Loved it. At first I didn’t think it was going to be as good as Knives Out, but then it kicked in. I liked seeing Benoit Blanc’s home life, and how he was going crazy without a case to solve. It handled the pandemic well. Janelle Monae was terrific.
What’s the spoiler policy for this thread? Personally I’d go for open spoilers if a mod could edit the title
Also, everyone wore the hell out of those clothes. And should we assume that the mysterious spray they all got was nothing more than another “genius” ego boost and nothing real?
A most cromulent question. You’ve really embiggened the discourse here with your predefinite observations.
Wow was that fun. I was smiling the whole movie. The entire cast was fantastic.
I liked Knives Out more. But this was great. Funny, timely, and lots of fun.
I thought the spray was just a movie gimmick to explain to audiences why the characters didn’t have to wear masks. The movie was filmed during the pandemic and I’m guessing the moviemakers had no idea if it would be over by the time the movie was released.
But it would make more sense plot wise if the spray actually did nothing.
I think the movie explictly says it takes place in mid 2020. I’m going to watch it again and wiĺl check. I take the spray as being yet more tech-bro bullshit, with no one coming down with rona out of dumb luck.
And the masks (or lack of) were a clever character bit as well to show and not tell their personalities.
“Are…are you having a party?”
“It’s alright, they’re all in my pod!”
My family and I loved this movie, but I’m not sure I liked the final resolution. I can’t quite put my finger on why. I’ll have to watch it again and see how I feel.
No, you’re “good”. (I mean if you can’t trust Ethan Hawk?)
I strongly disliked the resolution. It pretty much ruined the movie for me. Actually, I wasn’t a huge fan of the rest of the movie either, although parts were a lot of fun and quite clever.
I thought they handled masks well, including inventing a reason to get rid of them. But i was also unhappy about the resolution.
I didn’t like that they destroyed the Mona Lisa, and i didn’t think it was especially plausible that all the characters turned on the villain, nor would i have trusted them to stick to that story.
Yeah my thoughts also; enjoyed the film till the climax which just felt silly and over-the-top compared to the cleverness of the original.
I might have misremembered this, but wasn’t the bit with the spray we we first learned that Duke has his allergy to pineapples? (That said, given the way the spray was highlighted and the portentous “you’re done” I expected it to be more significant than it was).
A detail I learned elsewhere: The Mona Lisa is painted on wood. That version looked like canvas. Did the French government give him a dummy since they realized he was one?
Huh. I’m sure I read that da Vinci called the Mona Lisa around and told everyone how great it was. I thought it was on canvas.
But Wikipedia says, “oil on poplar canvas”
I just assumed I was wrong upon seeing “poplar canvas.” Or it could just be nothing and a wild theory. Would the French government ever really consider loaning it?
I found it entirely plausible that they’d turn on Miles. They’re all ruined at this point no matter what - the scientist guy and the politician lady are both losing their jobs over their connection to the hydrogen fuel, and the influencer is getting crushed by her sweat shop scandal, which Miles no longer has the cash to fix for her. They all hate him, he has no power to help or hinder them, and their lives have all imploded, largely thanks to Miles’ bullshit. At this point, their best hope is to throw Miles under the bus as dramatically and completely as possible, and hope everyone’s too pissed at him to bother raining to much shit down on them.
I loved the ending over all, particularly that they had the balls to destroy the Mona Lisa. I loved the political metaphor of the young Black woman deciding to burn it all down, and the wealthy middle aged people going, “Yeah, go for it!” until they realized she really meant it. I loved that they had the balls to torch the Mona Lisa, and didn’t even pretend like bringing down a murderous oligarch wasn’t worth the cost.
Fantastic all around. 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.
Oil on poplar panel. Brain fart, sorry.
And no, no way the French government lends it.