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how would this mr x live action casting make you feel
#🪼💭...#idk i was listening to mr x asmr#and it hit me#daniel craig has the vibe#specifically benoit blanc daniel craig
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Just finished watching Flashbacks of a Fool in my mission to go through all of Daniel Craig's filmography and oh boy I liked it but there hasn't been a film that tried to convince me a gay character was straight as desperately as this since Charles Xavier in the X-Men films. Like seriously everything about Joe is so queer coded. From trying to kill himself after getting the call about Boots death, to beginning the flashback with wanking off with Boots, the David Bowie music and putting on make up and being all glam rock while with a girl, his gay little outfits to then driving off into the sunset in a pink mustang at the end. And yet it the film tried to convince me he was still kinda into Ruth or something. Like gdjagahfa what
#flashbacks of a fool#like sorry but joe has such gay vibes#maybe I'm just to queer and just interpret too much into it but all the visuals just told me he's gay#maybe the ruth thing at the end isn't even supposed to show he's still into her but idk it felt like that's what the film was trying to say#idk I am full of mixed feelings about that one#but anyway the film was nice and was worth it alone for#daniel craig#and his naked ass 🤷🏻♂️😂#mystuff
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Someone on TikTok made a list of actors they thought would be good at playing James Bond and some pros and cons of each of them and they put Dev Patel in there and now I can’t get it out of my head because putting someone like him to play James Bond is probably the only way to make me watch those movies at all.
#doesnt even need to be The Dev Patel but if it’s a guy with even half the vibes he has I’ll already be watching it#if it IS The Dev Patel I will watch it without hesitation#im sorry daniel craig i know ur a good guy who can play a gay detective super well#but u just do not convince me that u could get the ‘bond women’ to fall in love with u#dev definitely could tho#he HAS that ability#mari just saying things
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ROOPS HAPPY SLEEPOVER TIME do you have any fic recs that you think are highly underrated?
Also, is there a fic that you've read or written where you've just had a VISCERAL reaction to it? Could be good or bad
MAXXXXXXXXXXXX HELLOOOOOOOO
omg. here are some underrated fics i have (re)read recently:
pictures of you (pictures of me) - lives in my mind rent-free so hot and sweet.
if you take a life, do you know what you'll give? by @anincompletelist - bond henry and bond girl alex! beloveds. casino royale inspired. love u long time daniel craig.
Song In My Head by @cactusdragon517 - tree god alex!! very GDT vibes.
The Snow Prince by @orchidscript - literally so soft and beautiful like. ethereal.
all so human with our guards down by @maxbegone - amazing apocalypse au!!!! like so frickin good.
Every Time My Heart Swings Back to You by @xthelastknownsurvivorx - super interesting reincarnation au!
my broken bones (are mending) - archaeologist!henry and journalist!alex my BELOVEDS. amazing series.
Love and Hate at the Farmers' Market by @myheartalivewrites - super adorable farmer's market holiday fic
Down On My Knees; Wanna Take You There by @sparklepocalypse - ren faire au that lives in my mind rent free
Freaky Friday (I woke up in my enemy's body) by @happiness-of-the-pursuit - a v fun freaky friday body swap au crack fest
Praise and Supplication by @nocoastposts - insanely good first smut fic with soft dom henry my beloved
Something Borrowed, Something Blue by @anincompletelist - i have been campaigning for this fic to be the next big thing and i need it to happen NOW.
stolen glances with a string attached by @wordsofhoneydew - exceptionally adorable office au i was giggling outright
as for fics i have read/written...I'll go with written for now and say that my upcoming city of angels au has elicited some...reactions from the snippets i have shared. i myself have been overwhelmed writing it sometimes bc it feels super personal and transparent. @anincompletelist can confirm this. :) :) :)
xoxo
[SLEEPOVER WEEKEND BABY ASK ME ANYTHING]
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Hi!!!!
