re: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery on Netflix today

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I really don’t understand how some of you enjoy anything in life when you watch a movie that doesn’t even mention race or sexuality in the slightest, not a single line, but come away offended because the bad guy was white and one of the two good guys was a black woman.

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I think most people would just think it’s nice if every once in a while there was a movie or tv series where the straight white guy wasn’t a bumbling idiot man child or a lazy naziesque racist. I mean let’s face it, in the real world and in real life 99% of the time the straight white guy is the smartest one in the room or being the hero in a war or dragging a baby out of a burning building while the sassy black woman is selling newports at the gas station or stamping forms at the DMV. But somehow Hollywood has it completely backwards nearly all the time. And that’s because they are really the ones who live in a political bubble, not random posters on tiger droppings. Hell, the cast specifically to get enough minority characters to fill their made up minority quotas. And they do it only to feed their own vanity and try to convince themselves that they aren’t racist or bigots. But you and I and everyone else knows that they are all more bigoted than an Alabama sister fricking trailer park Klan rally.

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guess we’re conveniently leaving out that the main protagonist of the film series is a straight white man?

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laughs in Hugh Grant

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I guess we’re conveniently leaving out that the main protagonist of the film series is a straight white man? But that doesn’t fit your victim mentality agenda, I guess

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I’m not arguing the post as a whole, but wasn’t it revealed, or at least implied, in this one that Blanc is gay?

I only ask because I haven’t seen the original since the theater and I thought I remembered Blanc being enamored with De Armas. Or maybe I was just projecting

He could be bisexual obviously, just wasn’t sure if that was a change in his character or if he was more ambiguous in the first. He could have also just been letting De Armas think her sexuality was disarming him I guess, the same way he was playing the star struck fan in this one, but I just don’t remember it well enough to know.


We enjoyed this one, would love to have one of these every year. But the first was better, just not as over the top I guess.

The whole cast did a really great job, they all nailed their characters. Also it was nice to see Norton and Hudson really knock it out of the park, feels like they aren’t on screen much in a while. Madelyn Cline TYFYS.


Maybe my biggest problem with it was that Norton was revealed to be such an absolute clown at the end, hinted at throughout, that I found it hard to believe that an incredible woman like Andi would have been so blinded to his absurdity, even as a younger college student.

I mean it kind of makes it hard to take her as seriously if she lets this douchebag Frank TJ Mackey wannabe (amazing reference btw ) lead her around the way he apparently did, again, even if we’re supposed to believe she was still just naive at that point.

He’s literally dressed, and coifed, like a caricature of toxic masculinity in the bar as she’s inventing some revolutionary source of renewable energy and yet she can’t see through him as a fraud?


I don’t know, just seemed like it didn’t totally add up to make both of those characters interact they did if they are both what we’re supposed to believe they are.


Still, lots of fun and some legit laugh out loud moments, even if the mystery wasn’t quite as tough to crack as the original


ETA: I see Blanc’s sexuality was raised later, didn’t mean to harp on it.


Also, in case anyone had trouble placing Norton’s outfit at the bar

Actually, what gets me is this:

People are complaining when the two SOUTHERN people (the Louisiana detective and the Alabama teacher) outsmart a group of Northern and Western elites.

Or was I the only one who caught that?