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chaoswillcalmusdown · 2 years ago

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i haven't been able to let go of glass onion (in a bad way) bc there's just something so frustrating about it and earlier today, i was trying to explain it to my brother and i said something about it feeling like "baby(aka rian) just saw get out and wants to write an equally clever script but for some reason it's also a murder mystery" and like. i think i got there. i think my main problem is how heavy handed everything is. but it's acting like it's so subtle and cool and smarT. saying "millionaire is bad bc he's dumb, actually!" is so lazy. saying "haha influencer thinks sweatshops make sWEATpants" is lazy. whatever the fuck he was saying about duke, the "haha alt-right man lives in mama's basement and is bullied by her hahaha" is lazy ?!?!?!?

get out(as my example of an actual clever movie) was smart because when you watch a second time you're like "oh shit that's why he said he couldn't bare to let them go after his parents died. he MEANT HIS PARENTS ANd NOT THE HELP" but in glass onion, a second viewing would just be you sitting there like "that's not actually andi, that's helen." that's not clever ?!?!?!?!?

#i'm convinced i would have enjoyed glass onion if they had shown us that andi was dead from the start #and cut between helen & blanc and the dickheads throughout #like. the “terminally online in 2020” references would have still annoyed me a lOT #but i would have watched it and been like 'sure whatever'#instead of 3 days of 'why the fuck did he exposition the entire fucking plot at me after i wasted an hour' 😠#i hate when a writer of a movie makes the audience feel stupid for watching their movie and buying what they showed us #it's not CLEVER that this woman was actually her secret sister all along!#that's lazy writing #i get so riled up abt this bc you know how much hype this is all buying rian sdfghfdsfg johnson?#every time this white mediocrity gets swallowed up by people en masse #i feel so sad for the good stories we won't get to see from miniorities #like. one rich white straight man writes some 'quirky leftist oneliners' and it's like we're back in the height of the mcu fandom #but now everyone thinks it's progressive bc it's making fun of unwoke people or 'elon musk'#i also hate how much rian's writing makes it seem like all these horrific rich people are bad bc they're dumb #i'm gonna go watch get out a 50th time and maybe some day glass onion will not be on my dash and then #i won't have to have a stroke abt it #i feel like janis ian with you people #the 'did you hang with AWESOME people and drink AWEOMSE shoooters?????' but it's about glass onion #i don't care if people enjoy it #i care that people genuinely think it's smart or good #i love bad movies #i love practically every early 2000s romcom #maid in manhattan is not a masterpiece just bc i love and enjoy it #i'm gonna go watch maid in manhattan and cry sdfvvds

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