The spy and it guy is really giving me 007 X Q vibes lmao. Though usually 007 as the agent is the top in most scenarios. And Q as his quartermaster guides him through his missions. Like a muscle(still has brain though) X brain trope. They are both the best in the intelligence world, so generally it’s implied in fics when something happens to one it would be literally the end of the world. If you are interested in the Daniel Craig 007 and Ben Whishaw Q, they have great chemistry in film especially in Skyfall, and a lot of great fics.
Sorry I was actually trying to suggest endings. So I think in the end Max could just join and they could work together while bickering through the comms. Despite all the HR violations lmao.
kind of love it tbh!
Max shocking Charles and being like "Hey btw I signed up for xx".
Also Q/Max talking Charles through his missions ... mind immediately goes to him talking Charles through sex ... just me?
the two of them bickering like an old married couple would be so funny. that's a whole romcom right there.
but also .. Max having to watch in real time as Charles is captured. Max working tirelessly to find him. Max being so unhinged and chaotic about it that he gets sent home from work because he's not actually helping them find Charles.
Max eventually finding Charles and going to save him himself. Charles crying when he sees Max killing all these people because what has he done to his sweet, innocent Max, who could barely flirt with him when they first met?
oop. sorry for making it angsty. hahahahaha.
(original ask here)
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Its 3:30 am rn so you know what that means...WATCH KNIVES OUT RANDOMLY AND LIVE BLOG IT CAUSE I WANT TO
(Also I'm 20 mins in)
Firstly Daniel Craig's accent is so good and hilarious. The first I heard of it, it hit me like a ton of brick but now I'm getting used to
Also Hercule Poirot vibes anyone
These family member's names are hard to keep up with btw
Btw did anyone actually make a Clue version of this movie
It has to be Marta right?? Obviously I suspect her but it would be either her or plot twist its the emo teen Meg or the weird Hitler kid?
WAIT WHAT IF IT IS SUICIDE BECAUSE HE WRITIES MYSTERY NOVELS AND HE PLANNED IT ALL OUT
#knives out#benoit blanc#daniel craig#should i watch glass onion after this?#ren shitposts#midnight ren rambles
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hii hannah! i consider you a 007 expert, so i wondered if you could recommend which bond movie i should watch, like in which is he the sluttiest whumpiest bitch ever?👀👀
Ooooooough okay first off, thank you lol I’m so honored.
Short answer: I think you might enjoy Pierce Brosnan’s Bond the best, he gets beat down a lot but his movies still have a good balance of goofy/serious. He is also drenched in water with hilarious frequency, truly wet and pathetic. And definitely the sluttiest Bond to me.
Therefore I’d recommend Goldeneye (1995) ! The main villain has the most “you wanna fuck me so bad it makes you look stupid” feelings towards Bond, and his right hand (arm. man.) henchwoman’s whole deal is that she loves to crush men to death with her thighs which she subjects Bond to at least twice lol.
Long answer: I’ll also rec a few others with various Bond actors though so you can like pick your choice of vibe and intensity if Goldeneye doesn’t seem like your thing since the Bond franchise covers the entire range of silly to serious. Under the cut vvv
Unfortunately some of Pierce Brosnan’s truly sluttiest moments are in his two shittiest movies lol. That being said if you really just wanna have fun seeing Bond get tossed around and don’t care as much about the quality of the plot then you could also check out The World is Not Enough (1999) or Die Another Day (2002). The World is Not Enough has a great torture scene where he’s put in a ridiculous strangulation device while the villainess sits on his lap. and Die Another Day also has Bond captured and tortured in the first thirty minutes, the opening song is literally intercut with clips of him getting like sexily tortured lmao. Completely ridiculous. And post-rescue he spends a good chunk of time in hospital jammies with scruffy grown-out hair and beard getting scolded by M.
As for other Bonds:
Dr. No (1962) the very first Bond movie, actually has some pretty good scenes of Bond getting beat down. He gets knocked unconscious like at least twice, beat by henchmen, and drugged and undressed/redressed (the old pajama treatment lol) then creepily stared at in bed by the villain lol. And has a great scene where he has to crawl through a hot steam vent to escape imprisonment. Sean Connery’s Bond is the most macho though so he’s pretty stoic through it all. Somewhat slutty but not very pathetic lol.
