He did it’s weird.

My love of Unbreakable (for all the reasons you mentioned) is part of why I’m slightly worried about Glass. Unbreakable is a raw movie.

Did Macavoy really get that ripped? Those traps look about as realistic as Madge’s new butt.

I thought that Unbreakable was remarkably inventive. The thesis was both simple and surprising: What if comic book heroes and villains are based in some kind of reality? I loved it, and Jackson’s performance was kind of heart breaking.

I’m excited for Glass, but my excitement in tinged by a nervous paranoia that the entire movie is going to fly off the rails. M Night has been surprisingly fun lately, but Split hovered dangerously close to bad at times (but thankfully stayed on the great side).

a very earthbound neo-noir

I’m shocked those muskrats couldn’t make it work.

Why couldn’t they have gone with Dragon & Tennille? Then they might have become a hard riffing prog metal act. 

Captain America really is great at evoking that simpler, more innocent time when everyone could agree that punching Nazis was a Good Thing. Man, remember 2011?

Green Lantern? I don’t understand, Tom. Everyone knows that didn’t happen because the lead actor was...you know.

I think that was a maxim of the late Terry Pratchett’s. Any time you create a fantasy city you should ask how the fresh water gets in and how the sewerage gets out.

+1

Especially when the trailers have a narrator talking about “the world has run out of resources”. Yes, we have no resources, except for the fuel to let us movie entire cities around the planet.

That non-inconsequential bit never made a lick of sense to me.  The amount of power it would take - and fuel consumed) - goes way beyond normal suspension of disbelief.

I never read these books, and won’t see the movie. But the whole moving city thing was done much better in John Carter of Mars with Zodanga, the “predator city”, I think it was called.

Well all this sounds like entirely too much.  I’ll just watch Snowpiercer again.

What’s a shame about this adaptation is that the books had some very clear cinematic inspirations. They were basically Miyazaki movies (Nausicaa, and Castle in the Sky particularly), with some early Jean Pierre Jeunet, and Monty Python thrown in.
Jackson and Rivers seem to have gone for something far more generic and…

Vindieselpunk

“Some effects artists have been able to successfully transition into directing—just look at James Cameron!—but the jump from short film to $100 million blockbuster seems to have to been a rough one for Rivers.”

Eh, I thought the movie was plenty fun. Went in totally blind last night - didnt know the book existed, didnt know the movie was a thing until I got a free pass - thoroughly enjoyed myself.