# Glass Onion (a Knives Out Mystery) was in Theaters Nov. 23 -29, now on Netflix (Dec. 23, 2022) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** netflix, movies\ **Created:** [November 22, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388 "2022-11-22T16:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/41 "2022-12-25T17:47:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I with they’d done something a little smarter there. The trope is a pocket Bible. I thought the notebook was a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/42 "2022-12-25T17:47:20Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > My only complaint was the thin-ass notebook stopping a bullet. That bothered me too. Could have been an incredibly easy fix in the script – maybe she uses a fancy metal notebook case gifted by her sister. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/43 "2022-12-25T17:48:14Z")
I thought it was her sister’s notebook. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/44 "2022-12-25T17:48:17Z")
I thought the Italian guy who stole the painting in 1911 cut it down a bit to fit the trunk in which he was hiding it. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/45 "2022-12-25T17:49:25Z")
Or an electronic tablet she smuggled in, and that they can use to call the cops at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/46 "2022-12-25T17:55:12Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > That bothered me too. Could have been an incredibly easy fix in the script – maybe she uses a fancy metal notebook case gifted by her sister. I thought they could have tied it into the plot thread about her not being a drinker. During the bit where we see her learning how to play her sister, include a scene where it’s revealed that her sister always carried a flask, and have Benoit insist she carry one, too, for verisimilitude. Have the flask stop the bullet instead. Still bullshit - flasks aren’t that thick - but at least a little more plausible. Maybe make the flask a gift from Bron, and have him brag about it being made from some cutting edge space craft metal from NASA or something. > [@puzzlegal](#): > > I thought it was her sister’s notebook. It was. The problem is it’s a really thin notebook with a cardboard cover - even the lowest caliber bullet would blow right through it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/47 "2022-12-25T18:03:09Z")
Loved it, much more than the first one, which I thought was good, but not terrific. I enjoyed the humor in this one, which I guess was an aspect of the first one, but this movie leaned into it more and I liked that. Great opportunity for Daniel Craig to play against type and this movie showed it more than the first one. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/48 "2022-12-25T18:12:54Z")
I kept getting distracted by Daniel Craig’s clothes. I wanted to know what the fabric was and how much they cost. But, I’m sure they were all custom made by the costume dept. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/49 "2022-12-25T18:13:53Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The problem is it’s a really thin notebook with a cardboard cover - even the lowest caliber bullet would blow right through it. And hydrogen from the ocean isn’t exactly a fuel, and can’t be carried around in tidy white chunks. None of the science makes sense. Why shouldn’t the notebook stop a bullet. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/50 "2022-12-25T18:26:07Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > And hydrogen from the ocean isn’t exactly a fuel, and can’t be carried around in tidy white chunks. None of the science makes sense. Why shouldn’t the notebook stop a bullet. I can’t agree with this point of view. It’s not a science fiction movie. There’s no reason to think that physics works differently in the _Glass Onion_ universe than our own. The one exception is the hydrogen fuel, which is specifically presented in-movie as a radical technological breakthrough. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/51 "2022-12-25T18:54:09Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > And hydrogen from the ocean isn’t exactly a fuel, and can’t be carried around in tidy white chunks. None of the science makes sense. Why shouldn’t the notebook stop a bullet. The crystal hydrogen fuel is a MacGuffin like the Maltese Falcon, while the cheap notebook is just a cheap notebook. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/52 "2022-12-25T18:56:29Z")
I thought someone would get their head chopped off in that Mona Lisa case that kept opening and closing. I know that is too much like a horror movie, but I guess the only setup was that it would be burned in the fire due to the idiot installing an override switch. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/53 "2022-12-25T19:10:19Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > And hydrogen from the ocean isn’t exactly a fuel, and can’t be carried around in tidy white chunks. None of the science makes sense. Why shouldn’t the notebook stop a bullet. I don’t really know anything about hydrogen fuels. But I do have a shelf full of Moleskine notebooks, and while they’re well made, they aren’t _that_ durable. Plus, there’s the whole cliche angle. “Character appears dead, but is saved because of a notebook in their pocket,” is a really worn-out cliche regardless of how you slice it, in a way that “billionaire makes dangerous superfuel out of seawater,” is not. For a film that was otherwise very self aware of the tropes it was employing, handling this one in such a straight forward, unironic manner was disappointing and lazy. I was anticipating that they’d figure out a way for her not to be dead, after they’d just spent all that time developing this fantastic character via flashback, and I was looking forward to the clever way they’d justify her surviving, and was let down by the actual reveal. ---
**Author:** ![Kedikat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@Kedikat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kedikat)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/54 "2022-12-25T19:22:04Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > My only complaint was the thin-ass notebook stopping a bullet. For a film as self conscious of its tropes as this one, I with they’d done something a little smarter there. The bullet went through a glass panel of indeterminate thickness first. May have mushroomed and lost a lot of velocity. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/55 "2022-12-25T19:37:41Z")
I guess that, in fairness, anything at all that happened to be in her pocket and stopped the bullet would have been a huge cliché, even if it was more physically plausible. But the plot needed everyone to think she was dead at this moment, so something had to be in there. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/56 "2022-12-25T19:41:46Z")
Assuming she’d actually died, I’m curious what Bron would have done with the gun. Planted it in someone’s room? Just throw it in the Ionian Sea? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/57 "2022-12-25T20:04:09Z")
So what _do_ you call the place where sweatpants are made? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/58 "2022-12-25T21:07:54Z")
Wasn’t the bullet a graze? It didn’t hit her straight on, it was from the side. So she fell from the impact and shock. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/59 "2022-12-25T21:13:52Z")
They showed the bullet stuck in her little flimsy notebook. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388/60 "2022-12-25T21:17:40Z")
I know, but it could still have come in on a perpendicular angle, so it wasn’t trying to cut through 5mm of paper straight on, but 60mm of cardboard cover long-wise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery-was-in-theaters-nov-23-29-now-on-netflix-dec-23-2022/975388.md?page=4)