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Mr Durden takes a crack at UNBREAKABLE
Hey folks, Harry here with a look at M Night's UNBREAKABLE... basically spoiler free... There are some spoilers here.... but not the big one. What is here is basic plot structure... the basic... what is going on thing. Mr Durden seemed to really enjoy the film... Take care and god bless you... everyone...
Harry,
Hows it hangin' big guy? As cold as it is now, mine's not doing so
well..but I digress. Here's something you'll find more interesting: a
review of the test screening for Unbreakable that some people ALMOST didn't get into.
And it was all your fault too!
The whole thing was quite a bit of luck, anyway. I dont actually
live anywhere near Camarillo, I just happened to be visiting my father at
the time, who has connections and dropped a few hints suggesting the proper
time and location of such a screening. Now, this is a movie I've been
looking forward to ever since I first heard about its preproduction, so I
eagerly high-tailed it to the theater.
That's where the trouble began...
See, this guy and his friend, a rather large, bearded redhead, though (and
I mean this as a complement)nowhere near your exquisite stature. Fucking
Nazi NRG's apparently thought he was you, and they got ID'd and everything.
Eventually, though, they got in, and the rest, as they say, is history. I laughed my ass off at those NRG bastards, he was so not you, I think.
Before the movie began, we got the standard "this is a rough print,
temp score, blah blah blah". Although nothing was said about the presence
of celebrities, I did indeed hear that Mr. John McClain himself was present.
Unfortunately, I didn't see him.
In the film, Bruce plays a guy named David Dunne, who works crowd
control at a football stadium in Philadelphia. He used to be a football
player himself, but back in college his future wife and he were hit by a
truck driver. It was a pretty severe crash, and David was injured enough
not to be able to play football again. The interesting thing, though, is
that he recovered VERY quickly and all these years later he doesnt even limp
or anything. Now, about David... he's a very simple guy: its NOT the same
character he played in 6th Sense...David is, to put it frankly, not as
intelligent. He is, however, vaguely comic-bookish; quiet, strong. Anyway,
David is sick of working as a security guard, so he goes to New York to do
some job interviews. On the way back, however, the train he's on wrecks and
something like over a hundred people are killed(everyone on the
train)...David comes out basically uninjured, however, and makes the news
because of it. This is how Samuel L Jackson's character, Elijah Price, hears
about him. Elijah runs a comic store called Limited Edition, and he thinks
that David may be a real superhero; a guy who cannont be injured by
conventional means. More than that, however, he believes that he has a
spiritual connection to David; see, Elijah was born with a condition that
makes his bones break VERY easily, and he thinks that for him to recover, a
person like David has to be injured. Elijah's condition is illustrated very
graphically; in one scene, a flashback to his childhood, Elijah becomes
seperated from his parents and is injured so seriously he become paralyzed.
Anyway, as the story develops, Elijah both tries to convince David who he is
while also learning more about him so he can figure out a way to hurt him.
As the movie drew to its conclusion, I thought I had the "surprise ending"
figured out; naturally, I was wrong. While the ending is indeed a surprise,
I don't really think its the shocker that some people have claimed; at
least, I didnt't think it was on the level of The Sixth Sense or Usual
Suspects or Jacob's ladder. It's not that sort of ending, where it changes
everything we thought before, it simply involves characters doing things we
don't expect them to.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed the info!
- Tyler Durden
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Sep 14, 2000 2:57:42 PM CDT
harry's last line about "take care" and "god bless you"---Couple
by booyotch @ work
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Perhaps I'm reading too much into Harry's casual intros, but I saw somewhere else a reference to a swollen, purplish ankle. Combine that with this paraphrased reference to Tiny Tim's exhortation when he throws away his crutch. Has Harry come up lame? If so, as a recent recoverer from a seriously fractured ankle, I feel for you, man. If I'm way out, past even the left-field fence, then I'll apologize and go back to lurking.
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The Sixth Sense was a little too long, but it definitely was awesome film making. And I hope this movie has a lot of obscure comic references, and even borders on something that Kevin Smith could have written. Does anyone know who does the soundtrack for this movie, cuz the Sixth Sense one was way underplayed.
Strider out.
Oh, and don't kill yourself Harry. I love you. -
See how it's done, boys and girls? Give the plot, but DON'T GIVE THE SURPRISE. We know the storyline, we know the characters, and we know the setup, but NOT the ending or the PROCESS toward that end. So all you fanboys who say "I don't wanna be surprised" can go stick your pretentious shit down your own throats, cause if you didn't want spoilers then WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE? So shove your "I wanna be surprised when I see a movie' b.s., cause if you really didn't want to know squat about a movie, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE CLICKED ON THE LINKS TO THE REVIEWS! But you do anyway, don't you?
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spoiler look away if you dont want to sam kills bruce
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That better not be the end you limpdick.
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...I posted an hour ago and nothing happened.
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Sweeet. I never get to be last. This kicks ass. Take your "Firsties" and STICK 'EM, Losers!
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Take away the twist in the Sixth Sense and what do you have? Pretty decent ghost story, I guess. The main plot revolved around Haley needing to complete his "favor" for the murdered girl. Not too enthralling. I'd say Lady in White with the young Lukas Haas had a superior screenplay. Now all the hype about Sixth Sense, all the word of mouth, was regarding the "Oh my GOD!" ending. No one was like, awesome story dude, you gotta see it. It seems like Shyamalan has the twist in his head first, and then tries to construct a story around it. The difference between SS and Fight Club was that without the twist, it still managed to be a very good film. And unlike SS, Fight Club made you rethink the relationships between the characters, not to mention many of the themes, whereas SS just made you think back to see where they "got you", looking for clues. It's a fucking gimmick, just like Blair Witch. Unbreakable will be more of the same crap.
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i hate when assholes like batman1111 give away stuff like that. it is not on. i dont know if this spoiler is correct but either way i dont want to know the whole fun is not nowing abything. there should be a rule that you cant give away movie endings on the site its only fair for the rest of us.
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i said look away i said if you dont wanna know i warned you guys its your own faults
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You will die before next sun-up. You have been warned, so don
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Hate to break tradition and write a "serious" talk back . . . (I
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Shut up! Who asked for input?
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I believe the twist ending will entail...Sean Penn showing up and beating the hell out of brittle bones Jackson and then having a three way with Brucie and Robin Wright!!! Then if all goes as planned...they will ride into the sunset on their Wacky Action Bikes!!! WOOOO!
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Sep 15, 2000 11:17:57 PM CDT
Oh, sure... First I'm last, and then eeeeeverybody ELSE has to
by llghtst0rmer
Who says there's no such thing as an original idea anymore? Sheesh. Lightstormer out... with the pride of the innovator that I am.
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No, Sam doesn't kill Bruce. So you can stop fretting over that. The end does kinda hit you, but not like the 6th Sense. There is that flashback sequence, though. Shyamalan is a good storyteller and knows how to set stuff up.
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