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It’s VERY closely tied to the 1st season as everything that happens in the 2nd season is a direct and immediate result of the events of the 1st season; with moments that took place during the same timeline.
It’s a shorter season (7 half-hour episodes), and IMO, runs very well as an epilogue to the 1st season; filling in details that ran in the highest levels of the Geist Company.
Definitely recommended if you liked the 1st season. It was a very quick binge for me.
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen this, but IIRC, that scene is played out thru 3 different POVs (Jackie’s, Melanie’s & Louis’s, and Max’s). All 3 POVs are what actually happens from each character’s POV.
Jackie preps a dummy bag for Melanie to take, which Melanie believes to be the bag of money. Jackie then frantically leaves the store “acting” like Melanie caught her by surprise and snatched the money.
Jackie had left the real bag of money in the dressing room for Max to intercept. No one else knew that Jackie had created a plan with Max, and probably would have gotten away with the plan problem-free if Louis hadn’t casually noticed Max in the store too, which was Louis’s only defense to explain the missing money to Ordell.
Yes, this is actually the greatest example I’ve ever seen of a 10 minute short stretched out to 90 minute talkfest …with a 1 minute payoff that doesn’t come close to justifying the 90 minutes before it.
A very boring journey to a predictable, and underwhelming, ending. Avoid!
Just caught this on Hulu, and it’s a shame that it flubbed the ending, because it wasn’t doing a bad job of keeping my interest with a story that almost entirely takes place in a bathroom.
It’s the last few moments of the movie that wrecks it for me. The mother digging thru the wall (to escape) supremely highlights the family’s complete lack of self-preservation to not have attempted that much sooner - Like, immediately after the son had gotten bit by a rattlesnake?
Up until that point, there was the impression that the bathroom acted like an impenetrable safe room of sorts; with a wood door that can’t be penetrated, and cement walls several feet thick. It didn’t completely sell me on why the family didn’t attempt to dig thru the wall anyway, but I held a suspension of disbelief enough to perhaps assume that the walls were thick enough to have taken too long to attempt it with the resources at hand.
When the mom does it at the end with a piece of glass, only to discover that the wall was only a couple of bricks deep, it simply becomes agitating that the family couldn’t have escaped the bathroom within a day after they were trapped in there.
What’s outside the bathroom is a curiosity throughout the entire movie, and it’s never revealed….because a family would rather die trapped in the bathroom than attempt to dig thru a 2-brick deep wall?
I’m sure it was written like this, because it was a very small budget (with very few location options), but it would have played much better if the outside threats were much more menacing, and acted on infiltrating the bathroom as soon as the storm ended…effectively (and immediately) discouraging the family from wanting to escape the bathroom. As if to say, whatever is outside the bathroom equals certain death, and trying to survive in the bathroom is a preferable choice.
Escaping the bathroom early, discovering what’s out there, and barricading themselves in would have worked better.
I think this is a case where everything played out as it should have. Having grown up in the era, it’s very difficult for me to imagine those particular movies any other way.
Yeah, I’m with you. It doesn’t make any logical sense. I’ve grown super tired of trying to understand that point of view. I’m just eating my popcorn, and waiting for the proverbial shit to hit the fan.
I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t write him a letter while he was in jail. I’d send him a dollar, which I’m sure his big brain, and best words, would turn into a life that would make jail time somewhat tolerable.
You should donate more money
Hehe….”chicanery”? This one got a chuckle out me. It’s like complaining about Biden’s tomfoolery. Soooo deliciously decadent 🤤.
To be completely fair, Movie 43 did get a few chuckles out of me, but it really is a catastrophe when you consider how many highly acclaimed names are attached to it (in front, and behind, the camera).
It definitely felt like a high school after school project with friends, and the names behind the project should have known better. It’s insulting when you’re aware of how monumentally better those names are capable of.
This is the kind of material that would have been charming had it been a “how did these guys start out?” kind of documentary, but is supremely embarrassing as a currently active display of their talents.
Movie 43 instantly came to mind. I can’t remember a movie that completely swung and missed with as many movie stars attached to it.
Watching that movie was like watching a movie where its cast lost a bet, and was forced to be in the movie.
Hmmm…the debt ceiling is for money already spent (under Trump’s administration). Gotta pay the debt, no? 🤷🏻♂️ Gotta pay back those credit card bills, no? This didn’t create more spending money. It’s actually audacious that Republican spin is blaming Democrats for their own spending.
It’s one of those situations that Republicans will never bring up when the debt ceiling is raised when one of their own is holding office. The debt doesn’t actually matter to them until it’s convenient to matter to them (ex. A Democrat is in office, and actually cares enough to decrease it).
Haha…what’s funny is that I still found the series “entertaining”, and I quickly realized that I shouldn’t expect any kind of realism when it came to real world writing.
To me, it played like complete fantasy very quickly. My “writing mind” would have always been in complete conflict; thinking “this is impossible” 😆. Hehe…I’m completely incapable of writing something like this, but that shouldn’t suggest that what was created wasn’t entertaining.
In my mind, even “dumb fun” has to have some sort of logical sense of consequence, but I still found the series entertaining in the same way that I’d find a silly movie like “Encino Man” illogically endearing.
Although I found this series entertaining, I spent almost the entirety of the series wondering if there was any police presence in its universe.
Convince readers? I haven’t watched the movie yet. I don’t have a legitimate opinion on the movie yet, nor would I expect that my personal opinion would have any weight.
You’re overthinking it a bit. It’s just a movie. We’re not saving lives here.
How am I gaslighting? I haven’t watched the movie yet, nor am I 100% defending it. I’m just simply considering the possibility that I might personally enjoy it (because I enjoyed “Knives Out”). If anything, you’re projecting.
It’s just a movie… Nothing more; nothing less. I’d feel bad for anyone that could be so easily emotionally, and politically, manipulated by watching a movie.
I’ll be ok. I don’t need your permission to enjoy a movie. 😉
Troll? Are you drunk? I’m just eager to watch the movie. I guess, thanks for letting me know I can watch it now on Netflix? 🤷🏻♂️
I think you’re replying to the wrong person. I don’t give a fuck about the sexuality of the characters. I simply loved “Knives Out”, and want to see the new movie.
Hehe…I don’t understand what’s going on here either. I liked “Knives Out” a lot, and simply want to see the next flick. Simple, right?