Post by Rey Kahuka on Jan 19, 2019 14:21:18 GMT
Glass is terrible. Yet another example of a filmmaker not being able to stick the landing with a trilogy. It's filled with fun ideas and stellar performances, but the story itself is utter nonsense.
Major spoilers ahead
Who am I kidding, this is Shyamalan we're talking about. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 15 times...
It's just a shame because I consider Unbreakable and Split to be incredible films. There's even some great stuff in Glass. But I'm never going to watch it again, that twist is so idiotic I have to pretend this film never happened. It won't be the first or the last time I ignore a bad entry into a cinematic mythos, these things happen.
Major spoilers ahead
You don't have henchmen for a character with no backstory kill off the hero. You just don't do it. Imagine Indiana Jones defeated the Nazis and then some random villager came up and killed Indy and they rolled credits. Imagine John McClane kissing his wife at the end of Die Hard and some random guy walks by and shoots McClane in the head. "I'm from a cult of cop killers," roll credits. It's a cardinal sin of storytelling; the nonsensical, meaningless death of the hero.
You can kill the hero. You can have him fail. But you can't kill the hero and the villains at the hand of some random third party with zero motivation leading up to it. It doesn't work.
These hack writers like Shyamalan are taking the wrong lessons from Game of Thrones. Surprise deaths of beloved characters only work when they push the story in an interesting new direction. Having henchmen overpower a guy that can flip cars and drown him in a puddle is not good storytelling. It's a middle finger to the audience. You're right, we didn't see it coming, Night. We expected coherent storytelling.
You can kill the hero. You can have him fail. But you can't kill the hero and the villains at the hand of some random third party with zero motivation leading up to it. It doesn't work.
These hack writers like Shyamalan are taking the wrong lessons from Game of Thrones. Surprise deaths of beloved characters only work when they push the story in an interesting new direction. Having henchmen overpower a guy that can flip cars and drown him in a puddle is not good storytelling. It's a middle finger to the audience. You're right, we didn't see it coming, Night. We expected coherent storytelling.
Who am I kidding, this is Shyamalan we're talking about. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 15 times...
It's just a shame because I consider Unbreakable and Split to be incredible films. There's even some great stuff in Glass. But I'm never going to watch it again, that twist is so idiotic I have to pretend this film never happened. It won't be the first or the last time I ignore a bad entry into a cinematic mythos, these things happen.