If you wanna check out Roger Moore, The Spy Who Loved (1977) me has a pretty great fight scene in which Bond is just getting tossed around a train car by Jaws, a villain twice his size with metal teeth that he tries to bite Bond to death with lol. I personally think Roger Moore was like actually a little scared filming this scene with a man so much larger than him because he has the most animated facial expressions I’ve ever seen on him lmao. Jaws’ hand fits over his entire face and he does just grab Bond by the face more than once.
Timothy Dalton in License to Kill (1989) has a pretty good scene where he’s taken captive by the villain and given the pajama treatment as well (I believe you’ve seen the clip I’ve posted of this before lol). And gets knocked around pretty good in some of the other fight scenes throughout. Overall it’s only a decent movie though I think.
Lastly if you want to see Bond truly, truly tortured. Daniel Craig definitely gets beat up the most in general out of any of the Bonds lol, he gets nicely bloodied and disheveled in pretty much every fight scene, and Casino Royale (2006) has the uh, infamous cock and ball torture scene. The whole works in this scene: captured, stripped naked, beaten + he’s going through the entire emotional range from screaming to laughing hysterically through the pain. It’s extremely brutal though. I knew about this scene going in but it was still way more intense than I expected. Zero goofiness.
#im so sorry I cant give short answers 😂 I hope this isn’t too many options#I cannot rein myself in#in my defense there’s almost 30 Bond movies lol#forgive me also anyone who has to see this post in search results for these movies if youre only looking for gifsets lol. Im so sorry#asks#hannah is talking
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I saw “Glass Onion” a few days ago with one of my cousins. Just some miscellaneous thoughts:
1) I hope Jeremy Renner has seen the movie. If he hasn’t, he definitely should once he gets out of the hospital.
2) Some of the cameos were…random. Like, yes, the role of “vaccination checker” definitely needed the talent of Ethan Hawke to bring out the complex layers of the role. But seriously, it feels like some of the actors were just bored and had a free day to help Rian Johnson out.
3) I did like how the movie was structured. It was sort of a pseudo-Rashomon where instead of conflicting accounts, we were just not seeing the full picture because we were not aware of a different character’s POV. It’s actually clever.
4) If I had to nitpick, I was a little annoyed that Benoit Blanc was written in a way that he just happens to know the answer to everything. Yeah, I know, he’s the detective, but the way he’s written in the movie makes him feel omnipotent. It’s fun to figure the mystery out along with the character, so it’s a little disappointing when the mystery is just solved for the audience, if that makes sense. It’s like they’re telling us what was happening instead of showing, which isn’t necessarily a deal breaker, but can still be annoying.
5) My cousin: “Jessica Henwick was just vibing in the movie lol. Everyone else had these big dramatic roles, and then there’s Jessica just showing up every now and then.”
6) Rian Johnson claims this movie isn’t about Elon Musk…but I feel Musk had to have inspired this movie a teensy bit. Maybe that’s just Rian covering his ass so he doesn’t get sued for defamation.
7) Amogus
8) If I had to pick a cast member who stood out, I’d obviously pick Janelle Monae. But Batista definitely gets second place, he really killed it as Filipino/Greek Andrew Tate.
9) Okay, another nitpick. I liked the overall movie, but I did not like the “look how quirky I am!” tone that Johnson was going for. It’s fine for the first third of the movie, but just becomes obnoxious as the movie goes on. I would’ve preferred a more mature, grounded mystery, but hey, that’s just me.
Overall review: As someone who didn’t care for “Knives Out” (I think I gave that movie a letter grade of C or C-), I thought “Glass Onion” was a massive improvement. The mystery was better thought out, the characters were more engaging, and, aside from Jessica Henwick, the cast was better utilized. I just would’ve preferred less quirkiness and a climax that wasn’t just Daniel Craig explaining the mystery. So, for a letter grade, I give it an A-.
