Def. provided one of the best gags at the end, when Blanc finishes his monologue and starts to say "Trooper Wagner ..." and Marta immediately goes "Trooper Wagner killed Harlan?!" and Blanc just turns to her incredulously and drawls out "no."
Thing I didn't catch on two viewings: that was Frank Oz as the lawyer!
Funny thing I did catch: this is the second thing this year that featured Edi Patterson and M. Emmet Walsh as supporting actors.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
I thought this was ok, not great. Benoit Blanc feels like a franchise character set up for Craig post-Bond.
― WmC, Sunday, 1 December 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
wasn't apt to see this, NYT pan was death blow
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
The Times panned it? Lane's New Yorker review was positive in the end but pretty ambivalent, too. I can't imagine anyone outright panning this.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Eh, Morbs, that Dargis review is no pan. It sounds as if she, like Lane, just thought the movie a little smug, and for that reason is intentionally (if transparently) keeping it at arms' length, as if reluctant to concede its merits without a vague counterbalance of sorts.
I didn't know Ricky Jay was supposed to play the Walsh role, and that's why his photo as a fleeting cameo.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
the house had incredible Ricky Jay vibes, almost felt like a tribute
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 1 December 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
can't imagine reading more than six words of any given Anthony Lane review, I get angry within seconds of glancing at any random sentence, the horny shmuck
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Sunday, 1 December 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
Heard an interview with Rian Johnson on the Unspooled podcast and came away really impressed the three movies he would add to the AFI list were Modern Romance, The Master and Meek's Cutoff.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Another in-joke I just realized. The movie ends with the Stones' "Sweet Virginia" ... a British band pretending to be an American country band, sort of a musical analog to Brit Daniel Craig pretending to be a Kentucky fried detective.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
feels like a stretchif they wanted to that, Faraway Eyes would have been a better choice
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 December 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
It's def. a stretch! But I can still see them doing it for their own amusement. I mean, they must have picked that song for a reason.
Ha, I just found this: "The closing credits of KNIVES OUT feature The Rolling Stones' "Sweet Virginia." During the Q&A, someone asked how Rian Johnson picked that song. "Expensively," he said."
But here's the "sometimes a cigar is just a ... " explanation I found from Johnson: "Ultimately, I wanted it to end not in a cynical place, and that’s a part of the reason why I picked the Rolling Stones song, “Sweet Virginia.” I wanted the audience leaving the theater bobbing their heads and feeling good."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
this was very enjoyable. though the marta storyline was just a little too close to my own personal nightmares for comfort.
i wanted to know more about the house, but apparently it's a private residence that the filmmakers aren't supposed to disclose much about.
― circles, Sunday, 1 December 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
my dad noted the use of the Stones song, "a deep cut from Exile, they were never better"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
xp Whoa! yeah the house was incredible - I figured this is a shoe-in for a production/art design Oscar
― flappy bird, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
https://ew.com/movies/2019/11/27/knives-out-production-designer-crazy-house/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/30/the-story-behind-massachusetts-mansion-knives-out/4LHnGPZKcw4JiNz4V0BuTN/story.html
they make it sound like the first floor and exterior were mostly used as-is, but the upper floors were sets and the library room is from a different old mansion.
― circles, Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
Not much to say that hasn't been said, but this was SO MUCH FUN. I could watch a gif of Toni Collette dancing to Roxy Music forever, on an infinite loop. I saw it at the Capitol, an old, restored theater in Cleveland, and the audience just loved it. Tons of laughs throughout.
YES.
Also, Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown" playing while Marta and Ransom were talking in the diner . . . . so great.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Loved this. Daniel Craig singing in the car, oblivious to the ambulances behind him, was great.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
yeah loved all the goofy elements of Blanc's character, the odd haplessness underlying his Gentleman Sleuth persona
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
"I read a tweet about a New Yorker profile about you!"
