First reviews are in and. . . Welllll shit.
Fuck.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/glass_2019
First, this is unquestionably disappointing. Second, my excitement for it still hasn’t been diminished. And third, oh well.
So it may not be the satisfying conclusion this series deserved according to all these critics, but as with all things I’ll wait and see for myself.
Yeah, I'm hoping I will be one of the ones who falls on the positive side.
This is a pretty good discussion/review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMKDfAJp0ho
Still hoping this is a big hit for M. Night with general audiences.
If history has taught us anything, is that critics and audiences don’t see eye-to-eye a lot of the time when it comes to certain movies (just being a bit optimistic here). With that said, despite the lukewarm reviews I can nevertheless see “Glass” being a hit with general audiences myself. Here’s hoping! Gonna keep myself from looking at any more reviews; I want to go in and simply enjoy the ride.
shareWe'll just have to see!
Just judging from the reviews, it sounds like this is a film that a lot of people aren't going to like, but there will be a solid contingent of fans who enjoy it and think it's misunderstood.
Honestly, while I enjoyed Split, I didn't love it like a lot of other people did. There was something about the tone and themes that just felt uncomfortable to me, but I still thought it was a well-made film.
I was hoping that Glass would be more in the vein of Unbreakable than Split, but it seems too me that he really should've waited until he had more money to make the film. When you adjust Unbreakable's budget for inflation, it had like a $100 million budget. Why try to make a sequel to that on only $20 million?
In any case, in a sense I have been looking past Glass for a little while now. That is, while I have been looking forward to it and have been hoping it will be good and a big hit financially, I have been more interested in what he's going to do AFTER it. What will his NEXT film be?
While I am very much curious to know what his next project will be, personally I can’t remember ever feeling as excited for an M. Night Shyamalan film as I am for Glass. I always wanted to see a follow up to Unbreakable, and Split easily became my favorite M. Night Shyamalan film since Unbreakable, so knowing we were getting a sequel to these two films was just the best thing.
The less-than-stellar reviews for Glass may be disappointing but, to be perfectly honest, they haven’t killed my anticipation one bit. Some of the positive ones I’ve seen have actually... dare I say... somehow piqued my interest in the film some more? Hmm. As for what Shyamalan’s next film will be, I think that’s something M. Night can’t answer himself. But whatever it will be, I do look forward to it.