Here's another clue for you all - GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY -- dir. Rian Johnson; Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe, etc etc

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on the zoom were Stephen Sondheim, Natasha Lyonne, Angela Lansbury, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link

i enjoyed GO a lot but i rewatched KO after it and KO is so much better as a movie - it's better structured, has a more satisfying conclusion, there's an emotional core, and it looks a lot nicer. GO has that netflix movie thing where it looks more like a tv show than a movie. only advantage GO has is as a comedy, it definitely has more straight-up jokes and is funnier.

na (NA), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link

ty Modlös! I caught Kareem but not the others

sleeve, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link

lol Modlös

sleeve, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link

the official Hopelandic translation

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link

you can restring a left-handed guitar and play it right-handed, or vice-versa

Not an acoustic, the saddle is angled the wrong way so it wouldn’t ever tune correctly. But he literally says “no, I’m kidding” seconds later anyway.

assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 3 January 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link

This movie is absolute dogshit wtf

Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link

He says specifically that Frusciante is underrated, which (while also not untrue, perhaps) is a better joke.

He does make surprisingly good electronic music these days

octobeard, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link

Well this was rollicking. An absolute salve on New Year's Day to go with my hangover. Watched it in two sittings and finished it last night.

Not got anything to bring to the table, and apologies if it's been mentioned upthread, but what was the whole thing with Helen Brand developing a taste for the Hard Kombucha and being drunk? It felt like that plotpoint had no particular reason for itself, other than to maybe alert some of the other characters to the fact she wasn't Andi?

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link

a) it made her loose-lipped enough to call out the rest of them in the cabana

b) that experience made her cautious enough to accept Blanc's warning not to drink again in the art gallery


GO has that netflix movie thing where it looks more like a tv show than a movie.

Steve Yedlin has shot every one of Johnson's features, one of his TV episodes, and at least one of his music videos

more crankable (sic), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link

that's great, this still looks like a tv show. i've heard that netflix has specific visual requirements for content created for them so that shows/movies look bright and crisp on home tvs, and you can tell that's the case with GO, especially compared with KO which actually has darkness and shadows in it

na (NA), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link

Well, that's the setting for you. Evil Under the Sun is little different on that front.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:00 (one year ago) link

I didn't really get that part either. She says that she doesn't drink, and I thought it was mentioned they were 9%, so I reckon someone of her size would be feeling pretty wasted after 2 of them. Unless she literally never had alcohol I am guessing she would have figured it out before Blanc said anything. But she doesn't really act drunk, outside of that one brief scene where she's stumbling around. idk maybe thats the one knock on Monae's performance. though tbf acting convincingly drunk in a movie is pretty hard. the only movies that get it right are the ones where the actors probably ARE drunk, like in Super Troopers

frogbs, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:12 (one year ago) link

Kombucha is a pretty strong taste, particularly if you don't drink, why would you assume that you're getting drunk? She's keeping a lid on everything and acting minimal and contained, and inside she's a country mouse surrounded by opulence and assholes and one of them killed her sister - there's plenty of reasons that her head would be spinning. And she does act drunk in the scene where Blanc figures out that she is ("That's hard kombucha! That's Jared Leto's hard kombucha!"), and then she slams one just before she goes in on them.

By the way I love (and it reminded me of Knives Out) that Peg takes the Kombucha off her as soon as she starts.

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link

that's great, this still looks like a tv show. i've heard that netflix has specific visual requirements for content created for them so that shows/movies look bright and crisp on home tvs, and you can tell that's the case with GO, especially compared with KO which actually has darkness and shadows in it

looked like a movie in the cinema ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

more crankable (sic), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link

yeah this wasn't like The Blind Side, looked plenty cinematic to me in the theatre

Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link

acting convincingly drunk in a movie is pretty hard

otm. you have to project drunkenness strongly enough that the audience can't miss it, but real drunks usually try hard not to project drunkenness

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link

Seeing this thread for like a week on Site New Answers and not opening it until I watched it, I assumed everyone was just dunking on what a piece of shit this was like Twitter was

Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link

itt Whiney hates fun, news at 11

sleeve, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link

i think the kombucha business is also pretty nice, subtle setup for the climax, when Blanc hands her a drink and some other hints. like, immediately she knows there's a message here, because earlier he was stopping her from drinking.

