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Unbreakable
2000 · Film · 106 min
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.
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Original Star Wars trilogy. Lord of the Rings American Psycho Total Recall (1990) Blade Runner Love Actually The Fifth Element Unbreakable Pulp Fiction Four Weddings and a Funeral Guardians of the Galaxy X-Men X-Men the Last Stand Showing my age here, but I started to lose interest in movies after the 2000s. No I do not want to watch a remake of [Blade Runner, X-Men, etc...]. Also X-Men was great, but my interest didn't stretch to Captain America and Iron Man, so the MCU was a loss for me.
It's not always a tradeoff. Americans made big budget, artistically accomplished, highly successful movies in the 60s and 70s.
As far as the rest of your comment, I'll just repeat my view that Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies are far better than MCU. And Robocop/Unbreakable are the best the genre produced.
> Through Endgame, it was an unprecedented undertaking involving the hard work of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of talented artists and technicians across the globe, marshalling untold resources over the span of a decade
Just imagine what those artists could have accomplished working in the service of an artistic vision instead of churning out corporate slop.
Live action super hero dramas started with Superman and reached maturity in Sam Raimi's Spiderman movies. Highlights are Robocop and Unbreakable (throw a Batman adaptation in there, probably The Dark Knight). By the time the MCU rolled around, the genre was well past middle age. Despite billions of dollars of life support, it will be remembered as the last tortured breaths of a somewhat embarrassing cultural episode.
I do like superhero movies—i.e. films about characters with supernatural powers—just not the MCU flavor of them.
I enjoyed Unbreakable, Chronicle, Birdman, Fast Color, Freaks, etc.
The original Pirates of the Caribbean was a superb work of its genre with classic acting, humor, and subtle characterization that you do not give it credit for.
https://youtu.be/zhdBNVY55oM
As far as claiming “every superhero film” - that’s a tall order. While one can say most MCU (and perhaps DCEU films) share a certain level of formulaic quality that make them easy to reduce and denounce, there are always outliers. Consider the neo-Western greatness of Logan. The contemplative complexity of Unbreakable. I didn’t even mention the late Heath Ledger’s performance in The Dark Knight.
The theme of the movie "Unbreakable" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbreakable_(film)
Reminded of the scene in the movie Unbreakable when Samuel L Jackson's character refuses to sell the rare drawing to the man after he reveals it was going to be a gift for a young child, who would be unable to fully appreciate it.
That's not true, but why let the facts get in the way?
6/10 highest-grossing movies last year were not comic book movies: Dunkirk - Original property Fast & Furious 8 - non-comic franchise based on original property Despicable Me - non-comic franchise based on original property It - remake Beauty and the Beast - remake Get Out - original property Star Wars Episode 8 - non-comic franchise based on original property
The most profitable movie of 2017, Get Out, was an original franchise. This follows on the heels of 2016s most profitable movie, Split, a sequel to an original property (The Sixth Sense/Unbreakable universe).
Such a distracting sound effect for me. Pulls me right out of the movie and ruins the immersion every time I hear it. I wish they would stop with this "inside joke" that everyone knows about. Certainly I am not the only one annoyed by this sound.
There's a couple others that grate on me too, but I don't know their names. There's this other crazy sounding scream, a really long extended one. Then there's this "crowd gasping" sound effect I've heard all my life (you can hear it in the airport scene in Unbreakable for example). Then there is this particular cooing, laughing baby sound effect that drives me nuts. Whoever that baby was it must be in it's 60s by now.
I'm one of the few that REALLY liked the movie Unbreakable.
This guy reminds me of that movie.
And if so, then I am his Mr. Glass. I pretty much hit my threshold for running when I finish tying my running shoes' laces.