Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - Group Reaction
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I love the fact that Miles steals ideas so frequently that even toward the beginning, when Blanc suggests maybe someone reset the box, Miles acts like he's had a lightbulb moment and is like, "Hang on. Hang on. Someone reset the box!" and just pretends he came up with the theory all on his own.
And he wouldn’t have thought about burning the napkin without Lionel suggesting it. And I love how afterwards he points at Lionel like “Thanks man.”
He even steals from the Davinci's Mona Lisa when he says he wants to make something that is just as famous as it so he can be remembered. Even his outfit in the flashback is stolen from Magnolia.
He also says “As Watson said to Holmes…” before Blanc cut him off. Clearly the implication is that he was going to say “the game is afoot”. However, this is just another example of Miles stupidity. He has it backwards, it should be “As Holmes said to Watson”
Also takes it to perspective on why he wants so much Klear to succeed. Because it's literally the only thing he ever came up on his own and is still a total failure.
@@adrielic_ not really. He got the idea from a sketchy Norwegian scientist at a convention in Peru. Even the Klear idea wasn’t his.
Someone on Tumblr said that there should have been a post-credits scene where they all catch Covid because of COURSE Miles’s stupid throat spray doesn’t actually work…
And I love it! In my head that’s exactly what happened
Yeah, I've thought of that every time I rewatch that scene.
we can say than Derol appearing on the background drinking Corona is a clue that support this theory!
It is still way Too soon to joke about COVID. Not funny
@@poodook This is coming from someone who’s been taking more precautions than anyone I know and who still wears an N95 mask, that’s not really a “joke” about COVID. If they were to show that Miles’ disinfectant throat spray didn’t work, that would actually make COVID seem more serious. Miles is a dumbass who would claim he can create a shoot-&-spray cure, same with how a lot of real world people suggested they had miracle cures (until the actual vaccines came out, which were real). They were closely gathered together for an extended weekend at the beginning of the pandemic, of course they would get it, that’s a very due consequence for all of these people.
@@mr.moviemafia fair points. I guess I’m just confused why Covid had to be included in the movie anyway. I understand it lends an aspect of realism, but I just think it’s unnecessary overall. Thanks for your thoughtful response regardless.
Chris caught it but got gaslit by the movie lol
That’s the beauty of a great movie😂
I DID TOO THE FIRST TIME I WATCHED IT LMAO
Same thing happened to me. I watched the glass switch and thought it was on purpose. Then they showed the scene again but Duke accidentally picked it up and I was confused thinking I saw it wrong. I got a little chuckle out of it when they revealed he did switch the glasses because I realized they purposely wanted me to think I saw wrong. Just like when The Shitheads all were saying things like "I did/didn't see him burn the napkin."
The editor reveling in Micky’s misinformation had me chuckling
he does stuff like that all the time so it's extremely funny seeing the editor call him out on it
@@LMarti13 confidently incorrect
Mickey drags down every bar trivia team he is on
Mickey is always wrong. It's actually pretty impressive. Haha!
@@krisjayperalta4084 and he sits on the remote and pauses the TV show right before the hero moment0
fun fact: when breaking down a scene in the original Knives Out, Rian Johnson said that Jaimie Lee Curtis's character using an iPhone was a clue that she wasn't the killer, because Apple won't let movies give iPhones to the bad guys. I wonder if that's why Miles throws the iPad to Blanc from out of frame and there's never a shot where he's holding it.
Plus, every character in Glass Onion uses Android phones, and the killer is the one person who doesn't have a phone.
I swear in a movie with either the rock or nick cage as lead the bad guy has an iPhone that plays that western rift as the ringtone. He’s the hit man hunting them. Can’t remember the movie though.
That last shot...looking like the Mona Lisa smile is perfection ! What a nice revenge !!
I love that. And not just the smile; her whole pose is a recreation of the Mona Lisa, right down to the angle she's facing the camera.
"its so dumb its brilliant!
NO! Its just dumb"
This line just killed me lol love this movie
6:14 Seeing the different ways every character “wears a mask” (Lionel double-masking, Benoit’s stylish mask, Claire’s being below her nose, Birdie’s being pointless and lace, Duke not wearing one and hugging everyone, Peg actively avoiding all physical contact, etc.) is actually a genius way to show what types of people these characters are and how they feel about one another.