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:30 (one year ago) link

i think one of the reasons i got taken out of this bc i watched with my parents and they found the internet jokes incomprehensible

logan lucky a much more successful parent film

flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link

Whiney you’re basically a Republican now nobody cares what you think anymore

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:48 (one year ago) link

The Bernie Bro to Not Liking Netflix Movies pipeline

Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 4 January 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link

Well-spotted but our reference photo was actually this one:
😘 (took a lot of tries to get that weird ‘crossed eye while trying to project seriousness’ just right!) https://t.co/Q0otwAN0mT pic.twitter.com/8YhbDyGjEQ

— Edward Norton 🌻🇺🇦 (@EdwardNorton) January 4, 2023

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 January 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link

agree with Whiney, I thought the story was clever but wasn't memorable, and the bad production made it seem like a Saturday afternoon kid's movie. Somebody above said something about "a mad scientist in his island lair" and that was what it felt like to me

I love Janelle Monae and want her to star in better movies

Dan S, Thursday, 5 January 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link

we need to Sneechify this thread asap

paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link

Somebody above said something about "a mad scientist in his island lair"

Surely...Bond villain.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:07 (one year ago) link

Whiney you’re basically a Republican now nobody cares what you think anymore

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, January 4, 2023 4:48 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ilu silby

slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:15 (one year ago) link

whiney has popped both collars & is here to beat up the squares

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 January 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link

my dad was just like "wow this was wild" and he never used to be able to sit through an entire movie

my mom is 70 and my sister feeds her cultural stuff, she's reading the Carreyrou book on Theranos, and she was catching most of it

mh, Thursday, 5 January 2023 03:02 (one year ago) link

I just learned that “Glass Onion” is also the name of a Beatles song

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 5 January 2023 07:50 (one year ago) link

Makes me like the title less frankly

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 5 January 2023 07:51 (one year ago) link

If I didn’t hold it against the first one, you can get over this one

more crankable (sic), Thursday, 5 January 2023 08:33 (one year ago) link

Wait what

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 5 January 2023 09:17 (one year ago) link

they should just make this series an 8-10 episode TV show imo

LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Thursday, 5 January 2023 09:27 (one year ago) link

Nah bc then I wouldn’t watch it

G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 5 January 2023 09:29 (one year ago) link

Knives Out is the title of a Radiohead song

castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 5 January 2023 12:19 (one year ago) link

The way the lyrics of the song Glass Onion semi-relate to some of the themes of the film really does it for me: "See how the other half live", "Standing on the cast iron shore", "Fixing a hole in the ocean", "Fool on the hill/living there still" and of course (as per the thread title), "Here's another clue for you all". Just such a great touch

Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 5 January 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link

no Pauls were harmed in the making of this film

maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 5 January 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link

Lots of walruses harmed tho

paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link

https://i.imgflip.com/41ncmq.jpg

maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 5 January 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link

Lol...one of my favorite R&S bits

paranormal bully romance (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 January 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link

the day after seeing this movie, we went to a "museum of contemporary art" that had some kind of karaoke booth by the entrance and some guy was absolutely butchering "Knives Out", it was... fitting?

I wish they had worked it into the first movie somehow though it would've been a tough sell. Maybe next one. Or whenever it is that Benoit will noooooot be cooooooming baaaaaaaaak

maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 5 January 2023 13:23 (one year ago) link

used to be annoyed by “glass onion,” but i’ve come around to thinking that it’s a great song

sault bae (voodoo chili), Thursday, 5 January 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link

knives out = radiohead song

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link

I'm hearing that knives out might be a song by a band called "radio head"

mh, Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link

"Radio Head" is a song by Talking Heads, there are many layers to this (glass) onion

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link

also: the walrus was Paul

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link

Working title for the third movie is Whither Sturridge

hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 5 January 2023 15:57 (one year ago) link

relevant E Costello song plays as Craig inveigles his way into a Cheyne Walk supermansion

imago, Thursday, 5 January 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link


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