{"id":1436,"date":"2019-04-30T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2019-03-23T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:24:39","slug":"movie-glass-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/30\/movie-glass-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Glass (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glass\"Glass
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2019
\nRating: PG-13
\nLength: 129 minutes \/ 2.15 hours<\/p>\n

Much like\u00a0Incredibles 2<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2018) felt like a movie that came out far too late,\u00a0Glass<\/em>\u00a0(2019) caps a trilogy of films that technically started with\u00a0Unbreakable<\/em>\u00a0(2000). Both the original\u00a0Incredibles <\/em>(2004) and\u00a0Unbreakable<\/em>\u00a0were genre-defining movies for the practically non-existent superhero films that are all but ubiquitous today. The fact that they took more than a decade to capitalize on this phenomenon is part of the reason why both sequels feel somewhat dated. Sure, they recapture a bit of the charm of the originals, but that\u2019s not enough to overcome what superhero films have evolved into since then.<\/p>\n

If anything,\u00a0Glass<\/em>\u00a0owes a debt of gratitude to its predecessor,\u00a0Split<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2016). If it weren\u2019t for James McAvoy\u2019s expert transitions between a dozen different personalities, I wouldn\u2019t have been particularly interested in this final chapter of the trilogy. While\u00a0Split<\/em>\u00a0was a return to form for Shyamalan,\u00a0Glass<\/em>\u00a0seems like a bit of a regression. Perhaps this is due to the heavy burden placed upon\u00a0Glass<\/em>\u00a0to combine two tonally different movies into a cohesive narrative, but the camerawork seemed a little more amateur than usual. Almost as if it wasn\u2019t quite sure which film to imitate. It\u2019s this kind of multiple personalities of the film itself that ends up shooting itself in the foot.<\/p>\n

I will admit that the \u201ctwist\u201d in\u00a0Glass<\/em>\u00a0is relatively satisfying and wholly unexpected. I also appreciated the conclusive nature of this film as well. It\u2019s pretty clear there aren\u2019t going to be more sequels after this. After all, it\u2019s clear that this film about superheroes is trying its hardest not to be a superhero film. In fact, it almost seems bitter that this genre of cinema exploded into what it is today, and it tries to talk down to those who find them to be pure entertainment (and nothing more).<\/p>\n

An OK end to a trilogy of loosely connected films, I give\u00a0Glass<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Glass Year: 2019 Rating: PG-13 Length: 129 minutes \/ 2.15 hours Much like\u00a0Incredibles 2\u00a0(2018) felt like a movie that came out far too late,\u00a0Glass\u00a0(2019) caps a trilogy of films that technically started with\u00a0Unbreakable\u00a0(2000). Both the original\u00a0Incredibles (2004) and\u00a0Unbreakable\u00a0were genre-defining movies for the practically non-existent superhero films that are all but ubiquitous today. The fact that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2],"tags":[1576,1716,1515,606,13,8,607,29,609],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-movie","tag-1576","tag-glass","tag-incredibles-2","tag-m-night-shyamalan","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-split","tag-trilogy","tag-unbreakable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}