or physical abuse as a child. I did ask what the last 4ish % is caused by, and apparently they never really found another solid cause.
Basically, we all dissociate, usually during something dry, menial or just downright boring. Driving to work for the umpteenth time? You're probably thinking of something besides the act of driving (movie you're going to watch later, what you need to get done at home and so forth). On an everyday, mundane basis, it is effectively a defense mechanism against boredom.
DID comes from the child needing to dissociate from pain and abuse. It's a coping mechanism during a traumatic event. And being forced to do that just to get through the day over and over again, dissociating effectively goes off the rails. Like a lot of psychological disorders, it is a defense mechanism that had been forced into an unhealthy form.
Now, I'm sure the film still sucked something awful, and I'm sure they handled DID in general in the most ham-handed manner ever devised on film. But they are not wrong as to the common cause of DID.
First name mister, second name Glass.
moist legume like a sprain ankle boy I ain’t nothing to play with
First name Mister, second name Plow.
Noice
@@jackwood6172 This film is a metaphor for m night. His superpower is making films but no one believes him because they think the last airbender was shit but he always has a plan just like first name mister, second name glass and u guys just dont get it cause you're impure. It's not bad storytelling because he meant to have the twists all along, that's why it's his superpower, it's just too much for normies to handle. Even if the films shit he meant it that way because hes a genius and he knows everyone will hate it just like first name mister, second name glass knew he would die in the parking lot. This masterpiece is a window into shyamalans mind
moist legume hmmm how insightful mister legume I concur wholeheartedly. In the future they will look back at this masterpiece and realise the genius of this Shakespeare of our time. The intellectualism is simply too much for us mere mortals
Okay, I do not know who this lady is on the other side of the camera, or how long she’s been there, but honestly your interactions with her while you’re . . . processing . . . these bad movies are honestly the best thing ever
Look for his holiday recipe video. I think it's a jello mould... (?) She's in that one taste testing the results with him.
It sounds like Lindsay Ellis or very similar. I know they’re friends since way back so it could be her?
Heavy Metal Collector oh shoo
It’s Lindsay Ellis. Dan also helps film some of her videos.
It also makes these vlog things way more nature, since he's actually talking to some one
Saw the film yesterday and I'm honestly struggling to remember whether Bruce Willis actually had any lines that impacted the story
He's playing the quietest character in the series, so it's not likes he's gonna monologue or anything...
@@sebastianwillows Not really the point I'm trying to make here. It's like Dan said, the film literally can't go there (giving Willis more lines) without acknowledging the fact that David doesn't really belong in the hospital.
@@sebastianwillows Sure is convenient how that means he doesn't have to learn any difficult lines.
@@cwade620 of course he doesn't belong there for the reason he thinks... he's there to get a lobotomy...
His lack of lines is extremely in character for him, so he's not going to spout off debate points to argue why he shouldn't be there. That's already addressed when he arrives...
@@servomoore ...Have you seen Unbreakable? It's not exactly the most dialogue heavy film in existence. That's like arguing against Hamlets indecision by saying "sure is convenient that he doesn't have go make any crucial decisions until the end of the play." In both cases, that's literally the character acting as they were intended...
I'm not sure what lost me more: the "secret society" twist or the fact that people think this film is good.
Did anyone else feel like elijahs speech to the beast near the end was weirdly on the nose and seemed like m.night using him as a mouthpeice to sing his own praises? The "it took 19 years" thing and the fact that he had samuel l jackson say "i create superhereos, im a genius" maybe its just another terrible wink wink scenario however
Finally someone makes the point that there's absolutely no reason for David to be there. Literally 'Do you think you're Superman?' 'No' 'Alright, exit is that way. Now back to dealing with two obviously delusional madman.' *credits*
Dan! I want to talk to you about how awful split was for the DID community, from the inside. The damage it did to our ability to operate in society was seriously not insignificant.
@@lennynero8614 as much as I liked Split, we're not the ones who have to deal with the image DID has in society.
Your cat Amy is cute. Your wife (?) sounds very lovely and I like how she gently keeps you on track for this vlog. More of them! Pet Amy for all of us, please. And as always, thanks for seeing this movie so we don't have to!
The worst thing about this volg is it makes me want to watch Glass as an ironic comedy now
Really, that's the best way to watch it.
10 seconds in, and I'm already sad. (About the crappiness of the movie, not the video)
"I think I like Unbreakable a little less after seeing this."
