You gotta love M. Night Shyamalan trying to be humble. In an interview with MTV, the director said he originally hoped to do a sequel to “Unbreakable,” his silly, mysterious super-hero movie, but the bad reviews and bad box-office convinced him otherwise. “I made a mistake getting caught up in the [negative] hype,” he said. But now he realizes, that much like “The Village,” “Unbreakable,” has been revisited and now re-regarded as a classic (or something like that). “That wasn’t the predominant feeling [at the time,]” Shyamalan said of the now-positive goodwill audiences now apparently see of “Unbreakable.” “Now it is [the predominant feeling]. Just as ‘The Village’ has rise [in stature].” ( that the film is actually well regarded).” Really? Says who? Last we checked these films still sucked. “The immediate reactions to my movie, over [time] has shown me, is not accurate to any of my movies.”Apparently we all realized his genius years later. Oh, holy night.
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