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Spoiler alert: This week on Heat Vision Breakdown it's time to take a deep dive into M. Night Shymalan's 'Unbreakable' trilogy and how the ending in 'Glass' is leaving many divided.

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00:00Hello friends, it's taken 19 years, but M. Night Shyamalan has finally concluded his Unbreakable Trilogy,

00:05proving that the filmmaker is almost as slow as George R.R. Martin when it comes to delivering magnum opuses.

00:10Yes, Glass is at last in theaters, and like many superhero movies, and many M. Night Shyamalan movies,

00:15it's proving to be somewhat controversial among fans.

00:18Have no fear, however, because on this week's Heat Vision Breakdown,

00:21we're going to help you process all those feelings you're having about Glass and its conclusion.

00:25We're in this together, guys.

00:27Warning, this is a spoiler-filled video.

00:29Do not watch this if you haven't already seen Glass.

00:32To reiterate, there are spoilers in this video!

00:35No, I'm leaving!

00:36He hasn't seen it.

00:42First things first, a quick recap of the big action in the movie.

00:45David Dunn, aka Bruce Willis, aka that guy who's always prepared for a rainstorm,

00:50now has his own home security store and spends his nights going on walks,

00:54which basically means beating up bad guys while his son feeds him information via a Bluetooth headset.

01:00The Dunns are on the hunt for Kevin Wendell Crumb, aka James McAvoy,

01:03aka a dude who should never be allowed within 100 feet of a high school pep rally.

01:08Eugh.

01:09A man with split personalities and star of 2017's Split.

01:12Crumb has kidnapped four cheerleaders, but luckily for them,

01:15Dunn is able to figure out where the young women are being held after running into Crumb and getting a psychic vision.

01:20A battle between Dunn and the Beast, Crumb's monstrous persona, who is apparently allergic to wearing shirts, ensues.

01:26But before it gets too out of hand, the two Supes are captured by Dr. Ellie Staple,

01:31a psychiatrist specializing in people who believe they are superheroes and supervillains.

01:35Dr. Staple spends a good chunk of the movie trying to convince Dunn, Crumb, and Elijah Price,

01:39aka Samuel L. Jackson, aka yet another reason to never trust anyone named Elijah,

01:44sorry Frodo,

01:45who has been in custody since his capture at the end of Unbreakable,

01:48that there are scientifically explainable reasons for their apparent powers.

01:52Like a radioactive spider bit them, or they were exposed to gamma radiation,

01:56or the U.S. government injected them with some type of super strength serum,

01:59or maybe they were like locked in a cave in Iraq and they had to come up with like some way to make a super suit,

02:05or lots of other examples.

02:07He was going to cut me off eventually, I assume.

02:09She has a group therapy scene to lay it all out for them.

02:11Psychiatrist style.

02:12The Beast's ability to climb walls?

02:14Well, Crumb's computer had tons of rock climbing videos on it.

02:17Clearly, he was just a rock climbing enthusiast.

02:20Okay.

02:20What about Dunn's psychic ability?

02:22Well, he's just really good at deducing clues,

02:24sort of like Sherlock Holmes or a really great magician.

02:27Right, all right.

02:28Don't really think magicians can bend, steal, or survive train crashes.

02:32And Mr. Glass's genius?

02:34He's just a super smart guy with super villain tendencies,

02:37like Lex Luthor, or Mark Zuckerberg,

02:39or that guy who owns Jimmy John's.

02:41There's something going on with him.

02:43Dunn and some members of the horde seem to be buying it,

02:45but Glass isn't having any of it.

02:47He engineers an escape for the trio with plans for the Beast

02:50and Dunn to have a big showdown at the top of the biggest building in Philadelphia,

02:54a clash of titans that will prove to the world that people with powers exist.

02:58Really, though, picking any city other than Philly might have been a better choice,

03:01if your goal was to attract attention to a catastrophic scene.

03:04Do you see that place after Super Bowl 52?

03:06I don't think two bald guys fist fighting is going to get that much attention in Philadelphia.

03:10I'm going bald?

03:11Anyway, here's where Shyamalan pulls the biggest twist that is causing fans grief,

03:15because that showdown never happens.

03:18Instead, there's a battle outside the hospital,

03:20and our protagonists, Dunn, Crumb, and Mr. Glass,

03:22all die at the hands of a secret society

03:24that has been keeping people with powers under wraps.

03:27Because...

