Rank the Unbreakaverse

Rank the Unbreakaverse Feb 20, 2019 3:06:42 GMT

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Post by ReyKahuka on Feb 20, 2019 3:06:42 GMT

Feb 19, 2019 22:03:59 GMT moviebuffbrad said:

Feb 19, 2019 14:08:40 GMT ReyKahuka said:

Unbreakable - 8

Split - 8

Glass - 0

I'm simply going to pretend Glass never happened. Imagine watching Die Hard 3 and at the end a car comes out of nowhere and runs over McClane. A guy gets out and says, "I'm part of a cult who kills cops." Roll credits. It's the lamest imaginable ending. With what they've done with The Last Jedi and Glass, I fear this is the future of storytelling. Writers are either of afraid of clichés or overthinking plot twists they want to surprise audiences with that they stop writing coherent stories altogether. "You didn't see that coming!" No, because that made no sense at all. If I wanted incoherent babble, I'd talk to a toddler.

I would've been fine with any or all of the characters dying in Glass, but there has to be a reason, some kind of setup. They didn't even fight a losing battle, they were just executed by a random third party with no backstory at all. It's awful. Proper narrative structure has certain requirements.

The setup was 80 years of comic book lore. Where there's a superhero, there's a supervillain, and regular people are hurt in the crossfire. Characters like Batman even get blamed for "creating" the villains they fight just by existing. A world with superheroes and villains would be utter chaos and Paulson's cult (Paulson having ulterior motives, btw, was pretty telegraphed) is there to keep that from manifestation.

My fear for the future of storytelling is writers being terrified of doing anything different or deconstruction worn tropes, something TLJ and apparently this are getting dragged through the mud for.

It was extremely obvious in the trailers, don't you think? That doesn't give her a proper backstory or make her character any more compelling. A meteor landing on Bruce Willis would've made more narrative sense.

They aren't deconstructing tropes, they're taking left turns for the sake of shock value. There isn't anything interesting about that plot twist, it doesn't make the story better. Telling the audience they wasted their time investing in this story or its characters defeats the purpose of telling the story in the first place.

Narrative non-sequiturs are the lazy writer's way out. The only thing worse than a cliché is the writer saying, "This happened just because." It doesn't mean anything, there's no purpose, no value to having followed the story. It's just there.

"This just in: All eyes were on downtown today as BRICK WALL. Back to you, Jim."