• Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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      8 days ago

      They’re all good, I think this is the better movie while the first one is the better “Agatha Christie tribute”, if you know what I mean. Glass Onion is fun and funny but I think it’s the weakest of the three.

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      8 days ago

      I have only watched the first one and never understood why it was received so well. The whole story hinged on a woman puking when lying, just that when it was really really important she could actually suppress it a bit. Like what.

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        It starts with a typical whodunit, undefeated famous detective solving a murder. The first act ends with us meeting our protagonist, the murderer, and the story switches from a whodunit to a “get away with it” story, except the antagonist isn’t some bumbling sheriffs or incompetent cops, but a whodunit protagonist. And our protagonist can’t lie against a man who always gets his guy. That’s the appeal. It’s an actual, valuable new twist on the whodunit genre, a genre that everyone assumed we’d already seen everything we were going to see out of it.

        It’s like inventing a new way to tell a western that isn’t just a new setting. That was the draw.