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Full link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgF16JXwRU

I'm baaaaaaaaaack! I can safely say that I didn't respect my own boundaries in december and just worked worked worked until I broke. It was a lot, but then the last week another coworker fell ill and I just had to do my own job and for two others at that point. It was too much and last week I was just ... overtired and everything went to shit. Anyway I needed to let go for a week and get my personal life back in order :). I'm excited to be back! And immediatly with a movie I was super excited about ^^ Have you seen this one already?

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David Lonewolf Wright

Just watched it over the weekend. I look forward to watching it with you again this week. I am curious to see what you noticed throughout the movie.

shaneth138

Glad to see ya back! Looks like I’m going to be watching glass onion for the third time lol.

Tony Williams

I have also seen it, and like those that have already commented, I look forward to watching it again. Glad you're back and hope things smooth out for you.

Anonymous

Welcome back! Be sure to take it easy and find a healthy balance. It’s important. I learned that the hard way.

Karl Ries

Like with many of Rian Johnson's films, they're worth watching multiple times to unpack it all. Or should I say peel back the layers!?

shaneth138

Great reaction Mary! Some good whodunnits are Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone. Mystic River is Directed by Clint Eastwood from Gran Torino which I know you loved. It also has one of the best performances ever by Sean Penn. Gone Baby Gone is also an excellent one written by the same writer as Mystic River. Directed by Ben Affleck. These are much heavier in tone than Glass Onion though. So if you are looking for a good modern comedy mystery I highly highly recommend American Vandal. It's hilarious and silly while still being incredibly compelling.

Brian Leonard

My favorite comedy in recent memory is Confess, Fletch. It has some mystery elements to it.

David Lonewolf Wright

Maybe it is time for you to watch Rian Johnson's movie directorial debut Brick. It is definitely a crime mystery, but it set with high school students and everyone talks like they are in one of those old Hollywood black and white noir films. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who actually has an appearance (of sorts) in every Rian movie (well at least his voice, which was the Hourly Dong in this one).

Tyler Foster

In addition to the first Knives Out, Rian Johnson wrote and directed Looper. Looper was a reunion for Johnson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who starred in Johnson's first film (a murder mystery), called Brick, and since that film, Gordon-Levitt has appeared in some way in every one of Johnson's movies. In the first Knives Out, Marta's sister is watching a cop show on her laptop in the kitchen, and Gordon-Levitt's cameo is as the voice of the detective. Here, he plays the voice of Miles Bron's "hourly dong," which is pretty funny. Similarly, Noah Segan has appeared in almost every Johnson film (the one exception is Johnson's second film, The Brothers Bloom). He was in Looper as the gun-slinging Kid Blue, he played the second police officer assisting Blanc in Knives Out, behind LaKeith Stanfield from Get Out, and he plays Derol in this one. There are quite a few little cameos at the beginning: the man who leans in and explains what a fugue is at Birdie's party is world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and Blanc is playing Among Us with West Side Story composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim (who wrote a murder mystery with Anthony Perkins, the actor that played Norman Bates in Psycho, called The Last of Sheila, which served as a major inspiration for this film), Angela Lansbury (star of the hugely popular American mystery show "Murder, She Wrote"), basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and actor Natasha Lyonne (who will be starring in Johnson's next project, another murder TV show called "Poker Face"). Since the filming of their cameos, both Sondheim and Lansbury passed away, making this their final on-screen appearance. Dave Bautista (Drax) also has a small role at the beginning of Blade Runner 2049. The joke about Birdie Jay's Halloween "tribute" to Beyonce is that she dressed up in blackface (an unfortunately common real-world public scandal). Harriet Tubman was a woman who was born into American slavery, escaped, and then helped free 70 or more slaves via the "Underground Railroad." She is considered an important person in American history.

Anonymous

I have a couple of film suggestions: Män som Hatar Kvinnor (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, 2009, Crime/Mystery/Thriller): The original swedish version that adapts the first book in the Millenium trilogy. It's about a newly convicted journalist who is tasked with solving a forty year old murder, before he serves his sentence. Primer (2004, Mystery/Psychological Thriller/Sci-Fi): A non-linear thriller about a couple of friends who set out to create a device that can alter gravity, but make another discovery instead. Both of these are very good, but bleaker than the Knives Out films. For something more action oriented, there's the norwegian film Hodejegerne (Headhunters, 2011, Action/Thriller/Crime): A high-profile recruiter funds his extravagant lifestyle by stealing valuable art pieces from his clients. Things escalate when he learns of a painting valuable enough to set him up for life.

james repka

Yes, it is practically a trope in the US that some self-important idiot will refer to themselves as "the Harriet Tubman of" whatever their selfish cause is. It's 2nd only to comparing themselves to civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama. I think what's beautiful about Birdie Jay's character is that her stupid racist asides aren't even slightly original, dressing up in blackface, comparing herself to a civil rights icon, casually tossing off racist phrases on Twitter... One of my favorite early scenes was Benoit suggesting that it's dangerous to confuse speaking thoughtlessly with speaking the truth and her reply is "Are you saying I'm dangerous?"