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Topic	Movie Club Topic 3 - Murder by Marnie: Hunt for the Blue Hand Stalker Lobster
Seginustemple 05/02/21 11:26:19 AM #151:	Bad Genius I enjoy it when a movie takes a simple concept and goes all-out with it. Applying all the film language of a heist movie to an academic cheating scandal makes it ridiculously over-dramatic, maybe even hard to suspend disbelief at times - I think it fits how we perceive high school as teenagers more than the reality of it. I was expecting a serious biopic but as soon as Lynn put the eraser in her shoe I knew it was gonna get wacky (which I like). A serious movie would just have her pass the eraser back when the teacher isn't looking. I like to imagine that was how their first draft went but they realized it was boring so they punched it up with an Ocean's 11-worthy shoe transfer. So yeah a lot of it doesn't make sense if you take it seriously, the piano code is silly (why not just make it A-D = pointer-pinky?) but that's part of the fun of heist movies. The way they were using the camera and music to heighten the drama felt very tongue-in-cheek too, I was reminded of Edgar Wright by some of the slo-mo/zoom/focus gags. The scene where they realize there's a second set of questions especially has a lot of fun camera stuff. Bad guys in suits showing up for a chase scene at the end was the cherry on top. Bank's arc did work for me, he got wronked and took the academic integrity redpill. I felt like there was a reasonable buildup of jealousy/revenge/hormones going on there. Favorite scene: Lynn's father is giving her the disappointment speech and takes off his button-up all mad like "I'll fuckin' sell the shirt off my back for this shit" and she's crying, just thought they were both really good actors in that moment. For how hammy the heist business was this movie sold the emotional parts pretty effectively. 8/10 --- You bow to no one, azuarc <cite>Seginustemple posted [p:953470926] in Movie Club... [t:79402657]...</cite> <quote>Bad Genius I enjoy it when a movie takes a simple concept and goes all-out with it. Applying all the film language of a heist movie to an academic cheating scandal makes it ridiculously over-dramatic, maybe even hard to suspend disbelief at times - I think it fits how we perceive high school as teenagers more than the reality of it. I was expecting a serious biopic but as soon as Lynn put the eraser in her shoe I knew it was gonna get wacky (which I like). A serious movie would just have her pass the eraser back when the teacher isn't looking. I like to imagine that was how their first draft went but they realized it was boring so they punched it up with an Ocean's 11-worthy shoe transfer. So yeah a lot of it doesn't make sense if you take it seriously, the piano code is silly (why not just make it A-D = pointer-pinky?) but that's part of the fun of heist movies. The way they were using the camera and music to heighten the drama felt very tongue-in-cheek too, I was reminded of Edgar Wright by some of the slo-mo/zoom/focus gags. The scene where they realize there's a second set of questions especially has a lot of fun camera stuff. Bad guys in suits showing up for a chase scene at the end was the cherry on top. Bank's arc did work for me, he got wronked and took the academic integrity redpill. I felt like there was a reasonable buildup of jealousy/revenge/hormones going on there. Favorite scene: Lynn's father is giving her the disappointment speech and takes off his button-up all mad like "I'll fuckin' sell the shirt off my back for this shit" and she's crying, just thought they were both really good actors in that moment. For how hammy the heist business was this movie sold the emotional parts pretty effectively. 8/10 --- You bow to no one, azuarc</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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