Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
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Re: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
#2‘Bad’ doesn’t even come close to describing it imo.
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#3I found it rather enjoyable, but a click bait title will definitely get you further in this age of the internet
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#4I'll just chime in to say I liked it. I see the author's point about a somewhat lazy plot device, but I didn't really think about that until now. Maybe I'm lacking context - to me it's a Netflix movie and in the top 5% easily of what's on there. It was an entertaining movie that had lots of funny parts. What else do you want? The critics long winded explanations, often requiring analogies, of what was inconsistent, seem like he had to think too hard to find something to criticize
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#5Ugh- I thought that when it said spoilers ahead, it would be just the movie being reviewed in the article, which I don’t plan on seeing. Then there were spoilers for other movies (Get Out) that I intend to watch sometime.
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#6Is this here because Miles Bron is an anagram for Elon is Mr B? "It’s practically a hit piece on Elon Musk" yeah duh, author must be a real smart one. Don't usually see movie reviews here otherwise. I thought it was pretty good, quite funny at times, fun mystery. I liked first one better but by no means was it bad.
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#8I found it rather enjoyable, but a click bait title will definitely get you further in this age of the internet
What’s clickbait about it? If anything it’s anti-clickbait — it just says Knives Out has bad writing, and then the article goes on to explain why.
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#9Still reading it, but to the first point about the starting hour.
Yo-Yo ma sets up the flashbacks, and the structure of the movie as a fugue. A melody thats played upon and expanded.
The first reveal that the writer says 'renders the movies first hour pointless..' is an example of that. Benoits seeming fawning of Miles, 'inadvertant' needling of his intelligence (childish puzzles) are shown to be part of Blancs own deceit.
And in fact all, the flashbacks extend information you already knew, Duke, Whisky and, Miles, for example. That's the smart thing about these dumb murders, its in the composition itself, and not the characters, or the plot driving it.
I had a whale of time watching it, and loved the mundanity of the crimes and the fact it was just dumb people in this rich persons playworld.
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#10Glass Onion takes the well-worn detective genre and creates some genuinely surprising moments by "cheating" a little with what it shows the audience.
This article says it should have played it straight. I think that would have made for a more standard, boring movie. But whatever, that's just opinion.
But I think it is silly to call it bad writing. Bad implies that the writer didn't have command of their craft. It is clearly all very deliberate and designed to create something surprising in a genre where that is very difficult. Like it or hate it, at least it tried something instead of just being another remake of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Was One".