I still hate Unbreakable. To be fair though, I can't compare it to anything more recent because I hated it SO much that I haven't seen any of his movies since.
You owe it your eternal gratitude for sparing you from what came after.
Most of the negative opinions I heard of the film were from people put off by the comic book premise/reveal. I think if it debuted today after all the successful Batman and Marvel movies and films like Kick-Ass, the general public would have been a lot more receptive.
I felt it was a pretty crap comic book movie, and failed to get the reasons it was lauded so highly by those that liked it. Don't dig stupid heroes unless there's something else going on. I couldn't find that here.
Eh, I think if it hadn't been such a shitty comic book premise/reveal, maybe? But it wasn't the comic book aspect that put me off, it was the fact that it was unwatchable crap.
[See, ita and I both used the word "crap" - I think that more or less proves it. Scientifically.]
See? That's what I meant, I guess. Not that Unbreakable was the most hated, but pretty darned hated.
I thought The Happening was the most hated. Or The Last Airbender. I think most people forget The Lady in the Water even exists.
I didn't see any of these..or The Village.
If I really think about it, Signs must have been my exit from the M. Night train.
There is so much dumbosity in that one, I actually felt sorry for him. Then, I saw interviews with him. Suddenly, I was paralyzed with the not caring.
It was sad though. I honestly thought the Sixth Sense had a sort of genius about it.
I'm the weirdo who thought
Sixth Sense
was over rated, so I've never been an M Night fan. I must admit I've greeted his fall from grace with a bit of shadenfreude.
Finally! A new Scandals of Classic Hollywood. Robert Redford this time:
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I didn't love Sixth Sense, but I was spoiled for it. I liked Unbreakable a lot, though.
