Glass: 10 Most Unintentionally Funny Bad Moments

After nineteen long years, fans of M. Night Shyamalan's long-underseen cult classic Unbreakable finally have the follow-up they've been waiting for. Glass burst into theaters this weekend, featuring the return of Unbreakable's Bruce Willis' David Dunn and Samuel L. Jackson's Elijah Price while also serving as a more-direct sequel to 2016's Split, featuring the return of James McAvoy's multi-faceted The Horde.

Anticipation for the film had reached a fever pitch just before release, only for it to be dampened a bit by mixed-to-negative early reactions and reviews. While Unbreakable is a beloved cult classic and Split was unanimously praised by critics and audiences upon release, Glass was eliciting a much less enthralled reaction.

Having seen the film, it's easy to see why.

Instead of being the crowning achievement and full-blown comeback that so many were hoping M. Night Shyamalan would deliver, Glass is a muddled mess that sees Shyamalan returning to some of his worst tendencies. The result is a film that is bound to elicit more than its fair share of unintentional laughs, whether they be thanks to incomprehensibly moronic twists, poor performances, or just the overall lacking quality of the film.

These are the funniest of those moments and the ones that are destined to garner the biggest responses.

The film spends an ungodly amount of time with Sarah Paulson's character, Dr. Ellie Staple, attempting to convince the three central characters that none of them are actually super-powered individuals as she keeps them locked up in the Ravenhill Psychiatric Hospital.

This in and of itself is not such a bad thing. On paper, a new character played by a critically-lauded actress challenging the core beliefs of all three of our main characters should be riveting to watch. However, in execution, it is about as dull as watching paint dry.

Part of this comes down to the structure of Shyamalan's script, which is so devoid of structure it's maddening. Part of it comes down to the fact that so much of this bloated section of the film is simply comprised of people having very long, pointless conversations that don't drive the narrative, theme, or any sort of character development.

But perhaps most importantly of all, Shyamalan makes the crucial mistake here of not just having Dr. Staple trying to convince the characters they aren't super-powered, but also trying to convince us that they aren't super-powered.

Considering anyone in the audience who has seen Unbreakable, Split, the marketing for Glass, or even the first fifteen minutes of Glass are blatantly aware of the fact that these characters do, in fact, have super-powers, this is mind-numbingly idiotic. It results in the film wasting the majority of its runtime on a completely pointless hook that does nothing for the characters, the narrative, or the audience.