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
it was a pleasure to watch a mystery-comedy in which the mystery actually drives the plot from start to finish and the comedy doesn't hinge on stupid parody or gags ... I suppose the casting gives it a little youth appeal, but this felt like a throwback to an era when Hollywood made and marketed comedies for grown people of all ages
even the meta elements and the topical satire, fresh as they are, are in classic Golden Age mystery style
this movie is very old-fashioned and I want to see it again
― Brad C., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
Yeah it was really refreshing to see them sidestep the winking that was probably tempting, and that it remained grounded, though over-the-top enough when it needed to be.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
Outrageous accent duel between Craig and Branagh’s Poirot
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
Have you ever watched the John Malkovich Poirot? Ooof!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
the ILX love for this unbelievably shitty director continues to baffle me
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
Hardly limited to ILX fwiw.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
bruh you were just stanning the Lindsay Lohan sentient Volkswagen movie, go sit in the corner
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Herbie: Fully Loaded >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Brick >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Looper
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
Are u postin about another movie u ain't seen?
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
I have seen all three movies
ok full disclosure, I couldn't finish Looper.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Speaking of Fully Loaded
― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
(I have no skin in this game tbrr but wiseacres gonna wiseacre.)
― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
ILX love for this unbelievably shitty director continues to baffle me
This conflates the movie with the director, which is usually a mistake, imo. Good material, good actors, and good editing can overshadow the effect of a poor director. You say you saw it, what was it, other than the identity of its director, that you thought was unbelievably shitty?
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
I didn't like Looper, thought the Brothers Bloom (saw it on a plane) was fine but a misfire, liked Brick at the time but don't remember anything beyond that, and The Last Jedi was what it was. But this was really good. Sometimes it happens!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
Johnson has just one response for the haters
https://media.giphy.com/media/2jv2kK9eLalOB6CYsh/giphy.gif
― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Good material, good actors, and good editing can overshadow the effect of a poor director. You say you saw it, what was it, other than the identity of its director, that you thought was unbelievably shitty?
did not say I saw Knives out, I said I saw the three films I cited. Brick and Looper were both written and directed by him and contain ideas/execution that made me actively angry. I will grant that it's possible that this movie does not repeat the mistakes of his others, but it doesn't seem likely ("Agatha Christie update!" doesn't exactly sound like much of a shift in his approach tbh) and frankly I'm not going to waste my time finding out. Fool me once, etc.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Shakey you get angry about some silly things
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Rian Johnson should be banned from making films, hate him so much.
too bad, cuz this cast looks very entertaining
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 2, 2019 8:58 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
We should have a special thread dedicated to ILXors reviewing movies they haven't seen.
― Darin, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but we should also lock Shakey into it.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
what did rian johnson do
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:36 (four years ago) link
murdered star wars iirc
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
the faux-whimsical sort-of-precious tone used in Brothers Bloom and Brick don't quite work in their execution for me but I think Knives Out works better because the more twee bits are jettisoned
Brothers Bloom felt like he was trying to do some sort of fairy tale junk, like a Just So Stories about criminal brothers
― mh, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
I was actually hoping after they said his name was Benoit that he was going to do a ridiculous, Poirot-esque accent, but the colonel sanders was entertaining enough on its own.
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
mh otm re 'brick' -- i remember it being really irritating, actually? didn't see brothers bloom
― gbx, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
it's been a while since I've seen Brick but wasn't it sort of like a budget Donnie Darkoish crime film set in studentland.. It was okay but very much of its time even then. He's improved as a filmmaker and writer since then, obvs
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
We don't talk enough about how great the ending for Looper was
― lukas, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
Brick was edited on a macbook (iirc) and made for a teensy budget and I'd take it over anything else he's done tbh
― Simon H., Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 2:53 PM (forty minutes ago)
I thought making him genteel and Southern in the rich suburban Boston milieu was a clever England-to-America transposition of Poirot being a Belgian fusspot.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
Brb going back in time to smash that macbook
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:37 (four years ago) link