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Spoilers-ish (this happens pretty early in the movie) Janelle Monae smashes open a mystery box with a hammer, which is direct commentary on JJ Abrams Mystery Box writing. This movie is very very well written. Nearly every detail is paid off.
I too was disappointed with "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." My first struggle with the movie is that it breaks the first rule of a good mystery story in that you need the audience to have enough information that they can plausibly solve the crime themselves. Glass Onion only provides information when it becomes relevant to move the plot along. You could have never known certain things, you could have never even…
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> When JM showed up in the island, Miles should’ve had a reaction to her presence. The shot lingers on literally the same facial expression when she arrives on the island as when he first sees her again after he shoots her.
I should’ve been more clear. He may have reacted in his face, but it’s never addressed, even in a private moment. Given the potential realm of implications to her presence, he just… carried on. Same as he planned. And I’d argue her presence, plus the addition of an investigator… can’t reasonably be ignored, or dismissed. Which, in the story, it seems to have been.
"Why isn't he playing 5D chess?" has the same answer in the movie as it often does in the real world: He's actually just not that smart. This becomes especially clear after his reaction to Blanc pointing out he's basically set himself up to get murdered by any one of them.
[spoiler warning] Just watched the movie yesterday evening and I was also quite disappointed, some of the choices did seem cheap, the twin, the book stopping the bullet, the "punishment" of Miles by the destruction of the Mona Lisa. I think that the movie had some potential, but after the twin reveal everything started going south. Edit: added warning
When the twin destroyed that painting, she became the villain of the movie.
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The Last Jedi was completely disjointed from the previous movie, introduced "fuel" as a plot device that hadn't been even mentioned in the 7 previous movies, gave us the Mary Poppins Princess Leia, had a weird and heavy handed side quest in a casino planet that ultimately had no impact on the plot, killed Snoke without giving the audience some form of closure as to who he was, had BB-8 pilot an AT-ST as an ex-machina…
It also gave us hyperspace suicide weapons that could destroy any ship, and then declined to explain why this amazing technique was not a tactic we’ve ever seen before or since.
I think the twist was good actually, and you see why Miles was so shocked that Andi shows up to the party. That would have made the first hour of the movie more interesting.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/12/26/glass-onio...
Is 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.
I admit that I have also wondered whether there is any allusion to Elon, mainly because he is a notorious eccentric CEO. Nevertheless, I have been amused by this movie much more than I assume that most of its viewers have been, because Miles Bron, more than resembling what I know about Elon, had an uncanny resemblance to the CEO of a startup where I have worked some years ago. The resemblance was complete, in behavio…
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Pretty sure they're supposed to get that it takes place in 2020
Surely the on-screen text “May 2020” at the beginning should have clued us in. And I’m not sure why the year even matters for the plot.