Yep, now I'm definitely not going to see it.
It's honestly not nearly as bad as he makes it sound.
Its pretty bad. Especially the ending, holy shit.
Meh just see it. I'm glad a saw it in theaters, and I had a good time with it. And no I'm not some shymalan superfan or someone who doesn't think during movies, just a person who sees a lot of movies and had a good time with this one.
Definitely see the movie. Your enjoyment just depends on if you buy it or not, it’s definitely an extremely well made movie with phonemenal acting. I really liked it and unbreakable is one of my favorite movies.
It was disappointing, even after lowered expectations
“Shirtless James McAvoy shoulder-checking a car”
Up until that line, I had been groaning and chuckling, but that one broke me
I lived in Pennsylvania when The Sixth Sense came out, and we were all very excited that the movie not only took place in Philadelphia but was actually filmed there and we could recognize all of the landmarks. So while I admire Shyamalan's dedication to filming and setting his movies in Pennsylvania, nobody there would actually give a shit about an actual tall building being built in Philly.
At first i read "class isn't a very good move" and i was like "yeah true"
I liked the French film by that name. It was neat and I was amused by Roger Ebert's review that he was on the side of the students complaining about having to study grammar.
The movie should have ended with Captain Disillusion debunking the fight video.
So here's a thought - Mr. Glass is actually a FABULOUS example of a super-villain. You said "He's a very unfortunate man who has taken his pain in an extremely unhealthy direction." That sounds perfect to me, as a summary of what makes someone a villain. And it's actually an interesting note - to be a hero requires magical / impossible powers, but to be a villain does not. Just a thought.
yeah and it worked in unbreakable, but then glass didnt give a damn and decided to make this somewhat compelling antagonist into a cartoon character
I think when they say "he's not a supervillain" they mean that he was never given the kind of skills that would actually be necessary to oppose a hero/government in any meaningful way.
He was mentally unhealthy and he sabotaged stuff by doing the bare research needed to know he could remove a brake.
That's not to say he can't be a villain, but I think they were getting at how his original plans were not actually genius or even complex. He's not a master of a spider-web of plans, he was just a sick man who did evil, reckless things. He was closer to a crazed bomber than a master of manipulation.
yeah but it’s pretty shitty to create a supervillain whose disability is depicted as being the direct cause of him becoming a villain
@@crestflames492 That's literally most supervillains.
Don't think for an instant that I didn't notice that Senran Kagura Peach Beach Splash in the background.
the most frustrating "accomplishment" of any bad sequel or later installment is to somehow manage to make a PREVIOUS installment retroactively worse :-(
Also can you please talk about Split and how actually not impressive it is more
"Can you validate my opinions by talking about stuff I don't like more"
SMH
@@sebastianwillows I mean if you take his comment as a representation of Unbreakable being diminished, could the same also be said of Split?
Nothing ever becomes retroactively worse. If you believe that, it's just because you're weak-willed and incapable of looking at things independently.
@@CrashSable weak-willed?
"could the same also be said of Split?"
Split was already bad.
I love the way this looks, Dan, especially since without the microphone visible it looks like you're actually talking to Crystal who's actually right there! EDIT: Oh my god Amy! You're so big and fluffy! Awww! EDIT 2: Whoops not Crystal, sorry.
How do you know Crystal is there? Can you see her? No! This is clearly dubbed.
It’s not Crystal. It’s Dan’s partner who’s off screen lol
@@Zeta825 Yup, Crystal doesn't have a Canadian accent for one thing.
@@Zeta825 oh, whoops, my bad.
"looking at a character and everybody else is offscreen"... :)
Next up: Captain Disillusion debunks the "super parking lot fight"
33:35 the noise that sums up most M. Night films.....
Good catch, aneurysm time imminent
Lady in the Water writing?? Y I K E S I hate it already
Danica Jekic not nearly as bad, but definitely has similar issues with dialogue that’s as bad
@@jvanness90 I mean, all of his movies have dialogue issues to a point, but it's really a shame that Glass is so bad overall (even though nothing can be as bad as that scrunt-filled train wreck).
Danica Jekic yeah I don’t know what I was thinking going to see it. People have been saying that M. Night is back in top form or he’s at least making good movies again (I haven’t seen one since The Happening) but maybe people’s tastes have gone down significantly. Either way I’d definitely recommend avoiding it. It was certainly watchable, but still pretty bad.
