"Split" Movie Review - MovieBitches Ep 138

[@Kahsmiiic]

The ending was a continuation and throwback to "Unbreakable" with Bruce Willis, which is Shyamalan's version of a comic book movie. So we get to see the birth of a villain, as well as a potential new hero.

[@caitsmalls2720]

You guys are seriously my favourite movie reviewers. I always get so excited when you upload!

[@cynthiap6638]

Omg I was SO hoping Andrew would fix the ending of this movie. And he did. Oscar for Great Rewrite. 🏆

[@drifter_d]

M Night had me on a roller-coaster of emotions. I went from "OMG, is Shyamalan finally back?" to "God damn it, he Shyamalaned yet another movie!" But then that twist came and the inner Unbreakable fan in me lost her shit... Well played sir *clap*

[@troymeetsboy]

Ugh James was FANTASTIC. ❤️ also agree with the ending!

[@pobstrel]

Completely agree. 80% good movie and then the clumsy 'surprise' ending and cameo. I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it. I'm guessing there will be a sequel.

[@ChocolateThaiE]

pobstrel yes there will be a part 2 to the movie the cameo was from

[@JesseWolfboy]

Bless you guys for propping up a VHS copy of "THE WOLF-MAN" and the old "DR. JEKYL AND MR. HYDE" front and center. That's good taste right there; pay attention, kiddies.

[@AmethystSky23]

Avaryl looking fabulous as always and Andrew looking adorable as always

[@tyrstocry3493]

JoshTheLaneBoy both looking both forever

[@EJMoreno]

I think the sharp dive works when this films are now meant to be looked at as a "superhero" film in a way. It is in the Unbreakable universe, which I think looking at it through that lens allows for it to be more ridiculous. That's also what Betty Buckley is trying to explain that he is basically "super". I can see why it would fall off to some but it really brought this movie to another level. I'm so glad you two at least appreciated 80% cause I do agree, it's like Oscar Gold from McAvoy. Even his role as The Beast was so deep and legit insane how crazy he seemed.

[@Chillaxes]

Ej Moreno that's what I'm thinking. since unbreakable is supposed to be a "realistic " version of the superhero trope I guess this would fit in that category.at least he didn't jump in a vat of radioactive crap at the end or anything lol

[@CraigTulloch]

At 11:00 when you're talking about the self harm scars. It's mentioned at least twice before that moment that she is wearing multiple layers of clothing indicating that the scars were being consciously hidden by her.

[@ericayala6348]

I need a video of you guys talking about the Oscars

[@jeremyradkins4946]

Strongly agree. It was one of the cringiest award ceremonies it has ever been my pleasure to enjoy, and I have watched multiple years of the daytime emmys.

[@sowrup]

This movie is noooow available toooo watch here => twitter.com/2960c3d507650a4ee/status/822760425976569858

[@aakarmabill]

Yeeesssss Gawwwwdddd... please do that!!!

[@emmanuelmancera8349]

I waatcccheeeed Spppplit full movie heeeere twitter.com/4827a138a590c8daf/status/822760425976569858

[@Melissa-jb4pu]

I live near philadelphia (which is where M.Night films a lot of his films) and they are starting to film the sequel to unbreakable (Glass) in south philly.

[@dberka210]

I agree 100% with absolutely everything you guys said. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was onboard for a story following a man with DID, his psychologist who helps him, and a girl who through her experience confronts her abuser, and instead got this derailed syfy shitfest of an ending. It's too bad, this could have bred a positive message about breaking the stigma of mental illness. McAvoy was perfect.

[@Fez1370]

Y'all need to add #MovieBitchesFixesTheMovie in every review now!

[@carveylover]

My aunt was Betty Buckley's assistant for a year. It is the closest I will ever be to her.

[@wbtothey]

This review is 💯 % spot on I agree with everything that you two said... I gave it a C- based on how badly the switch was flicked towards the end

[@ashleyfarco7602]

I just watched the movie and I'm so happy y'all brought up the paprika line. I died!

