314 – Unbreakable

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

After the smash box office success and surprise Oscar nominations of The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan delivered a follow-up in short order. With a mysterious trailer, Unbreakable reunited Shyamalan with Bruce Willis for another genre exercise, this time involving a man who survives a train crash without any injuries. Samuel L. Jackson co-headlines as a frail man with ideas about what makes Willis’ character so special, and the film help cement Shyamalan’s reputation with audiences as a twist guy. But after the widespread affection for The Sixth Sense, this film proved to be something too dark and obscure for audiences.

This episode, we talk about Shyamalan’s work and this film’s slightly ahead-of-the-curve look at comic book culture. We also talk about the film’s marketing, Willis and Jackson’s underrated performances, and Willis’ star persona in the 1990s.

Topics also include the Unbreakable sequels, James Newton Howard’s score, and 2000 Original Screenplay.

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0:00.0	Joe, we're back with an update for the Ultra Fantasy League. Do you see what I did?
0:04.0	Every single update we've had so far, you start it with saying my name, so I started it with saying your name.
0:10.0	Whoa, subliminal advertisement for us. We're saying,'m gonna say Chris as often as possible so that we don't get confused for each other anymore. It's perfect.
0:17.4	Pavlovian. I was gonna do a venom voice, but I can't do a venom voice it's too early I can't just
0:23.4	ready I don't know like it venom's in first place I don't know how does how does a
0:29.6	venom talk my venom voice would probably also be my Jody Comer and Bike Writers voice that I sent to you.
0:36.6	Guys, you can't, you can't, this is what being friends with Chris File is like you get
0:41.0	aggressed with voicemails of him singing lyrics to songs in
0:46.2	Jody Comer's voice from the bike riders.
0:49.2	I did poor unfortunate souls in Jody Comer's bike riders voice.
0:52.7	We should be talking more about the bike riders.
0:54.6	We should be talking more about the bike riders.
0:56.3	Good movie.
0:57.3	How much of a buy was the bike riders?
0:59.2	Three dollars?
1:00.2	I think every time you say something like that, I think of Lucille Bluth going.
1:04.3	I mean it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost?
1:07.2	$10? How much could a bike rider cost Michael? One dollar?
1:10.7	I did make it a three. You're right. I did make it a three dollar. know I was just looking for something to make for a three dollar buy and I said why not the bike raiders
1:21.1	You go to hell. Um, all right, so anyway, the point being
1:27.0	Venom, the last dance, finished number one at the box office. So if you, if you
1:31.9	did purchase Venom, the last dance in the fantasy movie game
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