#glass onion#glass onion a knives out mystery#knives out#rian johnson#mystery movies#movies#movie review#film review#2022 movies#jeremy renner#ethan hawke#benoit blanc#jessica henwick#janelle monae#dave bautista#batista#Netflix#netflix glass onion#netflix movie#daniel craig
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WHOMST taught Daniel Craig to dance like that?!
Has he been hiding those moves from us all this time????
Do you know how enraged I am that not one Bond scene had him showcasing this talent??
Every move is somehow both mesmerizing and hot and also cringey because he’s got embarrassing dad vibes
Fuckin love it I’ve had this ad on repeat
Nice one Taika
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As a noted hater of James Bond I’ve decided to objectify the men that have played him and rank them by fuckability:
6. Sean Connery
Hideous. One of the worst men to ever live, I’m glad he’s in hell now.
-1000000/10
5. George Lazenby
Who the fuck is this?
2/10
4. Roger Moore
Kinda looks like William Shatner.
4/10
3. Daniel Craig
Not for me but I appreciate the funky little gay vibes he has now.
6/10
2. Pierce Brosnan
Can get it. Love him in Mama Mia!
7/10
1. Timothy Dalton
Incredibly sexy. The only Bond I can believe is able to get so many ladies to fuck him.
9/10
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7 comfort movies, 7 tags
A big thanks to my sweet friend Valentina @valentinaonthemoon for tagging me in this! Her list can be found here and it's got some true gems, definitely check it out!
The Sound of Music (USA, 1965. dir: Robert Wise)
This is THE movie of all time for me. My absolute favourite, and the one I watch when I need to be reminded that there are good things in this world. It simply heals my soul, there's no other way to describe it.
Ponyo (Japan, 2008. dir: Hayao Miyazaki)
It's not a comfort movie list without a Miyazaki movie. Ponyo specifically is a lovely fable about a goldfish, a boy, the beauty of nature and the power of true, pure, joyous love. Marvelously wholesome.
The Intern (USA, 2015. dir: Nancy Meyers)
A little gem of a movie about the unlikely friendship between a 70-year-old gentleman and the up-and-coming CEO of a recent fashion empire. Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro are perfect in this one. It's got the vibes of a romcom, but with a platonic relationship at its core. Really endearing.
C'è ancora domani [There's still tomorrow] (Italy, 2023. dir: Paola Cortellesi)
The most recent addition to this list! C'è ancora domani is the story of a normal housewife simply living her normal life in post-WW2 Italy and dreaming of a better future. You'll laugh, you'll feel, you'll cry your heart out and you'll be happy about it. A must-watch.
Sister Act (USA, 1992. dir: Emile Ardolino)
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. There's no joy quite like singing and dancing along Whoopi Goldberg and her delightful choir of colorful nuns. It's impossible to come out of this movie without a smile on your face.
Knives Out (USA, 2019. dir: Rian Johnson)
If there's one thing I always love, that's a good murder mystery with a funky detective and a cast of colorful suspects. Add in some really good performances from all the actors, some *incredibly* high-quality sweaters, and just the right pinch of rich spoiled people getting what's coming to them, and you've got a classic for the ages. I can't believe it took them this long to get Daniel Craig in this kind of role, he's a natural.
The Grand Budapest Hotel (USA, 2014. dir: Wes Anderson)
What can I say about this movie that hasn't already been said? I find it impossible to describe - it *has* to be experienced first hand. It's perfect and delightful in every way.
Compiling this list was a lot of fun - I really need to rewatch some of these movies asap! They're all very dear to my heart and I absolutely recommend them all. I promise you won't be disappointed.
Thanks again @valentinaonthemoon for the tag! Anyone who wants to take a shot at this, feel free to use this post as your invite - and tag me if you do, I'd love to check out your favourite comfort movies! Have fun!