[@HeyLetsDoAThing]

The tie in to Unbreakable was what made the ending great - he didn't have DID after all, it was legitimately a superpower, and set up a villain for the hero to later face, and set up the universe's true idea that powers stem from trauma. It was legitimately one of the few great shyamalan twist endings, where it completely reframes the whole movie and improves it.

[@talistheintrovert]

Guys this is so damn good, i LOVE THIS REVIEW SO HARD! And I love that you're as in love with McAvoy as I am, he's a god, and one of the most underrated actors at the moment (although he is getting more mainstream because of the X-Men movie).

[@staceykucan3686]

The real twist will come at the end of the second movie! KEVIN IS AN ALTER!!! The other two girls are seeing Casey (so no panic from them) who is the actual original person who split after being abused. She is fighting with a new alter-The Beast who will later fight with the Bruce Willis character in the next movie.

[@kincaidrabbmusic]

Man, this movie was frustrating as someone with DID. James McAvoy is a great actor, but... It's a defense mechanism, not a violent, psychotic tendency.

[@maggiekarabel123]

Kincaid Rabb This is so late but do you just lose time by disassociating from reality or do you have alters? My sister-in-law has DID that she developed as a coping mechanism for a traumatic childhood. She rarely disassociates anymore but she’s never had alters. Going to support groups with my brother we rarely meet someone with a family member who actually has alters. They just lose time because they go somewhere else. I’m just curious about your situation. And yes, the only thing “dangerous” about my SIL’s condition is she could get in a car and drive when she’s not really in touch with reality. She’s in no way violent, scary or psychotic.

[@MyChannel773]

ooh alternate plot idea: instead of him working at the zoo, we see a flashback of his mother taking him to the zoo while being really awful to him, and an animal jumps up and hits the glass/barrier behind her really loudly (or some other scary thing) and startles her and leaves her visibly shaken, so in the end he turns into the beast because in his mind, it’s the only thing in the world stronger than his mother

[@reneecox1186]

My husband and I came away feeling the exact same way as you guys! Love the reviews.

[@TheBookRefuge]

Truth! Such a great build up.... I hope the Sequel is better

[@BodegaNinja]

Have you guys watched The United States of Tara with Toni Collette? This is a better depiction of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Bear in mind that it is a TV show so is embellished for entertainment purposes.

[@Kidsmurf11]

i liked this movie. y'all were spot on with the ending. her office was AMAZING!

[@delilahmctrennel6307]

Okay but maybe he didn't have to be this crazy beast mode monster person, what if he had been somehow a long lost brother to the main girl, and they were both traumatized in the same way and when he saw her in public he reverted to like inept brother person who kidnapped her (and accidentally two friends) to save her from this shitty situation he knows she's in but she doesn't quite remember him... ensue lots of personalities none of whom help the issue but for some reason they won't let them go until she figures out what's going on... there I fixed it.

[@ivanaalina]

I have started watching this instead of like weekly tv shows, time difference and everything (around 2 a.m.) always worth the wait. tnx :)

[@josephirizarry5195]

I have NEVER in my LIFE been attracted to a man wearing a turtleneck... until I saw this film

[@elizagaskell7957]

yippeeeeeeeee A MENTION OF SYBILL with Sally Field..... LOVE, LOVE LOVE James MacAvoy in this movie. He deserves an Oscar!!!

[@musicman7416]

also, your problems with this movie are explainable with M. Night Shayamalans own words, "This is a comic books type of world. Such things are possible in this world more than that of others."

[@Exogenesys]

I'm glad to hear that you don't mind this movie! Definitely going to see it when it goes out of theaters.

[@moomoopuppy5810]

The funny thing to me is the beast running, especially how high his feet/legs go up into the air at full "gallop".

