Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - MOVIE REACTION!! 

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the fact that duke kept a loaded gun on him but not an epipen is so telling

The Serena Williams appearance, great as it is, gets even better when you see that the book she's reading is "Gravity's Rainbow", which in "Knives Out" Benoit mentioned as a book nobody reads.

I love how utterly devoid of original thought Miles Bron is. Even burning the napkin at the end was an idea put into his head by Lionel.

glad yall recognized that the only reason the group held Miles to justice was because he was ruined. some people who watched it thought they all suddenly cared about doing the right thing just because the movie inexplicably decided A̶n̶d̶i̶ Helen was compelling enough to change their integrity. they were still “shitheads” & it was just advantageous at that point to throw him under the bus.

I’m sorry, but I think Benoit Blanc is Daniel Craig’s best performance. He looks like he’s just having so much fun with the character and I’m loving it!

“That has to be his husband, right?” Historians will say they were roommates.

I want to thank Calvin for pointing out Helen became a disruptor. She broke the one thing no one (not even the audience) wanted broken - The Mona Lisa. I missed that on the first watch.

Ethan hawke filmed his cameo while filming Moon Knight, he took a quick flight from Budapest to Greece and that’s why he felt so Arthur Harrowy

16:14 I only just noticed Miles says "As Watson said to Holmes. . ." Before Benoir interrupts. As if he was gonna start the mystery game by saying "The game is afoot." But he got the characters mixed up 🤣

Hugh Grant having flour on his face from making bread like a lot of people did in lockdown was a nice touch

My favorite thing that I saw pointed out elsewhere is that the Among Us game is actually thematic! Blanc and Helen are both "impostor" guests - Blanc uninvited, and Helen posing as Andi. By the end, everyone else voted Miles "out" by turning against him. I honestly find that so clever, and it's a detail that people just think is a gag!

Yeah, Hugh Grant has been confirmed as his husband. I imagine the name thing is 'cause Blanc sounds snappier called out like that, and they probably met during a case or something. Fun fact! Apparently Blanc's cases don't pay very well so Phillip is the (literal) breadwinner while Blanc is a bit of a trophy husband.

This movie gets *better* on the rewatch because you can actually see everything that happened but missed because of the sleight of hand of the movie.

It's so interesting that we can now have films and tv as a "covid period-piece", that couple of years segment where everything was different. Masks, greeting with elbows, playing Among Us to socialise with friends.

22:00 I love that in all of the reactions that I've watched, no one seems to notice Blanc calls her Helen.

It hurt me to my soul when Calvin said Stephen Sondheim was a murder mystery writer... Sondheim is one of the most famous and prolific musical theatre writers of all time.

"Derol" is a friend of Rian Johnson, and appears in all his movies. In Knives Out, he's one of the detectives interviewing the family. Netflix did a viral marketing campaign where they pretended to sell the island on Zillow. Derol was the seller. The clock gong is played by Joseph Gordon levitt, another person who appears in Rian Johnson movies. In Knives out, he's a cop in the background, and you can just about hear him on screen. Ethan Hawke has a cameo in the movie as he happened to be in the area, filming Moon Knight at the time. The painting of Miles is a painting of Norton's head on Brad Pitt's body from Fight Club. Glass Onion is based on a project by Stephen Sondheim. He has a cameo due to the fact this sort of murder mystery is based on his famous Hollywood murder mystery parties. He was also great friends with Angela Landsbury, and said she'd do a cameo too as he already was. Natasha Lyone is also one of the Among Us players, as her next series was a murder mystery series created by Johnson. Netflix pushed to have A Knives Out Mystery added to the title. Johnsons wanted each movie to be a self contained story about a famous detective, like the Marple/Poitrot shows. He wanted them so disconnected, that he briefly toyed with the idea of Blanc having a different accent in every movie, just as a gag for the audience (no other characters cross over, so would never bring it up).

The little detail of Helen finding some LSD with tabs missing and then Birdie screaming "what is reality?" when she sees her alive is amazing

The movie created a Medical Macguffin at the start which Ethan Hawke distributed to allow the filmmakers to ignore the pandemic for the rest of the movie -- and they make a joke with Derol representing COVID-19. He walks through the island arrival scene carrying Corona beer and says "Ignore me!" Which the film proceeds to do.

