Kami
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7/27/2006 9:59 AM
posted awhile ago
Submitted: Unbreakable
A highly anticipated film. Everyone was talking about M. Night Shyamalan's "Sixth Sense" and couldn't wait for his next film, which was to be "Unbreakable"....What a letdown. This film did not live up to the expectations that most people had for it. The acting was mediocre (who would actually put Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in the same movie!?), the story was stale, pathetic and rather silly and the film itself was just plain boring.
Anyone with me here?
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george
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7/27/2006 10:23 AM
posted awhile ago
Re: Submitted: Unbreakable
second. the whole film was truly laughable. i laughed. i laughed until i cried out of sadness for allowing myself to be in a situation where i was watching this film.
i have had no desire to watch another shyamalan movie because of this film.
batman and robin did the same for joel schumaker...
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davisfreeberg
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7/27/2006 12:43 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Submitted: Unbreakable
Definetely guilty of being a lackluster. It was if the entire movie was building up to some fantastic moment and then they said ok it's over now. I don't know that I've ever left a theater that unfilled before in my life. It really was too bad too because the 6th sense was so amazing that to follow it up with this kind of bomb is just terrible. This one could almost go into the bad sequel list, except it's not technically a sequel.
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paul
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8/1/2006 4:52 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Submitted: Unbreakable
Harsh!
And you have all diagnosed the germ from which the collective disappointment around this film was spawned: It was an unspoken rule Unbreakable should somehow live up to The Sixth Sense.
I have long been a proponent of Unbreakable. Is it amazing? No. But it is an anti-superhero movie. It's meant to suspend the disbelief that there is no such thing as a superhero, then slowly build a more reality based tension around what a superhero, if one truly exists, would look like. I think on that level the movie is a success. I think the slow, methodical, some may say "boring," pacing of this films serves the anti-superhero story.
In fact, I kind of wish there was a sequel, and I'm against sequels.
All in favor say, "aye."
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SomeOtherDude
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8/1/2006 9:08 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Submitted: Unbreakable
I think the quality of this film lies truly in the eyes of the beholder... if thats the right way to put it. I thought it was ok, and have heard folks even say that it was a great film. One thing is for sure it was waaaay better than "The Village".
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