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Glass Onion (2022)
To say this is better than the first one would be lunacy
To make it clear, I didn't hate this movie. It had an interesting setup, some good twists, and decent humour. That being said, as a die hard fan of Knives Out, Glass Onion truly disappointed me. Whereas Knives Out was a fresh take on the classic murder mystery format, Glass Onion was over the top and completely departed from the genre. During the promo for the movie I was excited for the remote setting because of the potential for Agatha Christie vibes, but the whole thing just didn't feel grounded in reality with all the unrealistic James Bond supervillain-esque technology. Certain aspects of the movie felt more like an action film than a murder mystery, which was a true loss for me because the perfect use of the murder mystery genre was one of my favourite things about the original movie.
To look on the bright side, Janelle Monae was very engaging, and her character definitely took on Marta's role. Daniel Craig did a good job as Benoit Blanc once again and had some funny lines, though I would personally say this movie was much less funny than the first one overall. As the first one did, Glass Onion contained a lot of social commentary, specifically related to class (perhaps less subtly than in the first one), which is always valuable. The concept behind this movie was very fun, I just think they took it too far a lot of the time.
Overall Glass Onion was a fine film, though if you're a big fan of the first one I would lower your expectations. Maybe I'll appreciate this movie more upon rewatch, but for now I'm disappointed. In a world where franchise movies dominate the box office, Knives Out felt like a breath of fresh air when it was first released, so it upsets me to think that the series might be becoming the exact thing it first stood out against. Though it has it's moments, Glass Onion certainly does nothing to disprove the stereotype that a sequel will never be as good as the original.
Hamilton (2020)
Exhilarating
I almost never write reviews on here but I watched the recording of Hamilton over 24 hours ago and I think I'm still feeling the emotional impact of it. I can't lie, I was one of the diehard fans of this show in 2016, and my mum and I used to listen to the soundtrack together all the time so when we saw that this recording was being released we were super excited even though it's been ages since we were properly into the show. I was kind of nervous going into watching it because I was worried it might not live up to expectations but I had nothing to fear. The live vocals of most of the performers were somehow even better than they were on the cast recording, and seeing the staging made me appreciate certain songs more than I ever had in the past. Had to subscribe to Disney+ for a month to see it but it was well worth it, even though they bleeped a couple of the swear words. A beautiful viewing experience I would recommend to anyone, whether they're a fan of the show or not.
Dracula (2020)
Not even bad in a good way
My friend and I are longtime haters of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, ever since the season 4 finale of Sherlock in 2017. We had been planning for a while to get drunk and hate-watch this show, but we only ended up getting through one episode because it was just too mediocre. It's not even worth watching in an ironic way. The plot is basically non-existent, and they seemed to be trying to string together all the disgusting visuals they wanted to put in the show with no coherence. Would not recommend in any capacity.
The 100: Terms and Conditions (2016)
A complete waste of time
I've recently become quite obsessed with the 100 and so far I consider season 3 to be the best season yet, but I found this episode disappointing. First of all, Clarke, who is literally the main character isn't even in it and we're stuck with a bunch of boring secondary characters for the whole episode. I was really looking forward to seeing how Clarke was dealing with the loss of Lexa and resolving the major cliffhanger regarding this from the last episode, but instead I had to sit through 45 minutes where pretty much nothing exciting happened. Even some of the more interesting characters such as Abbey who could have easily been featured in this episode were absent. After a bit I was finally getting used to the idea of having an episode without Clarke, but was then disappointed again when nothing else interesting happened. To me the only excuse for having an episode like this was if it was going to include a really major plot point, but there wasn't one. It just went on, and eventually I began preoccupying myself by throwing balled up Kleenexes at the characters I didn't like (which was most of them). This episode was a waste of my time and by far the most boring one of the series so far.