KNIVES OUT -- dir. Rian Johnson; Daniel Craig, Michael Shannon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, etc. etc.

Paging Morbs

So it's like the Westing Game?

once you see it... it can't be unseen

I wonder if everyone who watched Logan Lucky is going to get Daniel Craig to do ridiculous American regional accents now. It's a good bit.

yeah lol

i like jokes fine but i'm just very bored w/stuff like toni collette's "no we cant ask?" bit, that style of gag is just so overdone and all over the place these days

I do not think this is supposed to be a Comedy...?

Like, yes there are some jokes in the trailer and the overall feel is ridiculous but it seems like it is aiming for irreverent drama over comedy; like is everyone assuming Chris Evans telling his whole family to eat shit is supposed to be a punchline or something? Did people think The Last Jedi was a comedy?

I mean, the referenced Toni Collete line doesn't land like a joke at all to me. This doesn't even scan to me as trying to be funny in the vein of The Royal Tenenbaums.

i guess it depends on how finely you want to split the hair between "an irreverent drama that seems to have lots of jokes" vs "a comedy"

someone on twitter speculated that the film was pretty straight but they're hoping to market it as a parodic kind of thing

this looks like Brick or Brothers Bloom register aka "semi-wacky/irreverent/quirky genre exercises" (though the latter is considerably wackier)

Watching trailers on purpose is for the birds so I have v little idea of what this film is you’re all talking about

But murder by death, speaking of “jokes” and “doesn’t land” and “at all”, is a fascinating watch & entertaining if only for falk’s gumshoe bit and capote yelling at the Charlie Chan guy for stereotypically mangling his grammar while clearly being capable of genius-level deductive reasoning

the entire enterprise of miserable/cynical people being acerbic to each other is a cornerstone of british comedy and I at least give Johnson some credit for attempting an American version

I just googled Rian Johnson fully expecting Rhys Ifans to appear. I am disappointed.

It's such a weirdly nervous and insecure style, like the filmmakers are constantly reminding you that they know they are making a comedy. You can just see them giving the script to a bunch of punchup sitcom writers

who are the "them" you are imagining throughout this scenario

(also haven't watched the trailer, I am not a disgusting savage)

I shouldn't've clicked because "Rian Johnson" is good enough for me but oh well, I'm not a purist

it's pronounced like "ryan" which is the most disappointing part

KNIVES OUT is a diabolical, hilarious, and massively entertaining whodunnit that updates the musty genre for the modern world and all of its MAGA assholes.

see it with the biggest crowd you can find. here’s my #tiff19 review: https://t.co/SQumxnFZ6q pic.twitter.com/hSTsJBg4Me

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) September 8, 2019

I'll wait for some non shit critics to weigh in

lol otm

I’m on board, I am already prepared to defend this movie at length against the gripes of you tedious aesthetes

ready to tag team, silby

I get Uhlich and and Erlich confused

This looks fun! On the other hand, I don't really get the critical interest in Johnson. He hasn't made an movie that's more interesting to watch than to talk about - and some of them aren't very interesting to talk about. He's like the Hold Steady of film criticism - an easy dilettante for frustrated critics to aspire to.

He’s awful

Nah

Murder by Death was a great movie

I mean, how interesting The Last Jedi is to talk about depends on who you're talking about it with - but all of his movies that I've seen (I never saw The Brothers Bloom) have been good to watch and to think about.

It looks like a Saturday Night Live video piece where they take a 70s Agatha Christie movie and turn it so it's all about the Trump family.

― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, July 3, 2019 2:35 PM (two months ago)

Sometimes I like being right, and sometimes I hate being right. Not sure which this is yet.

lol omg you guys are like a bunch of old hens!

talk abt unearned drama jesus

Brothers Bloom is his least-to-talk-about movie, obviously he should be set on fire for making a fun Saturday afternoon international adventure romp

I like Brothers Bloom. It’s twee in a no-aping-Wes Anderson way, although you could draw the comparison.

I'm glad Ricky Jay got paid.

reviews of this are overwhelmingly positive. i'm ready for it.

I was finally going to see Ready of Not tomorrow, and while I know it is a different kind of movie, horror vs. who-done-it, isn't it also a rich Trumpy-jerk family stuck in a house at each others' throats movie?

Enjoy a character poster thread. Fashions! Color coordination! Vague spoilers as to what each of the character roles are if you care about that sort of thing.

What’s that you say? In the wake of our smashing Toronto debut the world is clamoring for some #KnivesOut character poster goodness? Alright FINE lemme see what I can do! In the style of those enticing character breakdowns that began Dame Agatha’s books, here we go...

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) September 16, 2019

if this movie is good then whoever edited the trailer should be getting a kick in the arse for making it look so horrendous

horrendous? srsly?

never saw a potential smiley in craig before but

:o

Also, new trailer:

Nothing brings a family together like murder. Watch the new trailer for #KnivesOut now – In theaters this Thanksgiving. pic.twitter.com/2XuzPvyixH

— Knives Out (@KnivesOut) September 18, 2019

Two weeks to go (for me at least). In the meantime I enjoyed this -- I watched Evil Under the Sun as a kid more times than I can count.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJXuzjBc_Q

Death on the Nile is def on I remember watching as a kid

Okay, just got out of an early screening. My not-actually-saying-anything-in-any-detail report: I loved it of course, I was predisposed to. A busy film though, it's trying to do three separate things at once, and how it does all that is where people will differ greatly I suspect. Maintains a pretty solid 'just go with it' flow to the whole thing where you try not to question anything too much, at least if you're me. Deeply meta out of the gate but that may be the only way to make it work. The marketing of the film has pulled off a major successful headfake; the lead character as such is not who you think it is. Was still guessing at a couple of things up to the final couple of minutes. Some beats/twists you could juuuuust see coming, but in the best way. Classic 70s/80s Christie adaptation eight-million-stars-at-once folderol and just enough hamminess. Daniel Craig sure loves going Southern (Logan Lucky et al). Couple of fun cameos and a solid running joke or two. Real fun/unexpected music choices at points. Seeing it again on Tuesday and I'll see if I can catch some details I missed first time around.

Second viewing as mentioned tonight, meantime new Rian Johnson interview here, nothing too spoilery per se but it does delve into some of the clear themes of the movie -- and the less you know going in the better.

https://www.gq.com/story/rian-johnson-knives-out-interview-2019

Stopped a little short of loving it because I was kind of hoping for more actual "whodunnit," and I do kind of think that the large cast of great actors were somewhat wasted in the premise (would seriously watch a streaming series with Toni Collette's character any day). But as far as entertainment machines go, um, more like this in the future please!

A very fair take!

Can't really call it "subtext" either if the characters are openly voicing "MAGA" and "Nazi" and so forth, but I'm sure lack of subtlety is a defining feature for the movie on every level.

I'm gonna see this tomorrow. kind of looking forward to it. not my usual kind of thing

I'm totally looking forward to it tomorrow, looks fun, gonna take a (big) kid.

the donut monologue

Even funnier the second time around. Craig is having a total blast with this role.

I got to see slightly more than one viewing due to a newer theater in the area completely fucking up the aspect ratio and taking long enough to fix it that I saw the first twenty minutes twice. It's a lot more effective when everyone's head is visible on screen instead of just a hideously elongated torso.

milo offtm

Didn't love the first one, willing to believe the second one is a major improvement

Milo otm

still miles better that the recent kenneth branagh’s christie flicks

Hey, hi - Here's another clue for you all - GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY -- dir. Rian Johnson; Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe, etc etc