[@Laurenjoinsyoutube]

My husband has to explain that Bruce Willis thing to me. I just thought that was a weird cameo haha

[@aric8009]

Woke up to a notification that movie bitches posted a new video, and the sun is shining outside... is this real life? *plays Today Was A Good Day by Ice Cube*

[@jadab.3255]

I know you guys aren't into horror and you don't review shows (other than drag race) , but you would really like Freddie Highmore's performance in Bates Motel because he does so well with the subtle changes between himself and his mother (Vera Farmiga) and how he portrays her when he is her. He is just such an amazing actor and it really shines through.

[@aakarmabill]

OMG! I comement some videos ago I wanted this review, you guys are the best! Cant wait for your Ruviews of season 9!!! So exited!

[@youmeandgravity]

Are you guys going to watch Feud?

[@MovieBitches]

+Gregory Salamone yes!

[@youmeandgravity]

MovieBitches I'm so excited!!!

[@ericayala6348]

Apparently the second season is going to be about Princess Diana

[@WedgeOfSpite]

Loved the twist ending, but then I loved Unbreakable, so love the secret sequel. Wherein all the weird stuff at the end is totally explainable as being part of a comic book movie.

[@CTH9821]

Please say you're going to make an oscars recap. I need to vent by listening to you guys vent! It's like a more fabulous version of therapy.

[@cagliarigirl6510]

Yes, you fixed It!

[@in9220]

YES JUST WHAT I NEEDED love you guys ❤️❤️ you know your schedule for season 9?

[@merillwentzel4181]

Excited about what you guys think!!! I've heard such mixed reviews... I feel like truly understanding DID is important when making and watching a movie like this, and it seems like, at some parts, the understanding of DID just wasn't there.

[@johnn.5033]

Now with the planned "Eastrail Trilogy" as it's apparently called commencing in 2019 with "Glass", the sequel to Split. I do think it's kind of cool to see Shyamalan's vision come to life almost unintentionally or maybe unexpectedly shall I say, almost 20 years after "Unbreakable" premiered. I can't really think of anything quite like it where a movie bomb spawns a unique successful trilogy some 15 years later with a film that no one would have expected to exist in the same universe as the other. It is a little disappointing that this film went from realist psychological thriller to unrealistic superhero thriller towards the end. I'll enjoy seeing how Shyamalan pulls the trilogy together.

[@DeathTheKidsWife8]

Will you guys be seeing Get Out?? I really liked the writing - it knew the concept was kind of silly, and still made some great comedy/thriller scenes right alongside one another. I recommend.

[@StrongerThanYsterday]

I luuuuv the movie but the ending is just like wtf !?

[@mikailagray]

Perhaps if Split was a series or something it would be better.

[@Melancholy0000]

notification came late here. i'm disappointed on you youtube.

[@radlee974]

Sooo, I frequently feel like quite a moron with incredibly shitty taste due to the fact that I genuinely love M Night’s film “Lady In The Water”. And, that’s without even the slightest hint of irony. I sincerely enjoy it exactly how M Night intended it to be! Normally I can find at least a few other people who are also fans of some of my somewhat more questionable “guilty pleasures”, if you will. But not when it comes to “Lady In The Water”. It really seems to just be me out there. Anyway, this review just reminded me of how simple-minded I can be. Haha. Much love to you two!!! XOXO

[@AtlanticGiantPumpkin]

My big problem with this movie is that now people are more terrified of those with DID. Lots of people with it had their you get alters afraid because they thought they were supposed to be that mean and scary and they weren't. It was really offensive to lots of systems for portraying it in this light and making it seem this scary and unsafe.

[@christmastiger]

I was most annoyed in this film by the main girl who was constantly like "Let's not actually fight back" during the times it actually would have helped, on first viewing I was like "yeah maybe I get this tactic" but honestly the other two girls were WAY more proactive about escaping and nothing about that has to do with privilege, just survival instinct. Basically it felt like one of the messages was "if you've been kidnapped just let it happen, they'll let you go once they find out you've been damaged too" like I enjoyed the movie but they would have escaped in the first 10 minutes if they'd just done what the blonde girl said.

