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mirror_number t1_j6ivcy4 wrote
Reply to comment by Prestigious-Ad-6808 in Swarm: Donald Glover’s Beyoncé-Inspired New Series Has Notes of Don Draper and Murder by Sisiwakanamaru
She's so good in The Deuce, was sad when I found out >!she only had a brief scene in the third season!<.
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Reply to comment by DemonicBird in Knives Out is fantastic: review from a different perspective by madman_trombonist
I'm always surprised by people saying this. First of all, I've seen people have the exact same complaint about Knives Out - that it was obvious who the killer was from the outset. I don't necessarily agree but I guess with only so many suspects, enough people are going to shout at the screen "He did it!" and be right, and the same will be true of Glass Onion. But in Glass Onion >!the film sets Miles Bron up as the victim with the murder mystery game (plus maybe my familiarity with The Last of Sheila and the fact this film was inspired by it meant I assumed it would follow the same set up as to who the victim was), and how could you know he was the killer half an hour in when a murder, as far as the audience knows, hasn't even happened at that point? And when a murder does happen, it's made to look like Bron was the intended target!<
I guess it depends on how you go into the film. It feels to me, and I may be wrong here, that a lot of people who didn't enjoy the film went into it with an adversarial relationship, treating it as something to outsmart, not letting its tricks work on them. Sure you might figure out the mystery by intentionally disregarding what the film is telling you, but clearly it will leave you unsatisfied. Maybe that's a sign its tricks are poorly crafted, but (and this is obviously anecdotal so make of it what you will) I've watched it with five other people now and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. None of us guessed who it would be or found the solution unsatisfying, which I think is pretty impressive since it's deliberately unsatisfying lol.
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Reply to comment by FortunateCrawdad in ‘Great Expectations’ Review: Olivia Colman in FX/Hulu’s Dickens Series by fdjadjgowjoejow
Well you're in luck because a Moby Dick musical exists and it's by one of the most promising composers of musicals working today.