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

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Incorporating the lockdowns and masks was a wrong decision. People don’t want to be reminded of that.

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I mean they kind of made fun of it.

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It was also pretty obvious who the killer was early on; we just had to wait to see it unfold.

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Yeah I think ole RJ went through his "let's be subversive" phase again.

Also, after thinking about it (and I probably shouldn't think about a movie of this quality this much), this movie just replaced a lot of good depth with glitz and pizazz. Like, in the original you had lots of organic conflicts all over the place, from the dual investigation to the intra-familial issues, to the family v. Marta, in stark contrast to the very well done scenes of connectivity between Marta and the old man. This new movie just lacked ALL of that. It was very surface level and they tried to shift focus from quality by making the characters even more over the top.

The characters and conflict (maybe not the "murder") in the first one are very realistic and they explore a lot of depth of the web of conflict with the family. This new one literally has none of that. In its place, you get a mid-movie reveal that one character is a twin sister, with a flashback of mid-movie exposition to explain what the frick is going on. This is the biggest indicator of differences in quality between the movies, because you didn't need this in the first to understand the web of conflict of the characters with relationship to the patriarch.

Then RJ tops it off with a subversive cherry on top where the killer is the obvious guy and the murder was completely uninteresting. BET YOU DIDN'T EXPECT THAT. HA! Then, to compensate for the absolute dud of an ending, RJ literally has to resort to Michael Baying shite up with CGI explosions to give some sort of (fake) energy to the ending.

I revise my original review and give this like a 5/10. 2.5 of those 5 points are due to the Frank Mackey reference, also.