now ah say come take a gander ova this here screen. ah do believe ah have stumbled upon a comedic mastahpiece. theres this scientist see and he turned himself into ah pickle! quite nonsensical... yet also, the funniest shit i eva did see
Happy New Year! 🎉 Hope everyone had a fantastic night ringing in the new year. I watched the Glass Onion the other night and caught this eye-catching sculpture by Anthony James. I just saw this at Art Miami and it definitely made an impression.
Sigh. Watched the movie. It was... fine? Not great, not bad. Good actors, with one exception.
Lemme start by saying I loved Knives Out. Compared to that, Glass Onion read like a Kim Possible script. And I also liked Kim Possible, but eh, the dumb villain in his tower preparing to destroy the world with Phlebotinum doesn’t have the same punch when you are older.
Yes, my main gripe was the villain. Either he’s a dumb rich conman, or his a social-climbing-genius able to build scientists, politicians and a miracle tech company from scratch. Can’t be both at the same time.
(Side note - Andy was a way more interesting villain. We know she’s a megalomaniac from age 6, we know she’s a con-woman using her Rich Bitch voice to give Ted Talks, she assembles a group of losers with unseen potential and manipulates them into becoming a politician, an influencer, a model, a scientist and a tech-bro, and uses all of them together in order to build her multi-tier empire. And then they realize she’s breaking the world and turn against her - but she fakes her own death by killing her twin sister and goes after them, manipulating a famous detective into helping her along the way. But I digress.)
And I did get the subtle criticism of real world politics, mostly because the movie was making sure they were unmissable. Which is fine, but again, Kim Possible, by which I mean cartoony.
But eh. Pleasant way to spend an evening, it had both cocktails by the pool AND explosions, and it was set during the pandemic, which was refreshing.