Similar to how each one also solved the box. The Show-Don't-Tell of these character's descriptions is done genius!
I didn't notice "inbreathiate" but when he said "infraction" point instead of "inflection" I started paying more attention 😂😂😂
I chalked up "inbreathiate" as some new agey stuff I don't buy into, but maybe others do lol
@@MeAuntieNora on its own that makes sense, but once we realize he misuses words constantly its definitely him just being an idiot
@Jza exactly, I pretty quickly later on started to be like "wait a minute..." such a fun watch!
Love the DOOM avatar btw
Especially Chris’ “CIRCUMSTANTIAL!”
in place of when he said circumspective
My favourite possible meta layer to this is the Mona Lisa being notoriously not actually a particularly good painting. It was also considered a very mid-range piece by DaVinci until it was stolen. It was the fact that someone managed a heist in the Louvre that made it famous and it became a thing for a while for people to queue up to see the gap on the wall that represented the theft. Then, weirdly, when it was recovered a few years later, people kept queuing up to see it anyway. So Miles identifying with a painting that's not actually all that, and which is basically famous for being famous, is absolutely perfect.
there are so many layers to this movie.
@@kvolttilike an onion?
@@jesorinsekwa4054 A donut hole.
@@steriopticon2687 A donut’s hole _inside_ of a donut’s hole.
I have to admit that it is still true now. Most of the people in the Louvres go to see the Monalisa, waiting for hours, but the painting is not that special. The room next to the Monalisa has so magnificient paintings, but people just go there to sit and wait for the Monalisa, they don't even look
Thank you, Marketa pointing out Janelle Monae looking like Mona Lisa at the end. No other reactions I’ve seen have commented on (or noticed?) that.
Also the location isn’t actually for sale but it a resort where you can really stay. The Zillow listing out there is a promo tool. Derol is the listing agent and the parking is “one rooftop spot” 😂😂
Derol was COVID and you guys were right on about it being a fantasy where we just didn't have to deal with COVID. He walks through the arrival scene on the beach holding a bottle of Corona beer and says "Ignore me!"
Omg i didn't notice that! Good catch
Rian Johnson said in an interview that Derol is just there because he thought it’d be funny, also he’s played by RJ’s buddy Noah Segan who makes appearances in all of his movies, even Last Jedi
OH MY GOD!
@@puremadness Think about what a meticulous, detail-oriented filmmaker Johnson is, and think about the fact that the actor had a six-pack of CORONA beer with him, walking through a scene directly after the characters had been injected with something (they did not know what) and then been told that they no longer needed their masks as the height of COVID, and says the line "ignore me," and then think about whether or not that particular scene was in the movie "just because he thought it'd be funny."
I love how from the beginning he caught on and said it was Miles because of the idea of a glass onion that it's actually simple to see the center.
And i love that they caught Miles giving Duke his drink but got gaslit like the rest of the characters
I just realized: Duke blindly taking the glass Miles hands to him is kinda foreshadowed by his mom subtly handing him the laundry basket in the beginning. I’ve watched this movie so many times and never realized that til now lol
Oooh you're right!!!
In the end, Andi became the disrupter none of them were. It started with small things like the glass figures and furniture, but there is a line to cross where you have to break that which no one wants to break, Andi crosses it by destroying the Monalisa, disrupting Mile’s system of power.
And Miles' whole speech about disruptors foreshadows that whole Mona Lisa destruction scene
Technically it was Helen, not Andi. But absolutely, I totally agree! She is the true disrupter!
Y'all are the first reactors I've seen actually recognize Yo-Yo Ma. Natasha Lyonne is there because she's got a mystery show created by Rian Johnson coming out soon. And Kareem Abdul-Jabar has written a few mystery books focused on the character of Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother
And the other person in that group, Stephen Sondheim, is famous for a lot of reasons but he was included there because he co-wrote the murder mystery that this was most directly inspired by.
Kareem also wrote an episode of Veronica Mars.
