What a fantastic episode, everything really comes together at the end in just a perfect way. There were also some other fun bits earlier in the episode:

There are in fact thousands of movies that are not Wes Anderson movies that you can watch.

I would be more upset that my dad is still ridiculously handsome & I’m just a average looking kid.

I love The Village. I think it’s as good as anything he’s ever done. Maybe people were burnt out or too suspicious or unwilling to let themselves get carried away. I mean, he’s definitely made some duds, but the Village is really good!

Unbreakable has aged so much better than Sixth Sense for me, but I would still put both in the top two. I suppose I can’t fault a movie that doesn’t have the same impact once you know the twist, but to me that only reflects better on Unbreakable. There’s a twist, but the film isn’t reliant on it and by that point in…

I’ll go to bat for Glass. For the budget, knowing what Willis might have been going through at the time, I think it was a good ending to the unexpected saga.

I’m going to be very bold and say this episode was pretty funny. The balloon cold opener was great, and even the LA mush mouth coma skit, as absurd as it was, made me laugh out loud. 

I’ll go to bat for The Village. It is one of the most tension filled movies I’ve ever seen. And it’s gorgeously shot. The scene with Howard waiting on the porch for Phoenix to arrive is still one of my all-time favorite movie moments. It’s so beautiful.

Interesting list for a film maker that probably doesn’t deserve one, but it is an interesting discussion.

The Happening over The Village is nonsense. Go rewatch both.

I’m not dissing Gibson at all. He’s great. And I think this role pre-dates his descent into finding out he’s a shit-heel. But I think Willis could have well handled this role in the same way you suggest too. Would have made for an interesting trilogy - really a quadrilogy with Glass I s’pose.

I think it’s hard to top Gibson’s performance, however. For all of the focus on his plot twists, Shyamalan really is at his best in the scenes presenting how people react to growing dread, and Gibson is really good at showing a person trying to be a parent as he grows increasingly sure they’re all going to die. The…

Move Signs up to #3 and it’s a good list. I’ve always thought Willis should have played the Gibson role to make it a nice sorta trilogy with 6S and Unbreakable.

In no way was Tesla a “noble failure”. Yes he was shafted by Edison and the American legal system, and yes he became a minor crackpot in his later years...but he was an immensely successful engineer with a huge number of world-changing inventions to his name, including the most widely used method of electricity…

Maybe just watch The Prestige a bunch of times instead. Bowie’s Tesla was great.

Not a single mention of Jim Gaffigan’s George Westinghouse?

The ending received exactly 3 types of responses at the (surprisingly packed) showing I went to:

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Loved Auto Focus. And Greg Kinnear was great in it.

I think it did. It helped dispel the notion of "that'd never happen here" thinking that was prevalent in the shadow of WWII, when these experiments took place. It illuminated and gave name to an all too human quality.