The Unbreakable Trilogy by 6ixStringJack

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The Unbreakable Trilogy

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 12:00 PM

You guys ever watch these???

I almost feel like I have to give M. Knight an apology after watching them after all the ragging I've done on him over the years.

I saw Unbreakable in the theaters on a date... Bad movie for a date, for sure. It was one of those movies that I thought I didn't like just because of the company I first saw it with. I won't say it was GREAT or anything, but it was a lot better than I remembered it. Still a little slow and too low-key for my general tastes though. FOr a movie to be that slow and still be great, at least for me, it's got to make you really think about things. This movie does not do that. Everything that is presented to you is what you're supposed to think about when watching it. The plot twist is "Oh, my new friend is really the Big Bad!".

Meh...

Now Split, on the other hand, was really, really good. Really good. I believe that James McAvoy won an award or two for that performance. If that's not true, it was a crime. Holy crap he was good.

I won't go into any details about the movie, but it is undoubtedly my favorite M. Knight movie of all time.

Then came Glass...

It was hard to decide which movie I thought was better between Split and Glass. They were both very good in their own ways. I would liken Glass to Spider-Man: No Way Home (which I also loved) because of the nostalgia-bait. I didn't have to wait 19 years to see the ending to the trilogy like most other people who watched it. True, I did see the original back in 2000, but like I said, I didn't care for it because of the company I was with, and I didn't even know that there was a trilogy until somewhere around 2019 or 2020.

I watched all 3 movies in a single day with my dad, and got to see Bruce Willis' son, who I've never seen in any other movies or shows, become an adult manning the internet and social media in this 2-person crime fighting team. That was really cool that they got the same kid and didn't just replace him with generic 20-something.

Seeing all 3 of them together: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson and James McAvoy, and wondering the whole time how they were going to make this movie work and watching them pull it off was a treat. Even if we didn't get our promised Marvel-esque skyscraper battle in the end.

Part of me believes that this was because the budget ran out before they could do it. When I brought that up, my old man agreed and thought maybe all of the cameras being installed in the sanitarium to watch Mr. Glass was all added in after the fact in reshoots to give the impression that this was the way it was meant to be filmed all along. It's easy enough to explain away if that's how it went down, since the lack of a big-city showdown played perfectly into M. Knight's expected twist.

I really liked the 3rd entry. But I have to give the award to Split as the best of the trilogy, since if you leave out the last scene in the diner it is completely its own thing like Unbreakable was, but it was just superior to Unbreakable in nearly every way. As good as Glass was, I don't think you would have enjoyed it nearly as much if you haven't watched the first two.

I appreciate, very much, M. Knight's ability to make you root for the bad guys along-side of Bruce Willis by the end of the movie. That's not an easy thing to pull off.

Overall, I'd give the trilogy 7.5-8.0 out of 10. I'd probably give Unbreakable a 6.5 to 7, while giving Split a 9 and Glass an 8. On its own, Unbreakable would probably have only been given a 6.5, but because of how it tied into the end of the 2nd movie and the entire 3rd movie I'm giving it an extra half-point.

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Thursday, May 7, 2026 12:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Also... I found it kind of interesting how the comics were portrayed in the movies.

Any time one of the characters were talking about a specific book or characters, they were all made up. An example of that was Mr. Glass getting an "Active Comics" book from his mom, instead of Action Comics. I don't remember the names of specific comic book characters they used, but like the Active/Action comics change, they were all obviously based off of real-world heroes and villains.

But what I found curious was the scenes inside of comic book shops or inside of "Limited Edition", the comic-based art gallery that Mr. Glass had set himself up with. If you look in the background in any of these shots, all of the big real-life players were there. I recall a scene in Limited Edition where Bruce Willis meets Mr. Glass' mother, and while they're talking, rather than have everything in the background blurry, you also see Glass on his wheelchair talking to some of the rich clientele while 3 framed pictures of legit superheros were on the wall behind them. (I remember Thor was one of them, but I forget the other two). Also, if you look on the racks in the comic book shops, all of the Marvel/DC characters were shown in the background.

I wonder if M. Knight tried to get permission to use the real comics but found out that was going to be prohibitively expensive if he were to use any of them as central points to his story, but maybe he was able to work out a deal with the copyright holders to not have to make fake comics and paintings/drawings of everything in the background as long as they had nothing to do with his story. That would make sense to me. Some free publicity for Marvel and D/C on the periphery on one hand, while lending some more credibility to the movies on the other.

