Manoj Nelliyattu, "M. Night" Shyamalan has had one of Hollywood's most interesting stories that could well have come from one of his scripts. After two independent movies which amounted to little success, Shyamalan set the world afire with 1999's The Sixth Sense, which took critics off guard, gathering six Academy Award nominations and rolling to an almost $700 million box office take, making it the most successful horror film all the way until 2017, when It finally knocked it off. But after a financial and critical success such as that, where do you go from there? Join myself, Matt, and the returning Michael Guarnieri as we take the journey to answering that question, which we begin with The Sixth Sense and will eventually lead to Shyamalan's new film Old, scheduled for release this July.
Following up a massive hit like The Sixth Sense would seem to be a daunting task. M Night Shyamalan was now media's golden boy, but as we have covered on this podcast in the past, there is such a thing as a sophomore slump. Shyamalan still had his star in Bruce Willis, and even brought in Willis's four time co-star Samuel L Jackson. So how does the ever confident Shyamalan do with Unbreakable, and was it really ahead of its time in dissecting the superhero genre? And is Mike looking forward to crawling down ever so further into the Shyamalan rabbit hole, the majority of which he hasn't seen?
Join us as we look at Unbreakable and determine if it is unforgettable.
Unbreakable (2000) (?/10, ?/10, ?/10)
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