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Sometimes I just like to make posts like this because as much as I've spent years fleshing William out in my story, he wouldn't have even existed if Harrison didn't take this role in The Age of Adaline.
2015 was a big year for Harrison -- The Force Awakens brought him back to the Star Wars universe as everybody's favorite space smuggler: Han Solo. Nobody even cared about The Age of Adaline -- but I did, lmao.
I actually forget which order they came out in. They both were released in 2015, but Harrison had that major plane crash and then he also got injured on the set of The Force Awakens when the door to the Millennium Falcon fell down on top of him. He was able to do all the promotions for The Force Awakens, but he didn't do any for The Age of Adaline. He was pretty banged up -- I don't remember which injuries went where, but I think he broke his leg and he shattered his pelvis and God only knows what else.
At least there's the making of The Age of Adaline on the Blu-ray / DVD so it was nice to see him talking about the movie while he was in his "William Jones" clothes and goatee and all, but I did miss him going on Late Night (especially stopping by Conan -- I LOVE Conan).
Anyway, I really enjoyed his role in the movie. He was only in the 3rd act of the movie and I didn't expect very much -- but there was this one scene in the beginning of his scenes that struck me in some kind of way (not the first time it's happened -- this man been striking me down for years now no bullshit), and then a few scenes later I was sitting in my movie seat completely… taken. Something about something he did -- this 'one' thing he did in the middle of this one scene that sent me spiraling down through all the films of his I've seen and I was like wow… HARRISON REALLY BE OUT THERE KNOCKIN' A BITCH DEAD… how dare he do this?!
Seriously this one moment he gave me this like, I don't even know -- he gave me this Indiana Jones vibe from my most favorite Indy movie (Temple of Doom) and then he shot me straight to Dr. Richard Kimble (in The Fugitive) and I was like… he bullshittin'. He ain't real right now.
My mom was sitting next to me at the movies (I no longer can drag the few friends I have to go see a movie with Harrison in it… so I drag my mother. I honestly do. And she goes to all of them since 2011… AGAINST her will. Harrison ain't shit to her -- but she's mad about Daniel Craig… which worked out great because in 2011 Harrison and Daniel did Cowboys & Aliens -- but ANYWAY… lmao moving on)… like as neutral as can be while I was breathing hard -- very hard.
I can't remember, but I try to think sometimes if I started making William before I had a chance to get the blu-ray and take screencaps (I always look at photos when I'm trying to create my favorite characters from things)… but I think I might of, he just needed a lot of work in the earlier days.
But yeah -- there's not much to William in the movie, but he really struck me in a certain way and then of course I didn't think my Age of Sims story would go this far, but it has. I try to pace it so that I can write a much as I can for it. I named this blog the way I did because of the movie/William as well -- but anyway. I guess until I make another random ass post about HF/his characters in some capacity! lmao.
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Loki Season 2 Episode 3 Review: A Major Problem
★★★☆☆
[Article contains spoilers]
There's a big TVA reunion afoot in the third episode of Loki season two.
A headache-inducing episode of Loki gets underway in the 1800s this week, as Ravonna Renslayer finally pops up on the Sacred Timeline with Miss Minutes in tow. He Who Remains’ promise in the season one finale – that if Sylvie killed him he’d just end up right back on top – seems to hinge on a plan to kickstart a kind of causal loop, where a past variant receives a copy of OB’s TVA guidebook and is inspired to create all manner of technological inventions, including a rough version of the temporal loom.
There are positives and negatives to this trip back in time. It’s great to have Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tara Strong back as the ruthless Renslayer and Miss Minutes respectively. The pair are dynamite together here, and I’m still fully able to suspend my disbelief and buy into the talking animated clock on screen as a real presence. Miss Minutes’ old timey black and white look is an incredible visual flourish.
The Balder the Brave chatter between Loki and Mobius is also a really fun Easter egg for fans who have been charting the character’s failure to launch in the MCU since Kenneth Branagh’s first Thor movie, and it looks like Daniel Craig will never get to throw on Balder’s costume now. Loki’s “I don’t know her” attitude got a real good laugh out of me regardless.
