Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson, November 23, 2022) Movie • Page 16

Henwick and Odom jr. were kinda underused, I know it’s a big cast and hard to give everyone time but they were kinda boring compared to the rest

 

Yeah, if there’s another similarity between this and “The Menu,” it’s that some cast members don’t get a lot to do.

 

Wasn't too crazy about this, I actually did kinda enjoy the cameos.

I thought the humor was too goofy (I also just watched See How They Run which I thought was better than this) and the napkin was a dumb macguffin

 

rewatching the original, this movie whips

 

Is Knives Out in any way required viewing before seeing this? My mom was happy to join me for a showing tonight, only for me to find out after buying tickets that she had never seen the first one hah

 

Nope. I don’t think the events of Knives Out are even hinted at tbh.

 

Yea, they only reference one other case and it’s not the one from Knives Out.

 

There’s a passing reference to Knives Out — “an anonymous invitation is not to be trifled with” or something like that — but it’s not essential to the plot in any way.

 

Word thanks y’all. Stoked for this. I’ll let her know that Knives Out is required viewing, just not to see this

 

I do like to think the before COVID, Blanc had many more cases after Knives Out we didn’t see

 

I mean yeah, he had a profile in the Times

 

This slapped

I think the COVID references are maybe being a little blown out of proportion in here, it’s the perfect stage to introduce each of these characters and basically disappears after the title card

My theater lost it at Bautista getting out of the pool and firing the gun. Tell me you live in Arizona without telling me you live in Arizona or whatever

Shout out to the Gillian Flynn reference in a movie where the “murdered” person is revealed to have been alive all along halfway through

Only (minor) complaints are once again the story takes a long walk to reveal a very obvious villain, and the the whole glass switch into Bautista’s hand thing felt like a cop out

 

Can't remember where but I saw a post (tweet?) lumping together Glass Onion, The Menu, The Invitation, and Triangle of Sadness, metaphorically (or literally?) eating the rich. I haven't seen The Menu yet (or Triangle of Sadness) but I doubt the similarities are any deeper than that tweet suggests.

 

Loved this one. It’s crazy how this was written and filmed over a year ago, but feels like was based on recent events regarding a certain character. Struggling to think of something I didn’t enjoy.

 

Crazy that it got such a small release. Netflix loves spending money and leaving a ton of it on the table.

 

Hilarious that this was the final posthumous role for both Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury

 

this was fucking fantastic. the only thing that felt reused was Kate Hudson's character; the ditzy out of touch influencer-archetype.

can't help but feel a bit of Elon influence in Ed Norton's character, lol

 

A bit of influence?

 

And Knives Out was the last big movie for Christopher Plummer. Rian Johnson’s taking out all the elder statesmen!

 

Loved it even more the second time around.

 

kind of agree with the initial takes. fun and entertaining but lost a lot of what the first one so magical by turning everything up to 11. wish it didn't, but a fun time at the movies nonetheless.

 

Saw this last night, thought it was good but not as fantastically great as the first.

I thought the middle was really excellent, basically everything from Blanc spoiling the game to just until he explains the murders. But it took SO LONG to get there, something about the movie's setup didn't totally work for me.

I think it was we spend so much of the first hour entirely focused on this largely unlikeable group of characters, there's really nothing grounding the film except exposition and goofiness. Are we supposed to be in on them being all jokes from the beginning? Are we not, and supposed to be worried something bad is going to happen to one or more of them? Ultimately, I felt neither of those things strongly enough, so I was searching for a point for most of the beginning. In time, that group of characters turning out to all be unlikeable people IS the point, so it does pay off. But the first chunk of the film, while a fun set up, feels like it takes a long time to get where it was going.

I generally liked the end. I don't know that it totally made sense for everyone to follow Helen in the smashing of the statues, but the Mona Lisa destruction and their final turn against Miles made enough sense for me. If I had any complaints, it's that I felt like we launched into Blanc explains what happened a story beat too early, but I suppose that was necessary when there was so much to come after.

 

Agree. It was like a DIFFERENT filmmaker saw Knives Out and said oh I can do that and then just went crazy with the budget. But still miles better than the Branagh mystery movies, which were snoozers IMO.

 

It made me wish Edward Norton did more comedies. He’s so good in this and Moonrise Kingdom.

 

Yea Norton was amazing, especially when he was throwing a fit at the end