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Friday, May 8, 2026 2:12 AM

ANONYMOUS1

I loved the trilogy.

I loved that this was our world and not some different earth and

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this was the reason there were no superheroes and the truth got exposed in the end.

Wanted those characters story to continue…

And now Bruce Willis has advanced frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

I think you meant Bruce Willis’ character’s son. I had to look up on IMDb to be sure he was Bruce Willis’ son.

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Friday, May 8, 2026 2:26 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Can anyone see the spoiler text? I cannot. I am able to select the text and copy to another product and see the spoiler text. I was also able to copy to the subject line of an email and I can read it then. That is what I do when text is the same color as background and therefore not visible.

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Friday, May 8, 2026 2:33 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by ANONYMOUS1:
I loved the trilogy.

I loved that this was our world and not some different earth and

Select to view spoiler:
this was the reason there were no superheroes and the truth got exposed in the end.

Wanted those characters story to continue…

And now Bruce Willis has advanced frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

I think you meant Bruce Willis’ character’s son. I had to look up on IMDb to be sure he was Bruce Willis’ son.

Yeah... My bad. I meant Bruce Willis' character's son. Sorry for the confusion. I thought it was really cool to see him again and that they didn't Edward Furlong him. Most people waited 19 years to see him again, and for me it was about 3 hours.

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I wanted those characters' stories to continue as well and was a little disappointed about how it ended in that regard. But I think they still wrapped it up really nicely. M. Knight doesn't always stick the landing, and that's a deal-breaker for me when the ending of a really good movie is mediocre or worse. None of it was in vein. To me, as disappointing as some things turned out, it all meant something.

My dad said that some critics/people complained that Bruce was phoning it in on the 3rd one, but that he had already started having symptoms of his FTD all the way back then and nobody knew it. I didn't think it was noticeable though. He wasn't exactly the stand-out performance in Glass, but to me that was just his character. Low-key, just as he was in the first movie, and just like Unbreakable was as a whole. Kind of effortless ass-kicking all around. And it's not as if he looked like he was out of it. Quite the contrary, actually. I went into it knowing that people criticized the role when it came out, and I didn't see what they saw. There was a lot of emotion in those eyes. As a quiet, stoic figure, Willis was able to say a lot just with his face even when he didn't have anything he wanted to say.

Poor guy. I've been a fan of his for as long as I can remember. I believe he started becoming a household name right around the time I was watching TV and remembering what I saw. I think I might have been 6 or 7 years old when Moonlighting came out... Maybe even just 5. I remember seeing Hudson Hawk on cable long before I ever saw Die Hard. It just sucks to see or hear about him suffering like that.

With McAvoy on screen though, I think that both Bruce and Jackson would have needed to be about 30 years younger to even attempt to compete with that performance. Simply amazing. Probably one of the top 5 performances I've ever witnessed. I never thought I'd hold a M. Knight Shamalyan movie in that high of a regard, and I think 90% of that is thanks to McAavoy. Although I've never seen him in anything else, and M. Knight may have played a big role in getting that performance out of him too.

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Friday, May 8, 2026 3:07 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Can anyone see the spoiler text? I cannot. I am able to select the text and copy to another product and see the spoiler text. I was also able to copy to the subject line of an email and I can read it then. That is what I do when text is the same color as background and therefore not visible.

It works fine for me.

I just realized that I didn't spoiler block my own reply to yours. I didn't even know you could do that here, so thanks for teaching me that, buddy.

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Friday, May 8, 2026 3:38 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Yes, Bruce Willis’ character was low key…he was real world still. No flashy costume. The beast was not a giant green guy.

Glass made himself a comic book person. He chose that. So he wasn’t low key.

THEY were trying to prevent a real world turning into a comic book world.

And now aliens should invade…

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Friday, May 8, 2026 5:54 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Eeeeek!

The 3rd movie isn’t called Mr. Glass…and if it is an origin story…

Maybe it an origin of new organization Glass fulfilling the mission of Mr. Glass. Helping super individuals go public.

I just checked a few YouTube listings of ending of Glass the movie and it shows three people and the camera pulls back and back and back and they are still in the shot.

Unbreakable. 2000
Split. 2016
Glass. 2019

Looking online at lots of posters from the three movies broken or split glass is in all three movies. Even unbreakable.

Glass - Breaking the superhero/villain glass ceiling.

Shyamalan In 2019 says no continuation.

So what do you think? 2029? Shyamalan born in 1970, Shyamalan would be 59. Not even social security eligible yet.

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Friday, May 8, 2026 5:58 AM

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