The 1893 World’s Fair is a fascinating setting for the introduction of Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors). As Mobius alludes, so many key historical events were happening around this time, including many of the horrific crimes committed by serial killer H. H. Holmes. A lot of visual effects work has clearly been put in to recreate the vibes of the era, but depending on which shot we’re dealing with it’s hit and miss. The Ferris Wheel sequence is perhaps the most engaging of them all, as Sylvie and Loki call back to the season one finale, battling it out for Timely’s soul while he’s thrown around the passenger car.
Timely himself is the real problem. Setting aside his troubling legal problems for a moment, Majors’ performance as Victor is just awful, though I fear this is another “your mileage may vary” situation. I admittedly really enjoyed the acting choices Majors made as both He Who Remains and Kang the Conqueror, but his execution here took me right out. It’s just way too pantomime, making Oscar Isaac’s turn as Steven Grant in Moon Knight seem almost reserved in comparison. It actually reminds me of Kiefer Sutherland in Dark City a bit. I love that movie, but I can understand why people hated his performance in it. For what it’s worth, my colleagues at Den of Geek didn’t have a problem with Majors’ Doctor Who guest star-esque Timely at all. This one may just be divisive!
Much more entertaining is Miss Minutes’ continuing transition from helpful AI to unhinged cartoon bunny boiler. Miss Minutes’ romantic (and clearly erotic) obsession with her maker is sincerely touching and troubling; her love for He Who Remains/Victor teetering into pure rage at moments. Strong is able to fully flex her notable voice talents in these scenes. It’s a real rollercoaster to hear her despairing monologue descend into fury and panic. I applaud this arc for Miss Minutes, personally. Sci-fi writers will often create fictional AI that gets mad and kills us, but hardly any of them are brave enough to ask “what if it was also really horny?”
Along with Strong’s nightmarish performance, Di Martino gets more to do as Sylvie in episode three, and the character’s inner conflict over killing Timely is palpable. It’s interesting that she decides not to slay him again, and that the punishment she dishes out to her violent pruner Ravonna is non-lethal. Sylvie always seems destined to wrestle with whether or not to play God, which is clearly a work-in-progress when you’re a God!
As the episode comes to a close, we leave Victor joining our TVA good guys and Ravonna and Miss Minutes stranded at the end of time, with Miss Minutes about to drop one hell of a truth bomb on Ravonna. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how angry she gets about it next week.
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Why does everyone think Mads Mikkleson is attractive?? I mean he's not... bad looking? I guess? He looks like he should be playing the sinister ski instructor in a black and white french murder mystery film. He looks like he owns a restaurant that would charge me too much money for my food. Is it the vague European-ness of his accent? Is it the very pointy cheekbones??
Funny you should ask because I've been asking myself the same thing since 2013. Mads is...peculiar. He's not traditionally attractive, I guess, but there's something about him that compels me and the girlies (goes without saying that I'm including Hideo Kojima in the "girlies" category). Like, look at him.
Absolute sinister ski instructor in a black and white French murder mystery film vibes... but also just. Rich European eccentric. I'd say Bond villain but that's long hanging fruit because he already was.
And then there's--
So, I don't know. Man's got the range and my dick has a very interesting interest meter. He can speak like 6 different languages, he's a dancer, committed insurance fraud with Daniel Craig somewhere in Italy, and really doesn't give a flying fuck about anything. Man stays in his lane, hydrated and nourished. That's probably the hottest thing yet.
Also there's something to be said about a structurally sound face and the weight it can bear.
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) Review
Knives Out holds a special place in my heart. It was the movie I took my lovely fiancée to see on our very first date, and naturally both the film and the relationship turned out to be a great success. Now our 3rd year anniversary together is only weeks away, and ironically a sequel to the movie that started it all off for us has come out. Couldn’t get any more sentimental than this now can it. Was half expecting it to rain on the way to the cinema just to add to the romantic clichés. It didn’t rain though. Instead our Uber driver nearly killed us by driving against traffic on a one way street to the cinema. So that was fun.
