After one viewing, I feel Rian Johnson’s film is one of the best of the last several years, and along with the first film, one of the best murder-mysteries of all-time. Your SPOILER-FREE thoughts (for now)?
I thought it was a clever, witty and intriguing film until the point at which (no spoilers I hope) Benoit Blanc has to explain everything. There are some neat twists and it’s more overtly an homage to Agatha Christie than Knives Out but the final act didn’t work. It felt like, Netflix is paying so let’s go over the top. It is however good to see a proper mystery on the big screen.
Saw it today. Diverting way to spend a couple of hours and pretty funny. However, the characters are one dimensional and I'll agree that it falls apart completely in the final act. Decent but far from essential.
Vickie and I saw it this evening, and really enjoyed it. She is quite annoyed at Netflix only allowing it to be in theaters for a single week. It's just stupid to leave that much money on the table. All it's going to do on Netflix is get some people to subscribe and keep some other people from dropping their subscription. Granted, it's their money, and they can say how the film is shown. But we don't have a whole lot of patience with streaming services being able to compete for Oscars. We feel that should be limited to films that play in theaters.
I'm looking forward to seeing this on Netflix next month. I enjoy watching movies in the comfort of my home and I don't miss going to theaters, which I have only done a handful of times "post-pandemic" (?)...
We had high hopes for it, but were kind of let down by it. We though Murder on the Orient Express was much better.
It's a Netflix film, the whole purpose of their deal with Rian is to get subscribers. Just think of it like that. The only reason at all it's been shown in cinemas I guess is the Oscar requirement that you have to run a film for a week in a certain number of locations. They are looking at some Oscar nominations.
I didn't say that it wasn't legal, just that it was stupid. They bought a franchise that did quite well in the theater originally, and played for months. There's no good reason why Netflix couldn't make their money back, and have the film do the exact same thing - attract subscribers with an exclusive - if they did so after a normal period in the theaters.
I saw Knives Out in the cinema, but I’m happy to wait for this one to come to Netflix. It will make some nice Xmas viewing.
How? We're not debating whether or not it eventually winds up on Netflix, only how quickly it does so. To almost the entirety of its existence, Netflix has been showing movies that have had long runs in the theater.
The wife and I saw it today. I thought it was good but not great ( I love who dune it movies). We had to drive about 30 miles to get to a theater showing it but we also did some shopping and lunch. $7 each for a matinee but with the deluxe seats. There were more people there than we expected!
Yes, in the end credits. Another White Album track also makes a surprise appearance (won't mention which one or what context).
A few of us in the audience hung around for the credits and I was struck by how flat Glass Onion sounds on a big, powerful sound system. There are several classic tunes on the soundtrack that sound great and then weirdly the title song is a bit of a letdown.
The Bee Gees song sounded amazing in the theater. Glass Onion has always sounded flat like that to me.