03:28Dr. Staple had three days to convince her patients

03:30that they weren't superpowered or else they'd be killed.

03:33Unfortunately for them, she's not very good at her job.

03:35Oh, yeah, and David Dunn ends up drowning face down in a puddle

03:38because his weakness is water.

03:40Why does that sound so familiar?

03:41As Dr. Staple says, we can't have gods walking among us.

03:56I don't know how godlike it is to be killed by a puddle, but whatever.

03:59But true to Shyamalan form, there's one final twist.

04:02Mr. Glass secretly had the showdown videotaped via the hospital's many cameras,

04:05and that footage was sent to the surviving loved ones,

04:08who then upload it for the world to see.

04:09Glass believed that if people knew their own true potential,

04:12they would exceed what they viewed as their own limitations

04:14and create a world of wonder.

04:17Now, I understand why you might be disappointed

04:18that Shyamalan robbed us of that promised final confrontation,

04:21and also that fan theories saying Anya Taylor-Joy's Casey Cook

04:25would be revealed to have her own powers didn't really come to fruition.

04:28And yes, I admit, I'm disappointed too,

04:30but it's in moments like these that we should look at the positives

04:33and form our own Glass Half Full support group.

04:37Aw. Thanks, guys.

04:39It's gonna be okay.

04:42I feel loved.

04:44Way back in 2000, Shyamalan disappointed many fans

04:47who expected Unbreakable to be the sixth sense, but with superheroes.

04:50It wasn't.

04:51Instead, we got a meditative deconstruction on a genre

04:53that was not yet popular on the big screen.

04:55Why, then, would we expect Glass to take a page

04:57from the superhero glut of the past two decades

04:59and end with a big slugfest?

05:01It's also entirely possible that in years to come,

05:04this film's stock could rise among fans,

05:05just as Unbreakable has become better regarded over the years since its release.

05:09Glass very much feels like a film that was not audience-tested to death,

05:12that didn't give in to fears that it might not be big enough.

05:15Perhaps we should applaud Shyamalan for ending his trilogy the way he wanted to end it.

05:19If nothing else, Shyamalan has proven throughout his career that he has a lot of ideas.

05:23And while not all of them work, as well as Split, The Sixth Sense, or Unbreakable,

05:27and some are borderline unwatchable, like The Last Airbender, The Happening, or After Earth,

05:31at least he's willing to take major risks.

05:33The big question some fans might have after leaving the theater

05:36is whether Shyamalan is trying to set up a bigger world.

05:39Mr. Glass says as he's dying that he got it wrong,

05:41that this was an origin story all along.

05:43That origin story is not for him, or Dunn, or even Crumb,

05:46though he did technically create Crumb,

05:48whose father died in the crash that showed Dunn his powers.

05:50No, this origin story was for the rest of us.

05:53You and me.

05:54John Q. Normal.

05:55Glass has created an entire world in which people can see their potential,

05:58and presumably many, many more super-powered beings will emerge from it.

06:02But don't bet on this being something we see in follow-up films.

06:05Shyamalan himself has said that he has no intention of making further sequels.

06:09This trilogy feels self-contained.

06:11If Shyamalan really wanted that drag-out fight at the top of the tallest building in Philadelphia,

06:15he would have done it.

06:15No, this feels like the end,

06:17which is another refreshing change of pace from the comic book realm.

06:20Outside of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy, or Logan,

06:23when has something ended when it actually was meant to?

06:26After all, not walking away is how you end up with Topher Grace playing Venom.

06:29Nobody wants that.

06:30I like being bad.

06:32So what do you guys think?

06:32Was Glass a disappointment,

06:33or did it add a satisfying conclusion to the Unbreakable trilogy?

06:37Let us know in the comments right down there,

06:38and join us here every Friday morning for new episodes of Heat Vision Breakdown.

06:41Are you done with the spoilers yet?

06:43Oh yeah, man, don't worry about it.

06:44All right, cool.

06:44Bruce Willis dies in a probably...

06:45What?!

06:46After all...

06:47Thanks.

06:47It's a good idea.

06:48I love you that is always magical.

06:54And let's have fun at Night Aufllen.

07:02And look once a person in the next morning.

07:05You are left at Night Apareil.

07:07GlorITE!

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07:09And if you didn't do it,

07:11you will get to be super ny strike.

07:13Get us.

07:13Hold on.

07:13It's here to be a good place.

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