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Glass (2019) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-07-29 02:30:01
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And we conclude this little series of films! Click here to watchalong with me.

This was a super fun experience! Thanks again to Jon for putting Unbreakable in a poll that kicked this all off in the first place. I'm looking forward to your comments!

✦ KL

PS. I realize that I watched through this series quickly when I have not given any others that same attention at all. I am going to try my best to make the time for some "next's" throughout the rest of this year. One of them will be this upcoming week, which you'll see in tomorrow's schedule. 😊

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Bryan Dempsey

That thumbnail is inspired. Took it a second for it to register to my eyes, which made it even more fun. Genius! Overall I like this movie. It has a strong performance from McAvoy and we see more of the horde and I’m really glad we got to see David and his son working together and what he’s done with his “abilities”. But to me it is still the weakest of this trilogy. I really enjoyed M. Night dropping in some of the history of comic books. Comic readers know this, not sure others do, but in the 1950’s a psychiatrist named Fredric Wertham published a book titled Seduction of the Innocent that blamed comic books for juvenile delinquency. It became a rallying point to an already existing fervor and congressional hearings were held. There were comic book burnings all over the U.S. Churches and elementary schools were usually the hosts. Comic creators were vilified in society, the medium almost didn’t survive. There’s far more to it, but you get the gist. Anyway, I would have loved to see this moment in history tied to Dr. Staple’s group. Maybe they tried to get rid of comics as part of their effort to wipe super humans off the map. Discredit comic books and no one will believe in super humans… But the movie was already clocking in at 2 hours. That little history lesson also ties into the clip from Batman 1966 we saw in the store. Because comic books had to dramatically change course in the 1950’s there’s a direct connection to Batman and the perception that comics are for children and the reality of the time that they could only be childish. But when the series premiered it was a cultural phenomenon in 1966 that made Batman a household name and further cemented the public perception of childish comics. The tv series ran for 120 episodes in 3 seasons and one theatrical film that same year. Since you have such an affinity for the character, I recommend you watch a few episodes. Not sure there’s any demand for a reaction out there and if you didn’t see the series as a child, I don’t know how it plays without nostalgia. But you have such an open mind and positive attitude, I think you’ll appreciate it. Thanks for an entertaining reaction, as always.

Tyler Foster

Alas, this was *not* one of the last movies Bruce Willis made before he was diagnosed with aphasia. When he was promoting a different movie all the way back in 2013, there were some semi-viral moments during the press tour where he displayed some mild memory issues and slightly erratic behavior. Although nobody has come out and said it exactly, it seems like he knew he was experiencing some kind of cognitive decline for many years before he actually retired, and that in his last years, he was working as fast as he could to try and build up as much money to leave behind for his family before he had to stop working. In the span of about three years after making Glass, Willis would go onto appear in 30 movies before his retirement was officially announced in March 2022. Almost every single one of these movies was produced by the same low-budget independent film company, Emmett/Furla, which makes cheap DTV action movies starring aging movie stars, such as Robert De Niro, Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Steven Seagal, and Mel Gibson. It's widely known that these movies, which have gained the jokey nickname "geezer teasers," will pay one household name $1m to shoot for one or two days, and then the filmmakers will spread that footage throughout the film, and that star will be prominently featured when the film comes to Netflix or Redbox. On many of those 30 movies, it was reported that Willis would need an earpiece or cue cards to feed him the lines because he could no longer remember them, and that filmmakers would have to shoot around very limited windows of availability to let him rest. (Someone above said Glass was one of those movies where this was employed, but I hadn't previously heard that -- I had gotten the impression this didn't start until 2020 or 2021.) My first issue with Glass is that while I am sure he gives more here than he gave in many of those other films he made afterward, and it's obviously not his fault, it's also clear that Willis is no longer capable of giving the level of performance he gave in Unbreakable, which is a huge handicap on any sort of storytelling that Shyamalan wants to do. It seems very obvious (although I'm technically looking for it) that much of the movie has been filmed with him silently reacting, or it is presumably a body double in the poncho. My guess is that Mr. Glass always had a supporting role in the movie, which is a strange choice for an actor as magnetic as Samuel L. Jackson, but with both Mr. Glass's part being a supporting thread and David Dunn's story compromised, the movie struggles to balance its being a sequel to Unbreakable against it being a sequel to Split. My other issue is Dr. Staple character, which may be a symptom of the first problem. Of all the characters, David seems like he would be the most responsive to her pitch, and that could have been a fascinating story to explore for the twenty or thirty minutes before Elijah reveals he's been faking his catatonia, but since Willis' dialogue seems to have been trimmed to the absolute minimum, Shyamalan can't effectively form a dynamic between them, nor can he form a secondary one between David and Kevin, with David potentially encouraging the doubt that starts to form in him. I also think it's tough because it feels like the events of Unbreakable and Glass have already painted too compelling a picture for it to be very convincing that all of this was a coincidence. In any case, if the audience did really believe and become invested in the superpowers being made up as a story possibility, then Elijah's reveal that he is awake and able to encourage The Beast to fight back would be more of an impactful twist. That said, I did appreciate the movie more as a payoff to Casey's story this time than I did the first time I saw it back in 2019. Both McAvoy and Taylor-Joy are great, and the way this material works gives the movie at least some kind of support to get by on.