[@Lucas-jl1zj]

I was reallyyyy hopin to see this movie, here in Brazil still is not out. But i couldnt control myself and I prefer listen to you guys review with a thounsand spoilers lol (probally I will still watch)

[@zariawinter4725]

I literally said yaay when I saw that you guys uploaded this.

[@Nappehh]

I think people miss the point of the ending, since it turns the movie from a psychological thriller to a villain origin story. In these parameters, the beast thing isn't that bad...

[@sassyfrenchpotato]

Can you guys make a review of GLASS and make a count compilation of the Werewolf transformations, or a drink game 😂💕

[@MrsMggfan4ever]

please talk about the oscars i'm dying to hear and see you react to this rolercoaster!!

[@QueenMJade89]

Love you guys! Are you going to do a review of Get Out or FX's Betty and Joan?

[@tmlacr01]

I was hesitant to watch yet another M. Night Shayamalan because I am not a fan of his movies. I was so surprised that I did enjoy the acting and cinematography in this film. The director was brilliant in the camera angles of each of the 23 personalities. You could tell who each character was by just looking at the camera angles and mannerisms of James McAvoy. I felt like there was good character development with each character in this film. I also feel that the heroine being the most “damaged” girl was empowering to people that may watch this film. In films, you typically see “victims” being constantly victimized and cowering in a corner rather than being the one person who can get everyone to safety. I was into the movie with the banter and psychological aspects until the “Beast” came out. I do agree that that was too beyond reality, but again this is a M. Night Shyamalan movie so I was not surprised at all. He does these crazy endings and plot twists so I was somewhat expecting something grandiose of this nature. All in all, I think this was a cool movie when the ending brought it all together. I felt like it was similar to a super hero movie and I liked how it seemed to connect with other movies of his. I typically don’t like his movies because they seem to just end with no resolution or typical ending, so him ending this film with other characters that connect to other movies was brilliant in my opinion.

[@BiPolarMuffin]

are you going to review Get Out?

[@maximillianw3823]

Can you review Mulan (the Disney version)?

[@esperanz02]

I want to know what you guys thought of the walkie talkie part. Where was Ru's bullshit paddle when you need it???

[@max_on_ice]

Read Pretty Girl 13!! It's like a better version of this. I think yall would really like it.

[@blastermaster5009]

The end of this movie was great. I don't know what you two are going on about. It also doesn't seem like either of you have seen Unbreakable...

[@onion115]

Movie Bitches' Movie Fixes!! I'd be SO down for that🙌

[@ZoraTheberge]

The movie you'd love is Sybil?

[@Mark-vu5jk]

Any chance we could get a review of Moonlight?

[@MovieBitches]

+Mark coming soon!!

[@LeBronP]

Just discovered a Christian thrift shop that has a VHS for the most random movies, and a ton of them. Do you guys have a list of movies that you already have? And you guys are very entertaining, keep it up!

[@MommyOfZoeAndLiam]

I am new to your channel. I want to see this movie, I'm reluctant to watch your review because I don't want spoilers. Can you or anyone tell me if this contains spoilers??

[@CraigTulloch]

MommyOfZoeAndLiam lots of spoilers. See the film first.

[@MRchocolateAfro]

Barry's not actually the host, Kevin is

[@bymitchellpage]

i think i'm going to need an oscars review...

[@cocteautriplets]

Thank you for reviewing this! My date took me to watch this and for me it was a messss but he really liked it xD I really do liked the movie at first, when they showed James mcavoy turning beast mode I mentally checked out. I def dont understand the reference of the other movie in the end so maybe thats why I didnt like it at all.

[@remote1993]

But.... there was a twist.

[@spencermeyers3830]

I've just learned that his movies are only good for the acting. The twist thing is so over done. I will agree with everything you said in this.