Plot: Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.
Knives Out was a great whodunnit that shocked everyone by how good it was when it came out back in 2019. Not least due to it having been directed by Rian Johnson who was fresh off of making the very divisive Star Wars: The Last Jedi. However Knives Out was such a pitch perfect movie which brought the classic murder mystery to modern day, whilst still in-keeping with the old-school Agatha Christie vibe, with Daniel Craig even playing the very clear Hercule Poirot type character. The dialogue was sharply written, the performances were great and overall Knives Out was nothing short of being AWESOME. So much so that it was a box office smash hit. On a $40 million budget it made over $312 million profit. That’s a good fashioned pay-check right there. So then Netflix bought the rights to two sequels for a ridiculous $469 million, where the deal also includes a $100 paycheck to both Johnson and Craig for each sequel. Look I don’t really understand the Netflix algorithm and how it makes money, but now I REALLY don’t understand it. Knives Out was successful, but not successful with these paychecks! Again though, don’t get me started on algorithms - I don’t get them!
So Glass Onion is the first sequel to Knives Out, and one that sets out to show if Knives Out was a one trick pony or if this murder mystery is destined to be a hugely successful murder mystery franchise. The only real connection between Glass Onion and Knives Out is that they both feature the social commentary on the rich and wealthy, as well as Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc. So let’s start with Blanc himself. He stole the show in the first film with his Southern accent, and he does so again in Glass Onion. Seeing him be the fish-out-of-water by being a lower class member stuck on this Greek island with all the rich folk, it was adorable seeing him in his matching outfit be shocked and in awe at all the expensive tech and aspects of this place. When he tries a special celebrity-made hot sauce and exclaims “Oh Halle Berry! That has a kick” in his Southern drawl... honestly that was peak. Couldn’t get any better than that. Benoit Blanc is an icon at this point. He’s clever, funny, super likeable, and I would love for Craig to keep playing this character for as long as possible.
Rian Johnson is also back on both writing and directing duty, and he swaps out the cold and damp suburban setting of Knives Out to the colourful sunny holiday shots of Greece. It’s as if he’s trying to distance himself visually from the first film as much as possible to signify that this is it’s own murder mystery tale. Well, you know, just like with any Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle book. Same detective but dealing with completely different scenarios. But Ryan really establishes the light vistas of the island, and I must say I am glad I got to see it this film on the big screen rather than on Netflix (where it premieres end of December), as the setting and even the central ‘glass onion’ (yes, there really is an actual glass onion, it’s not just a metaphor) are worth seeing in their true spectacle. Speaking of spectacle, I’m also not going to talk much about the plot, as this is one of those films best seen when not knowing anything, as there are many twists and turns throughout that should be experienced in the moment. Johnson presents the movie in very non linear fashion on purpose, so as to reveal parts of the puzzle only at the exact time he intends to. Like an onion, he peels the layers one by one, only at the end revealing the entire grand plan. Does it at time become style over substance? Partially, however Johnson’s script is so cleverly put, and minus the first 30 minutes where the movie drags a little before getting to the actual murder mystery, the thing as a whole is really well paced an keeps you on your toes.
Glass Onion is also very funny. It dials up on the humour in comparison to Knives Out, and some of these new characters are even more wackier that the previous line up, with the cast all very game here. Edward Norton is evidently relishing playing the Elon Musk-type tech genius billionaire and is on top form. Kate Hudson is on a whole new level of over the top here, dancing and prancing her way from shot to shot wearing massive My Fair Lady hats and taking over the room with her exclamations. Janelle Monae plays the role that Ana de Armas had in the first Knives Out film in that she is the outsider, and the one that Benoit Blanc warms up to the most. Monae is very good in the role, but again, cannot say much about her character without spilling spoilers. The rest of the cast all play the parts well. You’ve got Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr.... they’re all great, however some are a little under-used. There’s also an abundance of great if not a bit random cameos, which were really fun. Look, we get to meet Benoic Blanc’s partner in this one for one moment, and I must say that the casting choice for that was brilliant.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a great successor to the original movie (though the first film I’d say is still superior) that goes bigger and wackier, and though it doesn’t always work (the first half an hour is rocky), it’s well made up by the murder mystery itself, the great cast and a solid script by Rian Johnson. It’s all very entertaining and super enjoyable. And again, Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc is a character creation that is so damn good, that I cannot wait to see him again.