According to the actors and the director, Phillip is, indeed, Benoit's husband :)

That last shot...looking like the Mona Lisa smile is perfection ! What a nice revenge !!

One thing that I adore about this movie is, looking at the actors, you can tell that everyone, but specially Kate Hudson and Edward Norton, are having so much fun. And that doesn't happen a lot, similar to like...Chris Evans or Michael Shannon in Knives Out.

I just realized Mile's last word, he got from Helen. Up until the very end, he still didn't have any ideas that are his own. Also, the stark difference of Blanc's reaction to solving the murder mystery game that "Gillian Flynn" wrote to his reaction to what Miles "came up" with. He was so happy solving the first one, and then was so exasperated with Miles' actions. He does hate dumb things.

Kareem is included in the Among Us game because he writes mystery novels about Sherlock Holmes brother

This movie is exceptional at gaslighting you and the characters. It will literally show you the truth and then turn around and tell you right to your face you're wrong and this is what actually happened and if you question it they pile more on to make you feel like you were indeed wrong.

My favorite Derol theory I saw was someone pointing out that he makes a fine metaphor for COVID. Shows up right after they get the magic throat spray that (given what we know about Miles) probably does nothing, says 'pretend I'm not here,' and hangs around in the background as they all decide to ignore him.

Hands down the funniest line for me is when Benoit says Oh Lord, help us after seeing the missing knife 😂😂😂 the delivery is impeccable

The personal assistant was Colleen Wing on the Netflix Ironfist show. She was the best part of the series.

The assistant, played by the talented Jessica henwick, also played coleen wing in the Netflix iron Fist series. She was the best part of the show and i hope she comes back to the mcu in the near future.

personally, I think it gets better each time you see it. Once you're done being swept up in the mystery you can pay attention to background details, and actually see all the beats being laid down. such a fun movie!

Fun fact: While Kareem Abdul Jabbar is most famously known as a basketball player, he has also authored mystery novels!

What I love is that Duke is all about men’s rights and being an alpha male, but his mother not only slaps him for the way he spoke to her, but she made him hold the laundry basket so she could do it. 😂

as far as calling someone you are dating by their last name goes... the first thing i thought of was how emily axford calls her husband brian murphy (both are from college humor, dimension 20, naddpod) "murph" and i love that. i dated a guy i was friends with first and called him by his last name because that is what i had always called him. i think it is kinda cute lol

Fun fact: The actress who plays the assistant Jessica Henwick was one of the front-runners for the role of Rey in the sequel trilogy but lost the role to Daisy Ridley. She still had a role in it, playing Jessika Pava, but was cut from Johnson's TLJ.

Lets hope Rick's predictions are as bad as they were in the first Knives Out reaction! "Everything I say is immediately proven wrong!"

Helen isn't one more disruptor, she is THE DISRUPTOR

The visual, the soundtrack, the story. All of it is Brilliant! Even at the end Helen sitting there smiling just like the Mona Lisa. Everything was thought out and perfect. I love the first one but I adore this one more. Cant wait for more in this series.

I can’t believe none of y’all knew the name Stephen Sondheim. One of the most influential and incredible musical theatre composers. RIP Steve. Time for me to listen to Sunday in the Park with George again.

As far as the cameos go, I love the way they worked the various real-life people in the story, like Stephen Sondheim and Serena Williams, in ways that seem plausible; the one exception is Yo-Yo Ma, who would be highly unlikely to attend a New York "Pod Party" like the one Birdie hosts at the beginning. (I do enjoy how he talks about Bach and fugue structure, though.)

The 4 zoom cameos have all written or starred in murder-mysteries, plot wise it was to point out how Blanc is terrible at simple mysteries because he looks for more complex answers and misses the obvious.

Stephen Sondheim is the single greatest musical-theater composer/lyricist that has ever lived. The ones you might be familiar with include Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd (others you may have heard of: Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, and he wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy). The reason he's in the movie, however, is that he co-wrote the screenplay for a murder mystery movie called "The Last of Sheila," which this film borrows heavily from. This is both Stephen Sondheim's and Angela Lansbury's final appearance on screen.