Nice to see someone else is familiar with Kareem's Mycroft books. I love them :D
Kareem Abdul Jabbar has written Victorian murder mystery books? My mind is shooketh
@@SuperDoNotWant I haven't actually read them yet. I'm super behind on my "to read" list. I just know they exist
Kate Hudson's dad is Bill Hudson, hence the Hudson lol. Goldie Hawn is her mother though, so Wyatt Russell is her half-brother. Also fun fact, Ethan Hawke was just in the area filming Moon Knight so they grabbed him and used him for that 5 minute scene.
There's a little detail that no one has noticed yet. The puzzle boxes were designed by a protégé of magician Rickey Jay. Rickey Jay was supposed to have been in the first Knives out movie (The Groundskeeper that takes them to get the security tape ) but he passed away before the movie was filmed. I thought it was a nice touch.
I love how the definition of "disrupter" is what Andi does in the finale. This movie is definitely worth watching some "Glass Onion explained" videos where they break it all down.
It's crazy how you all caught so many details, but none of you seemed to notice Blanc saying "Helen!" when he ran into her during the blackout. It's so surprising how few people noticed such an obvious detail on first viewing (myself included).
Same! I can’t believe I didn’t hear that until the first reaction I watched
To me that was the easiest thing to notice before the big flashback and explanations.l came Since it was the only one i noticed lol.
I noticed it, but couldn't figure out exactly what it meant amid all the action.
I noticed it right away but thought maybe I misheard or something
Congratulations, y'all are the only reactors I've seen who recognized Yo-Yo Ma on sight!
I did the biggest double take when I saw the movie in theatres. Such an unexpected but cool cameo.
Just noticed at 10:43 you can see Andi (Helen) throw the recorder into her purse. WOW
If that Adam Ruins Everything episode is anything to go on, I think there's extra reason why Miles was obsessed with the Mona Lisa.
Like, it's the most famous painting in the world, and folks like to believe there must be something super duper genius about it, when the fact is that it's just a decent painting. Hardly Da Vinci's finest work, and it got famous via arbitrary means.
Miles himself projects complexity onto it where none exists.
yup I've read that Da Vinci didn't even like it or something
9:10 I love Blanc's "Oh my god, it's full of stars" line here - his exact wording shows that he's quoting the _novel_ of _2001: A Space Odyssey_ rather than the movie of its sequel.
He's an amalgam of 'those people' in general, the ultra rich tech types, Musk, Bezos, even got the Zuck shout out with the 'social networking' of Andi, and a few shots of him dressed like Steve Jobs, wouldn't be surprised if there were more mixed in.
I think the "staring at the napkin in hand" shot was a reference to Elizabeth Holmes
@@DigiCount I keep wondering if his hairstyle from the flashback at their time at the bar was a reference to someone as well that I'm not familiar with
@@ashenfang it definitely feels like a very particular haircut for some reason
He was copying Tom cruise’s character in Magnolia
Any guy or artist who gets called a genius has just as many people calling him a hack. There are several people who fit the archetype of not actually being brilliant, but having brilliant marketing, Edison, Warhol, shoe fits a lot of people.
40:35 The movie really did have to take place in 2020, because Covid was why Miles had the Mona Lisa on loan.
I saw one of the producers in an interview explaining how the entire island was designed to draw the eye and fixate you on surroundings, and how that. Combined with Ed Nortons charisma made it so that they cod literally do the entire crime, right in front of you, in the open. And only a small percentage of viewers would catch it. And thats why the mural of Yesezz. Lol
4:37 -- I've watched at least a dozen Glass Onion reactions, and you guys are the first ones to recognize Yo-Yo Ma. Well done!
...I think you guys are the first reactors that recognised Yo-Yo Ma. Also, fun fact: in the puzzle box, the chess set-up is the Fool's Mate, once again teasing that Miles is a moron.
I love that when Helen started disrupting by breaking glass, she progresses exactly as Miles speaks to earlier. She starts small and gets people on board before getting bigger and heading to the piano, and then as people get on board with the piano she gets even bigger causing real destruction. Additionally as Miles watches the Mona Lisa Burns he is essentially watching himself burn with it.