Overall score: 8/10
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GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2022)
Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Ethan Hawke, Dallas Roberts, Jackie Hoffman, Noah Segan, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Natasha Lyonne, Hugh Grant, Serena Williams, Yo-Yo Ma and the voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Screenplay by Rian Johnson.
Directed by Rian Johnson.
Distributed by Netflix. 139 minutes. Rated PG-13.
Screened at the 2022 Philadelphia Film Festival.
Let’s take the Knives Out back out. Writer/director Rian Johnson’s 2019 all-star mystery comedy was a surprise smash when it was released to theaters a few years ago. A mixture of old-fashioned parlor mystery and supremely black farce, the movie was one of the best of the year.
Glass Onion is the second of the Knives Out comic mysteries – although technically from a storyline point, it has little in common with the first film other than the presence of Daniel Craig’s “gentleman sleuth” Benoit Blanc. However, if has a similar feel and vibe to the first one, so the latest film is welcome.
In fact, writer/director Johnson has signed a deal with Netflix to make a whole series of Blanc whodunits, much like Johnson’s inspiration Agatha Christie did with her fictional novels revolving around a single detective character like Hercule Poirot. In fact, Netflix has broken with their own precedent with Glass Onion, making it the first made-for-Netflix film which will have a short (week-long) theatrical run before debuting on the streaming channel.
Glass Onion is even bigger, broader and wilder than the first film – and nearly as good. When you consider how good the first film is, that is not a bad thing. Glass Onion doesn’t quite have the freshness of the first film and occasionally seems to be trying a bit too hard, but it’s still very good. We’ll settle.
And bonus points for Glass Onion purloining its opening from the fantastic nearly forgotten 1973 whodunit film The Last of Sheila. (On the red carpet of the Philadelphia Film Festival before the screening, director Johnson told me that film is one of his favorites.) It’s also very much inspired by the Agatha Christie book (and movie) Evil Under the Sun.
Glass Onion is a modernized variation on the old standby plot of a small group of diverse people – all with some potentially sinister motives – who are stranded together when a body suddenly appears. They have no way to get away and nothing else to do but to try to find the killer.
The setting is at a huge mansion on the private island of billionaire tech tycoon Miles Bron (Edward Norton). His guests are all friends from college who have each gone on to some fame or infamy – disgraced fashion designer Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson), Connecticut governor Claire Debella (Kathryn Hahn), scientist Lionel Toussaint (Leslie Odom, Jr.), macho social media influencer Duke Cody (Dave Bautista) and Miles’ estranged business partner Andi Brand (Janelle Monáe).
Also invited is detective Blanc, although how exactly he was invited is just one of the many riddles which pop up.
What begins as a murder mystery game party quickly becomes an actual murder mystery.
The puzzle itself doesn’t always totally make sense, but it’s fast and funny and allows you to overlook the periodic plot holes. The film has as many layers as a… well glass onion… which is a huge, intricate sculpture in the mansion which keeps exposing little quirks as you look at it from different angles.
As any good mystery should.
Johnson is already at work on a third film in the series, and Netflix has said they are open to as many films as can be put together. (And since his inspiration Agatha Christie wrote 80 books in about 40-50 years, as Johnson told me on the red carpet, “I'm slacking.”)
Here’s looking forward to seeing what he comes up with as he tries to catch up.
Jay S. Jacobs
Copyright ©2022 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: October 22, 2022.
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