Did you notice Derol was always holding a bottle of Corona and was always there, hanging out and passing through? Funny bit of nuance, I thought.

The more I watch this movie, the more I notice...interesting little tidbits...a sneaky killer hiding in plain sight, using gaslighting and misdirection to sway a crowd of innocents to go with his story (and speaking intellectually to convince others of his competence), calling the lights as a sabotage, meetings with the crew being called to vote, right down to a race between an innocent and the killer to get to the button to lead to the final meeting... Rian Johnson, you sneaky bastard...he made an Among Us movie! Even had Benoit Blanc playing it right at the beginning, in our face all along! xD

Great reaction! Re: Hugh Grant's character using Benoit's surname: in Elizabeth Peters' series about archeologist detective Amelia Peabody, the much-in-love Emersons call each other by their last names(her maiden name) because they did so when they were first courting and therefore it evokes cherished memories. My theory is that Blanc and his boyfriend/husband have a similar situation.

Sondheim wrote musicals… Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods are two of his most recognizable. He had a long wonderful working relationship with Angela Lansbury. He gave her her first big lead in Anyone Can Whistle and cast her as the first and definitive Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd. He wrote one stage play which was a murder mystery and I believe something of an influence on this film.

Watched this over Christmas with all of my family and we all had HUGE fun watching it. Such a great absorbing film, providing a good time and a compelling mystery seems to be the aim and I love that. I can't wait for more Knives Out films.

I recoiled in horror at the “I think Stephen Sondheim is a producer or something” bit! It’s fine. It’s ok. Not everyone knows America’s greatest (at that time) living composer and lyricist.

Loved Helen's Mona Lisa smile in the end there. During the whole movie I thought that Whiskey was played by Florence Pugh, but it was in fact Madelyn Cline. It's a fun movie. I think I still like watching Knives Out for repeated rewatching. The cast of both movies is totally stacked so you can rest assured that Rian's next Blanc mystery will be just as well stacked. Johnson did make a deal with Netflix for two Knives Out sequels for $400 million. I was lucky enough to see this in the theater and they definitely should run it in the theaters for longer. I do like the characters here as well and I do feel they have their own personalities. Karem Abuhl Jabar is a huge Sherlock Holmes fan and writer as well. That's why I believe he's in their group.

I liked the first one more for several reasons, but this is also really entertaining and engaging! Bonus points for all the cameos… I was basically the Rick Dalton pointing at tv meme every time someone showed up. Hugh Grant was my favourite lmao

I had the EXACT same reaction to seeing Leslie I literally went “Aaron Burr, sir??” cause I was really surprised to see him😭

We had 6 "Daniel"s in our year throughout high school, at first calling them by their last names was a way to differentiate but after 4 years it became a term such of endearment I would get momentarily flustered when my friend "Avrahami" would introduce herself as "Danielle".

I’d love for you guys to react to The Menu next!

While obviously destroying the real Mona Lisa would be awful, I think for the context of Miles and the movie it’s the best possible ending. Aside from his line about being remembered in the same breath as it, he had it on loan. Everything else he could have paid for, but it both ruined his potential riches in showing how destructive the fuel is, and quite possibly ruined his current riches by having him have to pay off the loss of the Mona Lisa.

Stephen Sondheim was THE father of modern American musical theater. His work includes Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Company. FWIW, Angela Lansbury starred in the original cast of Sweeney Todd.

I can't be the only one who noticed Blanc called "Andi" Helen before the movie revealed she's Helen right??

My favorite little fun fact about this is when he throws the ipad to Blanc, he throws an Ipad Pro meaning he didnt even realize its a Pro because later he says "Blanc deserves and Ipad Pro this time"

one of my favourite details in the film is that at the end Helen is sitting in the same pose as the Mona Lisa

You're the first reaction channel to actually mention that Room video game. I was obsessed with that game and I loved the puzzle box in the movie.