[@AnnaWagner425]

I find it so interesting that you guys didn't like the ending, because I really loved it because it was the ending of Anya Taylor Joy's character's story of continuous abuse? Maybe i am way off on that. But I think you guys are so on the money with it! Love your stuff!

[@SamDSo]

I FORGOT HE HAD A REAL-LIFE ACCENT.

[@sharonhickey90]

I like ur fix for the movie and like u said in the beginning wn he got in the car it was like she knew him or shud have known him from somewhere. then after she kills him she cud see him for who he truly was and it cudda been like a twin peaks moment wen Laura realizes who her abuser was this whole time and cud account for any special attentions she was shown ... I think we cudve gone way down the rabbit hole if someone took a twin peaks approach to this film

[@carynmargaret3296]

yes i've been waiting for this!!

[@krazykrazy14100]

Can you guys do a review for A Cure for Wellness!?? I saw it recently and oh boy would I love movie bitches to break it down!! Ps this was so good. You brought up so many valid points! I personally thought that the idea of Split being part of the Unbreakable universe made it better but I still agree with a lot of the things you noticed and pointed out! I love you guys so much!

[@archive9796]

oh yes please

[@cswain56]

You guys should do a review of 10 Cloverfield lane. That is a fantastic abduction movie

[@lovemsk1]

yay new video!

[@FantasticBeasts2024]

Please do a reaction video to the Oscars winners, please! :-) Thanks! Keep up the good content.

[@christinamarie7844]

OK... just to let u all know this was the biggest twist of all. With that being said u need to see unbreakable to get the twist. This is a twist 17 years in the making. M. Night is making his own Avengers lol

[@jj7007]

to be real i love your show but the glass clink sounds always make me jump D:

[@jadelee6555]

I loved this movie.

[@gregorille]

when you realise that it's kind of an Origin vilain story you can only say that it is a very very good origin story of a maybe not so good hero movie~

[@felipecarmo2662]

We need to have a conversation, I have an answer to every question that came up !

[@pavgarbis9609]

PLEASE review the oscars after the show maybe??

[@tdog790]

i dont think you guys really understood the movie. the last 10 seconds showed us that its a sequel to unbrekable and therefore its actually a super villian origin story like how unbrekable was a superhero origin story. so that changes the whole movie and how you understand what happened. watch unbreakable and watch it again...

[@susorasu]

tdog p so kind of how you find out at the end of Prometheus that's its a prequel to the Alien series?

[@FOXHOUND-wv5lk]

I really despise the message of this movie. Especially because they probably think that's it's being empowering to people with trauma. People who overcome their trauma are not strong *because* of it, they are strong *despite* of it

[@BumpyEye]

I love Movie Bitches

[@tonieboo0013]

just waiting for oscars reactions

[@homeybee5406]

Can I just say how much I hate that life force part of the poster because of that orange dot it's the only thing my brain wants to focus on it's horrible

[@aaroncain403]

Y'all are wrong. This movie was good from beginning to end. Ya make it sound like "the beast" came from out of no where and ruined the latter half of the movie. They were talking about "the beast" from the beginning to the end so you really should have been expecting it. It's as if you didn't like it because it wasn't absolutely realistic. It's an M. Night Shyamalan movie, of course it going to incorporate sifi, you should've realized that from the get.

[@musicman7416]

third. 💙

[@HayleeAugusta]

been waiting for this video lol

[@sugarcoat4]

M. Night Shyamalan always finds a way to fuck up a movie. i was so intrigued by the plot and he just had to turn it into something supernatural in the end. the realities of schizophrenia are much more interesting imo.

[@aaroncain403]

I know I'm making another comment but forreal, you didn't collect anything from the movie poster? Like HELLO? The movie isn't bad because you didn't understand what it was about.

[@hfxmusicman]

Just watched this. What a fucked up movie.

[@vanessanunez6478]

first

[@jamestord6480]

Second :)