@@jvanness90 Ehhh it's cool, we all have that one movie where we wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt but then it turned out to be trash. It's just sad to hear because I actually personally loved Unbreakable, and while I thought Split was pretty stupid it definitely had some high points. It's just so disappointing to hear that Glass is bad... I don't think Shyamalan is a hack, he's capable of making some interesting stuff. But he really needs someone to reign him in so he doesn't keep going on ego trips. His writing tends to be at its worst when he puts more effort into the meta narrative than the actual narrative.
I thought Split was a decently well delivered movie for its premise being what it was. I'm surprised you said it was awful outright. The cinematography, the music, the tone, and James McAvoy's performance all worked really well. It felt like the characters had decent motivations and were well written, and I felt like it handled the touchy premise better than I would have expected. It was his best film in a decade (which isn't saying much, but still).
Exactly! He outright admits that he was mad about Split before he even watched the movie, so any insight he has for the films is already skewed.
I concur. I think Ivory Tower viewers automatically write off the movie because it uses a mental disability as a narrative device. They think that people will conflate Kevin and the Hoard with people who actually have DID, which shows a massive amount of bad faith in people.
The issue is that he didn't go into Split blind. That movie is designed to unfold for the viewer as its own story, and not the second in a trilogy. I would argue that it is a "bottle" story not JUST for financial reasons, but because putting it in a very simplistic setting grounds it as mundane--leading the viewer to doubt the supernatural/fantastical elements of the story. The problem with putting it in the universe of Unbreakable at the jump is that the metatextual narrative means there is no doubt there. You know as soon as the concept of "The Beast" is brought up that it's likely true. This turns a moody, dark thriller into a quirky comic book horror film.
@@cboehm24 I mean if one is unable to look at a scenario as it is aside from context. I've seen the movie a few times, and regardless of the context being connected to Unbreakable, it is still very frightening a concept. A man with an internal church worshiping a monster that thinks itself a deity that feeds upon the flesh of those who have not suffered. It's downright Lovecraftian. The reveal that Dunn is going to start looking for him is made at the end, and ultimately takes away nothing from the initial scenario.
The thing about Split is that it was good for just a psycho thriller type of movie. James McAvoy pretty much carried that movie, because it might just as well have turned out a whole lot worse. And while it was entertaining, the central message of the movie (which I assume is M. Night Shyalaman's doing) is utter shit.
"The scars you got from being abused make you stronger"
Like holy fuck that's so pretentious. Yes, some survivors have a kind of resilience, but a good part of them is just left shattered and broken, unable to fix themselves up for many many years. They even try to frame it in the way that not fighting back against their captor somehow is the right thing to do, because the abused girl already has some secret insight into their captor because having been abused gives you superpowers. In reality, those three could have overwhelmed the guy and bashed his head in if they had given it an honest coordinated try.
I enjoyed the movie for what it was: a B-movie psycho thriller that's basically made for Netflix or TV. James McAvoy's acting was amazing, and I hope he will be able to do it in better movies in the future. That man deserves a job, M. Night Shyalaman does not. (* at least not as writer or producer; let the man direct as long as he's on a tight leash)
Hell yeah! Love seeing your raw thoughts on movies
I mostly enjoyed Glass, but it was nothing if not flawed. I think the framing of superheroes away from a power fantasy and more as a symbol of the voiceless that Shyamalan attempts here is a respectable idea, but considering that he himself was (rightfully) criticized for his villainous and caricaturistic portrayal of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Split, that point is undercut a fair bit.
To be fair to the movie, if security camera footage of James McAvoy and Bruce Willis wrestling in a hospital parking lot got uploaded to the internet, that would definitely go viral
Highly enjoyable. I really like this sort of conversational vibe, and you and your "interviewer" have a great dynamic. Would totally love more reaction vids in this format.
Ok now I am worried, that two of RUclips critic that I respect saying that this movie is not good.
Who's the other one?
@@Szanth Todd in the Shadows, according to his Twitter.
MovieBob also hates it.
ana iglesias I turned my brain off and had a decent time.
I liked it. A lot. It was far from perfect, but perfection is overrated. I disagree with most of his analysis, but I would note that if he was saying it all without one raised eyebrow he’s describing a good movie.
I think my favorite genre of youtube video is "someone explains a really bad thing to someone else"