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Rewatching this movie is so interesting especially when you see Miles’ reaction to Andi after she arrives from the boat. Miles: Andi? You’re *here*? Andi: I am. Miles: Huh? He likely didn’t even know/remembered that Andi had a twin sister until someone else mentioned it despite the fact that he worked with Andi for awhile.

I freakin love these movies and I freakin love that they want to do them forever. Daniel Craig will be 95, incoherent and in a wheelchair and I'll still be sitting in a theater watching him solve murder mysteries

The assistant also played one of the sand snakes on game of thrones. That is where I seen her first.

The cameos in among us all are murder mystery related. Angelia Lansbury of course for murder she wrote Stephen Sondheim wrote the mystery movie "The Last of Sheila (which I feel like inspired this movie) Natasha Lyonne stars in a mystery show called Poker face produced by Rian Johnson ( I highly recommend it, its basically hour long versions of Knives Out/Glass Onion) And Kareem Abdul Jabbar has written multiple mystery novels based on Sherlocks brother, Mycroft

I love that Miles goes into a Munch "The Scream" pose when the Mona Lisa goes up.

This movie is incredibly fun Glass Onion is a term used to define something that appears more than it is, but is actually just what it appeared to be. Derol is the embodiment of this. Since people always think theres more to him than what we see, but in actuality he's what he appears to be.

My favorite cameo is Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Hourly Dong.

Stephen Sondheim, aside from writing "The Last of Sheila", which has a very similar plot to Glass Onion, also wrote the song Benoit Blanc was singing in the car in Knives Out ("Losing My Mind" from Follies). So Benoit is obviously a fan.

I like how the title is the ending. An onion has layers, and is usually used to describe something very complex. Few people seem to realize that a Glass Onion is see through, and not complex at all. A very different movie from Knives Out but both topical and on the nose. Not so much a murder mystery. I do have a tiny suggestion.. I think after movies, and perhaps the finale of TV shows.. you should go over the IMDB trivia. It's like another fun "reaction" on top of the reaction. Plus I think it would help with retention too! Right before you hit the button say "stay tuned after the video for discussion and our reaction to the IMDB trivia!" This movie especially would have been an awesome segment of going over the IMDB trivia!

since edward nortons character does nothing for himself a lot of people think he steals his idea from the dude who’s wandering around the island. he just waits til he’s high and writes his ideas down. also the speech earlier in the movie mirrors all the glass being broken in the end. also also Young Miles is dressed almost exactly like Tom Cruise in Magnolia because he probably sees him as inspirational.

“They reveled in breaking his shit, but not to the point of breaking ALL his shit.” Yup! And that brings it all back around very nicely to what Miles says about “disruptors”. You start off small, breaking some minor thing most people actually want gone anyway - Helen starts by smashing the glass statues, and lets be honest who wouldn’t? You’ve got a big open room meant for people to socialize and hang out in but it’s full of these dumb, fragile, precariously perched glass sculptures that you have to tiptoe around constantly for fear of knocking them over - who WOULDNT wanna smash the dumb things? But then you reach that “infraction” point where you decide to break the thing nobody else wants broken, and THATS when you have the chance to become a real disruptor. The rest of them didn’t want her destroying the Mona Lisa, cause they were ultimately just performative disruptors doing it for their own selfish benefit. Hell, *I* didn’t want her destroying the Mona Lisa either! And I don’t like that she did it, even though I understand why. But Helen didn’t flinch from crossing even that line, because she had genuine purpose to her disruption.

Rick: "There's a game called the Room..." YES! All three of them are amazing. They really drew me in and enraptured me when I first played them. I still go back from time to time and play them to rediscover them again. Love that Rick is familiar with the games!

Strongly disagree that this movie loses rewatch value. It's SO FUN to rewatch. A) because the set up first hour drags less when you know the underlying tensions already, and B) because it's super fun to watch all the clues! The phone and gun especially were right there on screen!

5:49 I wasn't expecting a mention of my fav puzzle game serious, but that was a welcome surprise! I adore The Room games, absolutely underrated masterpieces. 👌🏻

If you watch Death On the Nile (79) and Evil Under the Sun (82), you can see the clear references. The basic feel. Much more stylized and more camp.

