[UA] Train Wreck

[Kevin Elmore]

> get America's fascination with M. Night Shamalayan. Sure,
> they're both 
> decent movies, but much slower and introspective than I
> figure most 
> American moviegoers would care for. The twist endings

Actually, this raises my hopes for the average American
viewer.  I'd rather see films like these become successful
rather than tripe like Jurassic Park II *shudder*

I warned someone that she might not like Unbreakable.  I
said that it was even more ponderous than The Sixth Sense. 
Maybe she though "ponderous" means "cool."  She said she
almost fell asleep.  Ah well, so much for raising my hopes.

> 
> ObUA: Did this even relate to UA to begin with?
> 

Okay, I'm the guilty one who brought this up.  I actually
wanted to encourage people to go see it because it does a
great job of portraying someone trying to maintain normalcy
in the face of extraordinary events.  I could easily see a
character like what Bruce Willis played (damn, forgot the
character's name).  Even if the character isn't as
fantastic as the one in the movie, it's still worthwhile to
see someone try to live a normal life while dealing with
the OU.  In retrospect, I should have based part of my UA
campaign on the soccer mom's degeneration into an OU
junkie.  Her ex-husband gets the kids.  Her fellow soccer
mom friends abandon her.  She suffers Isolation checks as
her normal, mundane life is stripped from her.

Damn, now I really wish I put more focus on that in my UA
game.

After all, UA must be full of people trying to live their 9
to 5 jobs and forget that they just watched a giant penis
slither down the alley.

Kevin

PS:  Regarding Unbreakable's lack of action.  I liked how
the only action scene was pretty anticlimactic.  Compare
the resolution of that subplot to a Stallone flick.  There
would have been a lot of fighting and broken glass (trying
to keep this ambiguous for the uninitiated).


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