Has anyone explained the Mona shield going up and down, subject to what sounds, and reset how?
Miles says the security system was hypersensitive and would go off at literally any loud sound. He then said that he, being a rich asshole, installed an override in a little figurine.
Presumably it reset after a few moments even without the override.
Really? Do tell.
No sarcasm here - not seeing why you are offended by the fact that some of us see walk on cameos as excuses to have a walk on cameo and nothing more, that some of us do not watch movies as you do.
I was watching the movie as a comedic mystery. Philip was clearly not a clue or a misdirect. His exasperation was supposed to be a bit funny, and the small degree it was did not depend on the nature of the relationship. He was a brief throw away character to my read shoved in so they had a part for Hugh Grant. Just like the on line game was there to showcase other cameos. (And I didn’t try to figure out how that group of celebrities were in the same friend group with Blanc.) Asking my wife and kids they didn’t even ding that was Hugh Grant and also didn’t take the microsecond to consider the nature of the relationship.
What demonstrated his intelligence in this movie?
His big aha, finally realizing that Bron was an idiot fraud … because he had misused words?? Dang I have known a few very smart people who jumble words up. Actually in context “infraction point” could have even been a clever play!
He was slow on recognizing anaphylaxis, on recalling the grapefruit comment, and initially was as sold as everyone else on Bron’s fear for his life. His plans would have resulted in getting his client killed if not for movie dumb luck and his final dumb response would have gotten the whole gang of assholes killed along with her in even most movie realities.
…the fact that he figured out the “who killed Miles” and how it was done even before Miles got fake-killed.
I’ll Grant Hugh that. He was very good at a game of whodunnit and how.
Just watched it this evening. My wife and I agreed that:
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It extends the term “unreliable narrator” to include camera operators and editors.
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It can’t be considered a whodunnit since it omits critical information and/or places it in flashbacks right at the point of solving the mystery. IOW, it doesn’t play fair.
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It is difficult to satirize millennials when most of the ones I’ve met act exactly like the characters in this movie.
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Rian Johnson does not know how to write adult dialogue and situations…or chooses not to. In his view, one apparently has to be much older than 30-something to have any good judgment, wisdom, or maturity.
I didn’t recognize him, and had to look up Hugh Grant, a name I’m not really familiar with. I think his was an important part to develop Blanc’s character, and how he was coping with the pandemic.
(And now I’m curious, who were the other players in the online game?)
How do I live in a world such as yours?
Stephen Sondheim (RIP) Angela Landsbury (also RIP) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Natasha Lyonne.
Thanks. That’s fun. (And i did recognize those names, except Natasha Lyonne. And I’ve seen Lyonne in orange is the new black.)
Thanks. 1 thru 3 well state something I had not yet formed into thought, but very much agree with.
I thought I recognized Angela Lansbury but I wasn’t quite sure. I’m not used to seeing her with white hair.
Whereas I saw that whole his dealing with lockdown schtick as mindless fun celebrity walk-on throwaway.
As actual character building I felt it diminished him and his motivation. It sets up that he would take a case of little merit out of boredom, but then taking that case, knowingly put his client in danger, warning her of such. Endanger someone to deal with enuii? It sets him up as someone taking Covid precautions seriously, surely aware of misinformation crap and miracle prevention products that was flying about, but then credulously believing he’s “good” because someone he doesn’t know sprayed unknown crud in his face.
Maybe the point is Blanc had had Covid and is dealing with post Covid brain fog? 
It was less a whodunnit than a comedic light send up of whodunnits. Part satire of and part love letter to the genre, but not of it. With some poking fun at some allegedly paradigm breaking billionaires and “our” believe in their genius thrown in.
It was teasing us over our trying to solve a mystery, not presenting one.
I’d argue he went along with it to get to the island. Needs must! And I’d wildly hypothesize that he assumed it was ok for the same reason everyone else did:because Bron is a “genius.”
Eh. That was just so the audience doesn’t have to deal with the whole “but it’s during Covid, why aren’t they wearing masks the whole time?” thing. I was prepared to get annoyed with them being unmasked all the time on the island, so I thought it was a clever way to get around that issue. The show “Billions” did the same thing. “Super wealthy elite gets hold of vaccine before everyone else” is a common conceit.
I didn’t recognize any of them, nor did it occur to me i was supposed to recognize them. I thought it worked. I identified with his pandemic frustration.
(My husband recognized Yoyo Ma, and Serena Williams, both of whom looked vaguely familiar to me. And the second time i watched it, i even noticed that it said something like “work out with Serena”, which would have been enough for me to place her. Were there other cameos?)
This. And i liked that Blanc was suspicious enough to ask, and found it plausible enough that he went along with it.
I’ll accept “needs must”, including @Eyebrows_0f_Doom’s audience needs must not deal with Covid anymore after the cutesy cameo parade … but the credulous blind acceptance of the genius of a billionaire? That’s him being as dumb as the rest of the group, none of whom were sharp knives out or in any drawer.
A short video about the costuming. Janelle Monae wore the hell out of everything of course.
I didn’t recognize them all … but the bit working for those who did partly depends on their knowing that there are those of us who didn’t. We all enjoy the little smugness of being part of the group that gets it, that sees the Easter Egg before someone else pointed it out, that gets a joke others do not, and that smug enjoyment of being “in” requires knowing that some are “out”.