Hugh Grant is Blanco husband according to a Rian interview

Aaron just coming in randomly reminds me of the random guy in the movie, Derol, hanging out on the sidelines, and its hilarious

It was great having Helen pose as the Mona Lisa in the last shot of the film.

I totally thought the Mona Lisa security door would be used to decapitate someone too, but he did say some of the clues would be red herrings. I'm pretty sure this film is rammed full of foreshadowing and easter eggs that other channels have probably covered already.

Not only is Joseph Gordon-Levitt the Dong noise, but Phillip Glass actually did compose it lol

Just a point regarding the "Knives out" in the title. I hadn't watched Knives Out before, but it was in my watch list. I knew it was a good movie but just had never picked it up. When Glass Onion started showing up in my recommendations, it reminded me that I should probably watch the first movie, before watching this one. So yeah, just another perspective about it.

What I loved when I was watching this movie is when I saw some mistakes and thought it's just a director's fault, like this made up words, or when they showed how Duke picked up Miles' drink from the table, when before, it was clear that Miles handed it to Duke. And then, when I think that it's important to think about such details and Rian Johnson simply fucked up, it turns out that it was an intentional decision and everything is correct. Now I fucking love Rian Johnson even more and can't wait to finally watch his recent TV mystery show, Poker Face, starring Natasha Lyonne, the girl in the top right corner in a Zoom Meeting during Among Us

21:14 Calvin realized he was about to say something very sus and saved himself 😂

I love what you can tell about the characters about how they wear their masks (or not). Birdie is wearing a net mask, Duke and his gf aren’t wearing one, the politician is wearing one but it’s under her nose.

ending scene: Janelle Monae Lisa Also, Natasha Lyonne (one of the 4 playing Among Us) is in another upcoming murder mystery series of Rian Johnson titled Poker Face on Peacock streaming platform.

Jessica Henwick, the actress that plays Birdie's assistant Peg, was also Colleen Wing in Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and The Defenders. That could also be where Calvin recognized her from.

Funny that you mentioned Netflix not having time stamps, because I’ve been frustrated with that when trying to sync full lengths

They need to react to the new Puss in boots movie .

Really like both. I can highly Recommend poker face new series another rian Johnson production. Very much a knives out meets columbo meets Tarantino 👍

The example I wanted to give Eric of people using last names as terms of endearment: Mulder and Scully

Netflix wanted to keep the name Knives Out because people knew the name, like Calvin said. I waited for Rick to be the one picking up Miles being the killer when they show him giving the glass to Duke and then lie about it. One reactor has got that thus far that I've seen lol

22:03 I never noticed he straight up calls her “Helen”, amazing

Batista's mom was the same lady who was in the quiet car scene in Bullet Train

Not only was Peg in the Matrix movie, she was also Nimeria Sand in Game of Thrones. Derol is played by Noah Segan, who played the assistant cop in Knives Out.

I heard in interview that Netflix wanted “A Knives Out Mystery” in the title, but wanted just Glass Onion because these are like different mysteries/cases in the same world, whose stories aren’t connected. So that’s why it’s a smaller title 😅 I think I just enjoyed this movie (and all it’s interpretations) because I didn’t hunt for things to pay attention to. ALSO my favourite note is the opening sequence of the box (there’s a whole ytvid on it) and it made me realize…if you’ve been exposed to certain education, you would recognize the puzzles like how the mom did. Kinda like “if you’re x class, then you can solve the box, poor ppl cant” (the poor one being our SCHOOL TEACHER WHO JUST SMASHES IT OPEN.

Things I take for granted. Thinking everyone knows who Stephen Sondheim is. I feel ancient.

It's a very English private school thing to call everyone by their last names, even or especially your friends.

The funniest part about the Elon Musk stuff lining up with this movie is that when Rian Johnson said that the character of Miles was not based on Musk, a bunch of Musk fanboys wouldn't believe him. Basically going "what do you mean, it's about a billionaire inventor who's actully an idiot, we know our guy when we see him!"

7:38 I love the idea that Ethan Hawke literally waltzed over from the set of Moon Knight and then waltzed back, and the only different thing about his character is no cane and a ponytail.

Whoever does the outfits and interior design in these movies did such a great job