I _love_ that so many of y’all immediately recognized Yo-Yo Ma! So few reactors have done so, so it’s refreshing to see!
This movie is so fun and you can actually see everything before the reveal. Some of the gang saw Miles switching the drinks, but you can also see him taking the gun and you can see Dukes cellphone in Miles backpocket.
Also a great detail, Miles Disruptor speech fits perfectly to the end of the movie. How you start destroying something everybody dislikes (the stupid glass sculptures) and get everybody hyped (everybody joined destroying the sculptures) until you go too far (starting the fire). Everybody wants you to stop and if you're a true disruptor, you kepp going and destroy the one thing nobody wants to see destroyed (burning the Mona Lisa).
Rian Johnson does such a great job with this movie. I really enjoy his love for these little details and I hope his TV show will be just as nice.
btw Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a cameo in every Rian Johnson movie, in Glass Onion JGL's cameo was the hourly gong.
"Circumstantial!" LOL that was awesome. I'm really enjoying the triumphant return of the murder mystery movie. They're always so fun. Great reaction as always.
If you want another murder mystery movie to react to, I highly recommend The Pale Blue Eye with Christian Bale. It's excellent.
I love that you guys were the ONLY reactors to point out Yo Yo Ma lol
I really like the "riot" at the end. Andi could smash little trinkets, and the "disrupters" could join in the protests. Take a perfomative knee. but at the end of the day, the couldnt actually commit to smashing anything that ACTUALLY threatened their status.
The random guy on the island is probably the brain behind all of Miles’ projects and businesses. Thatswhy he is living with Miles on that island.
The song that Miles was playing on the beach when the boat arrived was the Beatles Blackbird which is about Black women in the South persevering through the abuses of racism.
AND it's on White Album, where we also have a song called Glass Onion...:)
That island buying stuff was better than the movie reaction. Gold!!
6:16 "Chicken Wire!" Yes, I'm so glad someone else saw that. It's like thin, gold plated checked wire.
I love watching the reactions to see who caught the Glass handoff/switch and who caught Benoit calling Andi "Helen" when he steps out during the blackout right before she is shot.
I caught the glass, but not him calling her Helen.
The "nobody" stoner guy was Noah Segal who recently wrote/directed/starred in a film called Blood Relatives that was good as well. And he played one of the cops in Knives Out.
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.
It’s bullshit that they show a flashback of Bautista saying that he almost crashed outside of Andi’s house before he gets cut off, like that was supposed to be a clue, but if you go back to the scene, he actually gets cut off before he can say her name. It’s not a real clue
The did similar shit in Knives Out
I just now realized the among us scene in the beginning gave away the murder plot 🤣
The end sequence of the movie is basically an Among Us lobby - the imposter gaslighting everyone into disbelieving what they actually saw, everyone voting on innocence/guilt with everyone initially backing Miles (and implied that Blanc is the one voted out because he leaves the Glass Onion after), even Andi straight up hitting a big red button, leading to another vote where everyone agrees to vote out Miles.
Rian Johnson, you sly bastard...
I love how later in the movie, Benoit Blanc says he's very bad at stupid things (i.e. murder mystery games), that includes feigning innocence when he was actually the imposter in Among Us.
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You're the first reactors I've seen to recognize Yo-Yo Ma! Nobody clocked Stephen Sondheim though. Also, fun fact, y'all talked about Murder She Wrote but Angela Lansbury's username on Among Us was "Murder She Solved"
THANK YOU. Someone else noticed Miles giving the glass to Duke.
i know before even watching this Micki will have the worst theories throughout the movie
He figured it out tho!
@@camiart_casual He watched it beforehand
Hugh Grant's cameo was special: he's playing as Blanc's husband, Phillip. Yessss, really! Johnson & Craig confirmed.
I also love that Serena Williams is reading "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon, the famous 1970s novel "no one reads" that Blanc & Marta talk about in "Knives Out." Johnson is a Pynchon fan. Pynchon's 2009 novel "Inherent Vice" was adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson, who also directed "Magnolia"...& I love that during their flashbacks in "Glass Onion," Miles is actually dressed like Tom Cruise from "Magnolia," which was Norton's idea! & hilarious if you know Cruise's character in "Magnolia."
