• Rei@piefed.social
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    4 months ago

    I like them, they’re entertaining. The second one got a little convoluted, but I still enjoyed it. I also just like the character Benoit Blanc.

    I’ll be looking forward to this new one.

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    They’re not my favorite movies or anything, though it is still entertaining to see an ensemble of popular actors doing campy stuff together in one movie.

    I actually liked Glass Onion because I thought Edward Norton playing a pathetic scummy rich guy was fun.

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      4 months ago

      Its nice to see that Norton learned his lesson from The Italian Job and it was to double down on scummy pathetic rich guy.

      Though it’s a shame he hasn’t come back to neonazi in a while.

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    4 months ago

    First one was good, I thought the second one was a waste of time.

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    I’m just not sure I see the appeal… they mash in this weird campiness that makes it hard for me to enjoy it on a serious level, especially the second. I love a good mystery too, the old masterpiece theater productions of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Ironsides were favorites. I also really enjoyed the new ones with Cumberbatch, so it’s not like I’m opposed to a modern reinterpretation.

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    I can’t get over them still calling them Knives Out mysteries. It really seems like a terrible misstep.

    They were fun movies but not compelling enough mysteries.

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      @Pronell @Blaze I wish they kept making these movies, but with a different lead. No need for it to be a series unless all the criminals he’s brought to justice come for him in a series finale to like kill him or something

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        4 months ago

        As is tradition the finale will feature Benoit Blanc solving his own murder that would be revealed to be a ploy to capture a serial murderer. That would end on an ambiguous cliffhanger about whether or not he faked his death and is still alive.

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    4 months ago

    Johnson clearly stumbled over himself when writing the script for the second one.

    I loved the first one though.

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukM
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    4 months ago

    I saw the first one and wondered what all the fuss was about - I was expecting something clever and meta but it was not much more than a decently adapted Agatha Christie with a slightly distracting lead performance (looking at you too Sir Ken). I haven’t got around to watching the second.

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    I started watching, realized that vomiting was going to be a plot device, and noped out. I mostly watch shows during meals. Who wants to watch people vomit? Disgusting .