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> “Spoilers” can mean spoilers for anything. Honestly, if you're reading an article about movie X , then IMHO it is reasonable to assume that any spoiler warnings would be specific to movie X . If an article is going to spoil movies A , B , and C as well, then the spoiler warning text should make note of that.
I think that it's fair to be upset that a newly released movie was spoiled for you. I think it's silly to expect that nobody will ever talk about the details of a movie that hasn't been in theaters for half a decade.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
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#92It would be interesting to watch an edit played in chronological order. A similar response was made to Passengers[1], where if it is NOT made chronologically, the director could have an opportunity to push the theme entirely close to a horror genre. 1. https://youtu.be/Gksxu-yeWcU
>It would be interesting to watch an edit played in chronological order.
Don't know about that. I've heard that if you watch Memento in chronological order, it is very uninteresting.
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#93I'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, s…
Yeah, the author mostly just makes it seem like being a movie critic is a great way to ruin your ability to enjoy movies.
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#94It makes more sense if you view it through a political lens where everything is justified based on the evil of Brons. So anything bad flows from him so mistakes of others could be forgiven.
Destroying the Mona Lisa is worth it because it punishes Brons.
The movie had some high points and I thought it was fun, but the story had many flaws. I think it’s best not to overthink it too much.
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#95> Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery might be one of the worst written movies I’ve ever seen. Then this person has not seen very many movies. > And now Glass Onion will haunt me for the rest of my days. I don't care too much for this superlative, unduly passionate style of pop culture critique even if it is a joke. I enjoy reading negative critique of movies I like, as long as it shows understanding that reasonable pe…
The author also "absolutely loathed Star Wars: The Last Jedi" which to me feels like an overreaction to a movie.
Seems like an underreaction to me. Loathing seems too good for the Last Jedi.
It’s ok to hate it despise art and even pop art.
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> creates some genuinely surprising moments by "cheating" a little I haven't seen the movie yet, but I know this much: you can't cheat . If you do, and you keep some fundamental fact hidden until the last minute, or if you use some kind of magic, or if the murderer was a complete outsider, or if the victim died by accident and nobody's guilty, or, God forbid! if it turns out the victim isn't actually dead, or it was…
The movie doesn’t “cheat” as far as I can tell. What it does is withhold details from what the camera shows the audience. This could be upsetting if you felt there was some implied promise that the camera PoV was showing you the entire story, but there isn’t.
And if you watched Knives Out, you probably know that the movie is taking you down the wrong path before it flips the narrative.
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#97I liked this movie quite a bit. It didn't have as much charm as the first one and slightly less mystery, but it made up for it in comedy and cultural commentary. Really glad that this is a franchise now
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#98Also disliked the movie for similar but also different reasons. The first is the political layer on top of the film. Miles is obviously supposed to be Elon - "everyone thinks is genius but is an idiot" and the Twitch guy is supposed to be Joe Rogan who "got banned on Twitch for touting Rhino pills" (referencing the ivermectin that CNN [in which Jake Tapper has a cameo in the film] called a horse dewormer). Kind of ru…
It’s pretty amusing because “Elon Musk is kind of dim-witted” is a much more popular characterization after his Twitter takeover saga, but this was made before.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
> creates some genuinely surprising moments by "cheating" a little I haven't seen the movie yet, but I know this much: you can't cheat . If you do, and you keep some fundamental fact hidden until the last minute, or if you use some kind of magic, or if the murderer was a complete outsider, or if the victim died by accident and nobody's guilty, or, God forbid! if it turns out the victim isn't actually dead, or it was…
The movie doesn’t “cheat” as far as I can tell. What it does is withhold details from what the camera shows the audience. This could be upsetting if you felt there was some implied promise that the camera PoV was showing you the entire story, but there isn’t.
Again, I haven't seen the movie -- but that does sound a little like cheating to me; the implied assumption is that it should be possible for the audience to come up with a valid theory on their own; if it's not possible because some essential piece of the puzzle is missing, then it is cheating.
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#100I 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…
I thought it was more a send-up of mysteries, in roughly the same vein as 1980's Airplane! (including the celebrity cameos).
Airplane! was a complete spoof of a then popular genre from beginning to end. Glass Onion isn't really like that but it does play around with some detective movie tropes.