I think Knives Out has a stronger script, but goddamn Glass Onion might just be more fun. I wish I could have these Benoit Blanc films released every year
ending scene: Janelle Monae Lisa
Renner DOES have actual music. It's...something. So both Leto and Renner are musicians.
The scene after Duke dies Blanc runs into "Andi" and he calls her by her actual name "Helen" which is actually before it was revealed that Helen was pretending to be her sister. I didn't catch it until I was watched this reaction.
0:58 The real mystery of this video is how does Chris run a youtube channel and a bakery at the same time?
8:47 That “DONG” was actually voiced by Joseph Gordon Levitt
“Hey you know what? I liked your Star Wars” Me too 😩
It'll get reexamined eventually
Damn right.
Chris: No matter how tight your pipe is...
Archer: Phrasing!
This the first and only channel I know of so far that recognized yo yo ma 😭✨
little thing i saw pointed out elsewhere, i saw a post talking about everyone's masks at the begining, and that Helen's mask is her sister.
This is probably my favorite G.O. reaction I’ve seen so far
Your collective thought processes followed mine almost exactly. I assumed that either Peg or Whiskey killed Andi because...it was too clever. It was premeditated, simple and efficient, three things Miles is incapable of. Additionally, there's the idea that Miles would need a new Andi to actually get things done and they were the two likely candidates. I always assumed Miles was behind Duke's death because A) it was telegraphed like four different ways and B) it was exactly the kind of crime he WOULD commit: sloppy, obvious and would fall apart under a moment's actual investigation (Pineapple juice was only a danger to Duke, so it COULDN'T have been intended for Miles)
The funny thing is that when I watched the movie and saw the N on the box, my head immediately screamed: NORMIES😂
The best part is how Blanc should have figured this out but he's so used to these wildly complex cases that it takes a while to realize this is a flat-out idiot who uses his one-of-a-kind car to drive to the crime scene and incapable of coming up with anything on his own.
Kate isn't Kurt's kid. She's Goldie's daughter with her second husband, Bill Hudson.
He’s wrong about a lot of things he says
I loved all of the editors comments but did want to say that Jeremy Renner DOES have music and I do think that’s what Spidey was referring to.
i'm so excited for this. i loved your guys' video on knives out. one of my all time favorite movies. i hope they keep going with the new murder mystery settings but same investigator and hopefully they'll keep being good. i also love how they get such well-known actors in these movies. it's amazing
39:07 "museum-grade security system" 😂
Very few reactors notice that Miles even stole the idea of burning the napking from Lionel! He is an idiot but at least he's quick lol
Someone maybe mentioned this, but the “Dong!” is Joseph Gordon Levitt, who starred in Johnson’s movie “Brick.”
Also Looper?
@@Mayeur000Donz D’oh, absolutely. I was thinking of Brothers Bloom and didn’t remember him in it so stuck with that.
The movie DID have to take place in 2020, if not cutting things. Claire was running for re-election, so it had to be 2020 or 2022. It couldn't be 2022, because Angela Lansbury and Steven Sondheim (both in the Among Us game) died before 2022, and no one wants to cut the two of them out of their literal last acting roles. Side note - If you're an old person acting in Hollywood - avoid the Knives Out series. Angela and Steven - appear in this movie - dies in RL. Christopher Plumber, appears in Knives Out. Dies. (It's like Johnson is grabbing their souls or something...)
Had to pause and say I'm so excited you guys recognized Yo-Yo Ma. No one ever does. Watched a reaction where they recognized Phil Glass is the composer Philip Glass but said Yo-Yo Ma was not famous enough for them to know.
8:58 That Mission Impossible ad was CLEAN!!
In my head canon Darol is the son of The Dude and Maude Lebowski from The Big Lebowski. Darol, like his dad, refuses to let an action movie happen to him, and of course Miles would acquire Maude Lebowski, he probably has one of her paintings.
