Movies by Spoiler #2

reading more on the subject I guess you're right. It depends on which version of the film you saw and who you ask, really. Even the screen writer, director, and the actor who played the character don't agree and have changed their opinions over time. I personally prefer the versions of the film that hint more at the protagonist being a replicant I guess because that's the conclusion I had reached myself.

I was also a fan of the 1997 Blade Runner computer game. That game famously had many different endings - some of which made it clear that the character the player was controlling was human, some where he was a replicant, and some where it was left ambiguous. I think I favored the replicant endings in that game, too.

I hated Unbreakable and couldn't finish watching Glass, but Split was sort of okay. Probably my 2nd-favorite Shyamalan movie. But for me that's not saying a lot.

However I don't begrudge anyone their enjoyment of anything so if you liked them, that's cool.

I just watched Signs again last night for some reason. Good god that movie is awful... worse than I remember.. maybe because I'm much older than the first time I saw it and more cynical and jaded or maybe I'm just less forgiving of Shyamalan now that I've gotten completely fed up with him. I'd say that it's one of the stupidest things he's done but then the competition for that is pretty stiff. I mean... space aliens capable of interstellar travel some to Earth, a planet whose surface area is over 70% water - the one substance that to them inexplicably disintegrates them, spend a few weeks messing with farmers neatly bending their crops over, and then... their best plan of attack is to land in tiny midwestern towns, naked and unarmed, to attack the redneck inhabitants of some farms? But they're too stupid to figure out how to get through a wooden door.

I also recently rewatched the 6th Sense and it's dumb, too, if you think about it at all. But not nearly as dumb.

and I had completely forgotten about Mel Gibson's character being a lapsed priest in Signs before rewatching it, and the extremely drawn-out, extremely improbable death scene of his wife pinned against a tree with her guts about to fall out, perfectly lucid and able to have a conversation with Mel but for some reason they know as soon as they move the truck she will die instantly.

And how the message of the film or at least the main character's arc was about coming to believe in the offensive nonsense that everything happens for a reason... which he accepts because, while he and the rest of his family stand in the living room passive and motionless, content to watch while one of the aliens tries to gas Mel's young son, the son apparently survives because of his asthma which prevented him from breathing in the alien toxins... so... yeah... obviously god must have given him asthma his whole life because he knew his dad was going to stand and watch while this happened, I guess.