Miles is also shown wearing a black turtleneck in the napkin article and the office where Andi refuses to sign off so he's also supposed to look like Steve Jobs
That "hold my basket" was a mexican mom move, "son, bring me that belt"
Absolutely loved how much this movie actually makes you think and especially, overthink. The twists and turns so many times, it's so great.
i personally think the first was slightly better but i still think the characters were as unique
I thought they kind of faded into the background. Plus supporting characters in the first one end it being the main threat towards the inheritance and therefore the main villain in a sense. Sure most of the family did not do, but the whole family wants it to be Marta who did do it.
The politician, and tech guy and the assistant become somewhat important, while they do play a hand in Miles down fall they do not feel that individually important or unique. This mainly becomes apparent when comparing the supporting cast of Knives Out, they do what this movie needs them to do....but i just think the Thrombeys are more memorable
Everyone in this movie freakin' killed their performances. Daniel Craig really brought out the comedy in his character this time around. Not that he wasn't funny in the first one but damn did his lines and delivery crack me up.
Love the sequel as much as I love the first one.
Elon Musk: The Movie. It's one of the most prescient films to come out in the past year. Also, did you see the Kanye mural in the dining room?
Just found you guys today. Love the reaction. Love the mech!! Subscribed!!
you are like the only reactors to recognize Yo Yo Ma
The beauty of Joseph Gordon Levitt being the "DONG"....I need a clock like that.
The fact that the kombucha, the hot sauce and the island are fake all lend to the theme of Miles' deceit.
To be fair, BOTH Jared Leto and Jeremy Renner make music. Jared has just been far more successful - with 30 Seconds to Mars.
Fun Fact: Joseph Gorden-Levitt has been in every single one of Rian Johnson's movies as some form of cameo. In this movie he's the voice of the hourly DONG!
As well as Noah Segan
3:15 Kate Hudson is not Kurt Russell's daughter, at least biologically. She is Bill Hudson's, as the last name suggests
Had to subscribe bc you guys are the first reactors I've watched who recognized Yo Yo Ma in real time! :D Thanks!
A loovely surprise, to see Navi wearing Tanjiro's earrings
Thank you for knowing who the hell Yo-Yo Ma is and why that scene is funny!! Thank you!!! LOL
This was great. Idk if y’all are planning on it, but the Legend of Vox Machina season 2 dropped on Amazon Prime and they stepped their game up so much. I’d love to see y’all react to it!
Derol is played by the same actor who played the fanboy officer in the first movie
10:27, I want a gun that still works after its been submerged in a swimming pool
These movies are so fun!
Truly Joseph Gordon Levitt's finest role.... DOOOONG!!!!
I absolutely love Janelle Monae and Kate Hudson in this movie 💙 🙌🏽
Super excited to watch you guys react to this! Such a fun movie.
A Knives Out Mystery (spoiler free)
The 2019 original Knives Out and the 2022 sequel Glass Onion are rewatchable films. Unlike other movies in the “whodunit” (murder) genre, the reveals enhanced rewatch experience as subtle clues became obvious.
The director (Rian Johnson) is a master of expectation subversion and misdirection, as he made a distinctly different sequel in the same universe. Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is the only returning character anchoring both movies.
The first movie was set in a stuffy New England house of a patriarch and his dysfunctional family (old money-ish).
The sequel was set on a private Greek island of a tech billionaire surrounded by his inner circle of “disrupters” (new money-ish).
The first movie is better (in my opinion), but the second is a worthy sequel - more transparent (glass), more layered (onion), and more fun (island).
This and Knives Out shows me that Rian Johnson isn't a bad director/writer; he just wasn't the right person to write/direct a movie from a Star Wars trilogy. As if that wasn't hard enough, he also had to work off the beginning of story that J.J. Abrams hadn't planned/thought out.
I feel like placing most of the blame for Star Wars 7-9 on the failure of planning. They're doing a follow-up trilogy to one of the world's biggest franchises and nobody sat down and sketched an outline for it?
The editor was giving Mickey no mercy
Thank you for recognising Yo Yo Ma. I think you're the only ones I've seen who've done that.
Funny how you are all blaming Whiskey when she's one of nicest people in this movie lmao
Kareem Abdul Jabbar has written a series of murder mysteries about Sherlock Holmes brother